Fri, Jan 20 2017, 2:53 PM
Ellie Mae said its Origination Insight Report for December reflects the first effects of rising interest rates . Loans for refinancing slipped from 47...
Fri, Jan 20 2017, 2:50 PM
While it trails well behind credit history and debt-to-income levels, collateral problems are consistently the third most frequent cause of loan denia...
Thu, Jan 19 2017, 12:19 PM
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee Ben Carson said at his confirmation hearing, "Certainly, if confirmed, I am going to work wit...
Thu, Jan 19 2017, 10:04 AM
Housing starts continued their see-saw pattern in December, rising 11.3 percent from November when they had fallen significantly after a sensational O...
Wed, Jan 18 2017, 10:39 AM
The Housing Market Index (HMI) backed down a bit from its post-election surge in January, dropping 2 points to a composite reading of 67. The National...
Wed, Jan 18 2017, 8:19 AM
Mortgage applications rose on a seasonally adjusted annual basis during the week ended January 13. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Co...
Tue, Jan 17 2017, 12:51 PM
Debt finances additional consumption. That could be the summary of a speech given on Tuesday to the National Retail Federation's annual convention by ...
Fri, Jan 13 2017, 11:33 AM
The surprise reduction in FHA annual premiums announced last week by the current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may not survive long...
Thu, Jan 12 2017, 9:40 AM
It ain't over 'til it's over, and that seems to be increasingly true of contacted home sales. Trulia reported on Wednesday that, "Deals to sell homes ...
Thu, Jan 12 2017, 9:32 AM
New home sales are projected to fall in December relative to November, not an unexpected pattern as the year-end holidays approach. The Mortgage Banke...
Wed, Jan 11 2017, 8:22 AM
Mortgage applications continue to decompress from the two-week holiday moratorium as well as from the usual holiday business interruptions, so it is h...
Tue, Jan 10 2017, 9:49 AM
It is a bi-annual bonanza of data for anyone in need of facts about housing in America and how people use it. The 2015 edition of the American Housing...
Tue, Jan 10 2017, 9:36 AM
Foreclosures are, at long last, approaching what CoreLogic says was the level in the pre-crisis environment . The company's November National Foreclos...
Mon, Jan 9 2017, 11:24 AM
The annual premium paid by borrowers on mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is going down by a quarter of a percent. Housing ...
Mon, Jan 9 2017, 11:00 AM
In its current edition of the Mortgage Monitor , covering data from November 2016, Black Knight Financial Services looks at the changing landscape of ...
Mon, Jan 9 2017, 3:08 PM
Consumer perceptions about rising interest rates and stagnant income levels were the main contributors to a half-point decrease in Fannie Mae's Home P...
Thu, Jan 5 2017, 9:54 AM
Access to credit continued to inch up last month according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI). Th...
Wed, Jan 4 2017, 11:43 AM
We often hear that there is no such thing as a perfect crime. Perhaps that is why there is always a fraudster trying to improve them. CoreLogic says t...
Wed, Jan 4 2017, 9:11 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association returned from its holiday hiatus today, issuing its first update on mortgage applications' activity since that for th...
Tue, Jan 3 2017, 10:58 AM
Perhaps construction spending is finally emerging from the doldrums where it has lingered for months. For the second month in a row the Census Bureau ...
Tue, Jan 3 2017, 9:40 AM
For the sixth consecutive month , the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) increased on an annual basis by a greater degree than it had in the previous mo...
Thu, Dec 29 2016, 9:32 AM
When Freddie Mac introduced its Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) in March 2014 only 11 of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia were deemed s...
Wed, Dec 28 2016, 10:46 AM
Pending sales, which were widely expected to make a good showing in November, pulled back sharply instead. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR)...
Wed, Dec 28 2016, 10:36 AM
In an earlier article we summarized the first part of a report by Urban Institute's Housing Finance Policy Center, Senior Fellow Jim Parrott about the...
Tue, Dec 27 2016, 10:28 AM
Price gains in October once again accelerated on an annual basis. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Index, which covers all nine U.S. census div...
Tue, Dec 27 2016, 2:21 PM
While securitization of auto loans is about 16 percent higher than it was in 2001 and agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are up over 50 percent, ...
Tue, Dec 27 2016, 2:17 PM
Black Knight Financial Services wrapped up the October series of national home price reports with its Home Price Index (HPI). It contained numbers nea...
Fri, Dec 23 2016, 11:10 AM
There was a slight uptick in a couple of housing distress measures in November, but the general trend continues down. Still, as Black Knight Financial...
Fri, Dec 23 2016, 10:52 AM
New home sales continued their recent pattern of advancing and retreating in alternate months. The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban D...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 12:52 PM
This year, with less than two weeks left to go, is shaping up to be the best year for housing in a decade according to Freddie Mac's Economic & Housin...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 10:13 AM
The share of cash sales appears to be holding fairly steady , even as investors pull back from the residential market (NAR put the investor share of s...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 9:59 AM
Price increases moderated slightly in October according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) Housing Price Index (HPI). The national index...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 9:50 AM
Refinancing originations remained unchanged at 47 percent of all closed loans in November, not yet reflecting the sharp increase in interest rates tha...
Wed, Dec 21 2016, 11:21 AM
Existing home sales rose for the third consecutive month in November. The increase was fueled by condo sales and a surge of sales in the Northeast. Tw...
Wed, Dec 21 2016, 9:28 AM
Despite the 3.2 percent annualized growth in the GDP in the third quarter, Fannie Mae's economists expect the full-years growth to moderate to less th...
Wed, Dec 21 2016, 9:22 AM
Applications for mortgages increased during the week ended December 16, managing to narrowly cling to a gain in activity compared to a year earlier. T...
Tue, Dec 20 2016, 11:32 AM
Back in July, President Obama signed HR3700 The Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016. The law makes a number of changes in existing h...
Mon, Dec 19 2016, 9:37 AM
Tis the season - for hearing from all the experts about what we can expect the coming year to bring. Today it is CoreLogic's Senior Vice President and...
Mon, Dec 19 2016, 9:28 AM
Post-election interest rate changes have considerably dampened mortgage lenders' expectations for mortgage demand. Fannie Mae's fourth quarter Mortgag...
Fri, Dec 16 2016, 11:09 AM
Housing starts retrenched in November , taking back much of their spectacular gains of October, while permits continued to display the general weaknes...
Thu, Dec 15 2016, 11:56 AM
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) soared by 7 points in December, reaching a level of 70, the highest r...
Thu, Dec 15 2016, 9:24 AM
Both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will be rolling out a new foreclosure prevention programs next year to replace the expiring Home Affordable Mortgage P...
Wed, Dec 14 2016, 9:45 AM
Under a final rule issued on Tuesday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has set forth three underserved markets for activities the GSEs Fred...
Wed, Dec 14 2016, 8:09 AM
Mortgage applications were down across the board during the week ended December 9. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that its Market Composi...
Tue, Dec 13 2016, 10:12 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that applications for new home purchase mortgages were down 3 percent in November compared to October. ...
Tue, Dec 13 2016, 10:10 AM
Foreclosures in October 2016 were down by a quarter compared to the previous October and the foreclosure inventory shrank by nearly one third. CoreLog...
Tue, Dec 13 2016, 10:05 AM
Fannie Mae said new updates to its Collateral Underwriter® (CU) and Desktop Underwriter® (DU) should increase the speed and efficiency of lending and ...
Mon, Dec 12 2016, 12:10 PM
Another in a series of articles from Corelogic Senior Product Manager, MaiClaire Bolton, about assessing earthquake risk from a mortgage and insurance...
Mon, Dec 12 2016, 2:23 PM
Multi-family housing, in the words of a Freddie Mac executive vice president, is on a roll . David Brickman says his company is on track to purchase a...
Fri, Dec 9 2016, 12:08 PM
A post on CoreLogic's blog just came to our attention. It was written (by Stuart Pratt, the company's newly appointed senior vice president of Governm...
