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The Mortgage Bankers Association has released its Weekly
Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Oct. 3, 2008. The
Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application
volume, was 465.5, an increase of 2.2 percent on a
seasonally-adjusted basis from 455.4 one week earlier. On an
unadjusted basis, the Index increased 2.2 percent compared with the
previous week and was down 28.6 percent compared with the same week
one year earlier.
The Refinance Index increased 0.9 percent to 1345.8 from the
previous week and the seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased
3.2 percent to 314.5 from one week earlier. The Conventional
Purchase Index increased 0.7 percent while the Government Purchase
Index (largely FHA) increased 9.9 percent.
The four week moving average for the seasonally adjusted Market
Index is down 1.4 percent. The four week moving average for the
seasonally adjusted Purchase Index is down 4.1 percent, while this
average is up 1.8 percent for the Refinance Index.
The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 43.4
percent of total applications from 44.0 percent the previous week.
The adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) share of activity decreased to
2.3 percent from 2.5 percent of total applications from the
previous week.
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate
mortgages decreased to 5.99 percent from 6.07 percent, with points
decreasing to 1.09 from 1.12 (including the origination fee) for 80
percent loan-to-value (LTV) ratio loans.
The average contract interest rate for 15-year fixed-rate
mortgages decreased to 5.71 percent from 5.82 percent, with points
increasing to 1.16 from 1.11 (including the origination fee) for 80
percent LTV loans.
The average contract interest rate for one-year ARMs remained
unchanged at 6.60 percent, with points increasing to 0.37 from 0.33
(including the origination fee) for 80 percent LTV loans.
Data for government applications were revised from the first
week of June, 2008 through the last week of September 2008. As a
result, some historical series were revised.
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