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Compared to yesterday, today's mortgage rates are a moving target depending on the lender. Some are better. Some are worse. On average, rates are unchanged from yesterday's latest rate sheets. The variability has to do with yesterday's fairly sharp losses in bond markets (which dictate rates). Lenders respond to that type of weakness in different ways. Some of them adjusted rate sheets aggressively yesterday. Those lenders are less likely to be showing higher rates today (because they already accounted for the market movement yesterday). Other lenders ended the day yesterday without fully adjusting their rate sheets to reflect the losses. Those lenders are more likely to be showing higher rates today. 4.25% remains the most prevalently-quoted conventional 30yr fixed rate for top tier scenarios
Mortgage Rate Watch
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Compared to yesterday, today's mortgage rates are a moving target depending on the lender. Some are better. Some are worse. On average, rates are unchanged from yesterday's latest rate sheets. The variability has to do with yesterday's fairly sharp l... (read more)
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Housing News
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Pending home sales in February surprised everyone with an unexpected jump of 5.5 percent . The National Association of Realtors® said its Pending Home Sales Index, which is a leading indicator based on signed home purchase contracts, rose to 112.... (read more)
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Housing News
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Back in December the Urban Institute (UI) put a number on the much maligned but somewhat amorphous term "tight credit." It maintained that, between 2009 and 2014, lenders failed to make about 5.2 million mortgages because of rigid underwriting standa... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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We characterized yesterday's bond market weakness as a simple and somewhat logical correction. The initial move was Monday morning's rally that was based on an absence of updates regarding the healthcare bill. In other words, the bill l... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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The average residential loan file has 367,000 documents - and each one must be verified by the underwriter. Okay, just kidding. But every Boeing 737 (like Southwest flies) has 367k parts. Boeing’s assembly line moves at 2 inches per minute, and... (read more)
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Housing News
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Mortgage applications saw a third straight decline in volume during the week ended March 24. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, was down 0.8 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis com... (read more)
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