Fri, Oct 14 2011, 10:13 AM
How much
does a media room cost in Arizona? $2.5 million... when it's attached to John
McCain's listed house .
MetLife Mortgage , suddenly th...
Fri, Oct 14 2011, 9:14 AM
The Treasury curve flattened overnight and equities are prepping for a session in the black after Google posted stronger than results late Thursday. ...
Fri, Oct 14 2011, 4:19 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Fri, Oct 14 2011, 4:12 PM
From a recent alert on the MBS Dashboard: "Late day illiquidity and a stock market rally are weighing on MBS this afternoon. Prices are in line with...
Fri, Oct 14 2011, 3:55 PM
After improving for the first time
in almost two weeks yesterday, Mortgage Rates increased back to Wednesday's
levels.
In many cases, this ra...
Fri, Oct 14 2011, 3:36 PM
I'm as guilty of participating in the blame game as anybody, but I want to evolve beyond it. It accomplishes nothing for our industry and has hardened...
Fri, Oct 14 2011, 2:19 PM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Thu, Oct 13 2011, 12:20 PM
Although it's a bit too soon to tell, perhaps we're seeing the first day of bond markets officially digging in and beginning the tough, slow push back...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 11:16 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Thu, Oct 13 2011, 11:15 AM
Foreclosure
activity increased during the third quarter of 2011, driven largely by a spike
in early filings in August. Data for September
showed a...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 10:54 AM
What are
political ads like in Texas ?
As was
noted in yesterday's commentary, one of the questions that folks in the
mortgage conference hallw...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 8:21 AM
Treasury yields are falling for the first time in seven sessions as investors hesitate to push equities higher until new data hits the wires.
The b...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 5:05 PM
I've heard and taken part in a few discussions this week about how this October is shaping up to be just like last October where we had the lowest rat...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 4:45 PM
Domestic economic data and the
exuberance over the European debt situation were both fairly lackluster today,
and Mortgage
Rates improved deci...
Thu, Oct 13 2011, 4:16 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Wed, Oct 12 2011, 12:51 PM
In moments, Treasury will auction $21 bln in reopened 10yr notes. Reopenings have been strong vs refundings in terms of where the auction's high yiel...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 11:47 AM
Want a very
telling pictorial of the current state of banking?.
The MBA
conference has ended, and it is off to New Mexico for me, and then Se...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 11:21 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Wed, Oct 12 2011, 9:29 AM
Mortgage
applications during the week ended October 7 were 1.3 percent higher than during
the previous week according to the Mortgage Bankers Assoc...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 8:56 AM
Slovakia's failure to pass the European Financial Stability Fund bill had European markets off to a weak start Wednesday, but hope that it would still...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 4:41 PM
Lets take a look at how the recent action affects the longer term charts. Today ended on an interesting note on several fronts. Earlier this morning...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 4:23 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Wed, Oct 12 2011, 4:18 PM
The chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) told association members Tuesday that they are in for yet
another tough year. Jay B...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 4:11 PM
More optimism surrounding the
European Debt risis and more tough times for Mortgage Rates . Unlike yesterday's
rather abrupt rise in rates vers...
Wed, Oct 12 2011, 1:55 PM
Bond prices have backed up sharply over the last week. The price of the 10-year Treasury note has lost almost 3 points since last Monday (10/3), pus...
Tue, Oct 11 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Tue, Oct 11 2011, 10:38 AM
Sweet
home, Chicago...Chicago's City Council published an ordinance that would require banks, mortgage servicers and
institutional investors to mai...
Tue, Oct 11 2011, 8:48 AM
The bond market was closed Monday so Treasury yields are only now backing up in reaction to the broad equity rally which pushed the Dow nearly 3% high...
Tue, Oct 11 2011, 4:43 PM
On Friday, we talked about how the
Employment Situation Report contributed to higher Mortgage Rates . The
optimism surround the European debt...
Tue, Oct 11 2011, 4:17 PM
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Tue, Oct 11 2011, 3:19 PM
"The trend is your friend," or "play the range until the range plays you..." Two of the commonly heard phrases during periods like the last 2 months...
Tue, Oct 11 2011, 1:59 PM
Six banks were closed by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in September for a total of 74 in the year to date
according to informa...
Mon, Oct 10 2011, 9:40 AM
At this
week's MBA conference in Chicago I have noticed conference participants doing
their very best to look very busy, even when standing in a lob...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 12:08 PM
With the exception of 2000, a greater
percentage of Americans own homes today than at any time since the U.S. Census
Bureau began to collect homeow...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 11:21 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Fri, Oct 7 2011, 10:47 AM
Eliminating or curtailing the mortgage
interest deduction would have a disproportionate impact on younger middle-class
families according to testimo...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 10:34 AM
Pssst...efha.com
is for sale. It was designed as a retail site, and the sale includes the domain
name and redesigned screenshots. Visit efha.com
fo...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 8:50 AM
After hitting a 2011 nadir early this week, equities have rebounded for three straight days on hopes that European officials are getting closer to res...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 4:24 PM
Today's
Employment Situation Report was stronger than expected. It's one of, if not the most significant
pieces of domestic economic data each mont...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 4:17 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Fri, Oct 7 2011, 1:56 PM
Better than expected Non-Farm-Payrolls number... Fairly sizable sell-off earlier in the day (though possibly stabilizing now)... Given that we menti...
Fri, Oct 7 2011, 1:27 PM
After too many years of hearing people say real-uh-ter in reference to real estate agents, it's time to set the record straight. 'Realtor' is two syll...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 11:17 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Thu, Oct 6 2011, 10:58 AM
Home price are continued their slow recovery from the double dip
experienced in late 2010 and early 2011, but recent price performance indicates
the...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 10:02 AM
Things began in pretty ugly fashion this morning. MBS came in the door weaker than yesterday and fell further after the Jobless Claims data. At that...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 9:41 AM
roduction
jobs come and go. On one side, Kinecta
Federal Credit Union is continuing to grow its business and is hiring Retail Mortgage Loan Cons...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 4:45 PM
There's little left to say that hasn't already been said by
way of preparing for tomorrow's jobs report. While it's possible that
tomorrow's NFP su...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 4:21 PM
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Thu, Oct 6 2011, 4:05 PM
Mortgage Rates
continued higher today, removing 3.875% from Best-Execution status as most
lenders and introducing the possibility of seeing 4.125%...
Thu, Oct 6 2011, 2:46 PM
Twenty-three metropolitan areas are now
listed on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American
Improving Markets Index (IMI) re...
