Fri, May 25 2018, 10:18 AM
The May edition of Freddie Mac's monthly Outlook , produced by its Economic & Housing Research Group, is focused on the resiliency of the American hom...
Fri, May 25 2018, 8:10 AM
CoreLogic says flipping is back. The term applies to the act of buying, renovating and/or repairing a house, then reselling it, all within a short tim...
Thu, May 24 2018, 11:00 AM
Existing home sales put an end to two straight months of gains , retreating in April on both a monthly and annual basis. The National Association of R...
Thu, May 24 2018, 10:29 AM
Home prices in the first quarter of 2018 were 1.7 percent higher than at the end of the fourth quarter of last year. The Federal Housing Finance Agenc...
Thu, May 24 2018, 9:08 AM
Fannie Mae is backing down slightly on its economic forecast for the remainder of 2018. The first quarter GDP growth of 2.3 percent was the slowest in...
Thu, May 24 2018, 8:41 AM
Loan performance continued to improve in April, even though Black Knight says mortgage delinquencies have a historic pattern of increasing during that...
Wed, May 23 2018, 11:21 AM
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping overhaul of regulations included in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ...
Wed, May 23 2018, 10:44 AM
New home sales dipped in April, a reversal that was expected by many analysts . The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Develop...
Wed, May 23 2018, 9:15 AM
Reams of data have been gathered about what appear to be significant changes in the profile of younger homebuyers and consequently mortgage borrowers....
Wed, May 23 2018, 8:17 AM
Mortgage rates surged significantly during the week ended May 18, sending mortgage activity skidding for the fifth straight week . The Mortgage Banker...
Tue, May 22 2018, 12:18 PM
As if the new home inventory wasn't tight enough, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) say a higher proportion of those homes are being bu...
Tue, May 22 2018, 10:19 AM
It only impacts auto lending, but if Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPB) keeps his word, a Congressional...
Mon, May 21 2018, 3:07 PM
In a prior article we summarized the options the Trump Administration might utilize to reform the residential mortgage financing system should Congres...
Mon, May 21 2018, 11:10 AM
Late last year Fannie Mae included questions in one of its National Housing Surveys about working in the "gig" economy. About a fifth of respondents c...
Mon, May 21 2018, 10:36 AM
Last week the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported that severe shortages of construction tradespeople were slowing homebuilding and i...
Fri, May 18 2018, 9:09 AM
In the face of continuing inventory shortages, declining consumer sentiment in favor of buying a home, and concern about the homeownership impacts of ...
Thu, May 17 2018, 9:25 AM
Two noted economists seem to be holding little hope that Congress will take up in any way changing the status quo of the government-sponsored enterpri...
Thu, May 17 2018, 9:06 AM
The interest rates on loans that closed in April were the highest since Ellie Mae started tracking data in 2011. According to the company's Originatio...
Wed, May 16 2018, 12:51 PM
Improving loan performance doesn't make headlines any longer, but worth noting that the improvement is still good news. The Mortgage Bankers Associati...
Wed, May 16 2018, 10:52 AM
The leading construction indicators performed generally as analysts had predicted in April, stepping back from March's solid increases in both permits...
Wed, May 16 2018, 9:18 AM
Mortgage activity slowed again last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index, which measures the volume of mortgage loan...
Tue, May 15 2018, 10:37 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo said on Tuesday that builder confidence in the new home market ticked up two points o...
Mon, May 14 2018, 11:58 AM
Not only did the pace of home price increases quicken nationally during the first quarter of 2018, but the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) sai...
Thu, May 10 2018, 4:21 PM
Applications for new home purchase mortgages slowed significantly in April when compared to March the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Thurs...
Wed, May 9 2018, 11:42 AM
Two Texas civil rights groups and the National Fair Housing Alliance are suing the Trump Administration over enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. The ...
Wed, May 9 2018, 9:26 AM
Five out of the six components of Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) gained ground in April, driving the index to a new all-time high ....
Wed, May 9 2018, 8:58 AM
On one hand it could be said that mortgage application volume declined last week for the third straight week. Or, one could conclude that the changes ...
Tue, May 8 2018, 4:32 PM
The Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a measure developed by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), was unchanged in April at 177.9. The Ind...
Tue, May 8 2018, 10:54 AM
Home owners who have needed help from someone in the trades in the recent past will probably agree with a report from the National Association of Home...
Mon, May 7 2018, 11:59 AM
The month of March nearly always sees a significant decline in the national delinquency rate. The average March decrease during this century has been ...
Thu, May 3 2018, 3:46 PM
Consumers are increasingly tuning in to the topic of rising home prices in their communities. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said pr...
Thu, May 3 2018, 1:08 PM
Both government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) reported strong earnings in the first quarter of 2018. In separate announcements this week Freddie Mac sa...
Wed, May 2 2018, 12:27 PM
Affordable housing isn't just a problem in high cost places like New York City and San Francisco according to a new study by the Urban Institute (UI) ...
Wed, May 2 2018, 9:22 AM
The volume of both purchase and refinancing applications moved lower last week , The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Inde...
Tue, May 1 2018, 1:02 PM
The construction spending report for March was a bit of a jolt , especially given the reason for the unexpected decline . Some significant softness in...
Tue, May 1 2018, 11:16 AM
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business News on Monday, that changing the current status of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is something that h...
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10:34 AM
It wasn't much of a gain , even missing analysts' predictions, but given the recent performance of the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), any positive c...
Fri, Apr 27 2018, 11:10 AM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced a technical change to its October 2015 "Know Before You Owe" mortgage disclosure rule. T...
Fri, Apr 27 2018, 11:07 AM
The rate of homeownership as well as the national vacancy rates were statistically unchanged in the first quarter of this year, and prices, especially...
Thu, Apr 26 2018, 12:32 PM
Not sure whether to call it cooperation, a coincidence or a non-musical "call and response," but a proposal unveiled by Ben Carson, Secretary of Housi...
Wed, Apr 25 2018, 12:43 PM
A new poll indicates that 17 percent of adults are ready and willing to purchase a home over the next year, and many will be first-time buyers . The i...
Wed, Apr 25 2018, 9:09 AM
The volume of mortgage applications received during the week ended April 20 was largely unchanged from the previous week . The Mortgage Bankers Associ...
Tue, Apr 24 2018, 11:24 AM
New home sales continue to improve after grim reports in December and January. New home sales posted a solid gain in March, and revisions to the Febru...
Tue, Apr 24 2018, 10:32 AM
Both the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller reported on February home prices on Tuesday and both showed little m...
Mon, Apr 23 2018, 2:09 PM
Freddie Mac's economists say, "The broader economic environment remains favorable for home sales," but they add a lot of caveats to that statement . S...
Mon, Apr 23 2018, 10:56 AM
Existing-home sales seemed to have reclaimed their footing, posting their second consecutive gain after two straight months of declines. The National ...
Fri, Apr 20 2018, 9:27 AM
Once again Wells Fargo is about to pay dearly for its inability to walk the straight and narrow. The Washington Post , under the byline of Renae Merle...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 2:57 PM
The Remodeling Market Index (RMI) is to home remodelers as the Housing Market Index (HMI) is to new home builders. Each is constructed by the National...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 9:36 AM
The share of refinancing loans dropped to 38 percent of loans closed in March, down from 43 percent in February. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Repor...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 9:32 AM
Fewer homes on the market are affordable than a year ago, and fewer households can afford them with their current income. The National Association of ...
