Homebuyers are still waiting to move off the sidelines despite a recent reprieve in mortgage rates, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 29.
Among purchase-mortgage applications received last year, lenders denied 7.79% of conventional mortgage applications, 8.10% of VA loan applications and 12.70% of FHA loan applications.
Cotality’s latest National Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index found that an estimated one in 129 mortgage applications showed indications of fraud in the first quarter.