MP: A separate report on housing affordability recently released by the National Association of Realtors indicates that housing affordability remains at near-record levels (see chart above).

In April, the Housing Affordability Index (HAI) increased to 174.8, up almost three full points from 171.9 in March, largely because of historically low mortgage rates of 4.96% (April average) and stable home prices and income levels.

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The mortgage rate basics

President Obama’s bid for a full economic recovery may be set back by many months thanks to rising interest rates which is making it more expensive for homeowners to finance their houses. Since bottoming out a few months back at a near historic low of 4.75% for a fixed-rate, thirty year mortgage, rates have begun to climb again and are now a full point higher. ...

Hyundai is leading the auto-incentive pack once again. Beginning tomorrow, the South Korean automaker will launch their “Assurance Gas Lock” promotion,

An incentive that will offer new vehicle buyers either a $1,000 cash rebate or the chance to lock in gas prices at $1.49/gallon for one year:

With gas prices at $2.70, someone driving a V6 Hyundai Sonata, one of its most popular models, for 12,000 miles over the course of a year would save about $580 with the gas price promotion,
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Lenders may also, in many countries, sell the mortgage loan to other parties who are interested in receiving the stream of cash payments from the borrower,
often in the form of a security (by means of a securitization). In the United States, the largest firms securitizing loans are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
which are government sponsored enterprises.

Mortgage lending will also take into account the (perceived) riskiness of the mortgage loan, that is,
the likelihood that the funds will be repaid (usually considered a function of the creditworthiness of the borrower);
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This is a dictionary in the current word is not yet included, is created by applying the principle of formation of a new word,
make people feel a bit strange. A spokesman for the American Dialect Society Glowka said,
"subprime" some strange word - at least it seems that linguists (As for "subprime," Glowka said it is an odd word - at least as far as linguists are concerned.)

FLTRP published in accordance with the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English",
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