Refinances Drive Down Mortgage Applications

Weekly applications for residential loans recently turned lower, and it was applications for mortgage refinance transactions that drove down overall activity.

As represented by the Market Composite Index, new applications for residential loans in the week ended Aug. 19 dipped 2 percent from a week earlier.

The index, which is seasonally adjusted, retreated 3 percent with no adjustments made for seasonal factors compared to the week that ended on Aug. 12.


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