| MORTGAGE DATA | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-yr. Fixed | 15-yr. Fixed | 5-yr Treasury | 1-yr Treasury- | MBA Refi | Home Purchase | |||||||||
| Rate Mortgage | Rate Mortgage | Indexed ARMs | Indexed ARMs | Index | Index | |||||||||
| Week ending 08/13/09 | 5.29% | 4.68% | 4.75% | 4.72% | 1862.1 | 262.0 | ||||||||
| Week ending 08/06/09 | 5.22% | 4.63% | 4.73% | 4.78% | 1862.1 | 262.0 | ||||||||
| One Year Ago | 6.52% | 6.07% | 6.02% | 5.18% |
Refinancings made up 52.3% of the total volume of mortgage loan applications, decreasing from 54.2% last week. Base period for indexes 3/16/90 = 100
The Philadelphia-based bank's parent company, Republic First Bancshares, had been roiled by a yearslong proxy battle involving activist investors groups and its former CEO.
Known for subprime financing, the sponsor has been making inroads lending to near-prime customers in the last couple of years.
Spreads ranging from 16-18 basis points over the three-month, interpolated yield curve on the P1 (Moody's) and F1+ (Fitch) notes, to 160 to 170 over the benchmark on the class D notes.
Mortgage rates rose 7 basis points this week, Freddie Mac said, and more increases are likely following a weaker than expected gross domestic product report.
Broken down by product type, the agency's NJCLASS Standard Fixed product should account for a large majority of the loans, 75.4%. NJCLASS Consolidation will account for the next-largest group, 14.1%.
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