Tue, May 7 2013, 4:38 PM
Mortgage rates rose again today, continuing the steady move higher seen yesterday. In the bigger picture, Friday's jobs report did the most severe...
Tue, May 7 2013, 4:15 PM
Fannie Mae
spotlighted the availability of its Servicing Management Default Underwriter TM
(SMDU TM ) today while alerting servicers that use of th...
Tue, May 7 2013, 1:23 PM
Refinancing volume remained high in February with more than 463,000 transactions completed through Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) during the ...
Mon, May 6 2013, 12:29 PM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae , as directed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ), took the first steps in implementation of the new " Qualifi...
Mon, May 6 2013, 12:08 PM
With nothing on the economic calendar to move markets and no surprisingly inspirational headlines, MBS and Treasuries have been coasting along in a na...
Mon, May 6 2013, 11:36 AM
In
prepared remarks for a speech before the Mortgage Bankers Associations 2013
Secondary Market Conference on Monday MBA CEO David H. Stevens call...
Mon, May 6 2013, 10:34 AM
How about some historical perspective to help LOs learn a little history on assumable loans? I recently received this note: "FHA and VA had assumable ...
Mon, May 6 2013, 7:21 AM
Apart from a round of Treasury auctions , the week ahead is exceptionally silent, with Thursday's initial Jobless Claims data being the only quasi-si...
Mon, May 6 2013, 4:34 PM
After losing as much ground as MBS and Treasuries lost on Friday, the breadth of expectations for today's trading widened considerably. The biggest r...
Mon, May 6 2013, 2:45 PM
Mortgage rates moved gently higher today compared to Friday's calamitous surge higher, which was among the 5 worst days for rates of the past two ...
Mon, May 6 2013, 2:09 PM
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced at a press conference this afternoon that his office will be suing Bank of America Corp (BOA) ...
Mon, May 6 2013, 1:43 PM
In yet another indication that the housing market is stabilizing, Lender Processing Services (LPS) said today that new problem loan rates have falle...
Mon, May 6 2013, 1:24 PM
The list of improving markets compiled by the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and First American Title appears to have hit an inevitab...
Fri, May 3 2013, 10:58 AM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just published three compliance guides to help both lenders and consumers understand some of t...
Fri, May 3 2013, 10:49 AM
The seminar, earning, and agency news just won't stop! Richey May & Co ., an accounting firm based in Denver that specializes in serving mortgag...
Fri, May 3 2013, 8:15 AM
Baseball has been very very good to us--doing a relatively perfect job of helping us characterize the "lead-off" that bond markets have been taking ...
Fri, May 3 2013, 4:29 PM
Today's jobs report made for the first significant swing to the weak side for MBS and Treasuries, but through the rest of the day, losses deepened, ta...
Fri, May 3 2013, 4:03 PM
Mortgage rates shot higher at their fastest pace in two months after this morning's hotly anticipated Employment Situation Report showed that job...
Fri, May 3 2013, 3:31 PM
This morning's Employment Situation Report had been the most hotly anticipated piece of data for bond markets for the past three weeks, and with it's ...
Fri, May 3 2013, 1:43 PM
Each of the government sponsored enterprises ( GSEs ) has released a report analyzing the viability of their multifamily operations under a scenario...
Fri, May 3 2013, 1:02 PM
Approximately 20,000 severely delinquent FHA-guaranteed mortgage loans will be offered to investors through two Department of Housing and Urban De...
Thu, May 2 2013, 12:48 PM
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings recently introduced a bill that would create an independent monitor to oversee the distribution of funds paid by mor...
Thu, May 2 2013, 12:19 PM
There were three pieces of domestic economic data at 8:30am, but only one of them mattered to bond markets. Jobless Claims came in at 324k versus a f...
Thu, May 2 2013, 10:56 AM
Lots of lenders do loans in rural areas, and lots of lenders do loans with escrow accounts, and/or escrow holdbacks (different, of course). The CFPB i...
Thu, May 2 2013, 8:14 AM
A few friends have mentioned that it's baseball season currently, making the recent metaphorical usage of "lead-off's" in bond markets all the more ...
Thu, May 2 2013, 4:23 PM
Yesterday's respectable rally to the best levels of the year turns out to have been markets' way of taking a more defensive stance against this mornin...
Thu, May 2 2013, 3:16 PM
Mortgage rates broke a 4 day winning streak today, moving moderately higher after hitting 2013 lows yesterday. For many, the difference will be im...
Thu, May 2 2013, 2:16 PM
The Center for Housing Policy today released a report on housing affordability among working households in the US. The report concludes an ongoi...
Wed, May 1 2013, 12:25 PM
MBS prices love it when a plan comes together, and that has been the case this morning. The plan--not just for MBS, but broader bond markets too--was...
Wed, May 1 2013, 10:35 AM
CMC, along with several other companies, hedge pipelines, which reminds me of a note I recently received. "Rob, I work for a mid-size wholesale compan...
Wed, May 1 2013, 9:04 AM
Applications for refinancing increased
during the week ended April 26 driving the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA)
Market Composite Index up 1.8...
Wed, May 1 2013, 8:46 AM
President Obama has picked a replacement for acting Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director Edward J. DeMarco according to multiple news ou...
Wed, May 1 2013, 7:37 AM
The bases may not be loaded yet for MBS or our preferred directional guidance giver Treasuries, but at two runners are on, and both are taking their l...
Wed, May 1 2013, 4:50 PM
Today's rally was interesting. At first, it was all about ADP's employment data this morning. The series has been increasingly correlated with the B...
Wed, May 1 2013, 4:45 PM
Confirming earlier speculation, President Barack Obama this afternoon
nominated Congressman Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the director of the Federal Hous...
Wed, May 1 2013, 4:02 PM
Mortgage rates kept falling today, further extending the run into the lowest rates of 2013, but not quite in all-time low territory yet. Much of t...
Wed, May 1 2013, 2:01 PM
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Labor...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 12:43 PM
We haven't been shy about characterizing the potential breakaway from 2+ weeks of sideways range as a "lead off." In case it needed any explanation, ...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 12:16 PM
Despite another month-over-month uptick, foreclosures continue to decline on an annual basis and, according to a report from CoreLogic today, are no...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 10:52 AM
Every city in the S&P Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Index has now posted annual increases for at least two consecutive months. The February 2013 i...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 10:44 AM
Innovation among vendors appears to be alive and well, as does taking customer surveys. Have you ever read reviews of hotels on Trip Advisor or produc...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 7:11 AM
With the coming and going of the confidence vote for Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Monday, and the absence of a discernible reaction in U...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 4:37 PM
MBS walked in the door in positive territory this morning and are currently heading out the door in roughly the same shape. That nearness to opening ...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 4:05 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released a progress report on the common securitization infrastructure (CSI) being constructed as a ...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 3:24 PM
Freddie Mac will be phasing in a new tool over the next few months which is designed to help lenders identify credit, data, and purchase eligibility ...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 2:36 PM
Mortgage rates extended their run into 2013 lows today, but only by small margins. The movement is essentially similar to yesterday's and further ...
Tue, Apr 30 2013, 2:31 PM
The U.S. vacancy rate and the rate of homeownership both declined in the first quarter of 2013 with the homeownership rate hitting the lowest level...
Mon, Apr 29 2013, 11:57 AM
Even though we had a few mid-tier economic releases this morning, the week has gotten off to a slow start, and that's just fine at these levels! Much...
Mon, Apr 29 2013, 11:15 AM
The demand for capital never goes away - it is matter of supply and demand setting the rate and price for certain types of loans. Putting political na...
Mon, Apr 29 2013, 10:59 AM
A key to improving the efficiency, accuracy, and
transparency of the housing finance system is standardization according to Stephen
Clinton , Fredd...
