by jimhaley | Apr 28, 2022 | All About Mortgages
Key Concepts APR attempts to factor in upfront costs to deliver a true “cost of financing” which is typically higher than the interest rate on your mortgage APR relies on human input and variables that can be manipulated to a certain extent. Thus, it’s an imperfect...
by jimhaley | Apr 28, 2022 | All About Mortgages
Mortgage Rates Mortgage rates are interest rates on home loans There are really TWO mortgage rates: the interest rate (or “note rate”) applied to your loan amount (or “principal”) and the rate implied by certain upfront costs (the “effective rate”). APR (Annual...
by jimhaley | Mar 23, 2017 | All About Mortgages
In the fourth quarter of 2016 we witnessed a great number of mortgage lenders loosen their approval standards. We also saw a spike in interest rates, but if history is an indicator of where interest rates are going for the remainder of 2017, rates should flatten or...
