A slight decline in mortgage rates allowed mortgage applications for home purchase to recover from the previous month’s lows in June. That said, applications remain below the average seen so far this year, which has been the weakest year for applications for home purchase so far since 1995. With the Fed’s tightening cycle yet to come to a head, we expect weakness in home sales to persist for the rest of the year.
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