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Current Mortgage Rate Predictions
By Credit Watcher | August 16, 2008
If you have been watching the mortgage interest rates forecast, you will have noticed that there is a growing trend for the mortgage rate predictions - and that trend is upward. Home owners have a very small window of time just now to lock in the current low interest rates before the Federal election. After that time, all bets are off. Interest rates will be cut loose from the political weights holding them artificially low.
Current Mortgage Interest Rates Predictions
Refinancing your mortgage can lower your monthly mortgage payment. Not only are current interest rates rather low, but if you have had your mortgage for any length of time, you should have built up some equity in your home, which means that your new mortgage will also be for a lower principal amount - that is, the amount you need to borrow will actually be lower.
Combining lower interest rates with a lower principal loan amount can reduce mortgage payments quite dramatically.
You can use an online mortgage payment calculator to work out what your mortgage paymetns would be if you were to refinance.
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