MORTGAGE RATES (The Nashua Telegraph)

Story date: 2007-10-11 09:36:32
Added on: 2007-10-12 10:00:17

The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 8 basis points to 6.5 percent, according to the Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders. A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percentage point. The mortgages in this week's survey had an average total of 0.34 discount and origination points. ...


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