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| Highest Existing Home Sales in a Year | ||
| 3/21/2025 3:04 PM | ||
| As is the case with a majority of housing and mortgage market data these days, the Existing Home Sales data from NAR is heavily dependent on context. To be sure, the headline is true. You"d have to go back to report that came out in February, 2024 to see a higher annual pace of sales. (NOTE: the table above contains initially-reported numbers.&n...Read More | ||
| Refi Demand Remains Elevated, But Off Recent Highs | ||
| 3/21/2025 2:49 PM | ||
| The Mortgage Bankers Association conducts a weekly survey on the level of mortgage applications, both for purchases and refinances. Both data series continue to be a tale of two decidedly different eras for the mortgage market. If we focus on the present era, for a moment, refi demand continued to enjoy a relative boom thanks to rates ...Read More | ||
| Builders Broke More Ground Than Expected in February | ||
| 3/21/2025 2:25 PM | ||
| The Census Bureau released its New Residential Construction report this week, frequently referred to by its principal component "housing starts" (a term for the start of the first phase of new home construction, aka "breaking ground"). In addition to housing starts, the data also logs building permits as well as completions. As we often note, buil...Read More | ||
| Builder Confidence Hits 7 Month Low in March | ||
| 3/21/2025 2:03 PM | ||
| The National Association of Homebuilders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (aka "builder confidence") hasn"t been in a purgatory of sorts, ever since the big interest rate spike in the 2nd half of 2022. Builders aren"t nearly as downbeat as they were during the Great Financial Crisis years, but nowhere remotely as confident as the during the p...Read More | ||
| Big Bounce in Refi Demand Thanks to Lower Rates | ||
| 3/7/2025 1:25 PM | ||
| As we noted last week, the timing of the improvements in mortgage rates meant that the previous survey of mortgage applications from the MBA was unable to capture what would likely prove to be a fairly big uptick in refinance demand. This week"s data confirmed it as the refi index jumped to the best levels since October. Unsurprising...Read More | ||
| Why Didn"t Refi Demand Spike This Week? | ||
| 2/28/2025 2:16 PM | ||
| As is the case almost every week of the year, the Mortgage Bankers Association released its weekly mortgage app survey this week, showing the changes in purchase and refinance applications. We can skip right past any discussion or analysis of the purchase application index as it was almost identical to last week, not to mention reluctant to be inf...Read More | ||
| New Home Sales Drop 10.5%. Should You Care? | ||
| 2/28/2025 1:57 PM | ||
| The Census Bureau released new home sales data for January this week, and the annual pace was a seemingly significant 10.5% lower than last month"s pace. But before you devote even one extra BPM of your heart rate to the news, please look at a longer-term chart of the data in question. Home sales are indeed lower versus last month, but cav...Read More | ||
| Home Price Growth is Probably The Last Thing to Worry About These Days | ||
| 2/28/2025 1:36 PM | ||
| The massive spike and subsequent correction in home price appreciation (mid-2020 through early 2023) generated lots of opinions and concerns about the fate of the housing market. Early on, the fear was that prices were rising too high, too quickly. By mid-2022, the fear was that home prices were en route to a crash that could be reminiscent of the ...Read More | ||
| Pending Home Sales Hit Lowest Level Since Records Began in 2001 | ||
| 2/27/2025 2:05 PM | ||
| The National Association of Realtors released its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) today, which measures home purchase contracts that have been signed, but not yet closed. The index typically correlates with existing home sales in the following month. While January"s contract signings were only down 4.6% versus December, that was enough for the ind...Read More | ||
| Refi Apps Still Near Best Levels Since October, Despite Larger Decline This Week | ||
| 2/21/2025 1:59 PM | ||
| Per the latest release from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), both refinance and purchase indices decreased this week. In terms of the change from the previous week, it was the biggest drop so far this year, but not remotely as big as last week of 2024. Here is the refi index in terms of week-over-week change: And here is the exact ...Read More | ||