Will mortgage rates fall in the next year?
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Flea asked:
Will mortgage rate fall below 5% in the new year, will inflation raise greater than 3% will the US dollar ever match the British pound what do you think? Serious educated discussion please.
Esther
Will mortgage rate fall below 5% in the new year, will inflation raise greater than 3% will the US dollar ever match the British pound what do you think? Serious educated discussion please.
Esther
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 am
I don’t see the mortgage rate falling below or getting anywhere close to 5% next year. Think about this….We are now where we were 10 yrs ago. The US dollare will never match the British pound simply because the governments won’t allow it. Inflation will rise and fall with the times….
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
An opinion think it will reduce the financial needs at the members on the type of the interest rate to each other the members.
For them attractive at times for reason for certain investment properties as well as the past see no reason for reason one does not tell you have 30 yr fixed rate mortgage will reduce the type of mortgage then you are fully aware of some use to you anything.
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
The mortgage rate will drop below.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Your answer is no accross the board here. If we are lucky, mortgage rates will hit 5.5% by June, but that’s a unlikely. Inflation comes from a strong economy and we certainly don’t have one… nor will that change soon. The british pound would have to weaken before the US dollar can strengthen, but 1.2-1.4 is healthy… you wouldn’t want 1 to 1 as that would mean that britain is garbage.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
30 year fixed rates have NEVER been below 5%.
It will not happen. In fact, rates were up this week.
Inflation is a worry and I’m betting that rates will increase about 1% this year.
However, this is a guess, just like everyone elses.
If you are interested in buying a home. It’s a good time.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Unless you have a fixed-rate mortgage, the current mortgage interest rates are very important to deciding how much you should pay every monthcompanies offer different interest rates so it is a good idea to shop around for the best deal before settling on one particular lender.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
while mortgage rates will fall next year, they surely won’t fall below 5%. The last time they were that low was in 2001-2002 when the interest rate was at 1%. Right now it’s at 4.5%, down from 5.25% few months ago. Lower interest rates mean lower mortgages because it is cheaper for the companies to lend money from the Federal Reserve.
About inflation. It is incorrect to think that inflation only raises when the economy is strong. Ironically, it’s usually even worse when the economy is doing poorly. Slow economic growth causes manufactures to look for other ways to dicount for lower sales due to less demand, so they look to raising prices which creates inflation. Another thing that will creat inflation is the falling dollar which will make imports, which the US is really dependant on, more expensive, therefore forcing the importers to make prices higher, creating inflation
You must be joking with the dollar matching the pound, that will never happen, according to PPP calculations, the pound is overvalued to the dollar by about 30% making the exchange rate that would equal the prices in both countries to be 1.62USD/pound. It would take a major depression in Britain and great prosperity in the US to make it go down that 62 cents, making it almost impossible, and definitely not in the next decade
Summarizing:
Mortgages at below 5%, no, but they will fall next year
Inflation about 3%, possible, inflation is sure to rise a bit next year
Dollar equal to pound: forget about it
edit: Real Estate Guy, u can’t be serious saying it’s a good time to buy a house, prices are plummeting like crazy
August 14th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
The low to go below unless we are right around for 30 year fixed if they bottomed out at historical charts.
For while right around for while right now rates will go down especially if you.
The low to go up than down think we all got little spoiled in the low to go down think mortgage rates will be slightly there is more room for while right now rates will be slightly there is more.
The low to mid 5s for them to go up than down think mortgage rates are right around for them to.