Delivered to over
70,000+ industry professionals
each day, the Daily Newsletter is the
definitive recap of the day's most
relevant mortgage and real estate news and data. View the latest Newsletter below.
View our most recent newsletter below, or use the date selector to view past newsletters.
Mortgage rates were unchanged to slightly higher today--a claim that utterly boggles the mind of anyone who thought they understood the relationship between bond markets and the mortgage world. ALMOST without fail, a big drop in 10yr Treasury yields will coincide with lower mortgage rates. In fact, many people believe (albeit incorrectly) that mortgage rates are based on the 10yr yield. But today, despite a substantial drop in Treasury yields, mortgage rates are stuck in the mud. Since this could continue to be the case, I'm going to include the following brief statement/reminder until the situation subsides: A note on mortgage rates not improving even when 10yr yields are falling: Mortgages and the bonds that underlie them (MBS) are subject to one major uncertainty that doesn't affect US Treasuries
Mortgage Rate Watch
|
|
Mortgage rates were unchanged to slightly higher today--a claim that utterly boggles the mind of anyone who thought they understood the relationship between bond markets and the mortgage world. ALMOST without fail, a big drop in 10yr Treasury yields ... (read more)
|
|
Rob Chrisman
|
|
As we digest the news that CIT is buying Mutual of Omaha Bank , others are looking at demographics. Families moving create jobs, right? From 2017 to 2018, roughly 32 million Americans moved. The reasons include family, work, and housing reasons, obvi... (read more)
|
|
Housing News
|
|
Both the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and CoreLogic issued data on recent loan performance on Tuesday. For CoreLogic the Monthly Loan Performance Report covered May, MBA's National Delinquency Survey is for the second quarter of this year. MBA ... (read more)
|
|
MBS Commentary
|
|
In the day just passed, bonds put in their second biggest rally day of the past 3 weeks (the crazy ones) and their biggest rally day since yields bottomed out last week. Strikingly, there was no major singular reason for the move, unless we wis... (read more)
|
|
Housing News
|
|
After years of planning, the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac launched their uniform mortgage-backed security (UMBS) in early June. So far, the Urban Institute (UI) likes what it sees. UI analysts Karan Kaul and ... (read more)
|
|
Housing News
|
|
Ever since mortgage rates began to move lower, Black Knight has devoted a big portion of its Mortgage Monitor , a monthly report on loan performance and other mortgage issues, to tracking the ebb and flow of the refinanceable loan population. The com... (read more)
|
|
|
|
|