Mortgage Calculators - Purchase and Refinance

MBS RECAP: Pre-Fed Paralysis Despite Some Interesting...

Pre-Fed Paralysis Despite Some Interesting Data Retail Sales down 1.3% and last month revised up to 0.9%? Core Producer Prices rising 0.7% in a single...

Pipeline Press

AE Jobs; Sec. Marketing, Training, Processing, Due...

I was spending a little time yesterday evening at the local cannabis club with my favorite bud-tender (an ombudsman!), and she was telling me about how...

MBS Commentary

MBS Day Ahead: You'll Be Tired of Hearing About...

On weeks that close out with the big jobs report, an inordinate amount of headlines include a reference to the impending data. The same is true with Fed...

MBS Commentary

MBS RECAP: New Week, New Sense of Urgency

New Week, New Sense of Urgency The new week wasted no time in differentiating itself from the previous week as bonds sold off somewhat briskly this morning...

Pipeline Press

Ops, MLO, AE Jobs; Servicing, Dashboard, FHA Pricing...

Elaine F. reminded me of a quote from Hemingway: “Never mistake motion for action.” And basketball coach John Wooden said, “Never mistake...

MBS Commentary

MBS Day Ahead: Have Bonds Found Their Pre-Fed Range...

Last week was relatively impressive and perhaps somewhat surprising in terms of bonds' ability to rally in the absence of overt fundamental motivation...

Mortgage Rate Watch

One of The Biggest Paradoxes You'll Ever See For...

No, this isn't one of those click-bait headlines that promise to share "one weird trick" or proclaim "you'll never believe what happened next." Well, actually...

MBS Commentary

MBS RECAP: Bonds Circle Weekend Wagons as Fed Day Looms

Bonds Circle Weekend Wagons as Fed Day Looms This week was a bit of a barn burner for the bond market with 10yr yields falling at their fastest pace since...

MND NewsWire

Forborne Mortgages Edge Below 4 Percent Share

The number of loans in forbearance declined by 61,000 or 2.9 percent during the week ended June 8. Black Knight said that 2.06 million loans remain in...

MND NewsWire

Lenders Expect Refi Wind-Down to Lower Profits

Lenders aren't taking the refinance boom for granted. Fannie Mae's second quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey found most respondents do not expect...

Pipeline Press

Non-QM, MLO, AE Jobs Nationwide; VA, PMI, ECOA, Pricing;...

Friday: time for some random non-mortgage stuff. Everyone knows that if you lose one sense, your other senses become enhanced. Which is why people with...

MBS Commentary

MBS Day Ahead: Slightly Weaker Today, But It's...

Slightly weaker?! How could we say such things when the MBS chart looks like this: Don't worry. This isn't exactly "real" due to the...

MND NewsWire

Annual Equity Gains Neared $2 Trillion in Q1

It is hardly a surprise given the rapid increase in home prices, but homeowners gained another $1.9 trillion in equity in the first quarter of this year...

MND NewsWire

Second Home Sales React to High Prices, New Regs

Redfin says the second home market appears to be cooling although annual sales, measured by mortgage rate locks, were up nationwide by 48 percent in May...

Mortgage Rate Watch

Mortgage Rates Fall As Inflation Fails to Spook The...

Inflation is one of the mortal enemies of interest rates. If dollars in the future buy less stuff than they do today, investors need to set higher and...

MBS Commentary

MBS RECAP: Best Levels in Months After Much Higher...

Best Levels in Months After Much Higher CPI Data (No, Really!) If you'd told someone that core annual CPI would come in 0.4% higher than expected at...

MND NewsWire

Credit Access Index Hits Highest Level Since Pandemic...

The Mortgage Credit Access Index (MCAI), the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) measure of credit availability, rose 1.4 percent in May to a 129.9...

MBS Commentary

MBS Day Ahead: Bonds Doing an Epic Job of Taking Inflation...

If you'd told someone that core annual CPI would come in 0.4% higher than expected at a staggering 3.8%, but that Treasuries would only sell-off a...

Pipeline Press

AE, Ops, MLO Jobs; Warehouse, Sales, Execution, Analytics...

With plenty of in-person mortgage events slated for the remainder of 2021, it is good that human brains are specialized for facial recognition and that...

MBS Commentary

MBS RECAP: Strong 10yr Auction Reinforces Friendly...

Strong 10yr Auction Reinforces Friendly Trend Bonds charged into the domestic session making surprisingly swift gains amid a relative absence of justification...

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