Mortgage Blog

Yes, We had another Bond sold off this Thursday June 4th, 2009.
The mortgage rate is back to the highest level after Nov 18th.

We will have to change the strategy to protect ourselves. The new
strategy is "lock into the lows"(your comfortable rates). And do
StagingRefi if we still have the chance.

We had similar situation in Jan. The rate went up over 5.5% for 417k
loan for 30 yr fixed(6% for 625k loan) after Jan 8th low rates. And in
Feb 14th, same thing happened again. But the story is different this time.
In January and Feburary,the rate was higher because the lender could not
handle their locked pipeline, they have to increase the rate to lower
the volumes so that LOs will not send the loans to them and they can
close the loans in the pipleline. And they did it on purpose.

Since last week, the bond investors are very cautious about the debts
from the us government and they don't want to hold the bonds, instead
they invested the money to the oil, gold and commodities. So this rate hike is different.

But liek I said before, We still think and expect the Fed will intervene this weekend or next week. Let's wait and see how the rate goes after next week.