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Labor Day Weekend | It Is Time To Eliminate Interest

  • September 2, 2023
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  It is time to stop losing money and start saving more! Make Your Real Estate life a reality with even more real benefits and results as you tune in to this Labor Day Weekend episode. Join our host, Michael Harris, to dive deep into how you can effectively eliminate interest that is making you

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September 1, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • September 1, 2023
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Rate sheets this morning likely to be in line with yesterday, as both those that locked and those that floated win this morning… since there is basically no change. Reprice risk on the day is low, we may see bonds drift higher as traders park money in bonds for what is historically the last hurrah

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August 31, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • August 31, 2023
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Rate sheets this morning likely to be a bit worse than yesterday, and loans are facing a decision of whether to lock or float ahead of tomorrow’s jobs data. Reprice risk today is low, not much to worry about. The outlook today is much brighter than a week ago, with the door open to see

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August 30, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • August 30, 2023
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WRAP UPUMBS 6.0: 100.11 (-8bps)10yr yield: 4.12 Bonds losing steam in the late afternoon, could see some late day lender reprices worse. Never a bad idea to consider locking risk averse and near term, unless planning on floating into Friday’s jobs data to see what that brings. I’m no clairvoyant, all I can tell you

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August 29, 2023 – Market Commentary

  • August 29, 2023
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MBS OVERVIEW Taking it to the House: The June FHFA Housing Price Index showed a MOM increase of 0.3% versus estimates of 0.2%. The June Case Shiller Metro City YOY Index dropped by -1.2% versus estimates of -1.3%. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: The July Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) showed 8.827M unfilled jobs versus

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August 28, 2023 – Rate & Market Commentary

  • August 28, 2023
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WRAP UPUMBS 6.0: 99.73 (+16bps)10yr yield: 4.21If repriced better today, consider taking it, otherwise todays gains give some protection to floating into tomorrow. Again, there is little reason to believe that rates will fall much from here, but any improvement we do see will come from weak labor data and could start with tomorrows JOLTS

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A Pause In The Action

  • August 27, 2023
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  In this episode, Michael Harris talks about why a home equity line of credit with a higher number could be better than your first mortgage with a lower number. He discusses ITIN loans, DSCR loans, and interest rates. Michael also delves into interest rate versus interest volume, why having mortgages equates to having debts,

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August 25, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • August 25, 2023
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Rate sheets will come out reflecting whatever take the market has on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech from Jackson Hole today at 10:05am ET. The initial start to the day sees mortgage bonds a bit on the weaker side, and if pricing came out right now it would be slightly worse than yesterday. However, there

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August 24, 2023

  • August 24, 2023
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Rate sheets likely to give back some of yesterday’s gains, which didn’t quite match up to the gains in bonds to begin with. What I mean is that mortgage bonds improved to levels last seen 8/14, when rates were .375 to .25% better. However, most rate sheets improved about .125%, some a little more. That’s

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August 23, 2023 – Rate Commentary

  • August 23, 2023
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WRAP UPUMBS 6.0: 99.61 (+52bps)10yr yield: 4.19 Bonds rallied early and peaked as pricing came out around 10am ET, holding the gains all day but not improving further. Tomorrow could bring more improvement to rate sheets, but it is far from guaranteed. Is it worth floating into tomorrow to try for more? Depends on what

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