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New Home Purchases Decreased 9% in August

by | Sep 11, 2014

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 (Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – Data for August 2014 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases decreased by 9 percent relative to July 2014, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS). The MBA estimates new single-family home sales were running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 424,000 units in August. The seasonally adjusted estimate for August is a decrease of 2.1 percent from July’s pace of 433,000 units. On an adjusted basis, MBA estimates that there were 34,000 new homes sales in August, a decrease of 8.1 percent in July. Compared to last year, the estimate of unadjusted new home sales are down 2.9 percent from August 2103.

By product type, conventional loans made up 68.9 percent of loan applications, FHA loans were 15.7 percent, VA loans comprised 14.3 percent and RHS/USDA loans were at 1 percent.

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