US Mortgage Applications Drop 9% From One Week Earlier, Purchase Apps Up 7% From Previous Week But Down 41% From Same Week Last Year

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The January mortgage applications book is closed. And we are off to another year of rising applications until May. Then the downhill slide.

Mortgage applications decreased 9.0 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 27, 2023.

The Refinance Index decreased 7 percent from the previous week and was 80 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 10 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index increased 7 percent compared with the previous week and was 41 percent lower than the same week one year ago.