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Mortgage market and interest rate update for Tuesday May 21, 2013

Avoid These Common Mistakes When Pricing Your Home To Sell

It can be very difficult to determine what your property is worth in the current marketplace, because you are biased by what the property is worth to you. These emotions can get in the way of impartially evaluating a property and often cause sellers to overprice their home.

Mortgage market and interest rate update for Monday May 20, 2013

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 20, 2013

Looking ahead, economic news for this week includes the Existing Home Sales report for April with an expectation of 5.00 million homes sold on a seasonally-adjusted annual basis against the March tally of 4.93 million homes sold.

Also set for release on Wednesday are the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Minutes for the meeting held April 30 and May 1.

Mortgage market and interest rate update for Friday May 17, 2013