Wed, Jun 19 2013, 1:28 PM
MBS Live: MBS Morning Market Summary Please note the timestamp on the pricing snapshot below (and that this mid-day recap will typically be delayed o...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 11:29 AM
Bond markets were weaker overnight, resulting in MBS opening up about 5
ticks weaker vs yesterday's latest levels. Volume and liquidity have
been...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 10:44 AM
I am in Colorado this week for the Richey May President & CEO
Roundtable meeting, but here is some news regarding Ohio. When we think
"The Federal...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 10:10 AM
Residential construction starts rose in
May while permitting for new construction was down slightly the U.S. Census
Bureau and the Department of Hou...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 6:40 AM
It would be nigh on impossible for anything that happens today to serve
as a mere appetizer to Wednesday's main course: the FOMC Announcement,
Eco...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 5:58 PM
Wells Fargo bank held a conference call
on the outlook for the housing market on Tuesday, the first of
several planned for 2013. The bank's econ...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 5:43 PM
Mortgage rates have risen sharply over
the last month and Freddie Mac , in its monthly Economic and
Housing Market Outlook for June, focuses on w...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 5:06 PM
The day is winding down with MBS and Treasuries in roughly unchanged
territory vs yesterday's latest levels. Morning economic data proved to
be a...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 4:05 PM
Mortgage rates began the day higher ,
though many lenders repriced in the middle of the day with improved
offerings after bond markets began imp...
Tue, Jun 18 2013, 2:01 PM
Commercial
and multifamily mortgage debt fell by $4.9 billion in the first
quarter of 2013. The total debt in the first quarter was $2.41
trill...
Mon, Jun 17 2013, 11:20 AM
So far this week, we're being treated to the "all things being equal"
approach to Wednesday's tremendously important FOMC Events. In the few
days...
Mon, Jun 17 2013, 11:03 AM
Low
inventories and increasing traffic have unleashed the confidence of
new new home builders the National Association of Home Builders
(NAHB) said...
Mon, Jun 17 2013, 9:41 AM
The United States does not have the only government that is knee-deep in controlling lending and real estate. Beijing,
which already has China's st...
Mon, Jun 17 2013, 7:19 AM
The theme of " honing in " is everywhere in financial markets
and in the universe beyond. It goes by many names and can be thought of
in many way...
Mon, Jun 17 2013, 5:07 PM
Most of this afternoon's drama is extensively relayed in the catalogue
of alerts and updates below. To recap that recap, an article from the
Fina...
Mon, Jun 17 2013, 4:14 PM
Mortgage rates rose in the afternoon ,
after beginning the day unchanged to slightly higher compared to Friday
afternoon. That means lenders re...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 12:44 PM
If we're not meant to see current prices in MBS and Treasuries as
resistance, markets are doing and exceptional job of trying to convince
us other...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 12:06 PM
NAR has been invited to testify at an upcoming Congressional hearing about the Qualified Mortgage rule (QM) .
The House Financial Services Subcomm...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 6:53 AM
Everything in bond markets since May 3rd has been a blur-- the bad kind- -and
the leading candidate to provide clarity is next week's FOMC events
...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 5:54 PM
Here's another weekly installment of Do's and Don't's for prospective borrowers embarking on, or already engaged in the home mortgage process. In...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 5:35 PM
The sense of anxiety and uncertainty is palpable. Almost in perfect
unison, when the lunch bell rang, traders in equities and bond markets
alike ...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 5:12 PM
Mortgage rates were significantly lower
to start the day, and despite rising slightly in the afternoon, managed
to end the week at the lowest l...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 3:29 PM
Americans' confidence in U.S. banks has
rebounded a bit from the low it hit in 2012. Gallop reports that 26
percent of recent survey respondents ...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 2:38 PM
The American Institute of Architects
(AIA) is seeing an improving market reflected in the size and
amenities Americans now expect in both new home...
Fri, Jun 14 2013, 2:02 PM
The California housing market heated up
a little more in May with resales of houses and condominiums rising
by 8.3 percent from resales in April. ...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 11:41 AM
After a volatile overnight session with heavy losses in Japanese
equities facilitating lower global stock prices and bond yields, US
Treasuries be...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 11:20 AM
RealtyTrac reported
today that an increase in bank repossessions in May boosted
foreclosure activity by 2 percent compared to April when foreclo...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 10:27 AM
Are you looking forward to a day off tomorrow? Me neither - the
commentary never sleeps - but agencies like HUD and the IRS do. These,
and other a...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 6:47 PM
Mortgage rates moved decidedly lower
in most cases, bringing them to their lows of the week on average. The
bond markets that drive rate chang...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 6:36 PM
MBS Live: MBS Afternoon Market Summary MBS and Treasuries had already been trading well into the PM hours--the stronger economic data of the morning ...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 6:00 AM
To be clear, today's 30yr Bond Auction isn't officially the "last of the Treasury auctions," but it will be the last one this week . On those occasi...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 5:05 PM
Fannie
Mae's Economic Outlook series continued its 2013 theme "Transition to
'Normal?'" in its June edition saying that four years into an expansio...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 4:34 PM
The Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) submitted its 2013 Report to Congress on Thursday. The Report covers the Agency's regulation of
the Fed...
Thu, Jun 13 2013, 4:29 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has
launched a new web page which consolidates all of the new mortgages rules
issued this year and t...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 12:44 PM
In spite of a lot of chatter and proposed legislation about phasing out Fannie & Freddie ,
much of the industry is behind the agencies. Not only do...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 11:07 AM
Bond markets made it to the domestic session with yesterday's gains
mostly intact, but struggled a bit in early trading. The movement has
all bee...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 9:48 AM
The
real story about racial discrimination in housing today, Shaun
Donovan, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) said...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 9:07 AM
After a string of dismal weeks during which refinancing activity dropped to its lowest level since November 2011, applications for both refinancing a...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 7:43 AM
As we discussed yesterday morning, the afternoon's 3yr Treasury
auction stood a chance to garner the first significant reaction to a 2
or 3yr auct...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 5:26 PM
After a brief pause for reflection following yesterday's 3yr auction,
bond markets were back in business and actually able to begin the
session ri...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 4:56 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today ,
keeping them locked in this week's new, higher range. The movement
wasn't enough to change the actual rate ...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 3:45 PM
The House Financial
Services Committee held a hearing today titled: "Beyond the GSEs:
Examples of Successful Housing Finance Models without Expli...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 2:43 PM
Nearly one-half million homeowners
refinanced their mortgages in March according to the Refinance
Report released by the Federal
Housing Financ...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 2:24 PM
Over three-quarters
of a million homeowners emerged from being underwater on their
mortgages during the first quarter of 2013 and 39 million hous...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 12:41 PM
The plain fact is that people need , and for the most part want ,
a roof over their heads. According to an online survey conducted by
Harris Int...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 11:58 AM
Volatility continues to keep MBS prices and Treasury yields on their toes, dancing back and forth over unchanged levels, but this is a relative bless...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 10:49 AM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae reported
aggregate earnings of about $18.7 billion in FY2012, $12.1 billion of
which was earned in the fourth quarter ...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 7:30 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today ,
recovering yesterday's weakness and making it back inside the highs
seen last Thursday. The bond markets tha...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 5:56 PM
Today was Class A 48-hour day for MBS, meaning that prices in the
table below are outdated and have been replaced by July MBS prices going
forward...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 5:40 AM
Negative sentiment for broader bond markets came out with both guns blazing this week as the pre -NFP
range that frustratingly continued to be the ...
