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2. Lowest Interest Rates Ever Recorded, Again - AOL

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   The average interest rate for a 30-year home fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.71 percent, according to the Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released December 3.

3. The Problem for Housing in 2010: Rising Mortgage Rates - AOL

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   Most real estate experts back the theory that the recent recovery in home sales is primarily due to two factors: mortgage rates that have been hovering around all-time lows and the government's ...

4. 2000s United States housing market correction - Wikipedia

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   As the Federal Reserve Bank applied its monetary contraction policy in 2005, many homeowners were stunned when their adjustable-rate mortgages began to reset to much higher rates in mid-2007 and their monthly payments jumped far above their ability to meet the monthly mortgage payments. Some homeowners began defaulting on their mortgages in mid ...

5. Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

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   However, once interest rates began to rise and housing prices started to drop moderately in 2006–2007 in many parts of the U.S., borrowers were unable to refinance. Defaults and foreclosure activity increased dramatically as easy initial terms expired, home prices fell, and adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) interest rates reset higher.

6. Real-estate bubble - Wikipedia

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   US house price trend (1998–2008) as measured by the Case–Shiller index Ratio of Melbourne median house prices to Australian annual wages, 1965 to 2010. As with all types of economic bubbles, disagreement exists over whether or not a real estate bubble can be identified or predicted, then perhaps prevented.

7. Rising defaults and interest rates hamper Bernanke's ... - AOL

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   At the same time, rising unemployment helped push homeowners into delinquency or foreclosure, setting a record for the number of homes in some stage of foreclosure during the first quarter of 2009.