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Mortgage Interest Rates Inch Back up Slightly

Home Loan Applications Increase 5.7 Percent Last Week – second consecutive week of increased home buyer activity

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending March 5, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 5.7 [...]

Mortgage Interest Rates Drop Back Below 5 Percent

Home Loan Applications Jump 11.7 Percent Last Week after decreasing two prior weeks

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 26, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 11.7 percent [...]

Mortgage Rates Inch Up – Homebuyer Applications Decreased Again Last Week

Home Loan Applications Drop 7.3 Percent Last Week after decreasing 4.0 percent the week before.

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 19, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 7.3 percent [...]

Mortgage Loan Rates Remain Low – Fewer Home Buyers Taking Advantage

Home Loan Applications Drop 4.0 Percent Last Week.

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 12, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 4.0 percent from the week before and the [...]

30 Year Mortgage Interest Rates Drop Below 5 Percent

Home Loan Applications Drop 7.0 Percent Last Week.

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 5, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 7.0 percent from the week before and the four-week [...]

Mortgage Interest Rates Hold Steady-Loan Applications Jump Over 20 Percent

Home Loan Applications Jump 21.0 Percent Last Week.

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 29, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 21.0 percent from the week before and [...]

Mortgage Loan Interest rates remain fairly steady

Fewer Home-buyers applying for loans in past week

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 22, 2010. The report showed the

Mortgage interest rates drop slightly-Mortgage applications increase

Home-buyers mortgage activity increases from week before…down from a month ago though

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 8, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 14.3 percent from the [...]

Mortgage interest rates creep up slightly

Home-buyers mortgage activity dropping…refinances make up 3/4 of all new mortgages.

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending December 11, 2009. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 3.6 percent from the [...]

MBA’s Purchase Index for mortgages drops again; Now at lowest level in 12 years

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending November 13, 2009. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 4.7 percent from the week before making six-consecutive weeks of decreases and bringing the [...]

MBA’s Purchase Index for mortgages drops to lowest level in almost 9 years

Dennis Norman

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending November 6, 2009. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 11.7 percent from the week before, bringing it to it’s lowest level since December 2000 in [...]