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Refinance wave boosts mortgage applications 3.8%

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates continue to hover at record lows this fall. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate remained essentially unchanged at 3.01 percent last week, but rates for 15-year fixed-rate loans, FHA loans and jumbo loans all fell to new MBA survey lows.”.

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Mortgage applications increase for second straight week

Housing Wire

Borrowers looking to refinance their VA and FHA loans contributed to another uptick in mortgage applications for the week ending Dec. 18, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mortgage applications jumped 0.8%

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Mortgage demand rises ahead of key FOMC meeting

Housing Wire

15, mortgage applications rose 5.4% from the prior week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Last week, purchase applications increased for both conventional and FHA loans but remained 26% lower than the same week a year ago. For the week that ended Sept.

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The mortgage market just had its strongest week in months

Housing Wire

Total home loan applications increased 2.8% 1 compared to the previous week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.17% last week. The adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) share of activity decreased to 7.4% for the week ending Dec.

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Mortgage applications are up, on the strength of FHA refis

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates declined for the first time in a month, prompting a pickup in refinancing, with government refinances increasing more than 20% over the week,” Joel Kan, the MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, said in a statement. of total mortgage applications, down from 59.4% in the same period.

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Mortgage applications decrease 4%

Housing Wire

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FHFA prevention actions surpassed 52K in Q4 2022

Housing Wire

There was also a slight reduction in the serious delinquency rate from Q3 to Q4, dropping from 0.68% to 0.65% by the end of the fourth quarter. Comparatively, the serious delinquency rate for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans was 4.4%