Fri, Jan 23 2015, 11:47 AM
Fannie
Mae's economists expect the economy to strengthen in 2015 and that will "drag"
housing into a better cycle this year.
The company's forec...
Fri, Jan 23 2015, 11:32 AM
There
is certainly no dearth of economic and housing forecasts afoot in the land. Freddie Mac starts out its current U.S.
Economic & Housing Marke...
Fri, Jan 23 2015, 11:19 AM
Existing home sales yo-yoed again in December. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said total sales
of existing homes, including single fami...
Thu, Jan 22 2015, 4:48 PM
Optimism about the housing market has been a "misplaced
notion" for the last seven years according to Wells Fargo Senior Economist Mark
Vitner, Bu...
Thu, Jan 22 2015, 4:42 PM
Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase along with a former Wells
Fargo employee and his wife are the subjects of consent orders filed by the
Maryland Attor...
Wed, Jan 21 2015, 10:40 AM
December's numbers for residential construction were mixed
when compared to November, but all were better than the monthly figures the previous
Dece...
Wed, Jan 21 2015, 9:18 AM
Applications for mortgage refinancing scored a second straight week of
solid growth during the period ended January 16, with the Mortgage Bankers
As...
Tue, Jan 20 2015, 11:31 AM
The National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB') monthly
assessment of builder confidence in the new home market showed a slight
weakening in Ja...
Tue, Jan 20 2015, 3:29 PM
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday that may drastically
change the way in which the 1968 Fair Housing Act has been interpreted. ...
Thu, Jan 15 2015, 10:42 AM
Applications for mortgages to purchase newly constructed
homes dipped slightly in December, down 0.4 percent from the volume reported in
November....
Thu, Jan 15 2015, 10:41 AM
Cash sales dropped
on a year-over-year basis for the 22 nd consecutive month in October and
CoreLogic is projecting they will return to their pre-c...
Wed, Jan 14 2015, 10:46 AM
Foreclosures, while now down 64 percent from the peak reached
in September 2010, are still nearly double the monthly average before the
housing cris...
Wed, Jan 14 2015, 9:39 AM
The first week of the New Year was a good one - no make that a great one
- for mortgage activity with virtually unprecedented increases in mortgage
...
Tue, Jan 13 2015, 12:58 PM
According to a study conducted by the CFPB, nearly half of all consumers do not shop around before purchasing a
mortgage. "This means," Richard Co...
Tue, Jan 13 2015, 12:22 PM
In its "first look" at November
mortgage data last week Black Knight Financial Services noted a significant surge
in mortgage delinquencies compar...
Mon, Jan 12 2015, 11:02 AM
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has
issued a critical update related to last week's announcement of FHA
premium changes. The update contai...
Fri, Jan 9 2015, 12:21 PM
Details and clarifications are now available
for lenders and borrowers regarding President Obama's Thursday announcement of
reduced FHA mortgage ins...
Fri, Jan 9 2015, 3:03 PM
Owners of some 90 percent of mortgage properties in the U.S.
now have some degree of equity in their homes.
CoreLogic said today that 273,000 prop...
Fri, Jan 9 2015, 2:49 PM
It was notable in the years after the
housing collapse that the composition of investors in single family real estate
changed drastically. Long t...
Fri, Jan 9 2015, 2:39 PM
Even though consumers are becoming increasingly optimistic about
the economy and comfortable that it is heading in the right direction, results
of t...
Thu, Jan 8 2015, 10:39 AM
Stuart Quinn, a policy research and strategy analyst for CoreLogic
summarizes 2014 as a period of consumption for housing market participants when
i...
Thu, Jan 8 2015, 10:27 AM
Accessibility to mortgage credit rose in December. The Mortgage Bankers Association said today
that its Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) we...
Wed, Jan 7 2015, 10:06 AM
In mid-November the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
announced that its Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI) had returned to
solvency . The fu...
Wed, Jan 7 2015, 9:58 AM
Black Knight Financial Services, a division of Fidelity
National Financial, has released its "first look" at November mortgage
performance data. ...
Wed, Jan 7 2015, 9:17 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association, which traditionally closes its office during
the end of the year holiday season, played catchup today with results ...
Tue, Jan 6 2015, 10:51 AM
Home prices
are projected to finish out the year with a downtick although prices will
still be significantly higher than at the same point in 2013...
Fri, Jan 2 2015, 1:19 PM
It has been a long time coming but
CoreLogic says the improving employment numbers are strongest among precisely
the demographic the housing industr...
Fri, Jan 2 2015, 1:15 PM
What is an acceptable rate of mortgage delinquency? A CoreLogic economist is using current
delinquency rates to argue that delinquencies will always...
Wed, Dec 31 2014, 11:32 AM
November's pending home sales improved from October levels
and posted the third consecutive year-over-year gain and the largest one in
over a year...
Wed, Dec 31 2014, 11:28 AM
RealtyTrac came in with the highest report of year-over-year
price increases we have seen thus far this year with their estimate of a 15
percent ga...
Tue, Dec 30 2014, 11:53 AM
Like their baby-boomer parents before them the millennial
generation appears to be starting to drive parts of the housing market. While their dela...
Tue, Dec 30 2014, 11:39 AM
In its report
for October S&P Dow Jones again points to the slowing acceleration of home
prices through much of the U.S., but this time said there a...
Wed, Dec 24 2014, 10:52 AM
Just under one third of the states plus the District of
Columbia are now in what is considered a "stable" range on Freddie Mc's
Multi-Indicator Mark...
Wed, Dec 24 2014, 8:53 AM
There was a slight increase in mortgage application volume during the
week ended December 19 as interest rates for the most commonly originated mortg...
Tue, Dec 23 2014, 11:46 AM
Sales of new homes fell in November,
coming in 1.6 percent below sales the previous month. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of
Housing a...
Tue, Dec 23 2014, 11:37 AM
Home prices nationally, which essentially flat-lined in September,
appear to have resume a moderate rate of increase. The Federal Housing Finance Ag...
Mon, Dec 22 2014, 11:23 AM
Existing home sales in November fell far short of sales the previous
month according to today's report from the National Association of Realtors® (NA...
Fri, Dec 19 2014, 1:43 PM
RealtyTrac devotes the bulk of its most recent edition of HousingNewsReport , its monthly web
magazine to detailing some r eal estate investment str...
Thu, Dec 18 2014, 1:22 PM
Referring to its " roller-coaster
pattern of economic growth," Fannie Mae summarized the economy and housing in
2014 as a year that started with a ...
Thu, Dec 18 2014, 1:03 PM
Fannie Mae's writers use the word "stable" repeatedly to
describe many of the findings from its fourth quarter 2014 Mortgage Lender
Sentiment Surv...
Wed, Dec 17 2014, 9:39 AM
Mortgage applications were down modestly during the week
ended December 12, with purchase applications accounting for the decline. The Mortgage Ba...
Wed, Dec 17 2014, 4:46 PM
The person who perhaps made it possible for state and
federal governments to collect billions from the Bank of America will apparently
be amply co...
Tue, Dec 16 2014, 12:32 PM
All three of the U.S. Census Bureau/Department of Housing
and Urban Development construction indicators dropped in November from their
October leve...
Mon, Dec 15 2014, 10:58 AM
Builder confidence as measured by the National
Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Home Market Index (HMI) fell
back slightly in Decem...
Mon, Dec 15 2014, 2:00 PM
The BuildFax Remodeling Index for October
indicates a slight slowdown in the number of building permits issued for the
purpose of residential remode...
Fri, Dec 12 2014, 5:24 PM
Bank of America was hit this week with
another civil penalty , this time for making what are termed excessive and
harassing mortgage debt collectio...
Fri, Dec 12 2014, 5:19 PM
Amid the wrangling over the
budget and the CIA report the Senate did manage to extend some extra
foreclosure protections for military service memb...
Thu, Dec 11 2014, 3:34 PM
The Housing
Finance Policy Center, part of the Urban Institute, has released a new measure of
credit availability . In an article in
the Urban In...
Thu, Dec 11 2014, 1:31 PM
While overall foreclosure activity overall
continued its now years-long decline from housing crisis peaks there was a
significant year-over-year inc...
Wed, Dec 10 2014, 9:49 AM
The
week ended December 5 was another of those post-holiday periods when mortgage
application data skews all over the place just as it did during th...
