Higher mortgage fees don’t point to future mortgage stress

Mortgage fees and charges, whether guarantee fees, mortgage insurance premiums or origination points, have increased in recent years. But fees are not weighing significantly on buyer demand and do not point to a lack of capacity among borrowers to absorb coming rate rises as some have suggested.

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