MBA Chart of the Week: Existing Home Sales and Inventory

Existing home sales plunged in April, as much of the U.S. economy and housing market bore the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing and closures. There was an 18 percent drop in the seasonally adjusted, annualized pace of home sales, the largest single month decline since July 2010.

MBA Chart of the Week: 30-Day Mortgage Delinquency Rate by Region

MBA released its latest National Delinquency Survey for first quarter 2020 earlier this week. At the end of the first quarter, the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties jumped by 59 basis points to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.36 percent of all loans outstanding.

MBA Chart of the Week: 30-Day Mortgage Delinquency Rate by Region

MBA released its latest National Delinquency Survey for first quarter 2020 earlier this week. At the end of the first quarter, the delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties jumped by 59 basis points to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.36 percent of all loans outstanding.

MBA Chart of the Week: Payroll Employment Changes

This week’s MBA Chart of the Week focuses on Friday’s grave employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The COVID-19 crisis has hit employment and household income in an unprecedented and accelerated fashion.

MBA Chart of the Week: Payroll Employment Changes

This week’s MBA Chart of the Week focuses on Friday’s grave employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The COVID-19 crisis has hit employment and household income in an unprecedented and accelerated fashion.

MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Production Profits

Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported average pre-tax production profits of 58 basis points ($1,470 on each loan they originated) in 2019, up from 14 basis points ($367 per loan) in 2018, according to the MBA Annual Mortgage Bankers Performance Report, released last month.

MBA Chart of the Week: IMB Production Profits

Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported average pre-tax production profits of 58 basis points ($1,470 on each loan they originated) in 2019, up from 14 basis points ($367 per loan) in 2018, according to the MBA Annual Mortgage Bankers Performance Report, released last month.

MBA Chart of the Week: Year over Year Change in Purchase Applications

According to data from MBA’s State Monthly Activity Report (SMAR), purchase applications grew for 14 consecutive months until the impacts of COVID-19 slowed activity to a 2 percent decline in March. Most of the decline was likely in the last two weeks of the month, when many states enacted restrictions on non-essential business and social activity.