Press Release MBAA WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2012) — Mortgage applications increased 0.1 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 27, 2012. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 0.1 percent on a seasonally…
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Mortgage Application Searches Fall To Record Lows
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Google searches for “mortgage applications” plunged to a 5 year low in December.
View full report in Google Insights for Search
According to researchers at the NY Fed, ” Recent academic research finds that Internet search data can forecast the c…
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Mortgage Bankers Association Orders Wall Street Examiner to Cease And Desist
by Lee Adler • • 7 Comments
The Mortgage Bankers Association has sent me legal notice to “demand that wallstreetexaminer.com immediately remove all WAS data (Weekly Applications Survey) data, from its systems and cease and desist from further reproduction or distribution of all MBA data, past and present, in any format.” Regrettably, I must comply with this demand. I am not in…
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No Truth Coming From Mortgage Bankers Ass.
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Apparently the MBAss (Mortgage Bankers Association) didn’t like the fact that someone in the financial blogo-wackosphere actually had the temerity to make use of real, hard data, that they hadn’t massaged. Now, not only do they not report the actual index level of their seasonally smoothed applications indexes, the charts of the not seasonally adjusted…
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Glimmers of Housing Hope In Mortgage Applications Data
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Purchase mortgage applications rose 6.4% last week according to the Mortgage Bankers Association and major media outlets. As always, the media report only the seasonally adjusted data fed to them by the MBAA. Rarely should a week to week change have any seasonal effects, although last week would be an exception because the week before…
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Did The NAR Lie About August Pending Home Sales?
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Data released today by the Mortgage Bankers Ass. suggest that housing demand is again cratering. In the last week of September mortgage purchase applications were down about 12% versus the same week last year. This is similar to the difference at the end of August, when the drop was about 13%. Chart and data- Bloomberg…
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Housing Picture No Darker
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The article is an excerpt from the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Housing Update for subscribers. Scroll to the end for the subscriber link to the complete report. Housing data for this month suggests that the usual seasonal uptick in prices has ended. Data is mixed as to whether the seasonal decline that normally occurs…
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MBA: Mortgage Purchase Activity "near 15-year lows"
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
MBA: Mortgage Purchase Activity “near 15-year lows”
by CalculatedRisk on 8/31/2011 07:13:00 AM
The MBA reports: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
The Refinance Index decreased 12.2 percent from the…
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Housing Time Bomb Goes Tick Tock Tick Tock
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
A couple of data points reported today marked a tick and a tock on the housing market clock. The Mortgage Bankers Association Mortgage Applications Index release was weak but not explosive. The FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency) monthly data on home sale prices was up, but meaningless. The FHFA data is after the fact price data…
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Alarming Housing Data
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
There’s a lot of new real estate data to report on since my last update, all of it bad, not in terms of the quality of the data, some of which is lousy, but in terms of the direction that the numbers are headed. Mortgage applications show that current demand is still in the toilet.…
