The monthly cost burden of purchasing a new home, as interest rates and house prices rose precipitously in 2022, continued in the first few months of 2023. For example, MBA’s Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI), hit a new high in May. Since then, despite 30-year mortgage interest rates eclipsing 7%, the index has come down slightly as median loan application amounts moderated. We are, however, still in record territory as shown by the solid green line in this week’s chart.
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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: 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: HELOC and Home Equity Loan Commitment Volume
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week explores the known reasons that borrowers take out a HELOC or home equity loan.
MBA Chart of the Week: HELOC and Home Equity Loan Commitment Volume
This week’s MBA Chart of the Week explores the known reasons that borrowers take out a HELOC or home equity loan.
MBA Chart of the Week: Multifamily Borrowing and Lending, 2022
With more than $4.5 trillion of mortgage debt outstanding, commercial real estate finance markets are large and diverse.
Chart of the Week Sept. 5: Multifamily Borrowing and Lending, 2022
With more than $4.5 trillion of mortgage debt outstanding, commercial real estate finance markets are large and diverse.
MBA Chart of the Week Aug. 28: Mortgage Forbearance Rate and Reasons for Forbearance
According to the July results from MBA’s Monthly Loan Monitoring Survey, the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 5 basis points from 0.44% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior month to 0.39% as of July 31, 2023.
MBA Chart of the Week Aug. 28: Mortgage Forbearance Rate and Reasons for Forbearance
According to the July results from MBA’s Monthly Loan Monitoring Survey, the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 5 basis points from 0.44% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior month to 0.39% as of July 31, 2023.
MBA Chart of the Week Aug. 22: Production Personnel and Production Volume
This MBA Chart of the Week compares production personnel to average quarterly production volume in count over the last five years.