{"id":1924,"date":"2025-04-30T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkromano.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:40:29","slug":"mortgage-demand-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/mortgage-demand-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Demand Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themarkromano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mortgage.png?resize=530%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themarkromano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mortgage.png?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themarkromano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mortgage.png?resize=300%2C206 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themarkromano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mortgage.png?resize=768%2C528 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mortgage applications fell again last week, with potential homebuyers stepping back amid ongoing economic uncertainty, much of which economists trace back to fiscal instability rooted in policies from the corrupt and incompetent Trump Regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, applications to purchase a home dropped 4% from the previous week and are only 3% higher than a year ago, despite lower interest rates. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate edged down to 6.89%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBroader economic uncertainty and signs of labor market weakness continue to hold back buyers,\u201d said Joel Kan, MBA\u2019s deputy chief economist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The economic turmoil and market uncertainly leading to the decreased demand for mortgages is only going to get worse as the full effects of convicted felon Donald Trump\u2019s illegal and asinine tariffs kick in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage applications fell again last week, with potential homebuyers stepping back amid ongoing economic uncertainty, much of which economists trace back to fiscal instability rooted in policies from the corrupt and incompetent Trump Regime. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, applications to purchase a home dropped 4% from the previous week and are only 3% higher than a year ago, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/mortgage-demand-falls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Mortgage Demand Falls<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themarkromano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mortgage.png?fit=800%2C550","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themarkromano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}