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Financing Your Home >ARMs
Here is a tip for those who are shopping for Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs): the "margin" is almost as important as the initial rate. The margin is the percentage point above the average yields for Treasury notes on which future rate adjustments will be calculated.
Let's compare two hypothetical one-year ARMs. The first may have an initial interest rate of 7% with a 2.5 margin, while the second begins at 6 7/8% with a 2.75 margin. Both loans have rate caps of 2%. Suppose that at the end of the first year of the loan, the average of the one-year Treasury note yield has been 5 1/2%. For each loan, the lenders will add the margin to that 5 1/2% average yield. Thus the interest rate for first loan would increase from 7% to 8%, and the second would go from 6 7/8% to 8 1/4%. While the first ARM had a slightly higher initial rate, it will have lower rates in subsequent years, unless the Treasury note rates increase enough to activate the annual caps on the amount of the increase. There is a wide variance among margins in ARMs offered by competing lenders, and this should be a factor when you decide on your loan.
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Who is "Freddie Mac", and why is he a big name in real estate?
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"Freddie Mac" is the nickname for FHLMC, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, which buys mortgages from lending agencies, thus allowing lenders to continually replenish funds for new mortgage loans. |
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Lenore “Lee” Robinson
Prominent Properties Sotheby's Int'l Realty
87 Park St.
Montclair, NJ 07042
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I have been an intricate part of the real estate landscape in Montclair and the surrounding towns since 1987. I pride myself on efficiently guiding home buyers and sellers to a seamless completion of their transaction. I have chaired many real estate boards within our local board of Realtors and I am currently the chairman of the grievance committee. I have received the New Jersey Association of Realtors Circle of Excellence Award for 22 consecutive years. I have been a member of the Junior League of Montclair-Newark, since 1965. Recently, I was a featured Realtor on HGTV's "Bought and Sold". I have resided in Montclair since 1964, where I raised my four children.
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