National Association of Realtor’s (NAR) existing home sales report for April 2020 reported that the Median Sales Price rose a staggering 7.4% year-on-year. April’s increase marks 98 straight months of year-on-year increase. Even a more recent data (for the week ending May 15, 2020) from Altos Research shows that the Median Sales Price is still […]
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) after analyzing data from Ellie Mae’s AllRegs® Market Clarity® business information tool reported that the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) in April dropped to the lowest level since December 2014. The decline is MCAI shows the tightening of lending standards showing decreased availability of mortgages for potential borrowers. The MCAI index […]
Mortgage credit supply decreased 16 percent in March to the lowest level since June 2015, with declines in availability across all loan types. There was a reduction in the availability of loans with lower credit scores and higher LTV ratios, and the largest pullback came from the jumbo and non-QM space. With the mortgage market […]
The CARES Act is a law now. In place of a series of whack-a-mole moves, the administration has come up with the Mjolnir this soon in the battle. Instant aggression! Good approach! To prevent the Coronavirus pandemic genie from coming out of the bottle, the $2 trillion stimulus bill from the government sounds like a […]
In 2008 Mortgage Industry largely caused the crisis that led to the Great Recession, in 2020 it’s a mere innocent bystander that is getting beat. All kinds of asset markets (Mortgage Bonds, Treasurys, Stocks, even Oil, and Commodities) are in an unprecedented, unchartered territory where the traders have no clue what to do with them. […]
The Fed on Sunday said it will begin buying $200 billion of mortgage-backed bonds, a move that will stabilize and likely lower mortgage rates, which moved sharply higher last week. Fed also lowered the Funds rate to zero. So, when can you see a 0% rate on the mortgage statement? Probably – never. And that […]
Mortgage rates went from ridiculously low to not-so-bad in just over a week. Everything that the media thinks should have happened to keep it at the ridiculously low level did happen. Fed cut rates by half a percent. Treasurys tumbled to levels never seen before and the stock market crashed to a point where the […]
The speed of residential construction has shot up over the past few months and is well in line to reach its best figures in over a decade. For a market that has been short on inventory for some time now, this is great news, especially with the spring season already calling on us. Mortgage Rates: […]
The mortgage market had reacted favorably to the Coronavirus threat. Now that the trend is reversing, we may see a partial correction in the mortgage market. It is nothing new. Global threats that loom suddenly bring about economic movements with it and just as soon as the threats disappear, the money movement returns to its […]
Triggered by very high consumer-debt levels, markets went into a tailspin in 2008. Back then, the debt figure was $13 trillion. Status Alert: the same figure is $14 trillion now. Fair to say, the lenders are getting a little fidgety. It is true that the demons of recession aren’t giving them nightmares yet but the […]
