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...
Wed, Mar 15 2023, 8:34 AM
Mortgage application volume increased for a second straight week as investors fled to the safety of government-guaranteed securities in the wake of th...
Wed, Jan 18 2023, 4:16 PM
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Wed, Jan 18 2023, 9:49 AM
A friend out in California asked me how much, on average, I spend on a bottle of wine. I replied, “About half an hour.” Plenty of wine is being consum...
Wed, Jan 4 2023, 8:22 AM
The end-of-year holiday season took its usual toll on mortgage applications. The Mortgage Brokers Association (MBA) report this morning recapped the p...
Wed, Dec 14 2022, 9:01 AM
The mortgage market disregarded a slight increase in interest rates last week. Refinance applications posted a second weekly gain, and the Purchase M...
Wed, Dec 7 2022, 8:19 AM
Application volume the past week didn’t fully recover from the usual Thanksgiving week losses a week prior. Refinancing did improve, but purchase vol...
Wed, Oct 26 2022, 9:41 AM
There was a slight increase in refinancing during the week ended October 21, but overall mortgage applications fell for the fifth straight week. The M...
Wed, Oct 19 2022, 8:18 AM
Mortgage application activity fell again during the week ended October 14 as mortgage interest rates hit their highest level in 20 years. The Market B...
Wed, Oct 5 2022, 7:44 AM
There were two storms brewing last week and each contributed to driving mortgage applications to generational lows. The Mortgage Bankers Association (...
Wed, Sep 21 2022, 9:29 AM
Mortgage application activity increased for the first time in six weeks during the period ended September 16 although the prior week had been shortene...
Wed, Aug 31 2022, 10:49 AM
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Wed, Aug 31 2022, 10:11 AM
The volume of mortgage applications fell again last week, dragged lower by refinancing which had its largest week-over-week decline since mid-May. The...
Wed, Aug 24 2022, 10:27 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association, (MBA) says its Weekly Mortgage Application Survey for the week ended August 19 shows the volume of mortgage applicat...
Wed, Aug 3 2022, 9:02 AM
Mortgage application activity rose last week, reversing a series of declines that started in late June. The increase was modest; the Mortgage Bankers ...
Wed, Jul 27 2022, 8:55 AM
The number of applications for residential mortgages retreated for the fourth consecutive period during the week ended July 22 according to the Weekly...
Wed, Jul 20 2022, 10:24 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said today that its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, fell again during th...
Wed, Jun 22 2022, 11:30 AM
An increase in home purchase activity drove mortgage applications higher during the week ended June 17. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said it...
Wed, Jun 15 2022, 8:29 AM
Mortgage application volume increased during the week ended June 10 after four straight weeks of declines. However, the overall gains shown by data fr...
Wed, Jun 8 2022, 3:48 PM
It's a fairly sobering headline any way you word it: mortgage applications hit the lowest levels in 22 years last week according the the Mortgage Bank...
Wed, May 25 2022, 4:08 PM
Today's weekly mortgage application survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) was fairly unsurprising in that applications declined, but at a...
Wed, Apr 27 2022, 2:43 PM
Today brought 2 new scheduled data releases for the housing market. Both were fairly logical given the variables in play. So far in 2022, one of the...
Wed, Apr 20 2022, 12:57 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) latest weekly mortgage application data shows an ongoing and unsurprising decline in refinance applications. ...
Wed, Apr 20 2022, 11:35 AM
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Wed, Mar 16 2022, 1:00 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its latest mortgage application numbers this morning and the modest movement belies the drama unfoldin...
Wed, Mar 9 2022, 9:34 AM
The news release for weekly mortgage applications may have come out today, but as with any economic report, it refers to things that happened in the p...
Wed, Mar 2 2022, 1:24 PM
Mortgage applications have been making logical moves recently with higher rates causing a sharp deceleration in refinance activity. Purchases are off...
Wed, Feb 23 2022, 9:25 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association released its weekly mortgage application data this morning. Here's the skinny: Refi Applications
-16% from last...
Wed, Nov 3 2021, 9:04 AM
The volume of mortgage applications as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Market Composite Index declined during the week ended Oc...
Wed, Oct 20 2021, 10:20 AM
Mortgage application volume fell sharply last week, the second decline of more than 6 percent in the past three weeks. Refinancing was down for the fo...
Wed, Oct 13 2021, 10:31 AM
The volume of mortgage applications ticked up last week for the first time in three weeks, but an uptick was the extent of it. The Mortgage Bankers As...
Wed, Oct 6 2021, 11:00 AM
Mortgage applications declined by the largest margin in three months during the week ended October 1. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market...
Wed, Sep 29 2021, 10:46 AM
Mortgage application volume edged slightly lower during the week ended September 24 , with purchase and finance applications sharing in the dip. The M...
Wed, Sep 22 2021, 8:08 AM
The volume of applications for first mortgages grew by 4.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the first full week after Labor Day. The Mort...
Wed, Sep 1 2021, 11:04 AM
Mortgage application volume declined again last week , dragged down by flagging refinance activity. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says its Ma...
Wed, Aug 25 2021, 10:45 AM
Both refinance and purchase applications increased slightly last week , and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a ...
Wed, Aug 18 2021, 8:09 AM
Mortgage application volume was lower over the last week, continuing the up-one-week, down-the-next pattern it has displayed since late June. The Mort...
Wed, Aug 11 2021, 10:40 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, rose 2.8 percent on a seasona...
Wed, Aug 4 2021, 10:46 AM
Despite newly lower interest rates, mortgage applications were lower during the week ended July 30. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Ma...
Fri, Jul 16 2021, 12:45 PM
A set of special questions on a Q1 National Housing Survey asked consumers, who were also recent homebuyers, about their experiences obtaining a mortg...
Wed, Jul 14 2021, 8:44 AM
Mortgage application volume during the week ended July 9 featured the largest weekly increase since the first full week of 2021. The Mortgage Bankers ...
Wed, Jul 7 2021, 8:08 AM
The week preceding the Independence Day holiday saw a further decline in mortgage applications for both home purchases and refinancing. The Mortgage B...
Wed, Jun 30 2021, 9:34 AM
Mortgage applications fell sharply last week, affecting both refinance and purchase components of the Mortgage Banker Association's (MBA's) Market Com...
Wed, Jun 16 2021, 8:07 AM
Mortgage application activity bounced back from the Memorial Day holiday week with a seasonally adjusted increase of 4.2 percent in the Mortgage Banke...
Wed, Jun 9 2021, 8:20 AM
Mortgage application activity slowed further during the week ended June 4, a short business week due to Monday's Memorial Day holiday. The impact of t...
Wed, May 12 2021, 10:35 AM
Mortgage application volume rose for the first time since mid-April last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index,...
Wed, May 5 2021, 8:16 AM
Mortgage application volume lost ground again last week, although the decline was small and refinancing volume pulled out a sliver of a gain. The Mort...
Wed, Apr 28 2021, 8:27 AM
The solid 8.6 percent increase in mortgage application volume during the week ended April 16, only the fourth gain thus far in 2021, was short lived. ...
Wed, Apr 21 2021, 9:45 AM
Mortgage application volume broke out of a six-week slump in a big way during the week ended April 16. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Marke...
Wed, Apr 7 2021, 8:43 AM
Mortgage application volume declined for the fifth straight week during the period ending April 2, and by the largest amount over that period. The Mor...
