Five Minute Maturity – 08/13/2021

Good morning and welcome to the weekend! We don’t have any scheduled housing or mortgage releases today and it’s a quiet day in general for news. Here are a couple of stories, however, to help you start your day. On the front burner, mortgage rates rose for the first...

Five Minute Maturity – 08/11/2021

Good morning and happy hump day! We had scheduled news today! At 6:00 a.m. central time we got a dose of Mortgage Applications for the week ending Aug. 6th. We’re coming off a -1.7% for the prior week and a +7.0% for the week before that, exemplifying our comments...

Five Minute Maturity – 08/09/2021

Good morning and happy Monday! This is going to be another light week for housing data. General news in the street today is headlined by a couple of interesting stories. First up, we talked last week about the number of homes in the U.S. that were still upside down on...

Five Minute Maturity – 08/06/2021

Good morning and happy Friday! With no scheduled mortgage or housing releases today, we’re going to be short and sweet. We have a couple of news stories to cover, beginning with MBS pre-pay speeds for July, which were released yesterday afternoon. All coupons of 30yr...

Five Minute Maturity – 08/04/2021

Good morning and happy hump day! If it’s Wednesday, it must be time for Mortgage Applications. At 6:00 a.m. central we got the Mortgage Applications number for the week ending 7/30. The prior week we had a +5.7% release revised to +7.0%, today came in at -1.7%. Ward’s...