MBA Chart of the Week: New Home Purchase Applications

Purchase activity for newly built homes has outperformed existing home purchases for most of 2023. The lack of existing home inventory has been due to low mortgage rates in 2020 and 2021 that are keeping current homeowners from listing their homes.

MBA Chart of the Week Aug. 14: Delinquency Rates by Credit Type

According to MBA’s National Delinquency Survey, the overall delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one‐to‐four‐unit residential properties fell to its lowest level since MBA’s survey began in 1979, reaching 3.37 percent in the second quarter.