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If the loan doesn’t close for any reason — even if it’s the bank’s fault — you may not be allowed a refund. Its a well known fact that for a company to make money, they must advertise. The yields on mortgage-backed securities, therefore, need to be higher than intermediate-term Treasury bonds in order to make them desirable to investors, who are assuming a higher risk. Nobody — except lenders -- likes high mortgage rates.

They are all very professional and work hard to make sure that their clients are happy and close in a timely fashion. Today, the true drivers of mortgage rates are the investors in the secondary market. Usually there are two ways of sending money home.

The first is a locked-in interest rate, and locked-in points, which lets you lock in both for a period of 30 to 60 days. The FOMC holds eight meetings each year, where they review economic and financial conditions, and decide the best course of action to take to set monetary policy and keep the economy stable.

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