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Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Applications Survey:
- Mortgage applications increased 9.3 percent week-over-week.
- The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 53.8 percent of total applications from 54.3 percent the previous week.
- The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances decreased to 3.83 percent from 3.85 percent, with points decreasing to 0.33 from 0.36 (including the origination fee).
Mortgage rates:
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Home equity rates:
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Yesterday’s most recent market news:
CoreLogic Home Price Index for April 2016:
- Home prices nationwide increased 6.2 percent year-over-year in April 2016.
- Prices increased 1.8 percent month-over-month.
- The CoreLogic HPI Forecast indicates that home prices will increase by 5.3 percent on a year-over-year basis from April 2016 to April 2017, and 0.9 percent month-over-month.
Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) for May 2016:
- The HPSI increased 1.6 points to 85.3 in May.
- This is a new all-time survey high.
- The net share of consumers who expect that home prices will go up over the next 12 months rose 5 percentage points, followed by a 3 percentage point increase in the net share of consumers who expect mortgage interest rates to go down over the next 12 months.
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