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Are You Aware of Your Home Mortgage Options

Finding a refinance rate for your homeHave you considered refinancing your home lately? If so, you are not alone.

According to the Freddie Mac Quarterly Refinance Report, many homeowners throughout the United States lowered monthly mortgage payments, shortened the length of their loans, and utilized fixed mortgage rates in the second quarter of 2013. Historically low home loan rates assisted in this process.

The report showed a 3% increase in borrowers who chose to shorten their loan term (now at 31%), and that 65% of homeowners maintained their current loan length. Only 4% of borrowers lengthened their loan term.

Fixed rates were an overwhelming product of choice, encompassing 95% of the loans, leaving only 2% of second quarter refinanced home loans as adjustable rate mortgages.

You may be asking what this means for your home.

 

In actual dollars and cents, the average homeowner’s mortgage rate was reduced by 1.9 percentage points or 35%, resulting in a savings of $3,700 in interest on a $200,000 loan in the next 12 months. HARP was another popular loan product, and resulted in a reduction of $4,300 in interest during the first 12 months for many homeowners.

Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist commented on the big picture, saying, “Borrowers’ refinance characteristics remained fairly consistent with the previous quarter. The cash-out amount, while increasing, continues to remain low by historical standards. And with mortgage rates still near their historic lows, over 30 percent of refinancing borrowers chose to shorten their loan term. On net, borrowers will save approximately $6 billion in interest over the next 12 months, which they can put towards savings, paying down debt or supporting additional expenditures. Further, the estimated $9.5 billion in ‘cash-out’ activity will further augment borrowers’ investment and consumption spending.”

Read more about mortgage rates and how they can affect you and your home and follow industry trends by visiting the Freddie Mac website.

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As your real estate agent, I understand the value of providing the best possible service to every buyer and seller. Listening carefully to fully identify not only your desires but also your needs. Then work diligently to ensure that both are accommodated to the best of my ability. We will stay abreast on changing market conditions, trends, developments and research all factors that could affect the purchase or sale of your property.  My success and your happiness greatly depend upon the quality of the relationship we achieve.  Through personal redefinition of the professional standards set by most agents, I hope set myself apart from the rest and become the first person that you think of for all of your real estate needs.

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