The State of California's housing market continued shifting in October 2022 as the monthly average 30-year fixed rate mortgage hovered near 7 percent and led to the lowest sales level since February 2008 and the largest year-over-year decline since December 2007, outside of the pandemic.
Based on new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending October 21, 2022, U.S. mortgage applications decreased 1.7 percent from one week earlier.
Based on new projections from the Mortgage Bankers Association, total U.S. mortgage origination volume is expected to decline to $2.05 trillion in 2023 from the $2.26 trillion expected in 2022. Purchase originations are forecast to decrease 3 percent to $1.53 trillion next year, while refinance volume is anticipated to decline by 24 percent to $513 billion.
Based on new data by the California Association of Realtors, closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 313,540 in August 2022.