NAHB Sees Lopsided Growth in Housing Starts; Fannie Turning Bearish; Rates Behind the Curve

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30 Year Fixed

                                                                4.63%
                                                                  
                                                                -0.01

15 Year Fixed

                                                                4.13%
                                                                  
                                                                -0.01

10YR Treasury

                                                                2.90%
                                                                  
                                                                +0.0570

FNMA 30YR 3.5

                                                                99.38
                                                                  
                                                                -0.31

FNMA 15YR 2.5

                                                                99.30
                                                                  
                                                                -0.16

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Friday July 20, 2018

MND NewsWire - 11:43AM

NAHB Sees Lopsided Growth in Housing Starts

In another dive into data from the Census Bureau's Survey of Construction (SOC), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) found that one third of the nine census divisions and ...

MND NewsWire - 10:03AM

Fannie Sees Growth Slowing, Turns Bearish on Housing

Fannie Mae's economists have upgraded their second quarter economic forecast but say that may be about it for the year . In their July forecast, the company's Economic & Strategic ...

Mortgage Rate Watch - 6:27PM

Mortgage Rates Behind the Curve For 2nd Straight Day

Mortgage rates improved today but it was largely a byproduct of yesterday's market movement that didn't make it onto lenders' rate sheets at the time. Mortgage lenders set rates based ...

Pipeline Press - 9:06AM

Flood, Volcano, Hurricane, and Disaster News; Lender Updates

A Small Business Administration analysis found that about 90 percent of the country’s damage costs from natural disasters happen in ZIP codes with less than 20 percent of the ...

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Traders expect that the Fed probably will ignore Trump's rate complaints
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Today's Rates

Best Execution

Rate

Change

30 Yr FRM

4.63%

-0.01

15 Yr FRM

4.13%

-0.01

FHA 30 Year Fixed

4.37%

+0.00

Jumbo 30 Year Fixed

4.50%

-0.01

5/1 Yr ARM

3.96%

-0.01

Current Mortgage Rates »

What are best-execution rates?

Average Mortgage Rates

Rate

Points

Change

FHFA *

15 Yr. Fixed

3.65%

1.14

+0.09

30 Yr. Fixed

4.19%

1.21

+0.02

MBA **

30 Yr. Fixed

4.68%

0.46

-0.01

15 Yr. Fixed

4.12%

0.51

+0.05

30 Yr. Jumbo

4.55%

0.37

+0.00

30 Yr. FHA

4.69%

0.81

-0.04

5/1 ARM

3.83%

0.68

-0.10

Freddie Mac **

30 Yr. Fixed

4.52%

0.40

-0.01

15 Yr. Fixed

4.00%

0.40

-0.02

1 Yr. ARM

2.68%

0.20

+0.01

5/1 Yr. ARM

3.87%

0.30

+0.01

Current Mortgage Rates »

* FHFA averages are updated monthly.
** Mortgage Bankers Association (each Wednesday) and Freddie Mac (each Thursday) averages are updated weekly.

Secondary Markets

MBS

Price

Change

30YR FNMA 3.0

96.72

-0.34

30YR FNMA 3.5

99.38

-0.31

30YR GNMA 3.0

98.13

+0.02

30YR GNMA 3.5

100.44

-0.09

15YR FNMA 3.0

99.30

-0.16

15YR FNMA 2.5

97.06

-0.22

Treasuries

Yield

Change

2 YR

2.5952%

+0.0044

5 YR

2.7645%

+0.0309

10 YR

2.8950%

+0.0570

30 YR

3.0313%

+0.0744

Prices as of: 7/20/2018 5:06PM EST

Current MBS / Treasury Prices »

MBS and Treasury data provided by Thomson Reuters.

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