United States MBA Mortgage Applications

Mortgage applications in the United States went down 4 percent in the week ended November 2nd 2018, after a 2.5 percent drop in the previous week, data from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed. Refinance applications decreased 2.5 percent and applications to purchase a home slumped 5 percent. The average fixed 30-year mortgage rate rose by 4bps to 5.15 percent, the highest rate since April of 2010. Mortgage Applications in the United States averaged 0.39 percent from 2007 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 49.10 percent in January of 2015 and a record low of -38.80 percent in January of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	TEForecast
2018-10-24	11:00 AM	MBA Mortgage Applications	4.9%	-7.1%	0.42%
2018-10-31	11:00 AM	MBA Mortgage Applications	-2.5%	4.9%	0.17%
2018-11-07	12:00 PM	MBA Mortgage Applications	-4%	-2.5%	1.36%
2018-11-14	12:00 PM	MBA Mortgage Applications		-4%	0.59%
2018-11-21	12:00 PM	MBA Mortgage Applications			0.14%
2018-11-28	12:00 PM	MBA Mortgage Applications			0.93%

United States Housing	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Building Permits	1241.00	1249.00	2419.00	513.00	Thousand	[+]
Housing Starts	1201.00	1268.00	2494.00	478.00	Thousand units	[+]
New Home Sales	553.00	585.00	1389.00	270.00	Thousand	[+]
Pending Home Sales	-1.00	-2.40	30.90	-24.30	percent	[+]
Existing Home Sales	5150.00	5330.00	7250.00	1370.00	Thousand	[+]
Construction Spending	0.00	0.80	5.90	-4.80	percent	[+]
Housing Index	0.30	0.40	1.20	-1.80	percent	[+]
Nahb Housing Market Index	68.00	67.00	78.00	8.00		[+]
Mortgage Rate	5.15	5.11	10.56	3.47	percent	[+]
Mortgage Applications	-4.00	-2.50	49.10	-38.80	percent	[+]
Case Shiller Home Price Index	213.72	213.77	213.77	100.00	Index Points	[+]
Home Ownership Rate	64.40	64.30	69.20	62.90	percent	[+]

Mortgage Applications measure the change in the number of new applications for mortgages backed by the Mortgage Bankers Association during the reported week. Mortgage applications include both refinancing and home purchasing. This page provides - United States MBA Mortgage Applications - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States MBA Mortgage Applications - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on November of 2018.