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Mortgage Rates & Applications, Home Values, Home Price Expectations, Rents, Inflation (PCE)Mortgage Rates improved sligh...
05/29/2026

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Home Values, Home Price Expectations, Rents, Inflation (PCE)

Mortgage Rates improved slightly this week as investors hope there will be a conflict resolution that helps with oil prices. Mortgage rates are down 0.375% from this time last year. Home Values - Case-Shiller released their home price index for March which showed home values rose 0.7%, but when adjusted for seasonality they declined 0.2%. Year over year values are up approximately 1%...

Mortgage Rates improved slightly this week as investors hope there will be a conflict resolution that helps with oil prices. Mortgage rates are down 0.375% from this time last year. Home Values & #8…

Mortgage Rates and Applications, New Construction, & Pending SalesMortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Secur...
05/22/2026

Mortgage Rates and Applications, New Construction, & Pending Sales

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities moved sideways this week and are down about 0.25% from this time last year. New Construction - the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their Builder Confidence report for May. It came in better than expected but it is still at low levels (anything under 50 is in contraction). The headline confidence figure was at 37 while current sales is at 40, future at 45, and buyer traffic at 25....

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities moved sideways this week and are down about 0.25% from this time last year. New Construction – the National Association of Home Bui…

New Fed Chair Starts, Mortgage Rates & Applications, Home Sales, and InflationMortgage Rates worsened this week as the p...
05/15/2026

New Fed Chair Starts, Mortgage Rates & Applications, Home Sales, and Inflation

Mortgage Rates worsened this week as the price of oil and inflation indices continue to climb. Rates are down 0.25% from this time last year. Fed Chair - Kevin Warsh returns to the board after a 16-year hiatus. He was confirmed as the new Fed Chair late last month and had his first day in office yesterday. Warsh is considered more of a Hawk then his centrist predecessor, we will see how that plays out in the Fed's monetary policy and he enters an environment of somewhat persistent inflation....

Mortgage Rates worsened this week as the price of oil and inflation indices continue to climb. Rates are down 0.25% from this time last year. Fed Chair – Kevin Warsh returns to the board afte…

Mortgage Rates & Applications, BLS Jobs Report, Home ValuesMortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities (...
05/08/2026

Mortgage Rates & Applications, BLS Jobs Report, Home Values

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities (MBS) improved slightly this week with hope/speculation of conflict resolution in Iran. Rates are down approximately 0.5% from this time last year. Jobs - the BLS released their Jobs Report for April which showed 115,000 jobs created. While the headline looked strong Feb was revised lower by an additional -92,000. Additionally, there were 226,000 job losses in April, but the unemployment rate remained the same at 4.3% because 92,000 people left the work force....

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities (MBS) improved slightly this week with hope/speculation of conflict resolution in Iran. Rates are down approximately 0.5% from this time …

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Inflation, Home Values and RentsMortgage Rates worsened this week as the price of Mortgag...
05/01/2026

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Inflation, Home Values and Rents

Mortgage Rates worsened this week as the price of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) continued their downward trend. Rates are down about 0.5% from this time last year. Inflation - the Fed's favorite measure of inflation is the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index and the BLS repor swhoed that inflation rose 0.7% in March, the majority due to rise in higher oil prices. Year over year inflation is up from 2.8% to 3.5%....

Mortgage Rates worsened this week as the price of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) continued their downward trend. Rates are down about 0.5% from this time last year. Inflation – the Fed& #821…

Single Family Rents, Producer Inflation, Mortgage Rates and ApplicationsMortgage Rates and the price of Mortgage-Backed ...
04/20/2026

Single Family Rents, Producer Inflation, Mortgage Rates and Applications

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) have steadily improved over the past month, regaining about half of their losses since the Iran war started. Rents - single family rents, as published by Cotality, increased 1.1% year over year, their slowest pace since 2010. Last year prices were up 2.6% year over year. The current pace is about one third of the pre-2020 average....

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) have steadily improved over the past month, regaining about half of their losses since the Iran war started. Rents – single fa…

Home Values, Home Sales, Inflation, Mortgage Rates, and ApplicationsMortgage Rates improved slightly this week as the pr...
04/13/2026

Home Values, Home Sales, Inflation, Mortgage Rates, and Applications

Mortgage Rates improved slightly this week as the price of mortgage-backed securities recovers from the Iran conflict. Rates are down approximately 0.625% from this time last year. Home Prices - Cotality released their Home Price Insights which showed values nationwide were unchanged month over month. Year over year values are up 0.5%. They are forecasting a nearly 5% increase over the next 12 months....

Mortgage Rates improved slightly this week as the price of mortgage-backed securities recovers from the Iran conflict. Rates are down approximately 0.625% from this time last year. Home Prices & #82…

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Inflation, Home SalesMortgage Rates - increased as we saw the price of Mortgage-Backed Se...
03/14/2026

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Inflation, Home Sales

Mortgage Rates - increased as we saw the price of Mortgage-Backed Securities fall to their worst levels since Aug. 2025. The escalating conflict in Iran has lowered the worldwide supply (despite reserves being released worldwide) of by nearly 20%, causing prices to rise and fear of long term price inflation. Inflation the Personal Consumption Expenditures (the Fed's favored index) showed that inflation increased 0.3% in January while the core reading, which strips out food and energy, rose 0.4%....

Mortgage Rates – increased as we saw the price of Mortgage-Backed Securities fall to their worst levels since Aug. 2025. The escalating conflict in Iran has lowered the worldwide supply (desp…

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Jobs Report, Home ValuesMortgage Rates – moved up this week in response to the escalating...
03/06/2026

Mortgage Rates & Applications, Jobs Report, Home Values

Mortgage Rates – moved up this week in response to the escalating conflict in Iran. Geopolitical instability typically moves money into the bond market, often called ‘a flight to security’ and is good for rates. So far, this conflict has seen the opposite reaction, with oil price inflation from depleted oil supply causing deterioration in the bond market. Approximately 20% of the World’s oil supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz....

Mortgage Rates – moved up this week in response to the escalating conflict in Iran. Geopolitical instability typically moves money into the bond market, often called ‘a flight to security’ and is g…

Mortgage Rates, Inflation, Rents, Values and ForecastsMortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities (MBS) ...
02/27/2026

Mortgage Rates, Inflation, Rents, Values and Forecasts

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities (MBS) moved sideways again this week. The steady upward pattern points to slow improvements in mortgage rates. Rates are down approximately 0..875% from this time last year. Inflation - the Producer Price Index showed headline inflation rose 0.5, slightly higher than expectations. Year over year in declined from 3% to 2.9%. The Core rate, which strips out food and energy, rose 0.8% bringing the year over year figure up to 3.6%...

Mortgage Rates and the price of Mortgaged-Backed Securities (MBS) moved sideways again this week. The steady upward pattern points to slow improvements in mortgage rates. Rates are down approximate…

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