Mortgage Interest Rates at All Time Low

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages dropped below 4 percent this week for the first time in history amid increasing global economic concerns,Freddie Mac said in releasing its Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

A separate survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association suggested many homeowners and would-be homeowners are unwilling or unable to take advantage of record low rates,with demand for refinancings and purchase loans both falling last week.

Inman news reports that we have now surpassed the lowest of the low.

Fannie Mae economists are projecting that mortgage rates will stay well below 5 percent through 2013,and that demand for purchase loans will more than double in the next two years.

Freddie Mac’s survey showed rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.94 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending Oct. 6,down from 4.01 percent last week and a 2011 high of 5.05 percent in February. Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have never been lower in Freddie Mac records dating to 1971.