Thu, Aug 11 2016, 11:46 AM
There has been a lot of focus in recent years on two topics; the gradual but steady decline in the homeownership rate and the huge Millennial generati...
Thu, Aug 11 2016, 9:52 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association is forecasting that new home sales in July were down by 8 percent compared to June. Sales during the month will surpa...
Wed, Aug 10 2016, 9:21 AM
A slight downturn in mortgage interest rates during the week ended August 5 was more than matched by a surge in mortgage activity. Once again it was r...
Wed, Aug 10 2016, 3:18 PM
Homebuyers and sellers are both apparently finding discounts and rebates readily available in the real estate world. Redfin, the Seattle-based real es...
Wed, Aug 10 2016, 3:15 PM
Instead of writing off citizens in their golden years - or in this case semi-golden - Dave Lowman suggests lenders view them as a business opportunity...
Tue, Aug 9 2016, 9:32 AM
The national foreclosure scenario continues to
improve . CoreLogic's June National Foreclosure Report shows the foreclosure inventory declined
b...
Tue, Aug 9 2016, 9:28 AM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) made,
what for it, was a significant jump in July, reaching the highest level in the
history of th...
Mon, Aug 8 2016, 10:19 AM
The phenomenon is very uneven geographically, but
CoreLogic says that one factor behind the sustained pace of home price
appreciation is the return...
Mon, Aug 8 2016, 3:33 PM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have
released results of their respective performances on the " Severely Adverse
scenario" of the stress tests required ...
Fri, Aug 5 2016, 10:55 AM
The Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) reported that its Mortgage Credit Availability Index
increased by one point in July, and announced that its...
Fri, Aug 5 2016, 6:40 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of Comptroller
of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Reserve are proposing technical changes
to th...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 11:25 AM
As
the housing boom ended rents for single-family homes also crashed, going from
annual growth of better than 2 percent in late 2007 to -3 percent b...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 11:19 AM
Fannie Mae is reporting net income
and comprehensive income of $2.9 billion for the second quarter of 2016
compared to first quarter net income of...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 9:23 AM
Are those Americans who lost their homes to
foreclosure permanently turned off of home ownership? CoreLogic's Senior Economist Kristine Yao
looke...
Wed, Aug 3 2016, 8:19 AM
Despite interest rates that were lower across
the board mortgage applications activity sagged during the week ended July
29. The Mortgage Bankers A...
Tue, Aug 2 2016, 11:34 AM
Despite
speculation that it might require a Treasury draw after its first quarter
financial loss, Freddie Mac reported on Tuesday it had net incom...
Tue, Aug 2 2016, 11:31 AM
The pace of home price appreciation does finally appear
to be slowing. CoreLogic has released
its Home Price Index (HPI) for June and both monthly ...
Mon, Aug 1 2016, 12:33 PM
The "Brexit Effect" is the focus of Black Knight
Financial Service's current Mortgage Monitor.
The report, covering June mortgage performance dat...
Mon, Aug 1 2016, 12:18 PM
Construction spending eased slightly in June, but the
Census Bureau said today that it is still running substantially ahead of spending
in the fir...
Fri, Jul 29 2016, 12:44 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is
proposing changes to its Know Before You Owe Mortgage Disclosure Act, usually
referred to in the ...
Fri, Jul 29 2016, 9:28 AM
Homeownership rates, which have been declining since
the end of the housing boom, hit an a ll-time low in the second quarter of
2016 . The rate at ...
Thu, Jul 28 2016, 4:59 PM
Cash sales continued to account for a significant
portion of all home sales in April.
CoreLogic said on Wednesday that 31.6 percent of home sales t...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 10:39 AM
Pending home sales eked out, although only barely, an
increase in June after a falling by an unexpectedly large percentage in
May. The National Ass...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 8:59 AM
Fannie Mae has made changes to its HomeReady
mortgage program that allows borrowers to obtain a mortgage with as little as a
3 percent downpayment...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 8:57 AM
The statistics are no surprise. The Urban Institute says for every 100
extremely low income households there are only 29 adequate, affordable, a...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 8:22 AM
Mortgage
applications took a significant downturn during the week ended July 22 as
mortgage rates moved off of historic lows.
The Mortgage Banke...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 11:39 AM
Foreclosure starts rose in June for the second month in a row but Black Knight Financial Services, in its "first look" at the month's mortgage perfo...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 10:43 AM
The newly named S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices noted a continued rise in prices across the country although some monthly indices declined . Th...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 10:37 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes posted a gain in June, rising 3.5 percent from the May estimate. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and...
Mon, Jul 25 2016, 10:59 AM
A strong market in the Mountain West drove U.S. home
prices up 1.1 percent in May. The Black
Knight Home Price Index (HPI) put Idaho , Utah , a...
Fri, Jul 22 2016, 11:24 AM
Fannie Mae's economists have upgraded projections for economic growth in the second quarter to by 0.3 percent to 2.4 percent because of unexpectedly s...
Fri, Jul 22 2016, 11:19 AM
Every month the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development issues statistics on residential construction - permits authorized, ...
Thu, Jul 21 2016, 11:03 AM
Sales of existing homes increased in June for the fourth consecutive month . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said it was encouraged to s...
Thu, Jul 21 2016, 10:48 AM
Prices increased by 0.2 percent from April to May on a seasonally adjusted basis according to figures released today by the Federal Housing Finance Ag...
Thu, Jul 21 2016, 10:44 AM
While it's a bit of retrospective considering the drop in rates brought on by the Brexit news late in the month, the share of purchase originations h...
Thu, Jul 21 2016, 1:04 PM
Oh those Baby Boomers. Even as they age they don't retire, at least not from the public stage. This week those over age 55 were the subject of Fredd...
Wed, Jul 20 2016, 8:19 AM
Interest rates reversed direction during the week ended July 15, ending, whether temporarily or not, several weeks of declines. In response, applicat...
Wed, Jul 20 2016, 3:04 PM
CoreLogic, in a recent article on its blog, celebrated, if that's the word, the 10 th anniversary of the housing bubble. Principal Economists David ...
Tue, Jul 19 2016, 10:38 AM
The Residential Construction Report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that, while both permits ...
Tue, Jul 19 2016, 2:43 PM
CoreLogic has cut back the timeline under which it expects to see distressed properties return to the share of sales that prevailed prior to the housi...
Mon, Jul 18 2016, 10:26 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing Market Index (HMI), which it produces in cooperation with Wells Fargo, barely budge...
Fri, Jul 15 2016, 3:30 PM
While markets don't believe the Fed will really raise interest rates this year, it could surprise them with at least one hike later in the year.
...
Thu, Jul 14 2016, 12:46 PM
New home sales are predicted to have dipped by a
fraction in June in a report Thursday from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Based on informa...
Wed, Jul 13 2016, 8:18 AM
Record low interest rates coupled with a major American holiday made for a bit of chaos as regards mortgage applications. The Mortgage Bankers Asso...
Tue, Jul 12 2016, 2:40 PM
CoreLogic reported on Tuesday that the foreclosure inventory, the number of homes in some stage of foreclosure, had dropped to 390,000 in May, represe...
Tue, Jul 12 2016, 1:10 PM
The Brexit decision continues to reverberate and Freddie Mac, in its current issue of Outlook sees it as both a plus and a minus for the U.S., and n...
Mon, Jul 11 2016, 5:08 PM
Mortgage credit availability appeared to decrease
again in June. It was the fourth
consecutive month the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mor...
Mon, Jul 11 2016, 5:06 PM
In its "first look" at May mortgage data published last month Black Knight Financial Services noted that the prepayment rate for mortgages, historical...
Thu, Jul 7 2016, 4:35 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released an update on the progress made toward the Single Security that is expected to replace those cur...
Thu, Jul 7 2016, 2:46 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), an outgrowth of its National Housing Survey, pulled back a bit in June, largely due to weakened o...
