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Mortgage Demand Rises 3% WoW Thanks To Banking “Crisis”, But Mortgage Purchase Demand Still Down 36% From Same Week Last Year (Refi Demand Down 68% YoY)
Confounded Interest ^ | 03/22/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders

Posted on 03/22/2023 4:56:46 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a

The deposit runs and Federal bailout at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has a positive silver lining: mortgage rates dropped -3.43% from the previous week. As such, we got an increase in mortgage demand.

Mortgage applications increased 3.0 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 17, 2023.

The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 3.0 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 3 percent compared with the previous week. The Refinance Index increased 5 percent from the previous week and was 68 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 2 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index increased 3 percent compared with the previous week and was 36 percent lower than the same week one year ago.

The rest of the story.

How I will feel if The Fed raises rates today more than 25 basis points. Or if Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gets on TV lecturing us again.

(Excerpt) Read more at confoundedinterest.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: fed; housing; inflation; mortgage
Our economy is a total mess.
1 posted on 03/22/2023 4:56:46 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a
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To: Kaiser8408a

Mortgages are a major source of bank income. This crisis was perfectly engineered.


2 posted on 03/22/2023 5:10:59 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Any bank owning a mortgage of less than about three percent is run by idiots.


3 posted on 03/22/2023 5:40:24 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaiser8408a

Banks should have their deposits and loans in fairly close time expiry matching.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 5:41:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaiser8408a

” Mortgage Demand Rises 3% WoW Thanks To Banking “Crisis”, But Mortgage Purchase Demand Still Down 36% From Same Week Last Year (Refi Demand Down 68% YoY)”

What was the mortgage rate one year ago?


5 posted on 03/22/2023 7:40:09 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: sergeantdave

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6 posted on 03/22/2023 7:44:25 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (CONS)
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