In this week’s Chart of the Week, we look at the percentage of time employees in key Retail fulfillment positions worked remotely in 2023 (excluding overtime) across different peer groups.
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MBA Chart of the Week: Purchase Applications Payment Index for Selected States
Following the precipitous rise in interest rates and home prices in 2022 that starkly eroded affordability conditions for home buyers, the monthly cost burden of purchasing a new home continued to increase in 2023 and the first four months of 2024, albeit at a slower pace.
MBA Chart of the Week: 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate and 10-Year Treasury Yield
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week examines the spread between the 30-year fixed mortgage rate and 10-year Treasury yield.
MBA Chart of the Week: Percent of IMBs With Positive Pre-Tax Net Income
According to MBA’s Q1 2024 Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance Report, independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported a pre-tax net production loss of 25 basis points, or $645 per loan.
MBA Chart of the Week: Monthly Payroll Growth, Average Hourly Earnings
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left the federal funds target unchanged at its May meeting, as incoming data regarding the strength of the economy and stubbornly high inflation have resulted in a shift in the expected timing of a first rate cut.
MBA Chart of the Week–Multifamily: Rents Reverting
The pandemic did a number on the housing market.
MBA Chart of the Week: Goods and Services Inflation
The week’s news has been around the Consumer Price Index (CPI) release showing that inflation was hotter than expected in March, which is likely to delay the Federal Reserve’s first rate cut in 2024 and contributed to a significant spike in the 10-year Treasury yield to over 4.5%.
MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Production Revenues and Costs
MBA recently released its latest Quarterly Performance Report for the fourth quarter of 2023. The total sample of 342 independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported per-tax net production losses of 73 basis points (or $2,109) on each loan they originated. This marks the seventh consecutive quarter of net production losses.
MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Average UPB of Repurchased/Indemnified Loans
MBA Research recently analyzed repurchase and indemnification volume over a five-year period from the third quarter of 2018 through the third quarter of 2023.
MBA Chart of the Week: 2024 Commercial Mortgage Maturities Pushed Up by 2023 Extensions
Commercial mortgages tend to be relatively long-lived, spreading maturities out over several years.