Mortgage Rate Tracker 🏠📉🔍
Current trends and recent price history
TABLE OF CONTENTS
RATE RECAP ⏪
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April brought some relief to mortgage rates after a devasting month of March.
Although I wanted to share this post last week, mortgage pricing hasn’t changed much since then.
Therefore, the included charts and insights are still applicable even though we are entering the 2nd week of May.
The horizontal bar charts cover the last 4 months (as indicated).
The rate price tables and MBS data cover the previous month only (March 27 – May 1).
PRICE TRACKER 🔭
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Most mortgages are sold into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and the price of these bonds determines rates for all banks and lenders.
However, mortgage rates DO NOT rise or fall. Instead, the price of each rate changes while the rates available to you remain the same.
The Mortgage Rate Price Tracker (MRPT) illustrates this dynamic by showing how the price of each rate changed within the time series.
Some higher rates pay a rebate; this is illustrated on the tracker with negative (-) points.
When the “total change” in the table is negative it means a reduction in the price of the rate.
The MRPT is a “rate and loan program” specific example of the LendZen Index, which monitors a much broader set of rates and mortgage bond coupons.
Both are effective for visualizing how the PRICE of mortgage rates has changed, while the LendZen Index is published daily at LendZen.Substack.com
CONVENTIONAL 30-YEAR 📉
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CONVENTIONAL 15-YEAR 📉
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VA 30-YEAR 📉
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MBS EXPLAINED 📖
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How much a mortgage-backed security is priced below or above par (100-00) determines the “price” of the mortgage rates packaged into that MBS coupon.
For example, the higher an MBS is priced above par, the less expensive the rates will be that are sold into that security.
(ex. 102-00 > 101-00)
The Note rates of each mortgage sold into a specific MBS typically range between 0.250 – 0.625 above the coupon rate, depending on the loan type.
(ex. 6.250% – 6.625% rates ~ 6.00 MBS)
The spread between the mortgage Note rate and the coupon rate is retained as a servicing fee.
(ex. 0.250 – 0.625)
This is why a 6.00 note rate is not sold into a 6.00 coupon and is therefore priced based on lower coupons.
(ex. 6.00% rate ~ 5.50 MBS)
As a result, the shift between different coupons can disproportionality affect the PRICE of the lower Note rate despite the close proximity of the two rates.
(ex. X.00% rate vs X.25% rate)
Thanks for reading…
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