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By Dennis Norman, on March 10th, 2010
Home Loan Applications Increase 5.7 Percent Last Week – second consecutive week of increased home buyer activity
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending March 5, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 3rd, 2010
Home Loan Applications Jump 11.7 Percent Last Week after decreasing two prior weeks
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 26, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 11.7 percent from the week [...]
By Dennis Norman, on February 17th, 2010
Home Loan Applications Drop 4.0 Percent Last Week.
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 12, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 4.0 percent from the week before and [...]
By Dennis Norman, on February 10th, 2010
Home Loan Applications Drop 7.0 Percent Last Week.
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 5, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 7.0 percent from the week before and [...]
By Dennis Norman, on February 3rd, 2010
Home Loan Applications Jump 21.0 Percent Last Week.
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 29, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 21.0 percent from the week before and [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 27th, 2010
Fewer Home-buyers applying for loans in past week
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 22, 2010. The report showed the
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By Dennis Norman, on January 13th, 2010
Home-buyers mortgage activity increases from week before…down from a month ago though
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 8, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 14.3 percent from [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 17th, 2009
Home-buyers mortgage activity dropping…refinances make up 3/4 of all new mortgages.
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending December 11, 2009. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 3.6 percent from the [...]
By admin, on November 25th, 2009
15-Year FRM Drops to Set Another New Low in Freddie Mac Survey History
McLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.78 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending November 25, 2009, down from last [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 18th, 2009
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I believe smart real estate investors will continue to proceed with caution, and as much as we all want to believe the worst is over and the housing recovery has begun as is being reported more frequently throughout the media, I’m not so sure we are there yet…The data is just not supporting [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 12th, 2009
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending November 6, 2009. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 11.7 percent from the week before, bringing it to it’s lowest level since December [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 4th, 2009
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending October30, 2009. The report showed an decrease of 1.8 percent in mortgage loan applications for a home purchase from the week before in spite of the fact interest rates slipped back below 5 percent again on a 30-year [...]
By Dennis Norman, on October 21st, 2009
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending October 16, 2009. The report showed an decrease of 16.7 percent in mortgage loan applications for a home purchase from the week as interest rates inched back above 5 percent for the second week in a row.
Refi’s continue [...]
By Dennis Norman, on October 14th, 2009
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending October 9, 2009. The report showed an increase of 1.8 percent in mortgage loan applications from the week as interest rates inched back above 5 percent for the first time in four weeks.
Refi’s continue to dominate the mortgage [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending September 18, 2009. The report showed an increase of 12.8 percent in mortgage loan applications from the week before fueled by interest rates dropping below 5 percent for the first time since mid-May.
Unfortunately it doesn’t appear as though [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 18th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey the interest rate on home mortgages dropped for the third-consecutive week and remains at a three-month low. The survey shows the interest rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage for the week ending September 17, 2009, averaged 5.04 percent with 0.7 percent in fees [...]
By Dennis Norman, on September 3rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey the interest rate on fixed-rate home mortgages dropped to the lowest rate since May 28th. The survey shows the interest rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage averaging 5.08 percent with 0.7 percent in fees and points this week, down from 5.14 percent last [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 6th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey mortgage rates decreased slightly for the week ending August 6, 2009 from the prior week. The survey shows 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaging 5.22% with 0.6% in fees and points, down from 5.25% the week before. Last year at this time, the 30 year [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 30th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey mortgage rates increased slightly this week from the prior week. The survey shows 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaging 5.25% with 0.7% in fees and points, up from 5.20% the week before. Last year at this time, the 30 year rate averaged 6.52%.
Rates on 15 [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 24th, 2009
Dennis Norman
According to Freddie Macs weekly mortgage market survey mortgage rates increased slightly this week from the prior week. The survey shows 30 year fixed rate mortgages averaging 5.20% with 0.7% in fees and points, up from 5.14% the week before. Last year at this time, the 30 year rate averaged 6.63%.
Rates on 15 [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 19th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Yesterday, Bankrate, Inc. issued their weekly mortgage interest rate report showing that mortgage rates after rising to almost 6% have retreated in this past week with 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaging 5.76%, down from 5.95% last week, with an average of 0.43% in discount and origination fees.
The report shows 15-year fixed-rate mortgages were also lower this week at an average of [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 4th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Today, Bankrate, Inc. issued their weekly mortgage interest rate report showing that mortgage rates jumped this week with 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaging 5.65%, up from 5.45% last week, with an average of 0.44% in discount and origination fees.
The report shows 15-year fixed-rate mortgages were also higher this week at an average of 5.06%, up from 4.86% last [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 29th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Yesterday, Bankrate, Inc. issued their weekly mortgage interest rate report showing that mortgage rates jumped this week with 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaging 5.45%, up from 5.24% last week, with an average of 0.41% in discount and origination fees.
The report shows 15-year fixed-rate mortgages were also higher this week at an average of 4.86%, up from 4.74% last [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 31st, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
Four days ago on the Real Estate Consumers News blog I wrote a post stating I did not think low interest rates will prove to be long-term fix to the housing market and in fact nothing more than short-term “life support”. Today CNNMoney.Com published an article which stated “Unfortunately, the low interest rates [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 23rd, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
This morning the National Association of REALTORS(R) released data for existing home sales for November. The numbers show sales of existing homes down 8.6% nationwide versus October and down 10.6% versus last year. The Northeast saw the biggest decline in sales being down 12.0% versus last month and 18.0% versus last year. The west region only [...]
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