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Mortgage application activity declined during the week as the 30-year mortgage rate crossed the 5.0 percent line for the first time in seven years and other products moved to new seven or eight year highs. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measures of application volume, declined by 1.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended October 5. On an unadjusted basis the index was down by 2.0 percent. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index lost ground for the first time in six weeks , decreasing by 1 percent compared to the previous week, and was down by 1.0 percent on an unadjusted basis as well. The unadjusted version remained 2.0 percent higher than during the same week in 2017. The Refinance Index fell by 3.0 percent and the share of
Housing News
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Mortgage application activity declined during the week as the 30-year mortgage rate crossed the 5.0 percent line for the first time in seven years and other products moved to new seven or eight year highs. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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One of the most important themes I've tried to communicate over the past 2 weeks is that the bond market is in the middle of redefining or repricing its relationship with the available data. There was a chance that 10yr yields would try to av... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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As Hurricane Michael heads toward Florida & Georgia (with the wind and storm surge, lenders and investors act – for example, Mr. Cooper has temporarily suspended loan purchases in several Florida counties effective today), contractors and b... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates recovered a small portion of their recent losses today, but the average loan applicant might not even notice. The 2 key ingredients of a mortgage rate (for the purposes of tracking their movement) are the rate itself (the "note rate") ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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2009-2013 was an unprecedented time for the US bond market. It benefited not only from the initial blast of the Great Recession and the sluggish recovery that followed, but also from the ongoing blast of Fed bond buying and ultra-low rate pol... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Today was a freebie for bond markets (and stocks to some extent). In the grand scheme of things, no one will look back at today and conclude anything meaningful. If anything, it will just look like a very calm, very flat trading day fol... (read more)
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