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Miami Real Estate Luxury Home Sales Continue Surging 

Realty Biz

Rates leveled off before recently rising again. Rates on March 1, 2022 were 3.90%. Home sales are sensitive to mortgage rate changes. According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.35% as of May 11. Miami Distressed Sales Remain Low, Reflecting Healthy Market Only 1.3%

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Miami Real Estate Records Best August Sales Month in History

Realty Biz

According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage was 2.84% in August, down from 2.87% in July. The average commitment rate across all of 2020 was 3.11%. NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun expects the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to remain below 3.5%

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Miami-Dade Luxury Sales Surge

Realty Biz

Home sales are sensitive to mortgage rate changes and homebuyers are taking advantage of any rate declines. According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage is 6.60% as of March 16. In 2009, distressed sales comprised 70% of Miami's sales.

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Miami Real Estate Records 4th Best Sales Year Ever 11 Years in a Row

Realty Biz

While the Fed doesn’t set mortgage rates, it affects them through its conduct of monetary policy. According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.31% as of December 15. billion of South Florida residential properties in 2022, up 34% from $5.1

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Miami Real Estate Posts 10th-Highest Total Home Sales Month in History

Realty Biz

On the same $300,000 mortgage, the monthly payment has risen from $1265 in December to $1800 today, according to NAR. According to Freddie Mac, the average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage was 5.23% in May, up from 4.98% in April. The mortgage rate is projected to land at 5.3%

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131 Real Estate Terms & Definitions Your Clients Expect You to Know in 2023

The Close

It’s kind of like a fixed-rate mortgage and an adjustable-rate mortgage had a baby. A convertible ARM is a mortgage with a much lower interest rate at the start of the loan, where the interest rate fluctuates during the life of the loan, usually every six months. Fixed-rate mortgage.

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Las Vegas Real Estate Market 2020 Overview

Marco Santarelli

Redfin, a real estate brokerage, reported that 42.3% With 2020 being, theoretically, in the middle of a boom, there are still 4 years for residential construction to surge. The percent of Las Vegas homeowners underwater on their mortgage is 7.2%, which is higher than Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise Metro at 7.1%.

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