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Industry trade association whose quarterly mortgage bankers performance report of more than 330 companies is the primary dataset in the story.
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Freddie Mac's benchmark 30-year mortgage rate rose to 7.28% this week, a sixth straight weekly increase and the highest since November 2023. Since February it has risen as far as the 10-year Treasury yield, so the cost of a move this fall depends on the bond market's inflation outlook.
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The daily 30-year fixed reached 7.24% last week. Applications feeding Q4 closings are down far more than signed contracts, and the buyers still transacting are increasingly cash buyers.
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Matt Jones went to the Senate on Sept. 14 with backing from the Mortgage Bankers Association, where he ran government housing finance until March 2025, and from the private insurers who sell against FHA.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association's index counts loan programs on offer. The geography in the story comes from a LoanDepot manager in Edison, who says loan-to-value ratios are tightening out West and not yet in the Northeast.
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The IDP Accelerator and Quick Automate pitch rests on third-party mortgage economics plus one fictional lender. The touch-time saving is plausible; it is not the same clock as the 44 days.
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Independent mortgage bankers earned $973 per loan last quarter as volume hit a four-year high. Revenue per loan fell; expenses fell further. That is the whole story.
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