Luck refers to that which happens to a person beyond that person's control. This view incorporates phenomena that are chance happenings, a person's place of birth for example, but where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant.
Average rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have climbed in recent weeks by about a quarter-percentage point, from 3.75 percent to almost 4 percent â about a $600-a-year difference on a $350,000 mortgage. Several sources of data suggest that buyers are paying more attention to the threat of higher rates.
For years, the interest rates on jumbo loans were consistently higher than the rates on conforming and FHA mortgages. But that changed during the recovery from the mortgage and real-estate meltdown of 2007 and 2008. Since then, interest rates on jumbo loans have been comparable to rates on comparable conforming loans.