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Ashley works with clients to bring strategy, structure, clarity and confidence to their global financial lives and keep it that way. ​In 2013, Ashley founded Arete Wealth Strategists, a fee-only financial planning and investment management firm for Australian/American expatriates.
July 24, 2020

Record-Low Mortgage Rates

When people look back on the tumultuous 2020 economic landscape, they might pause a moment to check out home mortgage rates.  Over the last three months, these rates have managed to achieve five (!) all-time lows.  Currently, Freddie Mac, which buys mortgages from banks, reports an average 3.03% rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, and they have since gone down below, however briefly, below 3%.

You can see the remarkable downward trend in mortgages from late 2018 through the end of June, and then the light-blue-shaded part of the chart shows projected rates going forward.  Compare these rates to 18% fixed-rates back in the early 1980s, or 5% as recently as 18 months ago. You can take the projections with a grain of salt (nobody knows what will happen next week or next month, much less out to the end of the year), but it’s pretty clear that today’s 3% rate is pretty extraordinary.  

Does that mean that most people should be refinancing their home loans?  That depends on a number of factors, including their current mortgage rate and how long they expect to own their house.  But it may be worth exploring, sooner rather than later.

Source:

themortgagereports.com

.stlouisfed.org

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