Mon, Dec 12 2011, 3:07 PM
After rising by a very small amount on Friday, Mortgage Rates begin the current week in roughly the same territory. The changes taking place over t...
Mon, Dec 12 2011, 1:44 PM
The Census Bureau regularly issues a
vacant properties report which is generally covered by MND, and less extensive
data on vacancies is kept by oth...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 12:43 PM
MBS have somewhat recovered from earlier weakness, although it has been enough for some reprice concern, so far we've only seen one lender recall. He...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 12:05 PM
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) has submitted
legislation to Congress that would put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of
business while creating a ne...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 11:16 AM
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Fri, Dec 9 2011, 11:07 AM
The National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) reports that one out of every three of its builder members has
lost a sale during the last six mo...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 10:22 AM
The net worth of U.S. households worsened during the third
quarter of 2011 according to the Federal Reserve's Flow of Funds Summary for
the quarte...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 9:57 AM
If it's a
slow Friday afternoon in the office today, and you enjoy optical illusions .
I'd like to say that there are no illusions in Washingto...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 9:41 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) submitted an
Alternative Mortgage Servicing Compensation Discussion Paper to the Federal
Housing Finance Ag...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 8:42 AM
There are more newswires out of the EU than you can shake a stick at
this morning. In what has to be one of the most anticlimactic
resolutions to ...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 4:16 PM
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Fri, Dec 9 2011, 1:51 PM
Mortgage Rates rose ever-so-slightly today after Best-Execution fell to it's all-time low yesterday. If you didn't catch it, please see yesterday's...
Thu, Dec 8 2011, 12:57 PM
Average per-loan profits among independent mortgage banks and
subsidiaries more than doubled in the third quarter according to the Mortgage
Bankers ...
Thu, Dec 8 2011, 12:52 PM
MBS prices rose to their highest levels in over 2 months today as stocks and Treasury yields fall to their lowest levels of the month. Fannie 3.5 MBS...
Thu, Dec 8 2011, 11:16 AM
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Thu, Dec 8 2011, 9:53 AM
If you
made a Christmas wreath out of $100 bills would you have Areath-a Franklins?
I have been retained by a very well-capitalized mortgage ban...
Thu, Dec 8 2011, 8:27 AM
Overnight Sessions Growing Quieter Ahead of Summit. MBS Improve 8:27AM
Yesterday's open was preceded by an uneventful overnight session with low v...
Thu, Dec 8 2011, 4:16 PM
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Thu, Dec 8 2011, 3:18 PM
When it comes to "all time low" Mortgage Rates ,
a bit of clarification is in order. Earlier this Fall, especially near the end of September and b...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 11:36 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored
enterprises, reached the 2 million mark in their foreclosure prevention actions
during the ...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 11:20 AM
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Wed, Dec 7 2011, 11:12 AM
Another day of generally sideways action in benchmark rates brings us another session of Rallying MBS prices. Fannie 3.5's have mostly traded above y...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 10:33 AM
Pearl
Harbor Day is here and the holiday party season is nearly upon us, and it is
always good for mortgage bankers and Realtors to have some fodder...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 9:42 AM
Mortgage
application volume jumped back after the shortened Thanksgiving holiday week with
activity rising 12.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted ba...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 8:39 AM
This morning's update from MBS Live:
Bond Markets Rally Into NY Open After Choppy Overnight Session 8:30AM
Treasuries are turning green at ...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 4:47 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing
and Urban Development have released their joint November 2011 Housing
Scorecard . The report is essentiall...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 4:20 PM
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Wed, Dec 7 2011, 3:54 PM
Mortgage Rates improved slightly today from what were already near the best levels since early November. We should mention though, that sounds a bi...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 3:52 PM
For the first time in six months
responses to Fannie Mae's Monthly National Housing Survey were positive
regarding home prices . Respondents
su...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 3:22 PM
Today has been fairly insane if you're simply looking at the chart of MBS prices. In fact, today has been pretty interesting even for market particip...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 2:43 PM
Members of the House Financial Services
Subcommittee on Capital Markets and the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE)
heard testimony from six mark...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 12:57 PM
As we began the week yesterday, we knew that the domestic economic calendar was among the lightest of the year and to be expecting a relatively quiet ...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 11:50 AM
Data released by Lender Processing
Services, Inc. (LPS) on Monday indicates that the seasonal pattern in home
prices LPS has noted since 2009 is sti...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 11:18 AM
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Tue, Dec 6 2011, 10:36 AM
In news
that should surprise no one, the Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population 65 and older is growing
faster than any other group and is ...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 10:27 AM
A
moderate Pennsylvania senator has offered legislation to end the impasse over
continuing payroll tax cuts that have been in place since the first ...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 8:30 AM
There are no significant scheduled economic reports set to release today and tonight's MBS-specific report on prepayment speeds won't be a market-move...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 4:24 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
reports that, in the third quarter of 2011, delinquencies among commercial and
multifamily mortgages were m...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 4:15 PM
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Tue, Dec 6 2011, 3:26 PM
Mortgage Rates
remain in the same range they've been in for weeks, although nearer to low side of that range today. The market phenomena driving r...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 1:27 PM
Two more set of housing price data were
released on Tuesday in addition to the Lender Processing Services (LPS) information
covered here earlier . ...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 11:31 AM
So far, today has been more about a relatively contained, sideways momentum in response to a more significant movements in the overnight session. Cas...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 11:18 AM
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Mon, Dec 5 2011, 10:17 AM
"Rob
- my rep just wrote her clients an e-mail regarding gifts for this holiday
season. Instead of contributing to the trade imbalance and sending o...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 8:47 AM
This week's economic calendar is one of the lightest of the year, averaging just one report per morning, with 2 of the five coming today. In addition...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 4:18 PM
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Mon, Dec 5 2011, 3:00 PM
Commercial real estate loans were the principal cause of the
five bank failures reported in November according to Trepp's November 2011 U.S.
Bank ...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 2:31 PM
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Potential Reprices For The Better as MBS Break into New High...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 2:09 PM
Mortgage Rates are little changed to start the week. There has been and will continue to be extremely limited amounts of domestic Economic data thi...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 11:16 AM
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