Tue, Sep 18 2012, 1:58 PM
Data on lending activity during 2011
at 7,632 financial institutions that are covered by the Home Mortgage
Disclosure Act ( HDMA ) was released to...
Tue, Sep 18 2012, 1:25 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower again today. Much like yesterday, not all lenders' rates were better and a few were priced marginally worse. I...
Mon, Sep 17 2012, 11:57 AM
We, including my old college roommate "Slugbreath," find
ourselves in "Unmarried and Single
Americans Week." The Buckeye Singles Council "National...
Mon, Sep 17 2012, 11:39 AM
Lawrence
Yun, Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said Monday
that there would be enormous benefits to the nation's econ...
Mon, Sep 17 2012, 11:37 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Even with Japan out for the day and the Rosh Hashanah holiday, today still manages to feel slo...
Mon, Sep 17 2012, 7:45 AM
Markets only had one day to digest the landmark QE3 announcement last week which saw the Fed roll out open-ended large scale purchases of newly or...
Mon, Sep 17 2012, 4:24 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Looking over the calendar of events (and holidays) at home and abroad today, we were expecting things to ...
Mon, Sep 17 2012, 2:45 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today in most cases, though some lenders rates were marginally higher today. On average, rates are once again i...
Fri, Sep 14 2012, 12:10 PM
Edward J. DeMarco, Acting Director of
the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sketched in a broad outline of the
agency's vision for the future...
Fri, Sep 14 2012, 11:47 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS briefly made new all time highs earlier this morning but rapidly backed off as bond markets sol...
Fri, Sep 14 2012, 7:03 AM
After yesterday's massive QE3-inspired rally took production MBS to NEW ALL TIME HIGHS , it might seem a bit anticlimactic to wade through a relative...
Fri, Sep 14 2012, 6:29 PM
Late Friday Fannie Mae gave borrowers
and lenders an alternative to documenting income for Refi Plus loans where
payment increases will be under 20 ...
Fri, Sep 14 2012, 4:29 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
It was a heavy day of selling for Treasuries and only a slightly less heavy day of selling for MB...
Fri, Sep 14 2012, 2:57 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today after falling significantly on the Fed's policy announcement yesterday. The drop in rates today is somewh...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 12:46 PM
Release Date: August 1, September 13, 2012
For immediate release
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June ...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 11:28 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The crowd has fallen silent well in advance of today's highly anticipated FOMC Announcement. Volum...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 9:58 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's
(FHFA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on the progress
FHFA has made in correcting subs...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 8:39 AM
Aggregate foreclosure activity as
measured by foreclosure filings rose 1 percent in August compared to September
but was down 15 percent from one ...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 7:25 AM
For many market watchers, mavens, talking-heads of all varieties, and even surveyed primary dealers, today's question isn't so much about WHETHER th...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 5:48 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing
and Urban Development released the August version of its monthly Housing
Scorecard this afternoon. The Sco...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 4:35 PM
Mortgage rates abruptly lower today after the Fed unveiled a third round of large-scale asset purchases known as quantitative easing or QE3. Althou...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 4:25 PM
MBS can't control their enthusiasm after the Fed announced MBS-Specific
QE3 today , adding enough dedicated purchase money to the buy side each
m...
Thu, Sep 13 2012, 3:49 PM
Congress just stepped into the dispute
over the right of Chicago and two communities in California to use eminent
domain on behalf of local homeown...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 12:37 AM
In terms of market-moving data, today we finally arrive at the first day of two most significant days of data and events since the last FOMC and ECB A...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 11:29 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The entire shape of trading this morning seems to have been dictated by the German court decision , ...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 10:34 AM
The proportion of homeowners with
negative or near equity in their homes declined in the second quarter of the
year with 600,000 borrowers reachi...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 10:21 AM
The U.S. Government now has a $16 trillion deficit. On the other hand, it
made about $12 billion on the AIG stock sale - congrats. To put those numbe...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 9:53 AM
The official end of summer seems to have
signaled a resurgence in refinancing .
Despite a week shortened by the Labor Day holiday, applications fo...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 4:26 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Bond markets simply languished sideways to slightly weaker today after walking in the door already ...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 4:20 PM
The September issue of Fannie Mae's Housing Insights says little specific
about housing, focusing instead on changes in average and aggregate ear...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 2:40 PM
Pre-HAMP experience with loan modifications
may have been key to the outcome of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)
according to a pap...
Wed, Sep 12 2012, 1:58 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher for the third straight day after an important legal decision in Germany indicated that Europe's new permanent bailout fu...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 11:40 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS opened in slightly weaker territory but were still within yesterday's range. That range was actu...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 11:01 AM
Is it easier to finance 500 non-owner loans than it is 5? It is kind of
looking that way .
But speaking of lots of loans, and lost in the chatter...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 10:45 AM
Two U.S. Senators have
reintroduced a bill which aimed at giving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs)
financed homeowners with equity the some ...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 10:35 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) has moved to lift a lot of the uncertainty about lender risk and
responsibility with a new framework for...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 7:33 AM
The week began fairly uneventfully yesterday as MBS essentially coasted sideways in a fairly narrow range, ultimately going out at similar levels to t...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 4:16 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
After hitting their best recent levels at the end of August, bond markets have simply been trending...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 3:40 PM
The House passed the Federal Housing
Administration Fiscal Solvency Act Tuesday by a vote of 407 to 7. The act, as introduced by Representative Ju...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 2:53 PM
Mortgage rates are somewhat higher again today after news out of Europe created market momentum overnight in favor of higher stock prices and higher...
Tue, Sep 11 2012, 1:51 PM
Guarantee fees (G-fees) are likely to
continue the pattern of gradual increases initiated since Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae were placed in conserv...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 11:37 AM
Consumer attitudes toward housing appear
to have stabilized, largely unchanged over the last few months but at levels markedly
higher than last year...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 11:18 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
After opening in slightly weaker territory, MBS moved back into the green to the tune of 2-3 ticks in...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 10:11 AM
The Securities Industry and Financial
Markets Association ( SIFMA ) joined by 25 other trade associations has fired
another salvo in the mortgage em...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 10:03 AM
One of Coke's slogans several years ago was, "Always
Coca-Cola." Unfortunately for SunTrust, who invested in the company almost
a hundred years ago,...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 8:14 AM
On August 24th, we shifted our attention, for the most part, to the first two weeks of September as an action-packed and informative period of major c...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 4:19 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Stocks sold off roughly 10 points from their highs of the day and the "risk-off" environment ben...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 3:06 PM
Delinquencies declined 1.6 percent from June to July
resulting in a mortgage loan delinquency rate of 7.03 percent. At the same time the pre-sale fo...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 2:52 PM
Mortgage rates are somewhat higher to begin the week, continuing a bounce back from better levels seen immediately after Friday's weak employment re...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 2:51 PM
A net total of 19 housing markets were added to the National
Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Market Index in
September, brin...
