Mortgage application volume declined for the second week in a row, as a small rise in rates put a damper on refinance activity, the Mortgage Bankers Association said. The Market Composite Index decreased by 1.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the period ended Aug. 15. The refinance component was down by 3%, although versus […]
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Chase Home Lending has resumed offering home equity lines of credit after a five-year absence from the product, the company announced. While parent JPMorgan Chase has participated in HELOC securitizations, it did not originate or service the loans. In April 2020, just as the pandemic entered full swing, Chase paused taking new applications for HELOCs
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Mortgage spreads reached their narrowest point in three years on Aug. 22, but were still wider than their historic average, Redfin reported. The normal spread, which in this case measures the difference between the 30-year fixed rate mortgage and the 10-year Treasury yield, is in a range between 150 basis points and 200 basis points.
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Sales of new US homes exceeded forecasts in July after an upward revision to the prior month, as prices eased and heavy incentives enticed more buyers off the fence. Contract signings on new single-family homes ticked down to a 652,000 annualized rate, with the strongest demand in the West, according to a government report issued
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Over 40% of millennial and Gen Z homeowners claim they struggle to afford their regular housing payments, a substantial number but less than the 70% who are saying the same about their rent, a Redfin survey found. In May, a survey conducted by Ipsos for the real estate company had over 4,000 homeowners and renter
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Mortgage performance improved in July, signaling overall strength for the typical U.S. homeowner, but pockets of troubled borrowers are evident in the latest data, according to an Intercontinental Exchange report. The national delinquency rate came in at 3.27% in July, equivalent to 1.79 million loans, and fell 8 basis points from the previous month, ICE
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Glen Burnie Bancorp When Mark Hanna told his banker friends that the Maryland-based community bank he leads was planning to buy a mortgage lender, they “looked at me as if I had five eyes,” he recalled this week. The underwhelming reaction came as little surprise, said Hanna, who is the president and CEO of Glen
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Home-purchase contracts in the US were canceled at a record rate for July as jittery buyers got cold feet. About 58,000 agreements fell through last month, equivalent to 15.3% of homes that went under contract, according to Redfin. It was the highest cancellation rate for a July in data going back to 2017, the brokerage
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US mortgage rates dropped last week by the most since February, enticing homeowners to step up refinancing. The contract rate on a 30-year mortgage declined 10 basis points to 6.67% in the week ended Aug. 8, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data released Wednesday. The rate on a 15-year mortgage retreated below 6% for the
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Housing starts in the US climbed in July to five-month high, led by the strongest pace of multifamily construction in more than two years. New residential construction increased 5.2% last month to an annualized rate of 1.43 million homes, according to government figures released Tuesday. That was above all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of
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