(Reuters) – Demand for loans to purchase U.S. homes sunk to a 13-year low last week, and refinancing demand also slid despite near record-low mortgage rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday.

Requests for loans to buy homes dropped 3.1 percent in the week ended July 9, after adjusting for the Independence Day holiday, to [...]

REUTERS: Refinancing drove total U.S. mortgage applications to a nine-month high last week, while demand for loans to purchase homes sunk to a near 13-year low as buyers remained sidelined after the expiration of federal tax credits.
Mortgage rates stuck around record lows, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday, giving homeowners another chance to cut monthly [...]

(Reuters) – Mortgage demand jumped to a five-month peak last week, with applications to buy homes up from 13-year lows set in the wake of buyer tax credits while refinance loans hit the highest level since May 2009.  Mortgage purchase applications rose 7.3 percent after sinking five weeks in payback for steamy demand before the [...]

(Reuters) – U.S. mortgage applications rose in the latest week for the first time in three weeks as demand for home purchase loans reached the highest level since October, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
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U.S. mortgage applications fell for a third straight week, with demand for home purchase loans sinking to the lowest level in 13 years as inclement weather weighed, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.  A continued drop in demand for purchase loans, a tentative early indicator of home sales, would not bode well for [...]

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — The volume of mortgage applications filed last week fell a seasonally adjusted 1.2%, compared with the week before, due to a drop in applications for mortgages to purchase a home, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Applications filed for home loans last week rose a seasonally adjusted 21% from the week before, as rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hovered around the 5% level, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.
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Mortgage application volumes increased a seasonally adjusted 9.1% last week from the week before, mainly reflecting an uptick in refinancing activity, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported on Wednesday.  Refinancing filings rose 10.7% for the week ended Jan. 15, according to MBA’s latest survey. Applications for mortgages to buy homes were also up, increasing a seasonally [...]

Refinancing applications jumped 21.8% in the week ended Jan. 8 compared with the week before, which was shortened for the New Year’s holiday. Applications for mortgages to purchase homes rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8% on a week-to-week basis.
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Volumes fell a seasonally adjusted 22.8% during the week ended Dec. 25 from the prior week, according to the Washington-based MBA’s weekly survey.  Refinancings were down 30.5% on a week-to-week basis, while filings for mortgages to purchase homes were off a seasonally adjusted 4%.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed confidence on Tuesday that the U.S. economy was on a solid recovery path, but said tight lending practices by banks still pose a risk.  ”Right now, the real risk we face is that banks are not lending enough and not going to provide the capital businesses need to grow [...]

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Mortgage rates remained flat last week, but applications filed for mortgages dropped a seasonally adjusted 10.7% compared with the week before, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly survey.
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Applications for mortgages rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3% last week, compared with the week before, the Mortgage Bankers Association reports.   Applications for mortgages to refinance an existing home loan were up an unadjusted 0.9% for the week ended Dec. 11, compared with the week before, according to the survey. Mortgage applications filed for the [...]

Applications for loans to refinance an existing mortgage were up an unadjusted 11.1% for the week ended Dec. 4, compared with the week before, according to the MBA’s weekly survey. Applications for home purchases were up a seasonally adjusted 4%.
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U.S. mortgage applications nudged higher last week, data from an industry group reported on Wednesday, as consumers showed a subdued reaction to the lowest interest rates in six months.
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The volume of mortgage applications filed to purchase homes last week hit the lowest level in nearly nine years, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Thursday.
Applications for loans to buy homes fell a seasonally adjusted 11.7% in the week ended Nov. 6 from with the previous week — bringing volumes to their lowest since December 2000. [...]

Refinancing applications increased 14.5% for the week ended Oct. 30 compared with the previous week, while filings seeking mortgages to purchase homes fell a seasonally adjusted 1.8%, the MBA reported Wednesday. The Washington-based MBA’s weekly survey covers more than half of all applications filed for U.S. retail residential mortgages.
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Mortgage applications drop in the latest week as a big falloff in refinancing activity and a slackening of demand for home-purchase loans weighs on the Mortgage Bankers Association index.
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U.S. mortgage applications dipped last week as interest rates on 30-year loans rose above 5 percent, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Mortgage applications filed last week increased a seasonally adjusted 16.4% compared with the week before, as interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages fell, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday.
The Washington-based MBA’s data indicated that the average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages remained below the 5% mark for a third consecutive week. The group’s [...]