Mortgage Interest Rates Lower This Week
February 24th, 2006Mortgage interest rates dropped this week after four weeks of rate increases. This is according to a survey conducted by one national mortgage lender.
Traditional 30 year, fixed rate mortgages fell to 6.26% this week; this is down from 6.28 the week before. Fixed rate 15 year mortgages average 5.89% this week, down from 5.91% last week.
A one year Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) averages 5.32% this week; down from 5.36% last week. At this time last year traditional 30 year mortgages averaged 5.69%. The 15 year fixed interest rate was 5.22% this time last year, and one year Adjustable Rate Mortgages averaged 4.16%.
Analysts expect interest rates to continue to rise throughout 2006. As a result of this they are predicting a cooling in the US housing market.
Internal Tags:Technorati Tags:
|
RefiAdvisor specializes in showing homeowners how to find the best lender when refinancing with free mortgage videos. To get immediate access to the video toolkit on your PC which teaches strategies for beating lenders at their own game and saving thousands of dollars in the process, click here: |
Print This Article












