Stellar Housing Data; Rates Inching Lower

Considering this week’s generally positive drift in rates, we shouldn’t expect lenders to get less busy any time soon.  In recent weeks, there’s been a sense that mortgage pricing seems just a little bit “off” compared to expectations.  Those expectations are primarily derived from movement in the bond market.  When bonds improve, rates tent to improve as well, but that wasn’t reliably happening recently.  One plausible hunch involves lenders being a bit more cautious with pricing until they have a clear sense of which loans will be subject to the new adverse market fee (not sure what that is?  read THIS).  With each passing day, they can be more and more certain that new loans will indeed get hit with the fee and thus are able to tighten up margins (thus resulting in slightly lower rates, all other things being equal).
Either way, the average lender had inched to the best levels of the week by Friday (apart from those who implemented the few fee at some point this week… those lenders are much worse off).  …(read more)Forward this article via email:  Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.
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