Your mortgage is most likely your largest debt you will have in your life. Securing your mortgage interest rate is one of the most important factors.
In a volatile mortgage market like the one we are in right now it is hard to be an average citizen/homeowner and be able to gauge what the market is doing and when a good time would be to get into a new loan.
You could practically drive yourself crazy if you try and follow some of the standard rate indicators of the past in this environment. What is the 10 year treasury doing? What is happening on the stock market? These indicators just dont apply like they used to today.
More than 300 mortgage banks have gone out of business during this real estate and economic crisis in the last two years. The one common thread for the ones that are still around is that they have been forced to reduce their staff to skeleton versions of what they once were to try and weather the storm.
Although the reduced workforce has helped some banks stay open it is causing serious service issues when rates are down like right now. The banks are experiencing an increased amount of loan volume and they do not have the staff to handle to the work load. To counteract this lack of staff they are being forced to price themselves out of the market and raise their interest rates artificially high to stop the influx of new business.
The rate increases are causing abrupt swings in the market place as banks raise and lower their mortgage rates to try and control their production and service levels.
The best way to ensure that you are not gambling with your mortgage rate that you will have for years is to make sure you align yourself with a solid mortgage company that can collect your qualifying information upfront and watch the market for you. That way they can capitalize on the sudden drops in rates when the banks have caught up on their loan pipelines for you.
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