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This month's Mortgage Monitor Report from Black Knight, Inc. is again about equity, but this time with a twist regarding the way homeowners are treating it. The company says that the tappable equity held by homeowners increased by $820 billion dollars over the 12 months that ended in March, $380 billion in the first quarter of 2018 alone. Those numbers equate to 16.5 percent growth year-over-year, and 7 percent for the quarter. Equity growth is generally highest in the first and second quarters of the year, but the first quarter growth this year was up 30 percent from the same quarter in 2017. It was the highest single-quarter increase recorded by Black Knight since it began keeping records in 2005. Tappable equity is the share of equity that a homeowner can borrow before reaching a maximum
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This month's Mortgage Monitor Report from Black Knight, Inc. is again about equity, but this time with a twist regarding the way homeowners are treating it. The company says that the tappable equity held by homeowners increased by $820 billion dollar... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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The first two days of the week were largely spent lamenting the slow and inconsequential nature of summertime trading in the bonds market. At least that's how I spent them.
Superstitious market watchers would quickly point out that such lame... (read more)
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Housing News
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Despite the Independence Day holiday which both shortened and bisected the week, mortgage activity rallied significantly during the week ended July 6. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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U.S. capital markets folks have a way with words. Henry Jonas writes, “I started in this business in a Secondary Marketing in ‘86. Outside of maybe 1994 I cannot remember margins this thin. I went to Kroger and bought the jumbo economy pa... (read more)
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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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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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