Mortgage rates plus all the latest real estate market news.

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RealtyTrac’s August 2015 U.S. Home Sales Report:

  • Sales of single-family homes and condominiums in August hit an eight-year high nationally, and some cities are on pace to see their best sales numbers in a decade.
  • Out of 204 metro areas surveyed, 58 are on track to reach nine-year highs in home sales this year, and another 22 cities are poised to reach 10-year highs.
  • All-cash sales accounted for 24.5 percent of all single family home and condo sales in August, up from a seven-year low of 23.6 percent in July, but still down from 26.7 percent of all sales in August 2014.

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ProTeck’s Home Value Forecast:

  • San Francisco buyers have averaged 20+ percent down over the last 14 years (loan-to-value ratios 67 percent to 82 percent), while Detroit has averaged loan-to-value ratios between 86 percent and 101 percent.
  • Scottsdale, Arizona, average home prices are 20 percent below all-time highs.
  • At the height of the housing crisis in Apache Junction, Arizona, homes lost more than half their value.

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The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development’s August residential sales report:

  • New single-family homes in August were sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 552,000.
  • This is 5.7 percent above the revised July rate and 21.6 percent above the August 2014 estimate.
  • The median sales price for new homes in August 2015 was $292,700, and the average sales price was $353,400.

Weekly mortgage rates:

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Yesterday’s market news:

Mortgage Bankers Association Weekly Applications Survey:

  • Mortgage applications increased 13.9 percent from one week earlier during the week ending Sept. 18, 2015.
  • The refinance share of mortgage activity increased to 58.4 percent of total applications from 56.2 percent the week prior.
  • The FHA share of total applications decreased to 12.9 percent from 14.2 percent the previous week.

Freddie Mac’s Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi):

  • The national MiMi is 81, an improvement of 0.93 percent from June 2015 to July 2015.
  • Twenty-nine of the 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., have MiMi values in a stable range.
  • Forty-six of the 100 metro areas measured have MiMi values in a stable range.

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