Thursday, August 16, 2012

Mortgage Applications Fall 4.5% Last Week, Rates Steady

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Brian O?Reilly wrote an interesting post today on
Here?s a quick excerpt
The volume of mortgage applications for
both purchasing and refinancing fell last week according to the Mortgage
Bankers Association?s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey.? The MBA?s Market Composite Index which
measures that volume was down 4.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis and
4.7 percent on an unadjusted basis for the week that ended August 10.
The Refinance Index dropped 5 percent from
the week ended August 3 and the seasonally adjusted Purchase Index lost 2
percent.? The Purchase Index was down 3
percent on an unadjusted basis from the previous week but MBA did not provide annual
information for purchase applications.?
Refinancing as a share of all application activity declined fractionally
but remained at about 81 percent.
Purchase Index vs 30 Yr Fixed

Click Here to View the Purchase Applications Chart

Refinance Index vs 30 Yr Fixed

Click Here to View the Refinance Applications Chart

With
the exception of 15-year fixed-rate mortgages (FRM), mortgage rates during the
week remained flat.??That rate increased from 3.08 percent with 0.41
point [...]

Read the rest of this great post here

Source: http://www.realestatemortgageonline.com/9829/mortgage-applications-fall-45-last-week-rates-steady/

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