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| Purchase Applications Respond to Another Small Rate Dip | ||
| 9/4/2024 7:14 AM | ||
| Interest rates continued their slow decline last week while application volume is inching up almost as slowly. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports a 1.6 percent increase in its seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index , a measure of mortgage loan application volume. On an unadjusted basis, the Index gained 0.2 percent over the prior w...Read More | ||
| Pending Home Sales Set a New Record, but not in a Good Way | ||
| 8/29/2024 10:54 AM | ||
| Home sale numbers continue to retreat and in July the National Association of Realtors’® (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) fell to its lowest level…. Ever! Based on signed sales contracts for existing single-family houses, townhomes, condos, and cooperative apartments, the PHSI was down 5.5 percent from June to 70.2. This is 8.5 percent low...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Apps Stall as Borrowers Seem to be Waiting on Fed | ||
| 8/28/2024 7:04 AM | ||
| The mortgage market seemed to be in a wait-and-see mode last week as the Federal Reserve signaled a might, maybe, we are thinking about it, approach to a September rate cut. In the interim, most interest rates inched lower. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, incr...Read More | ||
| Slowing Home Price Gains Still Outstrip Inflation | ||
| 8/27/2024 10:51 AM | ||
| Two major home price indices show home price appreciation is still running well above historical norms. However, increases in the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices and the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA’s)Housing Price Index (HMI) were all slightly smaller than the prior month. The Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, covering all ...Read More | ||
| Are Existing Home Sales Done Sliding? | ||
| 8/22/2024 1:39 PM | ||
| Existing Homes (the jargon word for a home that has already been owned and occupied) represent a much larger piece of the home sales pie compared to new homes, but the series has been flagging at historically low levels. When rates dropped at the end of 2023, existing sales perked up a bit, but had been moving back toward the long term lows ...Read More | ||
| Last Week"s Refinancing Surge Quickly Fades | ||
| 8/21/2024 7:21 AM | ||
| Two weeks ago, we saw a sudden surge in refinancing activity. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that, during the week ended August 9, its Refinancing Index soared by almost 35 percent, reaching its highest level in over two years, and refinancing represented nearly half of all mortgage applications that week. A bubble? Perhaps, but a...Read More | ||
| Housing Starts and Permits Stalling as Builders Face Headwinds | ||
| 8/16/2024 11:12 AM | ||
| Residential construction slowed in July. Both the rate of permitting and of housing starts were down from the prior month and starts were the worst in more than four years. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said overall starts declined 6.8 percent from June levels and, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate o...Read More | ||
| Builder Confidence Languishing, But Timing is Partly to Blame | ||
| 8/15/2024 9:31 AM | ||
| The record will show that today"s Housing Market Index (aka "builder confidence") from the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo fell to 39 from 41 last month. That"s the 4th straight month of declines and the lowest level of the year. On the other hand, it"s also part of a broad, sideways pattern that"s been intact si...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Application Volume Soars, Refi Index Up 35% | ||
| 8/14/2024 7:06 AM | ||
| A second week of lower interest rates appeared to send homeowners scrambling to refinance their higher-rate mortgages assumed over the last few years. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 16.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis. On an unadjusted basis, the I...Read More | ||
| Lower Rates Spark a Jump in Refi Applications | ||
| 8/7/2024 2:49 AM | ||
| A drop in interest rates pushed mortgage applications sharply higher last week although nearly all the gains belonged to refinancing. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 6.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier and was 6.0 percent ...Read More | ||