In its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 3, 2015, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that the volume of mortgage loan applications rose 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the index increased 1 percent compared with the previous week.

The Refinance Index fell 3 percent according to the survey, while the Purchase Index rose 7 percent from one week earlier. Click here to read the entire MBA press release.