MCLEAN, VA — (Marketwired) — 06/20/13 — (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its (PMMS®), showing average fixed mortgage rates moving slightly lower for the week as markets awaited the Federal Reserve-s monetary policy announcement.
(FRM) averaged 3.93 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending June 20, 2013, down from last week when it averaged 3.98 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 3.66 percent.
this week averaged 3.04 percent with an average 0.7 point, down from last week when it averaged 3.10 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM averaged 2.95 percent.
(ARM) averaged 2.79 percent this week with an average 0.5 point, the same as last week. A year ago, the 5-year ARM averaged 2.77 percent.
averaged 2.57 percent this week with an average 0.4 point, down from last week when it averaged 2.58 percent. At this time last year, the 1-year ARM averaged 2.74 percent.
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Attributed to Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist, Freddie Mac.
“Mortgage rates were relatively unchanged this week as market participants awaited the Federal Reserve-s (Fed) monetary policy . The Fed stated that economic growth has been expanding at a moderate pace and that labor market conditions have shown further improvement, although the unemployment rate remains elevated. It noted inflation has been running below the Fed-s longer-run objective as well. As a result, the Fed will continue its bond-buying program at the current pace and maintain its highly accommodative monetary policy stance.
“The Fed also affirmed that the housing sector has strengthened further. For instance, single-family housing increased nearly 2 percentage points in May to an annualized pace of 649,000 homes, the most since May 2008. In addition, homebuilder in June rose to its highest reading since March 2006.”
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