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Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) for December 2016:
- The HPSI decreased again in December by 0.5 percentage points to 80.7.
- The HPSI is down 2.5 percentage points compared with the same time last year.
- The net share of Americans who say it is a good time to buy a house rose by 2 percentage points to 32 percent; the net percentage of those who say it is a good time to sell was unchanged from the prior month at 13 percent.
Mortgage rates:
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Home equity rates:
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Most recent market news:
Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey:
- The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.20 percent with an average 0.5 point for the week ending January 5, 2017.
- This is down from last week when it averaged 4.32 percent.
- A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 3.97 percent.
Mortgage Bankers Association’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) for December 2016:
- The MCAI increased 0.6 percent to 175.2 in December.
- Of the four component indices, the Jumbo MCAI saw the greatest increase in availability over the month (up 1.3 percent), followed by the Conventional MCAI (up 0.7 percent), the Government MCAI (up 0.6 percent), and the Conforming MCAI (up 0.04 percent).
Attom Data Solutions 2017 Rental Affordability Report:
- Making monthly house payments on a median-priced home is more affordable than the fair market rent on a three-bedroom property in 354 of the 500 counties analyzed in the report (66 percent).
- Counter to the overall trend, renting is more affordable than buying a home in 186 of the 540 counties analyzed for the report (34 percent).
- On average across the 540 counties analyzed, monthly fair market rent on a three-bedroom property in 2017 will require 38.6 percent of average wages.
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