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Last Week in Review: Markets React to the American Job Pain This past week was filled with a lot of market-moving news for the mortgage and housing industry. By week’s end, interest rates continued to stabilize, while stocks set new all-time highs. Let’s break it all down: Enormous Government Spending on the Way On Wednesday, […]

Last Week in Review: Rates May Have Just Peaked… This Is Why We watched long-term interest rates improve nicely this past week from the highest levels in over a year. The recent chatter about higher inflation has cooled down, allowing other themes to come in and influence stocks and interest rates. It was mostly negative […]

Last Week In Review: The Fed Spoke and Bonds Didn’t Listen This past week the Federal Reserve issued their monetary policy statement, as well as new forecasts on the economy, inflation, and rates. Despite all the soft talk on inflation and seeming lack of concern on higher prices ahead, the bond market was not buying […]

The Last Week In Review: Two Big Things Moving The Market The volatility in the financial markets continued this past week, and at the end of it all, home loan rates were pretty much unchanged. Let’s break down two big things moving the markets. More, More, More 1. This past Wednesday, Congress passed a whopping […]

Last Week in Review: The Fed, Inflation, and a Twist  Home loan rates improved modestly week-over-week as the U.S. bond market attempts to stabilize after a sharp increase in rates. Back on Thursday, February 25th, the 10-year yield hit 1.61% and has since declined back beneath 1.50%. This helped mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which drive home […]

Last Week In Review: Rates Go on Vacation Longer-term U.S. interest rates, including home loan rates, remain on the rise. The big story of the week is Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill to provide his real-time assessment of the economy and rates while attempting to “sell” the notion that higher inflation will not […]

Last Week in Review: Three Things to Know This Week Longer-term U.S. interest rates, including home loan rates, increased sharply this past week, touching pre-COVID levels. Let’s break down the cause and effect as well as some other stories affecting housing. January Retail Sales Highlight Pent up Consumer Demand Retail Sales is a monthly report […]

The Redesigned URLA is Here At the first of the year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rolled out the redesigned Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA), along with new automated underwriting system (AUS) specifications for DU and LPA. Get the full rundown on the form updates, which aim to: Help lenders more easily capture relevant loan […]

Last Week in Review: Three Things the Fed Said This past week, the Federal Reserve held their first meeting of 2021 and shared its thoughts on the economy, inflation, and interest rates. Below are three important takeaways for the mortgage/housing world and overall economy: 1. “In terms of tapering, it’s just premature.” Fed Chair Jerome […]