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22Jun2009
Author
Dan Green
Filed Under
Mortgage Rates
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The Untimely Timing Of The Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey

To a consumer, one of the most difficult facets of shopping for a mortgage is figuring out just what mortgage rates are doing at any given time. Despite countless websites and blogs devoted to the topic of mortgage, the most important part of a person's research -- the darn price -- can't be found hardly anywhere online. It's a horrifying revelation for people vis-à-vis the way we've all been trained to use the internet. We're taught to use the internet to eliminate information asymmetry; to know the price before we ever show up at the store. That way, we can negotiate the best possible deals for ourselves. Except it doesn't work like that for mortgages.

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