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BOB WALTERS Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT It boils down to housing affordability; mortgage rates have risen, but they're still historically ve...
SUNG WON SOHN It's pretty clear that housing is slowing. Rising mortgage rates and the very fast rising homes pric...
CELIA CHEN Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br...
FRANK NOTHAFT The fact that home sales were up, while mortgage rates also climbed bodes well for the real estate c...
DAVE OTTO The small increase in mortgage rates in November may have prompted many prospective homebuyers to ju...
GREGORY KLUMP![]()
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in ho...
LAUREN YOUNG Fixed mortgage rates stayed in a narrow, historically low, band in February.
BOB WALTERS Our sales organization frankly speaks of effectively having lost October and November in those parts...
DAVID MOTT Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust...
HOWARD ATKINS The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi...
MARTIN EDWARDS The affordability issue becomes very real when mortgage rates rise because a lot of people have take...
BRIAN MCQUADE The combination of combining business trips with leisure so that business people can come and they c...
ALEXIS MUELLNER Home sales have remained surprisingly strong despite higher interest rates.
CHRISTOPHER LOW Mortgage rates were largely unchanged this week, amid a sobering December jobs report and growing te...
FRANK NOTHAFT Hopefully we can have a true home-field advantage, have a good crowd and create as good a college ba...
ART INABINET Mortgage rates this week are at seven-month lows and teetering on the 45-year low levels of last sum...
FRANK NOTHAFT The biggest surprise to me has been that interest rates have stayed as low as they have as long as t...
DEAN BAKER The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and...
PATRICK LAWLER Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity...
DAVE OTTO You did have a confluence of factors here that would have helped this, ... Mortgage rates continue t...
KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN Even if interest rates weren't rising, home prices are very high relative to income. So, people are ...
CELIA CHEN So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are o...
FRANK NOTHAFT A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less a...
MARK WOLFE The interest rates were so low we wanted to take advantage of it. We were afraid if we waited until ...
BETH MACKIE Strong employment and income gains, coupled with low mortgage rates continue to bolster consumer con...
BOB DUGAN We have low interest rates and a real estate sales boom that signals to builders and developers that...
ERIK KNODER There continues to be a lot of demand for affordable housing and it's not just from low-income famil...
EMORY COUNTS New home sales surprised the experts. The Commerce Department said that new home sales were up by 13...
SONJA RUDD![]()
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s...
ALAN GREENSPAN As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi...
FRANK NOTHAFT![]()
Certainly, analyses do indicate that house prices are abnormally high --- that there is a 'bubble' e...
JANET YELLEN The housing market has traditionally done very well in our economy, and continues to thrive. IHFA is...
BOB REED Credit losses are very low now, but mortgage lenders need to be prepared for higher losses, ... Home...
DONALD POWELL I think what's disturbing about the Raelians is the total submission members have to Claude Vorilhon...
RICK ROSS Lack of uncertainty around the Iraq conflict caused bond market yields to reverse their downward spi...
FRANK NOTHAFT High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affec...
HENRY HO These rates clearly show that active employees had more convenient access to programs and took advan...
LOUIS YEN When mortgage interest rates first began to rise from record lows, it appears some buyers jumped int...
DAVID LEREAH Consumer spending has kept the economy moving, and when initial holiday sales were better than expec...
FRANK NOTHAFT Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Our mortgage rates will skyrocket,
CHET EDWARDS We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't...
DAVE ANDREW![]()
Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans ca...
JEAN CHATZKY What we are looking for especially in the first quarter is sales growth ... Growth is rewarded very ...
JUSSI HYOTY There have been a couple different families that have come through the home in the past years so it ...
DANIELLE SAUTTER Taking into consideration the fact that mortgage rates have fallen from the earlier peak at the end ...
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Issuing these types of bonds is a way for cities and school districts to take advantage of the relat...
JOSE HERNANDEZ Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were more strongly affected by the latest Federal Reserve rate hike...
FRANK NOTHAFT It's been clear that the Fed concluded rates were too low,
ED YARDENI![]()
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
BARNEY FRANK The rates are so low the company has not been able to adequately maintain its system.
CRAIG WILSON![]()
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER Although mortgage rates have risen in the last two weeks, they are still below last year's annual av...
FRANK NOTHAFT Put the total sales of Palm ever and the total sales of Psion ever all together and you get a good w...
DAVID POTTER![]()
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN Right now, we're seeing upward momentum in long-term rates, especially with new inflation worries. L...
DANIEL JESTER The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS![]()
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses f...
JIM RAMSTAD I think there are a number of factors that have led (to the growth), including the low interest rate...
BILL KING Higher interest rates are beginning to take a toll on how people view their finances. Mortgage rates...
VINCENT BOBERSKI Kmart's sales for October were on plan despite softer apparel sales due to unseasonably warm weather...
FLOYD HALL People who calculated what they could afford when rates were 5.25 percent have realized their mortga...
ANTHONY HSIEH The flip side is that mortgage interest rates are now in decline, which will give the market a littl...
HOWARD MORLEY Americans have been bombarded by charitable requests as a result of the record-breaking number of de...
LISA CAPUTO I think the team that plays in the opening round has a little advantage in the semifinal game. Distr...
KRIS FLOOD Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU This market is on a roll. As long as we have an environment of slow growth, low inflation, low inter...
MARSHALL ACUFF I would venture to say we are one of the top startups in the U.S. as far as total sales.
TOM SHAHEEN![]()
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had...
J. LENNOX SCOTT![]()
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortg...
JOHN NIVEN Although the fundamentals have deteriorated builders have been cautious, so there is no imbalance of...
STEVEN WOOD Cindy Sheehan had one glorious shining moment and she took advantage of it and the peace movement to...
STEPHEN HESS The market took a breather ... as investors moved to lock-in profits after the main indices here sur...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO But that didn't benefit the motor home sales. Higher fuel prices have been a negative for them.
CRAIG KENNISON We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a t...
BOB SCHNORBUS Investors are focusing on the new home sales figures after housing starts were so strong. Strong num...
MICHIYOSHI KATO Buyers were faced with higher mortgage rates, increased inventory levels, and bold predictions of ma...
DAVID WLUKA Singapore's economic fundamentals are good. Together with such low interest rates available for mort...
ZENG HAN JUN It's a small market for us with much less than one percent of total sales and we have no sales offic...
CHARLOTTE SIMONSEN If you are lagging behind in your housing loan payments due to some financial reasons, do not avoid ...
ZENG HAN JUN “Yes, you can save money by refinancing. However it is actually a waste of your money if you refin...
ZENG HAN JUN You should not leave your housing loan aside after getting it. Learn to keep track of it every six m...
ZENG HAN JUN A good measure of debts can help you in achieving your goals. However, an over dosage can produce na...
ZENG HAN JUN We set a target of 40 percent for conquest sales, and based on sales figures from October through Fe...
GARY BARHAM The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're...
HENRY CISNEROS The sales total of 2,028 units reported to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of S...
FRANS CLOETE October was the seventh month in a row of higher Ford sales to individual retail customers. This Oct...
BOB REWEY![]()
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare ...
JEREMY CORBYN
JEFFREY LUBELL Homeowners are taking advantage of the rally by locking in still historically low long-term mortgage...
BOB WALTERS Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT It boils down to housing affordability; mortgage rates have risen, but they're still historically ve...
SUNG WON SOHN It's pretty clear that housing is slowing. Rising mortgage rates and the very fast rising homes pric...
CELIA CHEN Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br...
FRANK NOTHAFT The fact that home sales were up, while mortgage rates also climbed bodes well for the real estate c...
DAVE OTTO The small increase in mortgage rates in November may have prompted many prospective homebuyers to ju...
GREGORY KLUMP
There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... MARK ZANDI The rising mortgage rates have pushed us to a new record home-sales level, but once the fence sitter...
JOEL NAROFF Interest rates have been creeping up slowly, and we've definitely seen somewhat of a softening in ho...
LAUREN YOUNG Fixed mortgage rates stayed in a narrow, historically low, band in February.
BOB WALTERS Our sales organization frankly speaks of effectively having lost October and November in those parts...
DAVID MOTT Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust...
HOWARD ATKINS The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi...
MARTIN EDWARDS The affordability issue becomes very real when mortgage rates rise because a lot of people have take...
BRIAN MCQUADE The combination of combining business trips with leisure so that business people can come and they c...
ALEXIS MUELLNER Home sales have remained surprisingly strong despite higher interest rates.
CHRISTOPHER LOW Mortgage rates were largely unchanged this week, amid a sobering December jobs report and growing te...
FRANK NOTHAFT Hopefully we can have a true home-field advantage, have a good crowd and create as good a college ba...
ART INABINET Mortgage rates this week are at seven-month lows and teetering on the 45-year low levels of last sum...
FRANK NOTHAFT The biggest surprise to me has been that interest rates have stayed as low as they have as long as t...
DEAN BAKER The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and...
PATRICK LAWLER Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity...
DAVE OTTO You did have a confluence of factors here that would have helped this, ... Mortgage rates continue t...
KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN Even if interest rates weren't rising, home prices are very high relative to income. So, people are ...
CELIA CHEN So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are o...
FRANK NOTHAFT A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less a...
MARK WOLFE The interest rates were so low we wanted to take advantage of it. We were afraid if we waited until ...
BETH MACKIE Strong employment and income gains, coupled with low mortgage rates continue to bolster consumer con...
BOB DUGAN We have low interest rates and a real estate sales boom that signals to builders and developers that...
ERIK KNODER There continues to be a lot of demand for affordable housing and it's not just from low-income famil...
EMORY COUNTS New home sales surprised the experts. The Commerce Department said that new home sales were up by 13...
SONJA RUDD
Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s... ALAN GREENSPAN As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi...
FRANK NOTHAFT
Certainly, analyses do indicate that house prices are abnormally high --- that there is a 'bubble' e... JANET YELLEN The housing market has traditionally done very well in our economy, and continues to thrive. IHFA is...
BOB REED Credit losses are very low now, but mortgage lenders need to be prepared for higher losses, ... Home...
DONALD POWELL I think what's disturbing about the Raelians is the total submission members have to Claude Vorilhon...
RICK ROSS Lack of uncertainty around the Iraq conflict caused bond market yields to reverse their downward spi...
FRANK NOTHAFT High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affec...
HENRY HO These rates clearly show that active employees had more convenient access to programs and took advan...
LOUIS YEN When mortgage interest rates first began to rise from record lows, it appears some buyers jumped int...
DAVID LEREAH Consumer spending has kept the economy moving, and when initial holiday sales were better than expec...
FRANK NOTHAFT Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Our mortgage rates will skyrocket,
CHET EDWARDS We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't...
DAVE ANDREW
Debt certainly isn't always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans ca... JEAN CHATZKY What we are looking for especially in the first quarter is sales growth ... Growth is rewarded very ...
JUSSI HYOTY There have been a couple different families that have come through the home in the past years so it ...
DANIELLE SAUTTER Taking into consideration the fact that mortgage rates have fallen from the earlier peak at the end ...
FRANK NOTHAFT
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Issuing these types of bonds is a way for cities and school districts to take advantage of the relat...
JOSE HERNANDEZ Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were more strongly affected by the latest Federal Reserve rate hike...
FRANK NOTHAFT It's been clear that the Fed concluded rates were too low,
ED YARDENI
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental. BARNEY FRANK The rates are so low the company has not been able to adequately maintain its system.
CRAIG WILSON
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Although mortgage rates have risen in the last two weeks, they are still below last year's annual av...
FRANK NOTHAFT Put the total sales of Palm ever and the total sales of Psion ever all together and you get a good w...
DAVID POTTER
I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN Right now, we're seeing upward momentum in long-term rates, especially with new inflation worries. L...
DANIEL JESTER The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses f... JIM RAMSTAD I think there are a number of factors that have led (to the growth), including the low interest rate...
BILL KING Higher interest rates are beginning to take a toll on how people view their finances. Mortgage rates...
VINCENT BOBERSKI Kmart's sales for October were on plan despite softer apparel sales due to unseasonably warm weather...
FLOYD HALL People who calculated what they could afford when rates were 5.25 percent have realized their mortga...
ANTHONY HSIEH The flip side is that mortgage interest rates are now in decline, which will give the market a littl...
HOWARD MORLEY Americans have been bombarded by charitable requests as a result of the record-breaking number of de...
LISA CAPUTO I think the team that plays in the opening round has a little advantage in the semifinal game. Distr...
KRIS FLOOD Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to g...
JEFFREY GRAU This market is on a roll. As long as we have an environment of slow growth, low inflation, low inter...
MARSHALL ACUFF I would venture to say we are one of the top startups in the U.S. as far as total sales.
TOM SHAHEEN
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t... EDMUND PHELPS In the past, the market has absorbed home price increases with household income growth. Well, we had...
J. LENNOX SCOTT
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortg... JOHN NIVEN Although the fundamentals have deteriorated builders have been cautious, so there is no imbalance of...
STEVEN WOOD Cindy Sheehan had one glorious shining moment and she took advantage of it and the peace movement to...
STEPHEN HESS The market took a breather ... as investors moved to lock-in profits after the main indices here sur...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO But that didn't benefit the motor home sales. Higher fuel prices have been a negative for them.
CRAIG KENNISON We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a t...
BOB SCHNORBUS Investors are focusing on the new home sales figures after housing starts were so strong. Strong num...
MICHIYOSHI KATO Buyers were faced with higher mortgage rates, increased inventory levels, and bold predictions of ma...
DAVID WLUKA Singapore's economic fundamentals are good. Together with such low interest rates available for mort...
ZENG HAN JUN It's a small market for us with much less than one percent of total sales and we have no sales offic...
CHARLOTTE SIMONSEN If you are lagging behind in your housing loan payments due to some financial reasons, do not avoid ...
ZENG HAN JUN “Yes, you can save money by refinancing. However it is actually a waste of your money if you refin...
ZENG HAN JUN You should not leave your housing loan aside after getting it. Learn to keep track of it every six m...
ZENG HAN JUN A good measure of debts can help you in achieving your goals. However, an over dosage can produce na...
ZENG HAN JUN We set a target of 40 percent for conquest sales, and based on sales figures from October through Fe...
GARY BARHAM The idea is to boost the home-ownership rate, ... Rates for ... newlyweds are (currently) low. We're...
HENRY CISNEROS The sales total of 2,028 units reported to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of S...
FRANS CLOETE October was the seventh month in a row of higher Ford sales to individual retail customers. This Oct...
BOB REWEY
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare ... JEREMY CORBYN
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