Tue, Mar 8 2016, 11:28 AM
Even as the share of originations going for refinancing began to flag in the fourth quarter of 2015 the cash-out share of those refinancing increased....
Mon, Mar 7 2016, 11:27 AM
The sharp drop in interest rates that began 2016 has had a very real impact on the so-called "refinanceable" population of homeowners. Black Knight...
Mon, Mar 7 2016, 10:41 AM
Three financial regulatory agencies have clarified current rules on the use of appraisals versus property evaluations Three financial regulatory agen...
Fri, Mar 4 2016, 12:13 PM
Lenders, especially mortgage banks and larger lending institutions, are increasingly pessimistic about their profits. Fannie Mae says that response...
Thu, Mar 3 2016, 12:49 PM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have long advocated for homebuyer education but as Freddie Mac points out in this month's edition of Insight and Outlook, ...
Thu, Mar 3 2016, 9:58 AM
Any loosening of credit access in February was offset by
tightening by other programs the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on
Thursday. Cons...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 9:50 AM
Despite slightly lower interest rates mortgage applications slowed during the week ended February 26. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) said m...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 1:46 PM
Only slightly more than 10 percent of all home sales in December were distressed properties. CoreLogic said on Wednesday that sales of lender owned r...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 1:45 PM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) took an in-depth look at one aspect of the Census Bureau's report on January construction expenditure...
Tue, Mar 1 2016, 12:04 PM
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Tue, Mar 1 2016, 11:56 AM
Home prices rose 0.1 percent in December according to Black
Knight Financial Services. The company's
Home Price Index (HPI) ended the month at $253...
Tue, Mar 1 2016, 11:32 AM
Publicly funded construction accounted for most of the gain in overall construction spending in January. The Census Department said on Tuesday that...
Mon, Feb 29 2016, 11:00 AM
Pending home sales kicked off 2016 by declining nationally and in three of the country's four regions. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) sa...
Mon, Feb 29 2016, 10:58 AM
Why has one of the nation's most critical issues been missing from the presidential debates? Faith Schwartz, CoreLogic's Senior Vice President for ...
Fri, Feb 26 2016, 2:42 PM
In a speech this week to its Consumer Advisory Board the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) laid out nine goals for the Bur...
Fri, Feb 26 2016, 2:33 PM
The percentage of homes sales that were all cash transactions increased in November, bucking a long term trend . CoreLogic, in its monthly cash sale...
Thu, Feb 25 2016, 11:17 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's House Price Index (HPI) for December came in slightly higher than the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index di...
Thu, Feb 25 2016, 1:14 PM
In a new white paper titled Home Equity Lending Landscape , CoreLogic says that in the recent past homeowners who wanted to tap the equity in their h...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 11:00 AM
A sharp drop in sales in the West brought about an overall decline in the national rate of new home sales in January. The U.S. Census Bureau and the ...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 9:33 AM
After two straight weeks of solid refinance-driven growth, mortgage application volume retreated during the week ended February 19. The Mortgage Ban...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 3:59 PM
Fannie Mae is updating its Selling Guide to include changes several areas. The changes include elimination of the continuity of obligation policy ...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 11:01 AM
Existing home sales and home prices both increased in January, the latter again driven by a tight supply of available houses in many markets. The Nat...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 10:39 AM
One of the sea changes that swept in with the housing crisis was the growth of single family houses as a share of rental properties . Frank Nothaft,...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 10:31 AM
Mortgage delinquencies rose in January, topping the 5 percent mark for the first time in 11 months Black Knight Financial Services said on Monday. Th...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 10:30 AM
Home price gains were somewhat mixed in December with some of the S&P Case-Shiller posting larger increases than in November and others negative or un...
Mon, Feb 22 2016, 10:14 AM
Foreclosure activity declined on a month-over-month basis nationwide in January although completed foreclosures were up significantly on an annual b...
Mon, Feb 22 2016, 1:19 PM
Despite three years of solid recovery in home prices, a surprising number of homeowners don't realize what they've gained.
Most underestimate w...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 7:13 PM
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) released fourth quarter and year-end results for their 2015 fiscal years this week. While both GSEs post...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 7:05 PM
Both lower home prices and decreasing interest rates contributed to an increase in home affordability during the fourth quarter of 2015 according to...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 3:35 PM
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) released fourth quarter and year-end results for their 2015 fiscal years this week. While both GSEs post...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 3:31 PM
Both lower home prices and decreasing interest rates contributed to an increase in home affordability during the fourth quarter of 2015 according to...
Thu, Feb 18 2016, 10:43 AM
Freddie Mac is announcing changes to its Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide which the company says will provide expanded homeownership opportuniti...
Thu, Feb 18 2016, 2:00 PM
The overall delinquency rate on
mortgage loans has now fallen below historic average levels. The Mortgage
Bankers Association (MBA) said on Thursd...
Wed, Feb 17 2016, 9:07 AM
Applications for refinancing again drove a significant increase in mortgage applications during the week ended February 12 as mortgage rates continu...
Wed, Feb 17 2016, 8:56 AM
U.S. housing starts unexpectedly fell in January likely as bad weather disrupted building projects in some parts of the country, in what could be a te...
Tue, Feb 16 2016, 10:54 AM
Confidence among new home builders cooled considerably this month. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing Market Index (HM...
Fri, Feb 12 2016, 11:44 AM
A proposed new rule from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), if enacted, could significantly impact mortgage workers' paychecks, and affect mortgage c...
Fri, Feb 12 2016, 11:37 AM
In a hearing on Thursday before the House
Financial Services Committee, Edward L. Golding,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of...
Thu, Feb 11 2016, 6:57 PM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) early estimate of new home sales for
January projects a 14 percent increase compared to December. MBA ...
Wed, Feb 10 2016, 9:57 AM
Average mortgage rates declined during the week ended February 5, in at least one case to the lowest level in nearly three years. In response there w...
Wed, Feb 10 2016, 3:18 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said on Tuesday that its proposed budget for Fiscal 2017 will include $48.9 billion in gross d...
Tue, Feb 9 2016, 10:52 AM
The number of properties in the process of foreclosure nationwide dropped by nearly a quarter from the end of 2014 to the end of this past year. Co...
Mon, Feb 8 2016, 10:55 AM
Affordability is becoming an issue based on more than just rising
interest rates and rising home prices according to the latest Home Purchase
Sentim...
Fri, Feb 5 2016, 2:39 PM
Credit available was apparently slightly lower in January
than in February, the third straight month that the Mortgage Bankers
Associations' (MBA'...
Thu, Feb 4 2016, 12:22 PM
The percentage of total home sales transactions that are
completed in cash continues to decline on an annual basis as distressed homes
become less a...
Wed, Feb 3 2016, 8:29 AM
Mortgage application volume during the week ended January 29 was again either
disappointing or much improved depending on whether one viewed it on ...
Wed, Feb 3 2016, 6:24 PM
Freddie Mac's economists are expressing concerns about what
they see as economic headwinds revealed by some recently released
indicators. In thei...
Tue, Feb 2 2016, 10:55 AM
Once again a report on home price changes indicates that appreciation
has not yet slowed . CoreLogic issued a
report on its Home Price Index for D...
Mon, Feb 1 2016, 12:26 PM
Black Knight Financial Services took close-up looks at both
home affordability and the recent surge in cash-out refinancing in its new Mortgage ...
Mon, Feb 1 2016, 12:13 PM
Construction spending scrambled back into positive territory
by a tiny bit in December, gaining 0.1 percent from November's level to an
estimated ...
