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Mortgage rates finally did what they were supposed to do today. Specifically, they fell in response to bond market improvement. That's the way it should be, but over the past two days the typical relationship between bonds and mortgage lenders' rates has been a bit inconsistent due to the timing of market movement throughout the day. On Tuesday, bonds weakened throughout the day. This would normally coincide with rates moving higher, but the bond market weakness didn't happen quickly enough for most lenders to take action. As such, they were left to make the adjustment the following morning. Then on Wednesday, bonds improved, but not quickly enough for most lenders to bring rates lower. That left us with a bit of an advantage to start the day today. Before most lenders published their first
Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates finally did what they were supposed to do today. Specifically, they fell in response to bond market improvement. That's the way it should be, but over the past two days the typical relationship between bonds and mortgage lenders' rates... (read more)
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Housing News
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Fannie Mae has informed us that they too have activated their disaster response policies for homeowners , this time for those affected by the California wildfires. Homeowners impacted are eligible to stop making mortgage payments for up to 12 months ... (read more)
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Housing News
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The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says that responses to its recent Mortgage Builder Applications Survey indicates an increase of 3.6 percent in applications for financing newly constructed homes in July compared to the same month in 2017. That ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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In the short-term (past few weeks), the trend has not been our friend. After breaking above a narrow, sideways range, yields had been pushing higher and even crested 3% on the first 2 days of the month. Over the past week, however, they'v... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Lots of originators are fascinated by demographics. Every year, about 27,000 people move from New York City to Philadelphia , making that specific move one of the largest region-to-region migration flows in the United States. New York in general is o... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Have you heard the one about the Turkish debt crisis? Things are pretty bad for Turkey and the currency is indeed in freefall, but until the charts do something different, they're not yet making a compelling case for a "risk-off" connection t... (read more)
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