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| Refi Demand Ebbs Gradually As Rates Remain Rangebound | ||
| 10/10/2025 1:22 PM | ||
| Mortgage application activity declined again last week as refi demand continues pulling back after the surge in mid September. According to MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey for the week ending October 3, total volume fell 4.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 5% unadjusted. The Refinance Index decreased 8% from the previous week but remains 18% ...Read More | ||
| 4% Gain in Pending Home Sales Isn"t Exactly What it Seems | ||
| 10/3/2025 2:22 PM | ||
| The National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)—which tracks contract signings on existing homes—ticked higher in August, but remains locked in the same flat, depressed range that has defined the past two years. Pending home sales rose 4.0% in August, lifting the index to its highest level since March, and 3.8% above the sa...Read More | ||
| Home Price Growth May be The Lowest in Years, But Home Prices Remain Near All-Time Highs | ||
| 10/3/2025 2:03 PM | ||
| Both the FHFA and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices published updated home-price data this week. The message hasn’t changed: prices are still higher than a year ago, but the pace of growth continues to slow. Case-Shiller is now at its weakest year-over-year level in more than 2 years, while FHFA remains stuck near the lowest growth since 2...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Apps Drop Sharply, But It Was Still The 3rd Best Week in 3 Years | ||
| 10/3/2025 1:47 PM | ||
| Mortgage application activity dropped sharply last week as higher rates cut into both refinance and purchase demand. According to MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey for the week ending September 26, total volume fell 12.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 13% unadjusted. The Refinance Index decreased 21% from the previous week but remains 16% high...Read More | ||
| Nothing New For Existing Home Sales | ||
| 9/26/2025 2:01 PM | ||
| Existing-home sales held roughly steady in August after tepid uptick in July. That NAR reported a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.0 million , down 0.2% from July but 1.8% higher than a year ago. Sales have now hovered near 75% of pre-pandemic norms for three years, reflecting the same constrained but stable environment that has defined the ma...Read More | ||
| Did Rates Have Anything to do With Big Surge in Home Sales? | ||
| 9/26/2025 1:33 PM | ||
| New home sales surged in August, breaking a two-year stretch of range-bound activity. The Census Bureau and HUD reported a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 800,000 , up 20.5% from July’s revised 664,000 and 15.4% above August 2024’s 693,000. This is the strongest monthly gain since the pandemic boom and a clear departure from the prior sideways ...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Apps Barely Advance Thanks to Previous Week"s Momentum | ||
| 9/26/2025 1:12 PM | ||
| Mortgage application activity technically hit another long-term high last week, but that"s only because it was riding the coattails of the previous week"s stellar momentum. According to MBA’s Weekly Applications Survey for the week ending September 19, total volume rose 0.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis and 0.1% unadjusted. The Refinance Index i...Read More | ||
| Builders Counting on Lower Rates to Break the Traffic Jam | ||
| 9/19/2025 12:49 PM | ||
| Builder confidence levels continued kicking a sad little can down the same long and lonesome road. The September National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) held flat at 32, extending the streak to 17 consecutive months below the key 50 mark that separates expansion from contraction. While the overall inde...Read More | ||
| Big Drop in Building Permits, But Construction Pace is Still Fairly Steady | ||
| 9/19/2025 12:30 PM | ||
| The Census Bureau’s latest Residential Construction report showed a mixed picture for August, highlighted by a sharp drop in building permits. Total housing starts (the groundbreaking phase of construction) fell 2.3% to a 1.398 million annual rate, led by a 3.4% decline in single-family starts to 906k. Multifamily activity eased 1.5% to 464k but co...Read More | ||
| Biggest Jump in Mortgage Applications Since 2021 | ||
| 9/19/2025 11:50 AM | ||
| What a difference a week makes for mortgage application demand. As we noted last week, mortgage rates were already trending lower than those captured in the weekly survey numbers from MBA and Freddie Mac. The expectation was that refinance activity would be surging in this week"s data. That turns out to have been an understatement. For...Read More | ||