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Mortgage rates were unchanged today, holding onto modest improvements seen yesterday. In many ways, the past 2 days have confirmed that rates are in limbo near the lower end of the post-election range. To be sure, they were definitively lower in mid-April, but they're much closer to recent lows than highs. More importantly, current levels have acted as a line in the sand that divides the year's lowest rates from everything else. In other words, we'd really like to remain in this zone. Whether or not that's possible may depend on next week's Fed Announcement (Wednesday afternoon). While the Fed isn't expected to hike rates this time around, investors will nonetheless attempt to pick up on clues about future policy potential. The average lender continues offering conventional 30yr fixed rates
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates were unchanged today, holding onto modest improvements seen yesterday. In many ways, the past 2 days have confirmed that rates are in limbo near the lower end of the post-election range. To be sure, they were definitively lower in mid-... (read more) |
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Housing News
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Here we go again? Sam Khater, CoreLogic's deputy chief economist, says loan performance is beginning to show some cracks in what has been a near perfect veneer. This might be an early signal of a downturn in the credit cycle. Khater is not issuing a ... (read more) |
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Housing News
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The share of sales that are all-cash continues at an elevated level. CoreLogic reports cash transactions accounted for 36.5 percent of all home sales in January, unchanged from a year earlier. While the percentage of sales that close without third-pa... (read more) |
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MBS Commentary
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Bond markets are very much on a fence at the moment with respect to short and intermediate trends. There are a few ways we can measure this fence-sitting. The most basic would be to look at "pivot points" that have recently made a name fo... (read more) |
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Rob Chrisman
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For 2015, retail originators averaged total compensation of $88,415 versus $80,376 for Consumer Direct originators, per a STRATMOR Insights report on the subject. While retail originators averaged higher overall compensation, it was due to higher inc... (read more) |
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MBS Commentary
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Bond markets have a question. Will we or won't we be heading back into the sideways, post-election rate range? for top tier mortgage rates, the range is roughly 4.125-4.25%. For 10yr yields, it's the 2.3-2.6% range that we've been... (read more) |
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consumerfinancemonitor.com
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