Optimal Blue, Plano, Texas, released its November Originations Market Monitor, with data showing a 10% drop in lock volume month over month.
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Optimal Blue: Lock Volume Nearly Flat; Rate Headwinds Continue in October
Mortgage rate-lock volume was virtually flat in October compared to September; however, when adjusting for the extra business day, volume was down 4%, reported Optimal Blue, Plano, Texas.
Optimal Blue: Locks Decline Due to Seasonal Purchase Declines; Rates Hit Multi-Decade Highs
Mortgage rate lock volumes declined 20% in September, largely due to a seasonal decline in purchase activity and further rising interest rates, reported Optimal Blue, Plano, Texas.
Black Knight: Purchase Locks Down 22% Despite Lower Rates
Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., reported despite a nearly half-percentage-point decrease in mortgage interest rates, overall lock volumes dropped by 21.5% in November and are down 39% over the past three months and 68% off last year.
Cash-Outs, Purchase Locks Decline Amid Record-Low Affordability
Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., said cash-out refinances fell significantly in September, by 26.2 percent from August alone and by 78 percent from a year ago. A similar report from MCT, San Diego, also found a sharp drop in loan lock volume in September.
Black Knight: Mortgage Production Continues to Decline; Purchase Demand Now Falling Below Pre-Pandemic Levels
Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., said mortgage production pulled back at the end of July, falling by 49 basis points from June to 5.30%.
Rate Locks Fall Across All Loan Types
Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., said despite a leveling off in interest rates, lock volumes fell another 4.8% from April, with monthly declines seen across both rate/term (-23.6%) and cash-out (-11.9%) refinances.
Black Knight: Rate Lock Activity Falls as Interest Rates Climb
Black Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., said amid rising interest rates, rate-lock production fell by nearly 20 percent in March, led by a sharp drop—more than 50 percent—in rate/term refinance activity.
Industry Briefs Apr. 21, 2022: Optimal Blue Launches Investor Pricing Insight
Optimal Blue, Jacksonville, Fla., released Investor Pricing Insight, a benchmarking tool that makes real-time pricing available to wholesale and correspondent mortgage investors on demand.
MBA Chart of the Week, Sept. 24, 2021: Distribution of Loans by APR-APOR Spread & Month
In this week’s MBA Chart of the Week, we analyze Optimal Blue single-family, 30-year fixed mortgage rate origination loan data from January 2020 through August 2021. We further group loans in the chart by the spread between their reported note rate and the (monthly average of the) Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey rates to approximate the APR-APOR spread.