An “Open House” sign is displayed in the front yard of a home for sale in Columbus, Ohio.
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Consumers are fast losing confidence in this spring housing market, given the economic upheaval from the coronavirus. Higher mortgage rates aren’t helping either.
Both combined to cause a 17.9% drop in mortgage applications last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index.
Refinance activity had bounced back the week before, after a sharp drop in rates, but those rates didn’t hold.
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances of up to…
Source cnbc.com