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| Half-Hearted Correction Continues | ||
| 2/18/2026 3:22 PM | ||
| Half-Hearted Correction Continues Don"t call it a correction. Yields may have rallied 30bps in just over a week and apparently bounced almost perfectly at 4% (10yr), but they haven"t exactly done much over the past 2 days. It"s just as fair to say things are "sideways and waiting for guidance," but th...Read More | ||
| Residential Construction Finds Footing in December | ||
| 2/18/2026 3:13 PM | ||
| What goes down must come up? Definitely not always the case, but true this time for residential construction numbers. The Census Bureau’s latest report showed a rebound in December, with both housing starts and building permits moving higher after softer readings in prior months. Privately owned housing starts rose 6.2% to a seasonally adjusted ...Read More | ||
| Higher Refi Demand Buoys Mortgage Apps as Rates Hit Lows | ||
| 2/18/2026 3:00 PM | ||
| Mortgage application activity picked up last week with the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reporting an increase of 2.8% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ending February 13. Refi applications were in the driver"s seat, and although it was hardly a "jump", the Refinance Index did increase 7% from the previous week and was 132% h...Read More | ||
| Builder Confidence Remains Subdued | ||
| 2/18/2026 2:47 PM | ||
| Builder confidence fell for the second straight month in February according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). Affordability pressures and elevated construction costs continued to hamper already gloomy sentiment. While the move was modest in outright terms (just one point lower than before),...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Tick Microscopically Higher | ||
| 2/18/2026 2:11 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates at the average lender moved up by 0.01% today--the smallest increment measured by the MND daily rate index. This means that most borrowers won"t see a meaningful different in today"s rates vs yesterday"s. That"s welcome news considering yesterday"s rates were tied for the second best day in more than 3 years. In the bigger picture, ...Read More | ||
| LO Centered Marketing, Credit Score Products; Company-Sponsored Events; Faith Schwartz Interview | ||
| 2/18/2026 10:44 AM | ||
| On today’s Mortgage Matters live interview (at 1PM ET; feel free to ask questions) Faith Schwartz, who has an incredible pedigree, draws upon her decades of housing finance and policy experience to discuss crisis leadership lessons, regulatory evolution, and what today’s lenders should be watching as the market recalibrates. One topic could very we...Read More | ||
| Key Technical Level, But Does it Matter? | ||
| 2/18/2026 10:06 AM | ||
| Any time the 10yr Treasury yield approaches--but fails to break--a number ending in .50 or .00, the analytical community is guaranteed to be discussing the technical significance of those levels. In the big picture, technical bounces can be anywhere remotely close to the big round numbers. As such, we are arguably once again seeing resistance at 4....Read More | ||
| Calm Start Even if Modestly Weaker | ||
| 2/17/2026 3:27 PM | ||
| Calm Start Even if Modestly Weaker The day before and/or after a 3-day weekend is more volatile than the average weekend-adjacent trading day. Last Friday fit that bill but today could have been mistaken for a summertime Monday (despite being a wintertime Tuesday). There were no significant reports and the ...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Stay Flat to Start New Week | ||
| 2/17/2026 3:08 PM | ||
| It was an uneventful day for mortgage rates with the average lender holding right in line with last Friday"s levels. In this case, that"s a good thing. On the day before and/or after a 3-day weekend, rates tend to be more volatile than normal. That was certainly the case last Friday as the MND rate index dropped at its fastest pace since early Jan...Read More | ||
| AI POS Evaluation, Non-Agency, Servicing, Buy-Before-You-Sell products; What"s Driving Rates? | ||
| 2/17/2026 10:48 AM | ||
| On Mortgage Law Today at noon PT Brian Levy, Loretta Salzano, and Peter Idziak sit down with Laura LaRia and Sandy Shatz for a deep dive into the legal and regulatory pressures shaping mortgage servicing. The discussion covers litigation trends, servicing agreements, regulatory developments, and how AI is beginning to influence risk and compliance ...Read More | ||