Thursday - Thanksgiving Day - I traveled from Palmdale, with my daughter, to Anaheim to visit my son's family. It was a nice visit seeing everyone there. My three grandkids were busy playing games. One of my grand daughters tried teaching me how to play Mario Cart racing on the 'DS". It was fun, although I was not very good at keeping the car on the race track.

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That's the dream of everyone to own a home and a piece of land. Everywhere you will go, anyone that you could talk have one thing in their mind they are dreaming to have a house and lot or property which they can call their own. Way back in the previous times buying land and home is not that difficult and land is not that expensive compare to this days. Nowadays, buying land requires a lot of time and the price anywhere in… Continue

30 Year Fixed Rate Falls Below 5 Percent

30-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.78 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending November 25, 2009, down from last week when it averaged 4.83 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.97 percent. The 30-year has not been this low since the week ending April 30, 2009, when it averaged 4.78 percent.

The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage: Averaged 4.29 percent with an average 0.6 point, down from last week… Continue

Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of 11/25/2009

Market Composite Index: (loan application volume) decreased 4.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier.

Refinance Index: decreased 9.5 percent from the previous week

Purchase Index: increased 9.6 percent from one week earlier.

Refinance Share of Mortgage Activity: decreased to 71.7 percent of total applications from 74.6 percent the previous week. increased to 5.3 percent from 5.… Continue

Strong overseas demand for Mexico

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Catherine Deshayes

The Mexico property market has received a timely boost from overseas nationals - primarily North Americans - looking to buy an affordable retirement property in Mexico, reports Overseas Property Professional (OPP)...

Data released by Latin American portal VivaReal.net has revealed a dramatic increase in the volume of enquiries for residential properties in Mexico, with figures up 34% for Americans and 37% for Ca… Continue

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