Getting a Jacksonville refinance right now is a great idea. Rates are at an all time low and you can definitely save yourself some money. Today we are going to take a look at why this is such a great opportunity and what you can do to take full advantage of this. First of all lets take a close look at the real estate market in Jacksonville.

With Jacksonville been one of the fastest growing markets out of the entire Florida state there is some promising times ahead for this city. Yes, there has been some bad fall-out from the recent sub-prime mortgage crisis, but over all this isnt too bad for Jacksonville. We can see that the market is starting to pick-up again. At the time of writing this there are about 23,000 houses for sale in Jacksonville. Sales volumes are up 6%, and there has been a decrease of 11% for pricing. So the figures are not great, but I assure you they are better than a few years ago!

So to generalize the current market conditions, I would say there has been some growth, but its not fantastic. Lots and lots of buyers are definitely taking advantage of the houses which are still on the market, this is because of the large amount of foreclosures that happened during the recent crisis. Its is still definitely a buyer market out there as we have seen thus large inventory is still available to some extent.

So we are seeing the bottom of the market, the dark days of the sub-prime mortgage crisis are ending. Hopefully. Either way this is the perfect time for your refinance! You need to take full advantage of the record low interest rates out there and get a Jacksonville refinance while you still can.

You could refinance your current loan to get some great savings. You could refinance to a lower interest rate and save on your monthly repayments. You could refinance to a lower interest rate and decide to just lower the term of your loan. Or you could combine the best of both worlds and get a reduction in monthly repayments AND reduce the term of your loan.

Let me show you an example of how this can be done. We have used local figure and number to help show how someone in Jacksonville can get a great refinance. The average price of a family home in Jacksonville is $155,000. If you got this mortgage back in 2005 you would have gotten a rate of about 6.5%, which means your monthly repayments would be $973.

Now what we can do is take this loan you got back in 2005, refinance it at a lower rate and save. The current interest rate in Jacksonville is about 4.5%. This means if you refinance with this rate for a low repayment, you new repayments will be a total of $749. That is a massive saving of $224 per month! A great saving by anyone’s standards.

There are of course other ways and reasons for refinancing a loan but the two discussed here are the most common in todays market due to the record low interest rates. If there is any advise I can give any mortgage owner in todays market its to REFINANCE, REFINANCE, REFINACE! You will save a bundle of cash and lock in a low inetrest rate for the rest of your loan.