30-Year Mortgage Rate, 6.42% and 0.9 Points

30-year fixed-rate mortgage, average in Western U.S. for week ending September 6, 2007.

â€œIn other news, the most recent Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index (CMHPI) release issued by Freddie Mac reported that on average, national house prices grew by 0.1 percent in the second quarter, the slowest quarterly house price growth since the fourth quarter of 1994. For the past 12 months, house prices appreciated 3.3 percent, the slowest rate in 10 years.â€

September 7, 2007 by Realtor John Wake

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Born in Phoenix, trained as an economist and now a licensed Realtor, John uses hard data from the real estate market to help his clients -- buyers and sellers of residential real estate -- uncover their best choices for finding the right home or finding a buyer for their current home.

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