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Data from CoreLogic could be sounding a bubble alarm. The company's Home Price Report for September jumped almost a point from the previous month, and the company says nearly half of the largest metropolitan areas are overvalued. The CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) rose 0.9 percent for the third consecutive month in September and the index has averaged 1.1 percent gains over the first nine months of 2017. On a year over year basis, the index was up 7.0 percent tying it with February as the second largest gain so far this year, behind only March with an annual increase of 7.1 percent. The change from August to September was 6.9 percent. The CoreLogic Market Condition Indicators (MCI) data is an analysis of housing values in the country's 100 largest metropolitan areas based on housing stock
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Data from CoreLogic could be sounding a bubble alarm. The company's Home Price Report for September jumped almost a point from the previous month, and the company says nearly half of the largest metropolitan areas are overvalued. The CoreLogic Home P... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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The MBA sent a letter to the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding its recently released tax reform proposal. Given the tax proposal, the MBA reports (using its analysis of 2016 HMDA data) that 7% of first lien home purchase mortgage balances o... (read more)
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Housing News
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During the first eight months of 2017, home prices increased at the fastest clip than any equivalent time period since 2013. Black Knight Financial Services said late last month that there had been just over 6 percent in appreciation in its nationwid... (read more)
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Housing News
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Access to mortgage credit changed very little over the first nine months of 2017, and when there were increases, it seemed always to be the availability of jumbo mortgages driving them. The Mortgage Bankers Association said that the change in its Mor... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Bond traders are like my 10yr old. If you give them plenty of information to consider and if you lay out the right set of challenges, they're much more likely to stay on task in a relatively predictable way, or at least in a manner that can be ... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates continued lower today, despite a blatant lack of underlying motivation in financial markets. By that, I mean that we haven't seen any obvious cause and effect relationships between news, economic data, and bond market movements (which,... (read more)
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