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Mortgage market update: Mortgage purchase and refi applications improve but remain historically soft

Mortgage market update: Mortgage purchase and refi applications improve but remain historically soft

Mortgage purchase applications are starting 2026 in ‘historically soft’ territory (bottom 25th percentile). However, they’re approaching the bottom threshold for ‘historically normal’ purchase apps levels (25th–75th percentile).

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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Trump directs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to attempt to push mortgage rates lower

Trump directs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to attempt to push mortgage rates lower

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have already started to accelerate their retained mortgage holdings—with them rising around $69 billion in the second half of 2025.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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Powell: 'housing market faces some really significant challenges' that a 25 bps rate cut won’t resolve

Powell: 'housing market faces some really significant challenges' that a 25 bps rate cut won’t resolve

Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged this week that recent rate cuts alone won’t restore affordability in the housing market.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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A half-century of data shows a 1.40-point average annual mortgage-rate range

A half-century of data shows a 1.40-point average annual mortgage-rate range

According to a ResiClub analysis, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate has averaged a 1.40-percentage-point annual range since 1972. In 2025, the range was 0.87 points.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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Mortgage purchase applications are rising—so why did most housing markets soften in 2025?
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Mortgage purchase applications are rising—so why did most housing markets soften in 2025?

ResiClub PRO | Despite a mild uptick in U.S. housing demand over the past year, it remains low enough for housing market slack—active inventory for sale—to keep building.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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FHA ban sends non-permanent resident mortgage locks from boom to bust

FHA ban sends non-permanent resident mortgage locks from boom to bust

Non-permanent residents—including H-1B visa holders—share of FHA mortgage locks has cratered from 3.8% in September 2024 to 0.2% in September 2025, according to Optimal Blue.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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Housing affordability is so strained that the White House is looking at a 50-year mortgage option—11 things to know

Housing affordability is so strained that the White House is looking at a 50-year mortgage option—11 things to know

Over the past few days, the ResiClub team ran the numbers to better understand the math on 50-year mortgages.

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Lance Lambert
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Fannie Mae and MBA agree: Most of the mortgage rate relief is already behind us

Fannie Mae and MBA agree: Most of the mortgage rate relief is already behind us

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate tracked by Freddie Mac is 6.19%, down from 6.54% a year ago. Many economists believe that most of the short-term mortgage rate compression is already behind us.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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Powell admits MBS buying 'should have' stopped sooner—and says Fed will be more ‘nimble’ in future cycles

Powell admits MBS buying 'should have' stopped sooner—and says Fed will be more ‘nimble’ in future cycles

Powell acknowledged that the central bank may have kept purchasing mortgage-backed securities (MBS) for too long—but he’s also unsure how much it actually contributed to the Pandemic Housing Boom.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert
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Zillow says it would take an 'unrealistic' mortgage rate decline to restore housing affordability

Zillow says it would take an 'unrealistic' mortgage rate decline to restore housing affordability

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate would need to be 4.43% to make the median-priced U.S. home affordable for the median-income household, estimates Zillow.

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Mortgage rates and demand: A cycle-by-cycle analysis
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Mortgage rates and demand: A cycle-by-cycle analysis

ResiClub PRO | A historical lens shows demand this housing cycle is more rate-sensitive.

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Lance Lambert
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We’re officially passing through a refi boomlet

We’re officially passing through a refi boomlet

The Mortgage Refinance Index just hit its highest level since March 2022.

Lance Lambert
Lance Lambert