Government Spending Helped Kill Mortgage Demand! Mortgage Demand Decreased 3.8 Percent From One Week Earlier

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Nobody wastes money like government, particularly around events like Covid where Federal spending led to housing prices spiking after Covid outbreak in 2020. This made housing unaffordable for most households. This in turn helped kill the mortgage market.

Mortgage applications decreased 3.8 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 12, 2025.

The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 3.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 5 percent compared with the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 3 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 7 percent compared with the previous week and was 13 percent higher than the same week one year ago.

The Refinance Index decreased 4 percent from the previous week and was 86 percent higher than the same week one year ago.

Once again, the government response to the Wuhan Covid virus of 2020 helped drive up housing prices killing off mortgage demand.

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