“I haven’t seen a dry spell like this in the time I’ve been in business,” Bob Yopko, president of First Equity Residential Mortgage, said of this year’s spring homebuying season. 

The purchase market is locked up with a lack of inventory thanks to elevated rates and homeowners already having secured low mortgage rates during the pandemic years. This, in turn, has made business brutal, Yopko explained.

The still-high mortgage rates that have been killing Yopko’s business averaged 6.39% as of May 4, a decline from last week’s 6.43%, according to Freddie Mac’s primary mortgage market survey (PMMS). Rates details ⇒

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