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Mortgage rates didn't move for most lenders today. Remaining lenders were just slightly higher than yesterday, thus keeping this week's modest upward bias intact. In the slightly bigger picture, we had a fairly friendly consolidation in rates heading into last Friday and have been giving back the gains since then. While we're technically able to talk about rate "movement" on a day to day (and even minute by minute) basis, the average mortgage borrower isn't seeing big changes. In fact, in terms of the NOTE rate (the one at the top of a loan quote that determines the payment), there hasn't been any change in 2 weeks. It's only in the form of the more granular EFFECTIVE rate, which takes upfront costs into consideration, that we can observe any movement. In other words, we're looking through
Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates didn't move for most lenders today. Remaining lenders were just slightly higher than yesterday, thus keeping this week's modest upward bias intact. In the slightly bigger picture, we had a fairly friendly consolidation in rates heading... (read more)
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Housing News
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The Mortgage Bankers Association attributed an increase in its Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) last month to increased competition among lenders for the jumbo prime mortgage market. MBA said its index increased 0.2 percent in June to 181.0.... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Pesky technology… it just won’t go away. Online lending platform fintech player (including mortgages) SoFi has launched a banking app (SoFi Money) in beta testing and expects it to be ready later this year. It includes a debit card that ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Yesterday saw the lightest Treasury volume of any full trading day so far this year. That's no great surprise in July, as this tends to be the month that marks the true start of summertime absences among market participants. If you've enc... (read more)
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Housing News
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The foreclosure inventory, that is the percentage of loans in the process of foreclosure, appears to have stabilized at 0.6 percent of all outstanding first mortgage loans. CoreLogic said on Tuesday that that the inventory has been unchanged at that ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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If we look solely at the US trading hours, yesterday and today form a nearly perfect 2-day trend just slightly higher in rate. Fannie 4.0 MBS prices have similarly shed 3/32nds (0.09) in a well-behaved trend channel. If we include the ful... (read more)
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consumerfinancemonitor.com
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