Posted To: MND NewsWire
With mortgage interest rates generally down since the end of last year CoreLogic’s principal economist Molly Boesel took a crack this week at figuring out how much gas might be left in the refinancing engine. In her analysis she added 100 basis points to the current market rate as a measure of a current mortgage rate at which there begins to be an incentive for the borrower to refinance. For the week of May 12, 2016, Freddie Mac reported an average 30-year mortgage rate of 3.57 percent (which as of June 2 had risen to 3.66 percent.) Using the first figure, the typical borrower would only begin to save money through refinancing if his or her existing mortgage had a rate of 4.57 percent or higher . The chart above shows the rates and unpaid principal balance (UPB) of the current mortgage pool…(read more )