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Refi Mortgage Applications Pull Back From Highest In Two Years

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  • MBA mortgage applications fell a seasonally adjusted 3.9% last week and have now fully reversed a 16% jump back in early June.
  • Purchase applications fell further (-1.5% after -4.0%) but refinance applications saw a greater decline with -7.2% after 0.3% the week prior and a particularly strong 15.2% the week before that had left refi activity at its highest since Aug 2022.
  • Purchase applications continue to have seen little relief from the 30Y mortgage rate pulling back off recent highs, unchanged at 6.82% for its lowest since February.
  • This recent rate easing still hasn’t really been reflected in jumbo loans though, where the rate of 7.07% (-2bps after +2bps) sees a regular-jumbo spread of -25bps remain at one of the most negative readings since late 2020/early 2021 in a potential sign of a tightening in lending conditions.

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