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 Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of 6/23/2010
Market  Composite  Index:  (loan  application volume)                                                                                                      decreased 5.9 percent on a   seasonally adjusted       basis from one week earlier.  On an unadjusted  basis, the Index  decreased 6.0 percent compared with the previous week
  
         Refinance Index: decreased 7.3 percent from  the  previous week and the seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased  1.2           percent from one week earlier. 
             Purchase Index:        decreased to 73.8 percent of  total  applications from 74.8 percent the previous week. 
  
              Refinance  Share of Mortgage    Activity:   increased to 74.8 percent of  total applications from 72.2 percent the  previous week,          which is the highest refinance share observed in  the survey  since the week ending December 18, 2009
 
           Arm  Share: decreased  to 4.9 percent from  5.2 percent of total applications from           the previous week.  
     
 MBA outlook:  (Excerpted from mbaa.org)                        
   
 We  predict that mortgage originations will fall to $1.4  trillion in 2010  from an estimated $2.1 trillion in 2009.  Purchase   originations will fall slightly to $725 billion, as home prices continue   to fall and the effect from the homebuyer tax credits wane.    Refinance originations will fall to $717 billion in 2010 from $1.4   trillion in 2009, but we continue to mark up our refinance origination   forecast given the sharp drop in mortgage rates.     
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