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Applications for mortgages slowed appreciably during the week ended May 27 and average mortgage rates scattered in all directions. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that its Market Composite Index, a measure of loan application volume, posted a 4.1 percent seasonally adjusted decline, its largest single week change since an identical drop during the week ended April 22. On an unadjusted basis the index was down 5 percent, The decline was shared almost equally by applications for refinancing and for home purchase. The Refinancing Index was down 4 percent from the week ended May 20 while the Purchase Index fell 5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis and 6 percent unadjusted. The unadjusted Purchase Index remained 28 percent higher than the same week one year ago. The Government Purchase...(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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