03/10/10

As rates dropped below 5 percent over the first two months of the year mortgage refinance volume increased and purchase volume remained unchanged. In its market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, the Mortgage Banker’s Association (MBA) reported refinance volume increasing 1.8 percent over the previous month and purchase loan volume decreasing 2.7 percent over the same period.

03/4/10

Sales of new single-family homes in January 2010 fell by 11.2 percent, since December 2009 according to a report released by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).