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  30-year fixed-rate mortgage: averaged 4.78 percent with an averaged 4.71 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending May 5, 2011, down  from last week when it averaged 4.78 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.00 percent.  . The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage: thi...

  Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of 4/27/2010 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume) a measure of mortgage loan application volumedecreased 5.6 percent from one week earlierRefinance Index: Refinance Index decreased 0.6 percent from the previous week.  The seasonally adjuste...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage:averaged 4.78 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending April 28, 2011, down  from last week when it averaged 4.80 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.06 percent.The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage:  this week  averaged 3.97 percent wit...

Optimists AP A wave of foreclosures is forcing down home prices in most major U.S. cities. But economists and real estate agents are noticing what they call a key first step for any housing recovery: a drop in the glut of homes for sale in markets hit hardest by foreclosures. If we were to see s...

  30-year fixed-rate mortgage:   averaged 4.91 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending April 14, 2011, up from last week when it averaged 4.87 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.07 percent. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage:  averaged 4.13 percent with an ave...

  Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of  4/13/2010 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume) a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 6.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier.  On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 6.3 percent compared ...

  Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of  4/6/2010 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume) a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 2.0 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 1.5 percent compared wi...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage:   averaged 4.86 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending March 31, 2011, up  from last week when it averaged 4.81 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.08 percent.  The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage:  this weekend 4.87 percent with an...

wiki: South Park is a small neighborhood South of Market in San Francisco. It centers on the small, oval-shaped park of the same name, and South Park Street, which encircles the park. The area is bounded by Second, Third, Bryant, and Brannan streets. Some History The park originally constructed ...

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors just voted to create of a payroll tax exemption zone. The  tax exemption zone  envelopes the blighted mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. The  city is redevelping all of Market st. as part of the Better MArket Street Project and wants to see a beautiful revamped...