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The share of cash-out refinances spiked in 2017 and 2018 in a manner similar to what happened just before the Great Recession. The share jumped to 50 percent in 2017 and 61 percent in 2018, the highest since 2006. In two posts in CoreLogic's Insights blog however Arthur Jobe maintains that the current surge is nothing like that earlier one. They differ by credit quality, dollar volume, and borrower characteristics and therefore present much less risk this time around. The volume of both cash-out and non-cash-out loans increased in 2015 and 2016 as borrowers enjoyed a two-year window when decreasing interest rates and continued home-price growth offered ideal conditions for refinancing. In 2014, when the spike in cash-out refinances started, the volume had fallen to a 17-year low. Jobe says
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The share of cash-out refinances spiked in 2017 and 2018 in a manner similar to what happened just before the Great Recession. The share jumped to 50 percent in 2017 and 61 percent in 2018, the highest since 2006. In two posts in CoreLogic's Insights... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Lenders need to be aware of the myriad of things that indirectly impact our business. The poverty rate declined overall in 2017 but the rate among Hispanics had one of the largest year-to-year drops across demographic groups and was the lowest since ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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As many of you are likely tired of hearing, bonds have been locked in an increasingly narrow trading range for weeks. The bounces at the boundaries have been almost perfectly well behaved. In other words, since setting the lines for the... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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At one point today, there were three apparently important events dominating the newswires simultaneously. These included the Fed Chair's congressional testimony, the Cohen congressional testimony, and--you guessed it--congressional testimony from Lig... (read more)
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Housing News
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Expectations were high for a strong pending home sales report to christen the New Year. Those expectations were more than satisfied. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) says its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) jumped 4.6 percent , climbin... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
That's one of my favorite lines from some old book I read, or maybe it was a play (hint: it was a play!), because it operates so well outside Macbeth's lamentation of the futility of life. In... (read more)
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