denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/03/03/daily2 -
[Cached Version]
Published on: 3/4/2008
Last Visited: 3/5/2008
"The biggest news really ought to be that the resets that everybody is watching this year may have less effect now, because of the overall decline in the interest rate environment," said Mark Schweitzer, branch executive of the Denver branch of the Kansas City Fed and one of the authors of the report."The London Interbank Offered Rate [LIBOR] has declined to below 3 percent, and that means a reset is going to be in the vicinity of 8.8 percent."
That is an improvement over much of 2007, when LIBOR -- a key international interest rate that serves as a benchmark for many adjustable-rate mortgages -- was near 5.4 percent, which made resets over 11 percent likely in Denver and Aurora."The news last year was focusing on double-digit interest rates, and that was certainly possible last year," Schweitzer said.
...
"Denver generally had a little lower-than-average interest rate," Schweitzer said.