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Mortgage rates rose today at the quickest pace in months, ultimately hitting the highest levels since June 25th for the average lender. While neither of those are "fun" facts for fans of low rates, they are made slightly more palatable by the nature of the recent range. Specifically, rates hadn't moved very much since late June. The average mortgage seeker will not have seen a change in their quoted interest rate during that time (the only adjustments have been to upfront closing costs/credits). The point is that it didn't require a huge move to be able to say "highest in a month" or "fastest pace in months." Caveats aside, today's rate spike confirms that a recent consolidation in the bond market is now over . The risk is that by breaking to the upside, rates have signaled that we're in for
Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates rose today at the quickest pace in months, ultimately hitting the highest levels since June 25th for the average lender. While neither of those are "fun" facts for fans of low rates, they are made slightly more palatable by the nature ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Super narrow consolidation patterns in bonds are always super boring until they're not. It looked like things may have been getting exciting as early as Wednesday of last week, but then Thursday brought a fairly convincingly rally that reinfo... (read more)
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Housing News
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While official existing home sales data, released this morning by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), showed the sector's losing streak extending to three months and pending sales through May have lost ground for five straight months, Fr... (read more)
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Housing News
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Existing home sales extended their losing streak to three months in June. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said that single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, and cooperative apartments sold during the month at an annual rate that ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Not to be confused with a band on the run, bonds find themselves in something of a similar predicament to the namesake of McCartney's post-Beatles single. Specifically, both bonds and the band had been locked inside confined quarters, both ha... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Mortgage bankers have plenty of interests. Baconry, for example. (It’s like falconry, or reverse animal husbandry.) Another is the study of real estate agents. When you survey 201,000 National Association of Realtors members (out of the 1.3 mem... (read more)
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