While picking out a mortgage, you might be faced with the option of using positive or
negative mortgage points, which can alter your interest rate and your closing costs.
Not exact matches
And The New York Times yesterday
pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their
negative equity and all of their bad real estate
mortgages.
So many
mortgages, so many assets and so many banks themselves have
negative equity — that is, they owe more debt than their assets are worth — that there is no
point in buying assets right now.
Given the recent 100 + basis
point move in the 10 - yr Treasury, if the Fed were forced to mark to market its $ 3.8 trillion Treasuries and
mortgages, it would be forced to reduce the holding value by close to $ 400 billion, taking the Fed's net worth to
negative $ 360 billion.
Homeowners in Minneapolis, St Paul, Madison, Milwaukee, and throughout all of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota need to understand that in a no lender fee or no closing cost
mortgage loan, the lender simply uses «
negative»
points to offset your costs.
The credit from
negative points can not exceed the
mortgage closing costs, and these
points can't be used as part of a down payment.
When a lender offers you
negative points, it is effectively saying it'll cover some of your
mortgage fees and charge you a higher interest rate in return.
Buying a positive, or discount,
point or receiving a
negative point changes your
mortgage interest rate.
The net share of those who say
mortgage interest rates will go down rose 2 percentage
points to
negative 50 % this month, as fewer consumers say
mortgage rates will go up.
On the
negative side, the interest rate on a fixed
mortgage is maybe a few
points above the current rate on an adjustable rate loan, at least initially.
On the
negative side, the interest rate on a fixed
mortgage is usually two or three full
points above the current rate on an adjustable rate loan, at least initially.