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Freddie Mac will publish their Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey later today.   Their survey shows a rise in mortgage rates over last week to an average 30 year fixed rate home loan priced at 4.87%.  This is up from the survey’s all time low last week of 4.78%.

For those of you who follow our Monday Money rate surveys,  this uptick was clearly evident a few days ago. 

See:
http://www.moneycafe.com/library/mortgagerates.htm
http://moneycafe.com/blog/?s=monday+money

Kiplinger.com has a brief article showing real examples of how three different families made financial changes to save real and significant money.  There are so many ways to save significant amounts of money by just making simple changes.  It’s just a matter of everybody sharing ideas and examples of what works for them.

As we previously wrote about here and here, saving money is like giving yourself a raise.   We have also noted how a penny saved is much more than a penny earned, because we pay for things with after tax dollars.   

Most people don’t think it can be that easy to give yourself a raise during this recession, but it really is.  We encourage you to share your money-saving ideas with the community by making a comment below.  Anonymity is okay.

See:
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106839/Save-50-a-Day-How-Three-Super-Savers-Do-It
http://moneycafe.com/blog/2009/01/save-an-extra-500-this-year/
http://moneycafe.com/blog/2009/01/save-an-extra-extra-500/

Freddie Mac published their Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey today.   The survey shows mortgage rates dropped again over this last week with an average 30 year fixed rate home loan priced at 4.78%.  This is the second week in a row with the lowest rate in the nearly 40 year history of the Freddie Mac survey.

See:
http://www.moneycafe.com/library/mortgagerates.htm

Freddie Mac will publish their Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey later today.   The survey will show mortgage rates dipped again slightly this week with an average 30 year fixed rate at 4.98%.  This is only the second week this year the survey rate has been below 5.0%.

See:
http://www.moneycafe.com/library/mortgagerates.htm

Freddie Mac released their Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey today.  According to the survey, mortgage rates dipped slightly this week with an average 30 year fixed rate at 5.03%.  This is down from 5.15% last week.

See:
http://www.moneycafe.com/library/mortgagerates.htm

Freddie Mac released their Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey today.  According to the survey, mortgage rates ticked up slightly this week with an average 30 year fixed rate at 5.15%.

See:
http://www.moneycafe.com/library/mortgagerates.htm