MBA Mortgage Applications: release dates, results and history
MBA Mortgage Applications last printed -4.2% on Wed, Oct 7, 2026 against a -6.0% prior. The next release is Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
Nothing else reads housing demand this often. It is a weekly percent change in mortgage application volume, and the two pieces inside it say different things. The purchase index leads home sales by one to two months. The refi index works the other way round, reacting to where mortgage rates just went. After a Treasury rally this survey is the first hard evidence of whether the move reached borrowers.
The trend
How it moves Treasuries
Treasuries never move on this one by itself. It is confirmation tape. A refi surge after yields drop shows the rate move is transmitting. Purchase applications sliding is an early tell that housing is slowing. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -4.2% | — | -6.0% | — | ABOVE PRIOR | |
| -6.0% | — | -1.5% | — | BELOW PRIOR | |
| -1.5% | — | -4.1% | — | ABOVE PRIOR | |
| -4.1% | — | -2.7% | — | BELOW PRIOR | |
| -2.7% | — | 0.8% | — | BELOW PRIOR | |
| 0.8% | — | -1.0% | — | ABOVE PRIOR |
The 6 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
Weekly, every Wednesday · 7:00 AM ET · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.