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Unlike many other countries, America has a consumer-driven economy. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), in a couple of recent entries in its Eye on Housing blog, highlights the role home buying plays in that dynamic. NAHB's Natalia Siniavskaia used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' most recent (2012-2014) Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) to determine what a buyer spends on appliances, furniture, and remodeling in the first two years after they buy a home. Siniavskaia looked at buyers of both new and existing homes, and compared each to a non-moving homeowner. Buyers of new homes spend most , outspending non-movers by a factor of 2.6. Buyers of existing homes spend twice as much as non-moving owners. The typical new-home buyer spends an average of $4,500 more than a non
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Unlike many other countries, America has a consumer-driven economy. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), in a couple of recent entries in its Eye on Housing blog, highlights the role home buying plays in that dynamic. NAHB's Natalia Sini... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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As Abraham Lincoln said, “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” But I turned to the internet to find out how many languages there are in the world and it seems there are 6,909 “living” languages. How many a... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates had been holding in a narrow range near their highest levels in roughly 3 months over the past few days. Despite some stability in underlying bond markets, lenders had hesitated to make meaningful adjustments to rate sheets (in their d... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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For the entire first quarter of 2017, bonds held inside a range from roughly 2.30 to 2.60 in terms of 10yr yields. This was the purgatory we occupied after the US presidential election as we waited to see if things would get worse before they... (read more)
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Housing News
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Time heals all wounds as the old saying goes, and the decade that has passed since the housing crisis seems to have allowed many Americans to recover from its attendant shocks. The National Association of Realtors'® (NAR's) 2017 National Housing ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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" Support " and " resistance " are two terms often thrown around in market analysis. They loosely refer to ceilings and floors respectively (as far as rates are concerned), but it's slightly more complicated than that (as covered in our primer ... (read more)
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