It use to be popular for consumers to choose and lenders to offer adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs). ARMs are becoming scare these days. The chart shows that roughly 95% of new conventional purchase money mortgages are fixed rate mortgages.
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In the first half of 2005 nearly half of all new conventional purchase mortgages were ARMs.
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