According to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), 30-year fixed-rate mortgages (FRM) were down from 4.80 percent to 4.78 percent for the week ending April 30, 2009. The 30-year FRM is now at the same record low set in April 7, 2009, the lowest ever recorded in Freddie Mac’s survey since it began in 1970. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 6.06 percent. Five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) averaged 4.80 percent this week, down from 4.85 percent last week. This set another record, since the 5-year ARM is at the lowest it has been since Freddie Mac began tracking it in January 2005. A year ago, the 5-year ARM averaged 5.73 percent. “Rates for fixed-rate mortgages hovered at record lows this week as ARM rates eased further,” said Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist. Nothaft continued, “In aggregate, borrowers who refinanced during the first quarter reduced their mortgage payments by about $2.5 billion over the coming year.”

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