For what it might be worth, re-finance loans are very low. The 30 year is around 4.75 to 5% and the twenty, fifteen, and ten are better than that. Might be a good time to save a few pennies through Re-Fi.
Rule of thumb on refinance is a couple points. I have 5.5% fixed, 30/yr, can't quite justify refinance costs for 1% gain.
In other news, I took the house off the market, and I'll be eligible for a reverse mortgage in about a year. No heirs, no reason to amass an estate. Besides which, my gun collection should pay off most any mortgage . . .
Not sure about other places, but here in California a point is huge and the break even point on our house is 19 months, I was able to save 1.5% off my rate. In fact we sign docs tonight.
In my opinion 1 point does justify the refi costs when you look at the potential interest savings. for us it is like $135K