Wed, Sep 6 2023, 9:36 AM
A powerful hurricane and an approaching three-day weekend may have offset the impact of an improvement in interest rates during the week ended Septemb...
Wed, Aug 30 2023, 8:16 AM
After falling for five straight weeks, mortgage applications finally gained a little ground last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said i...
Wed, Aug 23 2023, 2:52 PM
Sales of newly constructed homes appear to be benefitting from the very lack of inventory that is stifling existing home sales. July’s sales of pre-...
Wed, Aug 23 2023, 10:54 AM
Mortgage interest rates rose again last week, reaching the highest level in nearly a quarter century and further sidelining mortgage borrowers. The Mo...
Tue, Aug 22 2023, 11:52 AM
Sales of existing homes slipped in July even as median prices sustained their record-high levels. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said th...
Wed, Aug 16 2023, 9:31 AM
Increased mortgage rates continued to damp down both purchase and refinance activity during the week ended August 11. The Mortgage Bankers Association...
Tue, Aug 15 2023, 11:44 AM
Rising rates took a toll on builder confidence in August. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market In...
Wed, Aug 9 2023, 8:11 AM
The downturn in mortgage application volume extended to a third straight week over the period ending August 4. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) ...
Tue, Aug 8 2023, 2:42 PM
A measure of the availability of mortgage credit dropped to its lowest level in a decade last month as lenders sought to reduce operating costs and ...
Wed, Aug 2 2023, 9:19 AM
The weekly applications report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) wasn’t positive, but it was certainly consistent. MBA said its Market Compo...
Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:26 PM
Pending home sales pulled out of a three-month spiral in June but with only a fractional increase from May. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR...
Wed, Jul 26 2023, 8:31 AM
Mortgage application volume during the week ended July 24 was down slightly from the prior week. Static interest rates did little to stir the refinanc...
Tue, Jul 25 2023, 2:18 PM
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices posted an annual decline in home prices for the second straight month in May while the Housing Price Index pr...
Thu, Jul 20 2023, 4:33 PM
Almost everyone has said it or heard it: Existing Home Sales are in the toilet because there's no inventory and there's no inventory because no one wa...
Wed, Jul 19 2023, 3:55 PM
The rate of both construction permitting and housing starts retreated from their May levels last month. The significant increase in estimated starts ...
Wed, Jul 19 2023, 9:35 AM
Applications for refinancing rebounded last week from the previous week’s holiday-related slowdown but purchase applications slid lower. The Mortgage ...
Tue, Jul 18 2023, 2:18 PM
Increases in single-family rents soared in the post-pandemic environment but have now moderated to the annual levels in the pre-pandemic years of 201...
Tue, Jul 18 2023, 11:00 AM
Builder confidence in the market for newly constructed homes rose another point in July according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)....
Wed, Jul 12 2023, 9:55 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports a slight increase in the volume of mortgage applications during the week ended July 7. MBA’s seasonally...
Mon, Jul 10 2023, 2:29 PM
The Black Knight Mortgage Monitor for May doesn’t even hint at a housing crisis on the horizon. Affordability is again (or maybe still) a concern, ...
Thu, Jul 6 2023, 8:37 AM
The volume of mortgage applications fell during the last week of June as compared to the prior week which had contained an adjustment to account for t...
Wed, Jun 28 2023, 9:17 AM
In light of yesterday’s strong report on new home sales and the earlier marginally improved one on pre-owned home sales, mortgage application volumes ...
Tue, Jun 27 2023, 1:33 PM
Both the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index and the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA’s) Home Price Index (HPI) show home...
Tue, Jun 27 2023, 1:16 PM
Last month’s sales of newly constructed single-family homes rose to the highest level since February 2022. The report from the U.S. Census Bureau an...
Thu, Jun 22 2023, 2:40 PM
The reality of the home sales market is in the eye of the beholder these days and the just-released Existing Home Sales report doesn't shed much light...
Wed, Jun 21 2023, 8:27 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said home purchase activity increased last week, allowing for a small gain in its Market Composite Index. That ...
Tue, Jun 20 2023, 3:05 PM
Although the New Residential Construction report released by the Census Bureau has notoriously wide margins of error, it's rare to see numbers like to...
Wed, Jun 14 2023, 9:50 AM
The volume of mortgage applications posted the first gain since May 5, aided by lower interest rates and the usual post-holiday week bounce. The Mortg...
Wed, Jun 7 2023, 10:07 AM
The four-day business week accompanying the Memorial Day Holiday contributed to a further slowdown in mortgage applications. The Mortgage Bankers Asso...
Wed, May 31 2023, 8:33 AM
Rising rates and sparse inventories continue to hamper the mortgage market. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a...
Tue, May 30 2023, 11:57 AM
One of the major home price indices showed a continued increase in national home prices in March and less waffling in some local markets. A second i...
Thu, May 25 2023, 11:48 AM
The number of contracts to purchase pre-owned homes was unchanged in April. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales ...
Wed, May 24 2023, 8:35 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 4.6 percent on a seas...
Thu, May 18 2023, 3:04 PM
Existing home sales account for the lion's share of all home sales in the U.S. Unlike "New Home Sales," this data series tracks previously sold homes...
Wed, May 17 2023, 11:39 AM
The April Residential Construction Report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows mixed results in April...
Wed, May 17 2023, 9:51 AM
The volume of mortgage applications, which had risen by more than 6 percent the prior week lost nearly all those gains during the week ended May 12. T...
Tue, May 16 2023, 2:25 PM
Home builders’ attitudes about the market for newly constructed homes continued to improve in May, partially due to the lack of available pre-owned ho...
Wed, May 10 2023, 8:24 AM
The volume of mortgage applications increased last week for both home purchases and refinancing. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Marke...
Wed, May 3 2023, 1:32 PM
While home prices continue to fall on an annual basis, new data from Black Knight indicates that the trend may not continue beyond the short term. The...
Wed, May 3 2023, 9:04 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) noted a slight decrease in mortgage applications during the week ended April 28. Joel Kan, MBA’s Vice President...
Thu, Apr 27 2023, 3:41 PM
Wed, Apr 26 2023, 8:32 AM
Mortgage application volume increased during the week ending April 21. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measu...
Tue, Apr 25 2023, 1:06 PM
Today brings the latest monthly installment of the two major home price indices from Case Shiller and the FHFA. While these numbers only bring us up ...
Tue, Apr 25 2023, 12:34 PM
New home sales figures bounced higher again in Marc h, outperforming February sales by 9.6 percent. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing a...
Thu, Apr 20 2023, 4:54 PM
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) measures the sales of previously owned homes. These so-called Existing Home Sales account for a vast major...
Wed, Apr 19 2023, 8:41 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index for the week ended April 14 was down 8.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis...
Tue, Apr 18 2023, 12:39 PM
Residential construction data for March didn’t come close to matching February’s performance, but the rate of housing starts held its own. The good n...
Mon, Apr 17 2023, 2:05 PM
The index that measures the confidence of new home builders in the market for their product inched slightly higher again in April. The National Associ...
Wed, Apr 12 2023, 8:23 AM
Mortgage applications increased last week for the fifth time in six weeks. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a m...
Mon, Apr 10 2023, 11:14 AM
Fannie Mae’s monthly survey of consumers’ attitudes toward buying or selling a home and their own financial situation showed a mixture of sentiments i...
