| Loan Type | Rate | APR | |
| 30 years fixed | 5.81% | 6.01% | |
| 15 years fixed | 5.55% | 5.83% | |
| $30k Home Equity Loan | 8.24% | - |   |
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| Last updated:05-10-2008 | |||
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Introduction to Refinance
Either you are a private individual who took a mortgage in the past or a commercial organization who took a mortgage in the past - refinance is something necessary for you to know as it actually can save you a lot of money.
Refinancing it actually an action of taking a new loan or mortgage to cover an existing mortgage - it is done mainly in order to save money and to reduce the mortgage cost.
Lets assume that you bought a house using a 10 years mortgage at 6% rate. Now assuming that after two years the mortgage interest in the market goes down to 5.25% - it is then an opportunity for you to take a new mortgage in order to payback the old mortgage, this will decrease the monthly payments for the next 8 years, meaning saving a lot of money!
Jeremy - Dallas.
