Fri, Dec 9 2016, 10:51 AM
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...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 12:32 PM
Freddie Mac just announced that it has implemented Release 1, utilizing the Common Securitization Platform (CSP) . The Release was launched on Novembe...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:57 AM
Analysts from the Urban Institute recently put a hard number on tight credit. The company says that lenders failed to make about 5.2 million mortgages...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:48 AM
A dramatic uptick in consumer perceptions about household income kept Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment (HPSI) Index from tanking in November. Even...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:40 AM
The number of "underwater" homeowners continued to decrease at a rapid pace in the third quarter of 2016 as home values grew. Negative equity, often r...
Wed, Dec 7 2016, 12:24 PM
Profit margins increased for mortgage lenders in the third quarter of 2015. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said independent mortgage banks and...
Wed, Dec 7 2016, 8:57 AM
Mortgage application activity was essentially flat on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended December 2 while swinging broadly on a non-sea...
Tue, Dec 6 2016, 10:30 AM
Home price growth accelerated further in October according to CoreLogic. The company's Home Price Index (HPI) increased 6.7 percent from the prior Oct...
Mon, Dec 5 2016, 12:05 PM
As everyone knows, interest rates shot up immediately in the wake of the November 8 presidential elections, triggered by a sell-off in Treasury bonds....
Mon, Dec 5 2016, 10:06 AM
Access to mortgage credit continued its recent upward trend in November. The Mortgage Bankers Association said on Monday that its Mortgage Credit Avai...
Mon, Dec 5 2016, 9:59 AM
Another piece of the President-elect Donald J. Trump's administration fell into place on Monday with the announcement that former Republican president...
Fri, Dec 2 2016, 9:27 AM
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has now joined the Federal Housing Finance Agency in raising the dollar limits for loans that qualify for FHA...
Thu, Dec 1 2016, 11:43 AM
Construction spending rose only slightly in October, with residential construction coming in stronger than most other sectors. The Census Bureau said ...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 10:37 AM
Pending home Sales eked out a 0.1 percent gain in October. The National Association of Realtors® said its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) barely manag...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 8:29 AM
Thanksgiving wreaked the usual holiday-related damage on the Mortgage Bankers Association's report of mortgage activity during the week ended November...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 1:35 PM
Interest rates are, quite naturally, the focus of Freddie Mac's November Outlook. The company's Economic & Housing Research Group looked at the potent...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 1:25 PM
President-elect Donald J. Trump may have just handed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae a "get out of jail free" card. Trump has picked Steven Mnuchin to be S...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 10:54 AM
While it will remain unchanged in 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Reserve Board, and Office of the Comptroller of the C...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 10:16 AM
It took ten years and change, but national prices as measured by the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Index have finally surpassed the previous pre...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 1:50 PM
Freddie Mac has certified six companies as meeting its requirements for creating, signing, and storing eNotes , i.e. electronic promissory notes. The ...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 1:42 PM
The national foreclosure inventory rate, according to Black Knight Financial Services, fell below 1 percent in October for the first time since July 2...
Mon, Nov 28 2016, 11:09 AM
Black Knight Financial Services says that its Home Price Index (HPI) inched up only 0.1 percent from August to September. Monthly appreciation has dec...
Fri, Nov 25 2016, 10:40 AM
CoreLogic says it is now able to closely track household mobility through various data sets including property taxes and sales transactions. Some coun...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 10:52 AM
House prices increases moderated slightly compared to the pace set in August, but the Federal Housing Finance Index (FHFA) said the month-over-month g...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 10:49 AM
New home sales failed to build on their September momentum, although the October downturn was not a large one. The Census Bureau and the Department of...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 9:52 AM
Purchase mortgage application activity picked up significantly during the week ended November 18. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Com...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 3:47 PM
After leaving them in a holding pattern for 10 long years the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has raised conforming loan limits for mortgages ac...
Tue, Nov 22 2016, 11:27 AM
October existing home sales added to September's rebound, rising to the highest annualized pace in nearly a decade . The National Association of Realt...
Tue, Nov 22 2016, 3:06 PM
All-cash sales represented 31.1 of the total home sales recorded in August, according to a CoreLogic report on cash and distressed home sales. This wa...
Mon, Nov 21 2016, 12:26 PM
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance recently held a hearing on " Modernizing Appraisals : A Regulatory Review and the F...
Fri, Nov 18 2016, 10:54 AM
Digital records are giving consumers tremendous new opportunities , Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told ...
Fri, Nov 18 2016, 10:48 AM
Borrowers apparently noted a slight uptick in mortgage rates and pushed refinancing higher in October. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report notes an...
Thu, Nov 17 2016, 10:47 AM
Housing permits improved for the second straight month in October but housing starts skyrocketed, rising 25.5 percent above September's level to a sea...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 9:18 AM
Mortgage application activity fell decisively in the wake of the presidential elections. While the week ending November 11 culminated with the Veteran...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:44 PM
Two recent data releases from CoreLogic's Insurance and Spatial Solutions division assess earthquake risk in California and Oklahoma. Yes, Oklahoma, a...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:21 PM
Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac's Chief Economist said that there is a tendency for housing and mortgage markets to focus on high profile but transitory ev...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:11 PM
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes was unchanged in November, based on data gathered before the election. The Nation...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 11:51 AM
This is the second part of a summary of a Fannie Mae sponsored analysis by the Urban Institute (UI) of the role home equity could play in retirement s...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 10:55 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is estimating that the pace of new home sales slowed slightly in October compared to the previous month. Its Bu...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 10:54 AM
Mortgage delinquencies are now the lowest they have been since the second quarter of 2006, some two years before the housing crisis began and other mo...
Thu, Nov 10 2016, 2:37 PM
The affordability tug-of-war between home prices and interest rates continued in the third quarter, but the National Association of Home Builders (NAH...
Wed, Nov 9 2016, 10:22 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says that its seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application volume, decreased 1...
Tue, Nov 8 2016, 10:02 AM
The foreclosure inventory was down nearly one-third in September when compared to a year earlier although the pace of completed foreclosures remained ...
Mon, Nov 7 2016, 11:55 AM
A change in conforming loan limits could have a big impact on mortgage originations and on homebuying in general according to Black Knight Financial S...
Mon, Nov 7 2016, 11:45 AM
How much does the roof over your head, today help ensure you will still have one in retirement? That is the question the Urban Institute (UI) is tryin...
Mon, Nov 7 2016, 1:23 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) suffered its third decline in as many months in October. The Index, based on responses to six key q...
Fri, Nov 4 2016, 10:40 AM
A trusted real estate agent could be a loan officer's best friend. A survey, commissioned by Freddie Mac in advance of the National Association of Rea...
Thu, Nov 3 2016, 12:38 PM
The two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) reported improved financial results in the third quarter of 2016. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both said...
Thu, Nov 3 2016, 12:13 PM
Several positive factors contributed to a rise in the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index in October. MBA's Vice...
Wed, Nov 2 2016, 8:22 AM
Mortgage applications dropped to their lowest levels since last spring during the week ended October 28. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said i...
