Fri, Sep 23 2016, 10:45 AM
Refinancing jumped to 43 percent of all loans originated in August, a 6 percentage point higher share than in July. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Re...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 11:09 AM
Sales of existing homes slowed for the second consecutive month in August according to data released on Thursday by the National Association of Realto...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 9:54 AM
Home price increases appear to have accelerated in most of the country in July as compared to June according to data released on Thursday by the Feder...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 1:45 PM
Mortgage prepayments, generally a good indicator of refinance activity , skyrocketed in August. According to Black Knight Financial Services "first lo...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 8:57 AM
Mortgage rates crept higher during the week ended September 16, and mortgage applications, while rebounding from the previous holiday-shortened prior ...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 5:13 PM
"Credit unions are thriving " in the words of Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He told members of the Nat...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 5:04 PM
If nothing else, the headline of this months' Outlook from Freddie Mac was a grabber. "Mortgage Originations Poised to Surge," it read, and what follo...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 10:15 AM
Fannie Mae says that early bets on third quarter economic growth are around 3.0 percent which has the Federal Reserve talking again about raising the ...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 10:04 AM
All three measures of residential construction activity fell in August compared to the July numbers and one, building permits, continued to lag year-a...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 10:50 AM
After half a year of barely budging the Housing Market Index (HMI ) surged by six points in September. The index, jointly sponsored by the National As...
Fri, Sep 16 2016, 9:52 AM
In last month's Housing Finance Chartbook the Urban Institute showed how a recent surge in issuance of private mortgage insurance (PMI) had come at th...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 12:25 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that sales of newly constructed homes increased by 5.0 percent in August compared to July. The estima...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 10:23 AM
More than a half-million fewer homeowners were underwater at the end of the second quarter of 2016 than at the beginning CoreLogic said today. At quar...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 1:09 PM
Mortgage lenders are feeling more positive about profits this quarter than they did in the second quarter with 28 percent of those surveyed by Fannie ...
Wed, Sep 14 2016, 10:28 AM
The return of Americans to urban living, while well documented, may be a "head-fake" as far as the mortgage industry is concerned. Sam Khater, CoreLog...
Wed, Sep 14 2016, 8:38 AM
Mortgage applications, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, increased on a seasonally adjusted...
Tue, Sep 13 2016, 9:53 AM
There were 34,000 completed foreclosures in July, as banks continue to clean up foreclosure inventories eight years after the housing crisis began. Co...
Mon, Sep 12 2016, 1:00 PM
Is there still a gender gap when it comes to mortgages? While single women have come a long way from the days when a man had to guarantee their mortga...
Thu, Sep 8 2016, 10:04 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) ticked down in August, indicating a slight and largely operationa...
Wed, Sep 7 2016, 8:51 AM
Mortgage application activity was listless as summer unofficially ended and the nation prepared for the Labor Day weekend. Changes during the week end...
Wed, Sep 7 2016, 1:36 PM
So what is going on with residential construction? We hear constantly that inventories are too tight , especially at the lower price levels, new home ...
Wed, Sep 7 2016, 1:30 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) was down slightly in August, dipping 1.5 percentage points to 85.0. The index, based on the company'...
Tue, Sep 6 2016, 9:51 AM
Home price increases continued to exceed CoreLogic's own projections in July. The company's Home Price Index (HPI) indicates that home prices nationwi...
Tue, Sep 6 2016, 3:25 PM
First lien mortgage originations reached their highest level in the second quarter of 2016 of any single quarter since the same period in 2013. Black ...
Thu, Sep 1 2016, 11:26 AM
Construction spending was largely unchanged in July according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Spending on all public and privatel...
Thu, Sep 1 2016, 9:53 AM
Isn't it amazing that, after the near-decade of turmoil we have just gone through, that CoreLogic is calling the housing market "an oasis of stability...
Wed, Aug 31 2016, 10:47 AM
Despite some predictions that pending home sales would fall in July, they actually rose modestly to reach their second highest level in over a decade....
Wed, Aug 31 2016, 8:16 AM
The volume of applications increased slightly during the week ended August 26 as mortgage rates made minor changes and moved in both directions. The M...
Tue, Aug 30 2016, 12:46 PM
Mortgage originators surveyed by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) saw production profits more than double in the second quarter compared to what...
Tue, Aug 30 2016, 12:40 PM
The share of total home sales made up by distressed properties is now one-quarter the level it was in January 2009. CoreLogic reports that in May the ...
Tue, Aug 30 2016, 10:38 AM
Results are in for the final two of the four major home price indices for June. Both the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices and Black Knight Financial...
Mon, Aug 29 2016, 2:59 PM
A large contingent of new homes started in 2015 were purchased using non-conventional financing according to a new analysis by the National Associatio...
Fri, Aug 26 2016, 9:08 AM
Among the charts and tests summarizing most of the housing finance news that emerged during July, the latest issue of the Urban Institute's (UI's) Hou...
Thu, Aug 25 2016, 1:57 PM
While implementation is a ways down the road, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) will offer new streamlined refinance options aimed at borrowe...
Thu, Aug 25 2016, 1:06 PM
While the both the investor share of home sales and the share represented by distressed properties are setting post-crash lows, the share of cash sale...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 11:15 AM
" Frustratingly low inventory levels in many parts of the country" take the blame from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) for a drop in July ...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 9:57 AM
While it won't be available for more than a year, the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have unveiled a new Uniform...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 9:55 AM
Prices of homes financed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac increased by 0.2 percent from May to June the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said today. ...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 8:44 AM
Mortgage applications continued their modest downward track during the week ended August 19. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composit...
Tue, Aug 23 2016, 11:21 AM
Rather than the month-over-month decline expected, July new home sales soared above 600,000 units for the first time since late 2007. The U.S. Census ...
Mon, Aug 22 2016, 2:16 PM
Mortgage delinquencies rose slightly in July; a change Black Knight Financial Services sees as seasonal. The number of mortgages that were 30 or more ...
Mon, Aug 22 2016, 1:51 PM
While the numbers remain small, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) notes there is a slowly increasing trend of single-family homes being...
Fri, Aug 19 2016, 11:22 AM
Fannie Mae said it is maintaining its forecast for 2016's GDP at the same 1.8 percent it forecasted in July despite the fact second quarter growth cam...
Thu, Aug 18 2016, 12:39 PM
Origination closing rates reached their highest levels of the year in July according to Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report. The closing or pull-th...
Wed, Aug 17 2016, 11:42 AM
Touting its record of on-target estimate, CoreLogic has again anticipated the official conclusions about 2015 mortgage originations in advance of the ...
Wed, Aug 17 2016, 8:26 AM
Despite persistently low rates, consumers are not feeling too motivated to apply for home loans. The Mortgage Bankers Association said mortgage applic...
Tue, Aug 16 2016, 9:56 AM
Housing starts rose in July while permits fell from the previous month's rate for the third consecutive time. Both indicators, however, regained a pos...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 10:32 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) improved slightly in August, but remained within the narrow ra...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 4:15 PM
Strong home sales, near-historic low interest rates, a burst of refinancing, and continued home price growth are moving Freddie Mac's economic team to...
Thu, Aug 11 2016, 12:34 PM
The delinquency rate for mortgages on one-to-four residential properties fell in the second quarter of 2016 to its lowest rate in exactly ten years wh...
