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Demand for new home loans surges
Industry group: U.S. applications for mortgages jump 11%; refinancing demand rises 0.3%.
November 5, 2003: 7:29 AM EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Applications for home loans in the United States increased last week even as interest rates rose marginally, an industry group said Wednesday.
The Mortgage Bankers Association of America said its measure of home loan refinances, the refinancing index, rose 0.3 percent to 2,319.4 in the week ended Oct. 31.
At the same time, the trade group's measure of demand for loans to buy a home, the purchase index, rose 11.1 percent to 404.3 last week. The MBA said its seasonally adjusted market index rose 5.5 percent to 685.2.
Rates for the most commonly used home loan, 30-year mortgages, rose 2 basis points to 5.85 percent in the latest week.
Each week, the MBA surveys 20 to 35 firms, among them the top lenders in the U.S. housing industry, to derive its refinance, purchase and market indexes. The weekly survey accounts for more than 40 percent of all applications processed each week by mortgage lenders.