Following a near-month-long 72-basis point rise, fixed-rate mortgages turned downward this week, signaling a potential reset in the housing market.
Read More »Refi Apps Tumble 80% YoY
As fixed-rate mortgages crawl to the 6%-mark, mortgage application volume did rise slightly for the third consecutive week, but refinance volume trended in the opposite direction, falling 80% year-over-year.
Read More »Equitable Opportunities, the GSEs, and Gauging Success
Don Layton, former CEO of Freddie Mac and current Senior Industry Pellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, lays out four benchmarks against which to grade the GSEs as their plans are implemented.
Read More »New Home Sales Pick Up Strength in May
Sales of new single‐family homes in May rose to 696,000, a 10.7% month-over-month rise of April’s recorded total of 629,000.
Read More »Mortgage Rates Continue Upward Climb, Hit 14-Year High Point
After a few weeks of decline, Freddie Mac reports mortgage rates hit a mark last seen in November 2008, having increased by more than two full percentage points since the beginning of 2022.
Read More »May Housing Completions Jump 9.1% Month-Over-Month
Hitting the highest rate recorded in 15 years, housing completions rose in May, a sign that construction bottlenecks may be easing.
Read More »The Dawn of a New Reality in Condo, Co-op Lending
Orest Tomaselli of CondoTek explains how sweeping changes by the GSEs as a result of the Champlain Towers tragedy have altered how lenders evaluate borrowers seeking condo and co-op properties.
Read More »Mortgage Rates Surge Ahead of Fed Rate Increase
Freddie Mac reported that mortgage rates experienced the largest one-week spike since gauging the metric in 1987—nearly doubling year-over-year.
Read More »Expert Insights: Understanding the Impact of Home Valuation Process Bias
Tai Christensen, DEI Officer of CBC Mortgage Agency, discusses how bias in the home valuation process impacts prospective homebuyers in communities of color.
Read More »Mortgage Application Volume Rebounds
After nearly a month of declines in mortgage application volume, the MBA reported that apps rose 6.6% week-over-week, as the industry braces itself for the latest rate hike by the Fed.
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