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Mortgage Applications Fall As Rates Climb Back Above 7%
Building A Better Housing Market: Is The Worst Over As Existing Home Sales Jump In January?
Mortgage Applications Fall As Rates Climb Back Above 7%
Building A Better Housing Market: Is The Worst Over As Existing Home Sales Jump In January?
Mortgage Rates Decline For Fifth Week In A Row: 'Encouraging Development For Potential Homebuyers'
Good News For Homebuyers As Mortgage Rates Fall For 4th Straight Week

Mortgage Bankers Association Recent News

Housing Market Correction: Rates Up, Lack Of Buyers, Cracks Forming In Home Improvement
The housing market, still in its relentless rough patch as mortgage rates continue to climb higher, is deterring buyers from making a move.
Mortgage Demand Declines As Interest Rates Drop: What You Need To Know
Last week, the mortgage industry faced a steep drop in demand, despite the continual decrease in interest rates.
Homebuyers Flock To Lower Interest Rates: MBA Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey
As mortgages continued to moderate, potential home buyers were flocking to the opportunity to secure a lower interest rate, Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey data showed.
Mortgage Demand Falls To Lowest Level Since 1997 As Rates Climb To 16-Year Highs
According to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) issued on Wednesday, mortgage rates hit a 16-year high last week, significantly reducing demand among home purchasers.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Soar Again, Non-QM Rides On, The Best And Worst Rental Markets
The renewed rise in mortgage rates, a major mortgage-backed securities deal featuring non-qualified mortgages and a cooling in rental housing prices dominated this week's housing and mortgage market news.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Fall Again, Home Price Growth Cools, Roe V. Wade Influences Homebuyers
This week in the housing world, mortgage rates declined for the second consecutive week as home price growth slowed, the level of mortgage delinquencies remained low and the Roe v. Wade controversy permeated the homebuying process.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Creep Down, Inventory Expands And Who Wants A Vacation Home Anymore?
The U.S. housing market closed June with a decline in mortgage rates, a bump-up in pending home sales, a growing number of available properties for sale and an evaporating enthusiasm for vacation homes.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Spike As Median Rental Housing Prices Break Records
This week in the housing and mortgage industries saw the continued rise of mortgage rates, the continued slump in existing home sales and rental housing costs reaching record-breaking highs.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Soar While Housing Starts Drop
It was a seesaw week in the U.S. housing market, with mortgage rates taking off like a rocket while housing starts sank like a rock.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Up Again, Homes With High Fire Risks Sell For More
This week in the housing market, mortgage rates resumed their upward movement, mortgage applications continued their downward movement and industry experts weighed in on the arrival of the next recession.
Housing Beat: Home Sales Drop, Homeowners Insurance Spikes, Builder Confidence Tanks
The U.S. housing market showed unmistakable signs of stalling this week. Despite a decline in mortgage rates, mortgage applications and home sales were down while the cost of homeowners insurance was rising across most of the nation.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Dip, Home Sales Flatten, Reverse Mortgages Get New Cred
The latest news from the housing industry finds mortgage rates dipping slightly while home sales decelerate and reverse mortgages gain greater attention.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Keep Climbing As Inventory Levels Slowly Expand
More homebuyers were taking out mortgages despite climbing rates while the tight housing inventory is showing signs of improving. Nonetheless, many homebuyers are not optimistic about the housing market’s near future.
Housing Beat: 30-Year Mortgage At 13-Year High; Major Lenders In LinkedIn Spat
The housing and mortgage world witnessed rising rates, an upswing in application levels, and public feud between two major lenders.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Stay Elevated, Profit Margins On Home Sales Down
Mortgage rates remained on the high side this week while pending home sales continued to decline and mortgage delinquency rates also recorded downward motion.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Break The 5% Level; Buyers Settle On Smaller Homes
The latest U.S. housing and mortgage data points to rates continuing their dizzying rise, fewer homes being sold and prospective buyers agreeing to purchase smaller properties.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Hit 5% Level While Property Taxes Inch Higher
The week in housing was one of great challenges, with mortgage rates cracking the 5% level while homeowners faced an uptick in property taxes and state attorneys general demanded that mortgage servicers drop their convenience fees charged to borrowers.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Keep Climbing; Disney's Affordable Housing Project
Mortgage rates are continuing their upward motion while potential homebuyers and sellers face a shifting housing market and the affordable housing sector welcomes a well-known new participant.
Housing Beat: Records Broken For Single-Family And Condo Prices; The 'R' Word Gets Raised
The latest data news from the housing market included new records being achieved in single-family home and condominium sales, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage crashing through the 4.5% level, and a warning from a prominent industry economist on the potential for a recession created by the Federal Reserve.
The Crisis In Housing, Part 3: Unequal Opportunities
The old cliché that “a rising tide lifts all boats” is not applicable to the U.S. housing market. Two demographics within the U.S. population, Black Americans and the LGBTQ community, have painful histories of real estate disenfranchisement. Even today, obstacles remain for these groups to enjoy the opportunities that others take for granted.
Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Soar, Mortgage Applications Sink
This week's housing and mortgage industry data is something of a seesaw ride, with mortgage rates, millennial homebuying and the mortgage delinquency rate rising while mortgage applications and a major builder's output did not. 
The Housing Beat: Mortgage Rates Down, Home Prices Up, Lending Declines, More Homeowners Stay Put
The latest housing market data took on the look of an oscilloscope as with mortgage rates tumbled, home prices soared, mortgage lending declined and home occupancy spans stretched longer than before.
Foreclosure Levels And Mortgage Rates At Pandemic-Era Peaks
The U.S. housing market experienced the beginnings of a mortgage servicing sinkhole last month with 23,204 residential properties with foreclosure filings, a 29% increase from the previous month and a 139% surge from one year ago, according to data released by ATTOM, the parent company of RealtyTrac.