Wed, Jul 6 2016, 7:56 AM
The rate drop that kicked in immediately after the June 23 Brexit vote in the United Kingdom was reflected, dramatically so, in the volume of mortga...
Wed, Jul 6 2016, 2:18 PM
If you were to review a pile of mortgage applications randomly pulled from all of those submitted what age group do you think would look the best, t...
Wed, Jul 6 2016, 1:53 PM
The performance of loans serviced by the seven national banks reporting to the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) improved during the first...
Tue, Jul 5 2016, 10:23 AM
CoreLogic is reporting that the rate of home price increases, as measured by its Home Price Index (HPI) slowed considerably in May from its rate in ...
Fri, Jul 1 2016, 11:28 AM
Investors who purchase distressed loans through the FHA's Distressed Asset Stabilization Program (DASP) are going to have to toe a stricter line w...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 12:06 PM
Pending home sales hit the skids in May, following three
straight months of increases. The
National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said that its ...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 8:00 AM
Mortgage application activity was down across the board during the week ended June 24. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that its Market...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 2:16 PM
Baby Boomers, even as they age, continue to have an outsized impact on the housing market. Freddie Mac recently conducted a large survey of those o...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 2:04 PM
Freddie Mac says that the housing market as a whole in the U.S. is on the outer range of its historic benchmark level of housing activity. The spri...
Tue, Jun 28 2016, 10:35 AM
Both S&P/Case-Shiller and Black Knight Financial Services report that home prices continued to rise in April. Their numbers, while covering different...
Tue, Jun 28 2016, 4:47 PM
Freddie Mac says that the trend toward increasing levels of cash out refinancing paused during the first quarter of 2016. The share of refinancing ...
Mon, Jun 27 2016, 4:04 PM
Will the homeownership rate fall below 50 percent? Not a question most housing industry stakeholders want to think about, but some analysts are spec...
Fri, Jun 24 2016, 11:24 AM
After two years of supervision and examinations of mortgage
servicers by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) the agency has criticized
t...
Thu, Jun 23 2016, 11:00 AM
New home sales dropped back in May after a reported 16.6
percent surge the previous month, an increase that was revised down from what
was first r...
Thu, Jun 23 2016, 3:39 PM
A third of home sales in March were all-cash
transactions according to CoreLogic.
This was a decrease of 2.8 percentages points, the company termed...
Wed, Jun 22 2016, 11:05 AM
The median price of an existing home reached an
all-time high in May and sales hit their highest pace in nearly a decade . The National Association...
Wed, Jun 22 2016, 10:27 AM
The pace of home price increases, at least for purchases financed by Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac, slowed in April, falling below even the most modest...
Wed, Jun 22 2016, 8:11 AM
Refinancing gained ground as interest
rates fell during the week ended June 17.
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that refinancing
...
Wed, Jun 22 2016, 2:28 PM
Distressed properties nationwide now
total significantly less than 3 million according to data released on Wednesday
by Black Knight Financial Ser...
Tue, Jun 21 2016, 2:15 PM
The biggest complaint in the spring homebuying season was simply that there weren't enough homes to buy. Demand is strong for housing, but listings ar...
Mon, Jun 20 2016, 12:23 PM
If you are looking for an upbeat assessment of
consumer sentiment regarding housing, a recent survey by the MacArthur
Foundation is not the place ...
Fri, Jun 17 2016, 10:38 AM
Residential construction data released this morning showed both housing starts and permits holding fairly steady in May compared to April, but while...
Thu, Jun 16 2016, 10:31 AM
There was a flicker of life this month in the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). After spending fo...
Thu, Jun 16 2016, 10:03 AM
Purchase mortgages comprised 60 percent of all originations in April, the first time the purchase share has risen to this level since April 2015 . ...
Wed, Jun 15 2016, 10:25 AM
Fannie Mae's second quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey indicates that lenders are generally upbeat about the housing market. Respondents to the...
Wed, Jun 15 2016, 8:05 AM
Despite mortgage interest rates that continued to decline, in the case of FHA loans retreating to levels last seen in 2013, mortgage activity decreas...
Tue, Jun 14 2016, 10:19 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicated a 6 percent decline in new home sales in May compared to April. The forecast is based on the a...
Tue, Jun 14 2016, 5:14 PM
The national foreclosure inventory, homes somewhere in the process of foreclosure, along with other measures of housing distress, continued to decline...
Mon, Jun 13 2016, 3:45 PM
Not only is student loan debt delaying first-time homebuyers, it is delaying them for a long time.
Seventy-one percent of non-homeowners with debts...
Thu, Jun 9 2016, 10:19 AM
Negative equity continued to decline in the first quarter of 2016. CoreLogic said today that 268,000 homeowners regained an equity position in their ...
Wed, Jun 8 2016, 10:09 AM
With mortgage interest rates generally down since the end of last year CoreLogic's principal economist Molly Boesel took a crack this week at figuring...
Wed, Jun 8 2016, 10:05 AM
While consumers are still conflicted about whether it is still a good time to buy or to sell, their perceptions about financial aspects of their liv...
Wed, Jun 8 2016, 9:45 AM
Mortgage bank profits increased substantially in the first quarter of the year compared to the last quarter of 2015 the Mortgage Bankers Association...
Wed, Jun 8 2016, 8:46 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported another of those holiday-centered weeks of mortgage application activity where it is anyone's guess ...
Tue, Jun 7 2016, 10:43 AM
The second of the major home price estimates for April was released by CoreLogic on Tuesday and tracks, on an annual basis, closely with the first, re...
Mon, Jun 6 2016, 2:12 PM
Delinquencies on home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) have increased on an annual basis twice in the six months ended in March according to Black Knig...
Fri, Jun 3 2016, 3:09 PM
Friday's disappointing jobs report is likely an anomaly, but it was bad enough to wipe out any chance that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rat...
Thu, Jun 2 2016, 10:20 AM
What do buyers worry about as they shop for a home? It turns out one growing concern is other buyers like them.
A Redfin survey of nearly 1,000 ...
Thu, Jun 2 2016, 10:08 AM
Mortgage credit access continued to inch down in May. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) decreased t...
Wed, Jun 1 2016, 10:50 AM
Construction spending continued to disappoint in April, but unlike in the preceding three months, residential construction also declined. The Census...
Wed, Jun 1 2016, 9:53 AM
How high is too high? When it comes to home prices the wounds left from the Great Recession make this question an important one. Amidst that event, ...
Wed, Jun 1 2016, 8:21 AM
Applications for mortgages slowed appreciably during the week ended May 27 and average mortgage rates scattered in all directions. The Mortgage Ban...
Tue, May 31 2016, 10:42 AM
The annual pace of price gains nationally slowed slightly in March according to the S&P Case-Shiller National Home Price Index. The 10- and 20-City C...
Thu, May 26 2016, 10:48 AM
Home prices appreciated in the first quarter of 2016 by 1.3 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)...
Thu, May 26 2016, 10:45 AM
This morning's strong pending home sales report was the third upbeat April housing indicator. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its P...
Thu, May 26 2016, 10:13 AM
The nation's housing market continues to improve and the spring home buying season appears to be off to a strong start according to a Freddie Mac re...
Wed, May 25 2016, 9:20 AM
The Urban Institute says one solution to the nation's high rental costs is an old one, but financing may be making it unnecessarily inaccessible. L...
Wed, May 25 2016, 7:58 AM
Mortgage applications increased last week driven by a significant uptick in applications for purchase mortgages. Refinance volume rose only fraction...
Tue, May 24 2016, 10:34 AM
New home sales surged in April after a disappointing report in March. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said toda...
Tue, May 24 2016, 10:29 AM
CoreLogic has looked at an apparent contradiction in purchase loan originations that has emerged since the housing bubble burst. Why, CoreLogic econo...
