Mortgage Rates Creeping Up
ByThe 30-year mortgage rates rose above 5% for the first time in a while. Conventional, jumbo and FHA mortgage rates rose slightly across the board. The Treasury department has announced that they will stop buying mortgage backed securities as 2009 winds down. The Feds will continue to purchase mortgage backed securities until March 31, 2010, as pledged earlier this year. But what happens after March 31st?
There really is no security in this investment anymore. Few, if any investors actually service the loans, and with the housing industry still very weak, and loan servicers holding almost all the power over the loans, investors are no longer flocking to purchase the loans from the original lenders. The lenders control modifications, payment forebearance rights, collections pricesses, foreclosure proceedings decisions, etc.
It is predicted that in order to entice investors, mortgage rates will have to rise dramatically in the near future. We are hearing rates numbers in the mid 5% range up to “the sky’s the limit” types of rates.
