Wed, Aug 17 2016, 8:26 AM
Despite persistently low rates, consumers are not feeling too motivated to apply for home loans. The Mortgage Bankers Association said mortgage applic...
Wed, Aug 3 2016, 8:19 AM
Despite interest rates that were lower across
the board mortgage applications activity sagged during the week ended July
29. The Mortgage Bankers A...
Wed, Jun 15 2016, 8:05 AM
Despite mortgage interest rates that continued to decline, in the case of FHA loans retreating to levels last seen in 2013, mortgage activity decreas...
Wed, Jun 8 2016, 8:46 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported another of those holiday-centered weeks of mortgage application activity where it is anyone's guess ...
Wed, Jun 1 2016, 8:21 AM
Applications for mortgages slowed appreciably during the week ended May 27 and average mortgage rates scattered in all directions. The Mortgage Ban...
Wed, May 25 2016, 7:58 AM
Mortgage applications increased last week driven by a significant uptick in applications for purchase mortgages. Refinance volume rose only fraction...
Wed, May 18 2016, 7:44 AM
Both mortgage applications and interest rates were essentially directionless during the week ended May 13. The Mortgage Bankers Association said it...
Wed, May 11 2016, 8:37 AM
Despite mortgage rates that continue to hover near 2016 lows, mortgage application activity was essentially flat during the week ended May 6. Refin...
Wed, May 4 2016, 8:55 AM
Average contract mortgage interest rates inched up again during the week ended April 29 and mortgage application activity slowed in response. The M...
Wed, Apr 20 2016, 8:39 AM
In a week when rates continued holding near multi-year lows, mortgage application activity increased, but the gain during the week ended April 15 was ...
Wed, Apr 6 2016, 8:36 AM
After six straight weeks of declining volume refinancing experienced a minor resurgence during the week ended April 1. The rebound more than offset ...
Wed, Mar 30 2016, 7:59 AM
Mortgage activity during the week ended March 25 more or less marked time. Rates were mixed and purchase loans, which increased slightly , offset ref...
Wed, Mar 23 2016, 8:09 AM
There was a little bit of Groundhog Day in last week's results from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Weekly Mortgage Application Survey. Th...
Wed, Mar 9 2016, 8:14 AM
Mortgage application activity during the week ended March 4 was, at best, lackluster with a small gain in purchase mortgage applications offsetting a ...
Wed, Feb 3 2016, 8:29 AM
Mortgage application volume during the week ended January 29 was again either
disappointing or much improved depending on whether one viewed it on ...
Wed, Jan 27 2016, 9:09 AM
Refinancing continued to buoy up mortgage application volume during the
week ended January 22 as interest rates fell back to levels last seen in th...
Wed, Jan 13 2016, 9:34 AM
The weekly mortgage application report from the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) was another recounting of a post-holiday rebound. Last Wednesday'...
Wed, Jan 6 2016, 9:51 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is playing catch-up this morning
after a two week holiday hiatus for its Weekly Mortgage Applications
Survey....
Wed, Dec 16 2015, 9:07 AM
Refinancing remained strong relative to purchase mortgage activity during
the week ended December 11 while application activity overall slipped. The...
Wed, Dec 9 2015, 9:07 AM
Mortgage application volume was higher across the board during the week
ended December 4 as activity rebounded from the essentially three-day work ...
Wed, Dec 2 2015, 9:10 AM
Mortgage applications during the week ended November 27 were generally
higher on an adjusted basis and much lower on an unadjusted basis due to the...
Wed, Nov 25 2015, 8:51 AM
Mortgage applications were a bit of a mixed bag during the week ended
November 20, a week in a hammock strung between two holidays. The Mortgage B...
Wed, Nov 18 2015, 8:44 AM
It was another holiday muddled week for the Mortgage Bankers Association's
Market Composite Index. The index, a
measure of applications volume, ro...
Wed, Nov 11 2015, 1:13 PM
Mortgage rates rose sharply during the week ended November 6. Most contract rates had an average basis
point increase near double digits, returni...
Wed, Nov 4 2015, 8:12 AM
Mortgage application
volume was essentially flat during the week ended October 30. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
its Market Composi...
Wed, Oct 28 2015, 9:18 AM
Mortgage applications during the week ended October 23 decreased 3.5
percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous week the Mortgage
Ba...
Wed, Oct 14 2015, 9:12 AM
Mortgage applications thus far in October's have scored a net gain of...
just about nothing, falling almost perfect victim to Newton's Third Law last...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 9:05 AM
Declining rates, an impending hurricane, the Blood Moon - who knows what
was behind - it but mortgage application volume went a little crazy last we...
Wed, Sep 30 2015, 8:44 AM
Application volumes fell even as interest rates were in a holding pattern
during the week ended September 25. The
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA...
Wed, Sep 23 2015, 9:00 AM
It was a full week after a holiday foreshortened one and also the week in
which the long awaited Federal Open Market Committee move to begin interest...
Wed, Sep 16 2015, 9:09 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that, as usually
occurs during a holiday week, mortgage applications declined significantly during
t...
Thu, Sep 10 2015, 10:05 AM
Applications for mortgages to purchase newly constructed
homes dropped by 6 percent in August according to the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA)....
Wed, Sep 9 2015, 9:34 AM
Whether they were concerned about the possibility of rising rates or
merely clearing the decks in anticipation of the last week of psychological
sum...
Wed, Aug 26 2015, 9:01 AM
There was virtually no
movement last week in the various indices measuring mortgage application
volume. The Mortgage Bankers Association's
(MBA's)...
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...
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, Jul 22 2015, 9:18 AM
With the distortions of the Independence Day holiday week and the
subsequent week's recovery now history mortgage application activity settled
down....
Wed, Jun 24 2015, 8:57 AM
Mortgage applications, which posted eight declines in the last nine weeks,
recovered a bit during the week ended June 19.
The Mortgage Bankers As...
Wed, Jun 10 2015, 9:50 AM
Americans got back to work during the week ended June 5 and mortgage
applications rebounded significantly .
Volume made up the ground lost during ...
Wed, Jun 3 2015, 10:02 AM
The week ended May 29 was another of those holiday shortened weeks when the most relevant comment that can be made about mortgage application numbers ...
Wed, May 27 2015, 10:23 AM
Mortgage applications declined overall for the
fifth straight week even though there was a slight uptick in applications for
purchase mortgages. ...
Wed, May 20 2015, 9:13 AM
Mortgage application
volume continued a downward spiral during the week ended May 15. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's)
Market Composite...
Wed, Apr 22 2015, 9:11 AM
Borrowers responded to some of the lowest interest rates in several
months by stepping up applications for mortgage financing. The Mortgage Bankers ...
Wed, Apr 15 2015, 9:23 AM
Applications for purchase mortgages have ended three straight weeks in
which their volume increased an average of 6 percent. The Mortgage Bankers As...
Wed, Mar 25 2015, 9:09 AM
Stoked by the lowest interest rates in several weeks the volume of applications
for mortgages to both purchase and refinance homes increased by the...
Wed, Mar 18 2015, 9:08 AM
It has been a tough winter and with spring
less than a week away borrowers have apparently not yet emerged from hibernation. Applications for both...
Wed, Mar 4 2015, 9:12 AM
Mortgage applications were mixed and largely
flat during the week ended February 27.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Ind...
Wed, Feb 18 2015, 9:42 AM
Mortgage application
volume fell across the board for the second straight time during the week ended
February 13, 2015. The Mortgage Bankers
Assoc...
Wed, Feb 11 2015, 8:36 AM
The on and off refinancing boomlet that has sporadically driven mortgage
application volume since the first of the year went missing again during t...
Wed, Jan 28 2015, 9:03 AM
The law of physics prevailed last week and mortgage applications, riding
high for the previous two weeks, returned to earth. The Mortgage Bankers As...
