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Fannie Mae Predicts Rise in Refinances, Another Fed Rate Cut

A new analysis by Fannie Mae forecasts that refinances will account for 35% of all new mortgages in 2019, up from 29% last year. So reports Yahoo Finance.

“Mortgage rates are approaching the lowest level in recent decades, and as they have moved lower more and more homeowners are finding incentive to refinance,” said Fannie Mae’s chief economist, Doug Duncan.

Fannie Mae also projected two quarter-point rate cuts by the Federal Reserve for the year, where previously it had been predicting only one.

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