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Rate Rally Reverses, But Focus on Bigger Picture This week is ending with the average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate at its lowest level since early October, 2024. The only way to be disappointed about that would be to focus on the fact that rate... | ||
Mortgage Applications Ebbed This Week, But Next Week Could Be a Different S... The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released the latest mortgage application data this week showing a modest 1.6% decrease from the previous week. A slight uptick in purchase applications was... | ||
Subservicer, Non-Agency Products; Trigger Leads, HECM, FHA News; Does a Slo... Ahead of next week’s MBA Advocacy event in Washington DC, I received this note from an industry vet. “With the continued consolidation into the large non-banks, are you hearing any rumbling about the ... | ||
Lowest Mortgage Rates in More Than 5 Months Yesterday afternoon's tariff announcement sent financial markets on a ride that ultimately resulted in sharply lower stock prices and moderately lower bond yields. Stocks don't always correlate with b... | ||
Hedging, HMDA Dashboard, Verification Tools; Correspondent and Wholesale Ne... The Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” can easily be applied to the residential mortgage business in the last month or so. This week and yesterday was no exception, with some brokers b... | ||
Mortgage Rates Edge Slightly Higher, But Tomorrow is Anyone's Guess Mortgage rates didn't move much today, which is pretty crazy considering the volatility present in financial markets in the afternoon. That's when the long awaited tariff announcement speech too... | ||
HELOC, Credit Union, Non-QM Products; Wholesale, Reverse, Vendor Partnershi... Does anyone use the term “elderly” anymore? Websters defines elderly as “anyone past middle age,” “middle age” being 45-64. Prepare for a fight if you call anyone 65 “elderly” especially when places l... | ||
Lowest Mortgage Rates in Nearly a Month While interest rates continue operating in a range that is generally flat and narrow over the past 5 weeks, it's also true that today's rates are on the lower edge of that range. Because there's not m... | ||
Angel Oak/Brookfield Deal and More Mergers; Audit, POS, Non-QM, Automation ... This ain’t no April Fools economic news: not only has Hooters declared bankruptcy, but apparently there is yet another push to have credit unions pay income taxes. “Right now, leaders in Congress are ... | ||
Mortgage Rates Inch Lower, But Remain Broadly Sideways "Sideways" has been the dominant theme for mortgage rates for well over a month now. The average top tier 30yr fixed rate fell below 6.82% on February 25th, and moved down to 6.70% the following week.... | ||
Non-QM Products; Rocket/Mr. Cooper Deal; Disaster and Climate News; Tariff ... It’s been three years since Credit Plus re-branded as Xactus, and now another name brand in the mortgage world has a new name. Corelogic has become Cotality, leading to plenty of puns like, “If First ... | ||
Mortgage Rates Move Lower Even Though They Weren't Supposed To First thing's first before anyone gets too excited: yes, rates fell on Friday, but not significantly. The average lender is still a bit closer to the higher end of the recent range. In addition,... | ||
Pending Home Sales Crack Half-Hearted Smile Amid Longer Term Depression The National Association of Realtors' Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) tracks purchase contract signings that have not yet turned into Existing Home Sales. Things haven't been going well for either sal... | ||
Purchase Applications Improve; Refinancing Ebbs This week's update on refinance application demand accurately reflects the fact that rates came into the week near their recent highs, but managed to fall in line with recent lows several days later. ... | ||
New Home Sales Should Come With a Warning It's not uncommon for certain medications to come with warnings about avoiding certain activities like driving or operating heavy machinery due to the risk of drowsiness. But medications aren't the on... | ||
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