The rise in mortgage applications for home purchase in April, alongside the recent pick-up in the Fed’s measure of the value of residential mortgage lending, are encouraging signs that mortgage lending is increasing. Admittedly, none of this changes the fact that mortgage lending is still very subdued in a longer term context. But we think that it is a sign of things to come.
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