Posted To: MND NewsWireThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says that responses to its recent Mortgage Builder Applications Survey indicates an increase of 3.6 percent in applications for financing newly constructed homes in July compared to the same month in 2017. That is an 0.2 percent uptick from June. Based on the survey results, which are not seasonally adjusted, and other assumptions about factors that include market coverage, MBA estimates that new single-family home sales were running at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 637,000 in July. This is an 8.5 percent increase from MBA’s June estimate of 587,000 units. On an unadjusted basis, MBA estimates that there were 53,000 new home sales during the month, the same number as in June. Joel Kan, MBA Associate Vice President of Economic and Industry Forecasting…(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.