In its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending September 4, 2015, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that the volume of mortgage loan applications has decreased 6.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the index fell 7 percent compared with the previous week.
Both the Refinance Index and the Purchase Index also fell in the weekly survey, decreasing 10 percent and 1 percent respectively.