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Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Applications Survey:
- Mortgage applications decreased 3.2 percent from one week earlier for the week ending January 27, 2017.
- The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 49.4 percent of total applications from 50.0 percent the previous week.
- The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances increased to 4.39 percent from 4.35 percent.
U.S. Census Bureau December 2016 Construction Report:
- Construction spending during December 2016 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.1815 trillion.
- This is 0.2 percent below the revised November estimate of $1.1844 trillion.
- The December figure is 4.2 percent above the December 2015 estimate of $1.1337 trillion.
Apartment List National Rent Report for February 2016:
- Nationwide, rents increased rapidly throughout 2014 and 2015 but have plateaued since May 2016.
- Rents have fallen in San Francisco, San Jose, Miami and Houston.
- Rents continue to climb in some secondary cities — Tacoma, Washington; Arlington, Texas; Long Beach, California
Mortgage rates:
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Home equity rates:
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s National Housing Market Summary for Q3 2016:
- Construction starts on single-family homes, at 759,000 units (seasonally adjusted annual rate — SAAR) in the third quarter of 2016, were up slightly from the previous quarter (1 percent) and previous year (2 percent).
- The pace of single-family housing starts is now more than half the annual rate of 1.36 million units in 2002, before the housing bubble began.
- Multifamily housing starts fell to 373,000 units (SAAR) in the third quarter, a decrease of 5 percent from the previous quarter and 7 percent from the previous year.
U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Residential Vacancies and Homeownership, Q4 2016:
- National vacancy rates in the fourth quarter 2016 were 6.9 percent for rental housing and 1.8 percent for homeowner housing. The rental vacancy rate of 6.9 percent was not statistically different from the rate in the fourth quarter 2015 (7.0 percent) or the rate in the third quarter 2016 (6.8 percent).
- The homeowner vacancy rate of 1.8 percent was not statistically different from the rate in the fourth quarter 2015 (1.9 percent) or the rate in the third quarter 2016 (1.8 percent).
- The homeownership rate of 63.7 percent was not statistically different from the rate in the fourth quarter 2015 (63.8 percent) or the rate in the third quarter 2016 (63.5 percent).
U.S. Census Bureau Q4 2016 rental and homeownership data
Ten-X Residential Real Estate Nowcast for January 2017:
- January sales will fall between seasonally adjusted annual rates of 5.32 and 5.67 million, with a targeted number of 5.49 million.
- This is the same number of homes sold in December of 2016.
- It’s also an increase of 0.03 million from January 2016.
Attom Data Solutions ‘Best Month To Buy A Home’ Report:
- Buyers get, on average, a 6.1 percent discount in February.
- January, March and April are the next-best months in which to buy.
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