Mortgage rates continued their upward odyssey for the third week in a row, coming within a hair of the 7% mark. According to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey from Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC), the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.96% as of Aug. 10, up from last...
Mortgage application activity continued to slow last week, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The trade group’s Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 3.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 4%...
Modern building codes are being credited for the roughly 50% decline in post-hurricane mortgage delinquency rates, according to a new report from the Insurance Institute of Business & Home Safety and CoreLogic. The report cited the building codes that emerged in...
The latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Associations’ (MBA) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) recorded a nadir not seen in a decade. The MCAI was down by 0.3% to 96.3 in July; the index was benchmarked to 100 in March 2012. The Conventional MCAI decreased by...
The share of new home sales backed by Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans increased to 14% in the second quarter from 12.1% in the first quarter, according to a new data analysis from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The second quarter’s...
The typical U.S. homebuyer’s monthly mortgage payment was $2,605 during the four weeks ending July 30, according to new data from Redfin (NASDAQ:RDFN). This represents a 19% year-over-year spike, but it is also $32 less than the record-high payment level from early...
