Fri, Aug 14 2015, 2:32 PM
Mortgage rates were just slightly higher on average for a third straight day. Much of this week was spent focusing on the effects of China's deci...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 11:30 AM
So far, the trading day has gone as you would expect it to go if you agreed with the premise in the morning commentary . Namely, without Chinese c...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 10:04 AM
Applications for the purchase of newly constructed homes fell
off slightly in July, a decline that the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
said was i...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 10:01 AM
"Texas alone accounts for 15% of all new single family homes built in the United States." I find this factoid interesting on a number of levels, an...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 7:33 AM
Chinese currency devaluation had quickly grabbed almost every available top news headline by yesterday evening. Yet while the rest of the world was...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 6:51 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Associations National Delinquency
Survey provides another measure of the declining rate of distress in
residential mortgages. ...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 6:47 PM
The headline is the recap. There's not much more to it than that. Ever since China stepped in to stem the tide of currency weakness yesterday aftern...
Thu, Aug 13 2015, 5:07 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher today as the recent volatility in global markets subsided. Treasury yields and mortgage rates both benefited from...
Wed, Aug 12 2015, 11:37 AM
”Rob,
I've heard that the fines that a company pays to the CFPB are tax
deductible. So therefore the money is just transferred from one
governme...
Wed, Aug 12 2015, 9:06 AM
There
was virtually no change in the overall volume of mortgage applications during
the week ended August 7 compared to the previous week, mirrori...
Wed, Aug 12 2015, 7:33 AM
Most of this morning's day ahead was written in a speculative manner on July 24th HERE . On that day, I closed with:
Despite all the Fed rhetoric...
Wed, Aug 12 2015, 7:15 PM
Let's keep it simple tonight, because it really is pretty simple. It's all about China still--perhaps with an assist from a weak 10yr auction.
Chi...
Wed, Aug 12 2015, 5:44 PM
Mortgage rates were lower at first today, but most lenders sent out negative reprices in the afternoon, bringing rates back to unchanged levels. ...
Wed, Aug 12 2015, 1:19 PM
Global markets' courtship phase with China's currency devaluation continued benefiting Treasuries overnight. While there was a slow, steady move back...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 12:59 PM
Treasury yields are at their lowest--and MBS at their highest--levels since early June. For 10yr Treasuries specifically, it wouldn't take more than ...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 11:25 AM
Is it really easier to get a mortgage these days? Well... After mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac clarified their credit qualifica...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 7:33 AM
There are no significant economic reports on the calendar today, and the afternoon's 3yr Treasury auction is the lease relevant of the week. Against ...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 6:14 PM
Mortgage rates dropped quickly today, bringing many lenders back to quoting conventional 30yr fixed rates of 3.875% for top tier scenarios. The m...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 5:57 PM
The Asian, European, and North American trading sessions were all dominated by news that China would devalue its currency. There's much more to tha...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 3:44 PM
Completed
foreclosures in June were down 63.3 percent from the peak reached in September 2010. That month, just before the robo-signing
scandal f...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 3:40 PM
There was an uptick in national existing home sales in the
second quarter of 2015 of 6.6 percent the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said on ...
Tue, Aug 11 2015, 3:37 PM
Credit unions are gaining a greater
share of the market for both home mortgages and auto loans according to a new
study just released by TransUnio...
Mon, Aug 10 2015, 10:26 AM
I
am currently in the Pacific Daylight Time zone for the Mortgage
Collaborative conference near San Diego. Do time zones ever make the
headlines...
Mon, Aug 10 2015, 8:21 AM
There's no question that things have been going well for bond markets recently--at least for the parts of the bond markets that we care about. The lo...
Mon, Aug 10 2015, 5:39 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly higher today, erasing the modest improvements seen on Friday. There wasn't much movement in the secondary mortgage ...
Mon, Aug 10 2015, 5:37 PM
Today's first significant source of inspiration for bond markets came in the form of comments from Fed Vice Chair Fischer. While he stuck to the same...
Mon, Aug 10 2015, 4:33 PM
The drought and raging wildfires appear not to be dampening the enthusiasm of people who wish to live in
California. CoreLogic reports that the
s...
Mon, Aug 10 2015, 1:08 PM
Today has been all about yield curve steepening . That means that longer-lasting bonds have been doing worse than shorter term bonds. For instance,...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 11:32 AM
Yesterday
I attended the California Association of Mortgage Professionals
conference in Southern California, and was talking to a buddy who works ...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 8:06 PM
Negativity was pervasive in the results of Fannie Mae's July
National Housing Survey (NHS).
Respondents indicated falling expectations about the ec...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 7:33 AM
NFP day is fun. It's one of those days where things can change so much and so quickly in its immediate wake, that it really doesn't make much sense ...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 7:25 PM
Mortgage rates were surprisingly calm today , especially in light of the fact that the big jobs report was released this morning. This report has ...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 6:49 PM
Today's almost perfectly flat (vs last month and expectations) NFP provided a perfect opportunity to see what markets had been afraid of and/or hopefu...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 3:21 PM
Over a year ago consumers pointed out, in a report from the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) the "pain points" they encountered in
the mo...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 3:07 PM
There are two conflicting theories on how or even if
monetary policy should play a role in stabilizing asset price booms and
busts. If central bank...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 11:34 AM
Since early 2014 the Federal Reserve has
held out two goals that must be achieved before it raises the Federal Funds
rate, "maximum employment and i...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 11:28 AM
Sales of lender-owned real estate (REO) in May represented
the smallest share of home sales in nine years.
CoreLogic said that the overall share ...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 11:22 AM
Credit availability increased in July, resuming an almost
continuous rise that started last fall.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Mortg...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 11:16 AM
Housing discrimination can come in many forms - but based on who your friends are? Thank you to Thomas Michel who sent along this story about how Fa...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 10:52 AM
We expected to see some sort of consolidation of the late July bond rally this week. That's a fancy way of saying that markets would probably level-...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 9:39 PM
It was quite a nice pre-NFP Thursday for bond markets. Trading was uneventful in our favorite sort of way where the gains begin early and losses ne...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 8:01 PM
Mortgage rates made up some of their recently lost ground today, moving slightly lower in concert with falling stock prices. Bonds (which include...
Thu, Aug 6 2015, 7:33 AM
The Wednesday before NFP always has at least the ADP numbers to provide volatility potential. It also frequently has ISM Services data as was the cas...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 12:43 PM
Redfin, a multi-state real estate firm based in Seattle, says
it is seeing "signs of an enduring slowdown" in the housing market. This isn't neces...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 11:40 AM
It looks like the nail is in the coffin for the pre-NFP rally potential. There was some small chance today (emphasis on 'small') that economic data...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 11:26 AM
Demand
for a wide range of consumer and commercial loans increased in the
second quarter, according to a Federal Reserve survey of senior loan
o...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 9:32 AM
Last week was the best
one for mortgage applications in quite some time in terms of percent gains versus the previous week (outright index levels rem...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 7:33 AM
To be fair to the Wednesdays before NFP, sometimes they get serious and sometimes they don't. As always, the determining factor is whether there is e...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 6:21 PM
Mortgage rates continued their retreat from recent lows for a 2nd straight day after this morning's data suggested the service sector was at its s...
Wed, Aug 5 2015, 6:21 PM
Yesterday afternoon's weak momentum (inspired by comments from Fed's Lockhart) carried over into the overnight session. Additional losses were contai...
