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Loan Volume Decline Equals More Pink Slips
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday; employment in the mortgage finance industry fell to 494,700, which is lower than one month and one year earlier. Based on a report also released on Friday, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) projected the number of mortgage originations this year will fall once again. Based on this trend it is likely that a record number of originators will be forced out of the mortgage origination field in 2007.
According to the MBAs report mortgage volume will continue to decline throughout 2008. Total originations in 2007 are projected to decline by about 5 percent to $2.39 trillion from an estimated $2.51 trillion in 2006. They should decline by an additional 4 percent to $2.29 trillion in 2008, the report said.
The report also indicated that refinance volume should be hit the hardest; the end of 2006 pickup in refinance activity reflects borrowers paying off ARM loans that either had already or were about to reset to higher payments, and therefore is unlikely to continue throughout 2007.
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Mortgage applications fall in holiday week
The number of applications for mortgages at major U.S. banks dropped 3.9% on a seasonally adjusted basis last week compared to the prior week, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday.
Applications were also were down on a year-over-year basis, lower by 1.6%.
Applications for loans to buy a home increased 1.3% in the past week, but theyre down about 14.6% from a year ago similar to the decline in home sales over that time.
Applications for loans to refinance an existing loan dropped 9.6% in the past week but are up about 18% from a year
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Weekly mortgage applications decline
U.S. mortgage applications fell for the first time in four weeks as demand for home purchase loans dropped to the lowest level in nearly three years, an industry trade group said Wednesday.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and purchasing loans, for the week ended Aug. 25 decreased 0.9 percent to 556.5 from the previous weeks 561.5, nearly 23 percent below their year-ago level.
John Shin, senior economist at Lehman Brothers in New York, said last weeks decline was consistent with the overall downward trend in housing.
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U.S. MBAs Mortgage Applications Index Rose 3.2% Last Week
Mortgage applications in the U.S. rose last week to the highest level in more than three months after a recent decline in borrowing costs spurred home buying.
The Mortgage Bankers Associations index of applications to buy a home or refinance an existing loan increased 3.2 percent to 584.2. The groups gauge of purchases rose 5.3 percent to a nine-week high. Refinancing edged up as well.
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Option One Mortgage Corp. a national residential lender and subsidiary of H&R Block Inc., has chosen Scott Davis of Market Street Mortgage in Tysons Corner, to receive a Loan Originator Diversity Scholarship to the Campus MBA program in recognition of his outreach to diverse markets and communities.
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Mortgage Applications Surge on Low Interest Rates
With long-term interest rates remaining at their lowest levels of the year, mortgage applications surged last week, according to the latest Weekly Mortgage Applications survey from The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).
For the week ending December 8, the MBAs survey showed that the weekly Market Composite Index, which measures mortgage loan application volume, increased 11.4 percent overall from the previous week. Refinance applications, which rose 15.8 percent, saw their largest gain in over a year, while purchase applications also showed significant growth with a week-over-week increase of 8.7 percent.
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