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  30-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.71 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending January 13, 2011, down from last week when it averaged 4.77 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.06 percent. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.08 percent with an ave...
01/20/2011
The Roxie is the oldest continuously operating movie in San Francisco. The Roxie,  a 300-seat theater in the Mission hosts Bay Area and international film festivals,  indie movies and documentaries. Now the Roxie theater in the Mission is having problems, as is the Clay theater on Fiillmore. In 2...
01/16/2011
30-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.77 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending January 6, 2011, down from last week when it averaged 4.86 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.09 percent. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.13 percent with an avera...
01/13/2011
Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of  01/12/2010 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume)      increased 2.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier.  On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 47.5 percent compared with the previous week Refinance Index: i...
01/13/2011
Does It Matter?NAR did a poll of buyers to test the importance of energy effiency to home buyers. Geographically, colder areas scored higher degrees of interest placed on energy effiency and buyers 55 and older had a greater preference for energy efficicent applicances than younger buyers. By Inc...
01/08/2011
Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of  01/5/2010 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume)      d ecreased 3.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the prior week. For the week ending December 31, 2010, this index increased 2.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basi s. Refin...
01/05/2011
30-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.86 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending December 30, 2010, up from last week when it averaged 4.81 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.14 percent.The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.20 percent with an averag...
01/05/2011
The San Francisco metro area has seen its home values drop by a quarter, and the city still has some pain to work through. The citys future predictions are still a mixed bag and hard to decipher as market signals tend to move in both directions.  Fiserv Fiserv predicts a 14.3% gain between June ...
12/31/2010
  30-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.81 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending December 23, 2010, down from last week when it averaged 4.83 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.05 percent. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.15 percent with an av...
12/30/2010
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  NAR Existing Home Sales Existing home sales which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, rose 5.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.68 million in November, but are 27.9% below the cyclical peak of 6.49 million in November 2009, which ...
12/29/2010
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