Bonds were just slightly weaker overnight but are losing more ground in early trading.  The culprit: both of this morning's 8 ...

The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here! Oh, wait a minute. The new conventional conforming loan limits are here! The new conventional conforming loan limits are here! True, lenders ...

Both the FHFA and the S&P/Cotality Case-Shiller home-price indices released new data this week. The message remains ...

Best Closing Levels in Nearly a Month Bonds improved only moderately on Tuesday in a move that's just as easily chalked up to random holiday-week volatility as any of the day's data/events.  If we're ...

Thanksgiving weeks can be weird for mortgage rates. This has to do with the fact that rates are dictated by the bond market and the bond market depends on real live people who can actually be out of ...

Want better affordability? Lower house prices certainly helps, and this article states that more than half of homes in the United States have fallen in price in the last year. Forget interest rates: ...

Builder confidence levels are still kicking the same sad little can down the road, just with slightly more enthusiasm. The ...

Yesterday, we discussed the fact that mortgage rates were heading into Thursday with a disadvantage (for most lenders, anyway ...

Mortgage applications moved lower last week as rates continued drifting higher for a third straight week. MBA’s Weekly ...

It's shaping up to be a "no whammies" sort of morning for the bond market.  There's no denying that the jobs report was a ...

It was a complicated day for mortgage rates.  Officially, at the time of this article, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate ...

Recent stock market losses have gotten a lot attention in the news recently. While there's no reliable correlation between stocks and interest rates, when stock losses are as big as they have been ...