Rates Highest in 9 Months; HECM Draining FHA Resources; Applications Improve Despite Rate Spike
Mortgage rates were only moderately higher today, but the move was enough to officially bring them to the highest levels since the Spring of 2017. In other words, most lenders' rate quotes are fairly similar to recently bad days (like last Wednesday), but in terms of outright costs, you'd have to go back 9 months to see anything worse. There was precious little by way of overt motivations for today's move. Whereas rates have a longstanding history of responding to economic data and other events that speak to the economy/inflation/etc., many of the recent movements have had more to do with arcane considerations among bond traders than the aforementioned history. The timing of today's weakness is unfortunate as rates were just starting to look like they might be reinforcing recent ceilings. To
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