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Sale of Seattle Office Building Suggests Market Pickup – Wall Street Journal (blog)

May 1, 2012 – 6:18 am

Sale of Seattle Office Building Suggests Market PickupWall Street Journal (blog)By Maura Webber Sadovi This Seattle office building recently sold for more than four times what it fetched in 2009. Investors priced out of trophy office properties in New York and Washington, DC are now often looking for top-tier buildings in cities … Mortgage Rates [...]

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Bank urges rate hikes to slow housing market – CBC.ca

April 16, 2012 – 1:32 pm

CBC.ca Bank urges rate hikes to slow housing marketCBC.caCHART The slow fall of Canada's mortgage lending rates Mapping the slow decline from 1990 through 2011 In recent months, policymakers in government, at Canada's central bank and in the private sector have stepped up a campaign to try to slow down …and more » Mortgage Interest Rates [...]

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Hot real estate market keeping search engines busy – GlobalNews.ca

April 14, 2012 – 9:15 am

Hot real estate market keeping search engines busyGlobalNews.caRecord low interest rates, mortgage wars and spring home-buying fever are sending people flocking to the web. According to figures released by Google Canada, searches for “mortgage calculator” reached their highest level ever in March 2012, … Mortgage Calculator Google – Google News

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Annaly Capital Management Releases Market Commentary for the First Quarter 2012 – MarketWatch (press release)

April 11, 2012 – 5:36 am

Annaly Capital Management Releases Market Commentary for the First Quarter 2012MarketWatch (press release)From a historical perspective prepayments are tame relative to prevailing interest rates. Chart 3 of our online commentary illustrates historical prepayment speeds on mortgages with 100 basis points of rate incentive. The time series adds 100 bps to …and more » Mortgage Interest Rates [...]

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Real Estate Market to Bloom in 2Q? – Fox Business

April 6, 2012 – 9:30 pm

Real Estate Market to Bloom in 2Q?Fox BusinessThe Federal Housing Authority (FHA), which accounts for a high percentage of the loan market in 2012, has now raised the fees on its Mortgage Insurance Premiums (MIP) for the second time in the last year. This drastically reduces the loan amount for …and more » New Fha Mortgage [...]

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Flaherty calls on banks to ‘fix’ mortgage market – Financial Post (blog)

April 5, 2012 – 9:27 am

CBC.ca Flaherty calls on banks to 'fix' mortgage marketFinancial Post (blog)"I've tightened up the mortgage insurance market three times … I really don't want to do it again," Flaherty told reporters in Vancouver on Wednesday. Canada's finance minister said on Wednesday he would rather not tighten mortgage rules again to …Bank rules may cool Vancouver [...]

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Canada’s mortgage body moves to slow booming housing market – Globe and Mail

March 26, 2012 – 5:34 am

Globe and Mail Canada's mortgage body moves to slow booming housing marketGlobe and MailThe change comes because the federal government has set $ 600-billion as the limit for the amount of mortgage insurance CMHC can have outstanding. The move is a sign Ottawa is trying to engineer a soft landing for Canada's $ 1.1-trillion housing [...]

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Jay Bryan: End of very cheap mortgages is healthy in overheated market – Montreal Gazette

March 25, 2012 – 1:20 am

Jay Bryan: End of very cheap mortgages is healthy in overheated marketMontreal GazetteMONTREAL – The days of very cheap mortgages are coming to an end even sooner than some expected, a development that means homebuyers have very little time to lock in today's ridiculously low fixed rates on four-year and five-year mortgage loans.and more » Current [...]

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Interest rates, confidence could put spring in city housing market – Calgary Herald

March 24, 2012 – 5:23 am

CBC.ca Interest rates, confidence could put spring in city housing marketCalgary HeraldGrowing consumer confidence and rock-bottom interest rates will power Calgary's spring housing market, according to a new sales outlook. Although sales growth in the coming months will be modest, the Re/ Max Market Trends report cautions, …Cold season hot for Halifax housingTheChronicleHerald.caHousing market resilient [...]

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Are US Interest Rates About To Rise? – The Market Oracle

March 19, 2012 – 9:15 am

Are US Interest Rates About To Rise?The Market OracleIt could happen, as you will see on today's weekly chart of the 10 year yields …. symbol: $ TNX. The good news is that today's 10 year yield chart shows a five down trend. The bad news is that the one year weekly trend line is [...]

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