The FOMC adjourns from a 2-day meeting today. Mortgage rates are expected to change -- perhaps by a lot.

The number of U.S. housing markets showing "measurable and sustained growth" has increased by 19 this month, according to the National Association of Homebuilders' Improving Market Index.

For today's home buyers and refinancing households, the value of "good credit" has never been higher.

Mortgage rates rose slightly in last week's holiday-shortened week.

Beginning as soon as next week, new, mandatory mortgage fees will push conforming mortgage rates higher nationwide.

According to the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Index, home prices rose 6.9% between the first and second quarter of 2012, the largest quarter-to-quarter gain since the home-value tracker's 1987 inception.

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Mortgage markets improved last week for the second consecutive week.

After 4 weeks of increases, mortgage rates finally recede nationwide.

In July, the third time this year, the Pending Home Sales Index crossed its benchmark value of 100, moving to 101.7.

As reported by the U.S. Department of Commerce, 372,000 new homes were sold in July on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized basis.

According to the Federal Home Finance Agency's Home Price Index, home prices rose by a seasonally-adjusted 0.7 percent between May and June 2012. The index is now up 3.0% over the past 12 months, and made its biggest quarterly gain since 2005 last quarter.