Tue, Nov 4 2014, 12:33 PM
Home prices fell slightly in September
compared to the previous month CoreLogic said on Tuesday, but continued to
increase on a year-over-year basi...
Tue, Nov 4 2014, 12:26 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on
Tuesday that an anomaly was likely responsible for the slight downward shift in
mortgage credit ava...
Mon, Nov 3 2014, 12:20 PM
The
downward-drifting participation of first-time homebuyers over the last few
years has brought their share of the home buying market to its lowes...
Mon, Nov 3 2014, 1:50 PM
U.S. construction spending eased back
slightly in September, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $950.92 billion. The U.S. Census Bureau repor...
Fri, Oct 31 2014, 11:07 AM
A recent motion filed by a mortgage
company to dismiss portions of a class action suit against it shows, according
to an attorney familiar with the ...
Fri, Oct 31 2014, 3:26 PM
A survey of attitudes toward housing
released on Thursday by The Demand Institute indicates that the Baby Boom
generation still has no intention of...
Thu, Oct 30 2014, 12:30 PM
"A real estate market that should be flying high is
instead a real estate market that is faltering ," according to Brian Mushaney,
Executive Vice...
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 9:54 AM
Mortgage application numbers during the week ended
October 24 backed off a bit from the numbers posted during the week ended
October 17 but were s...
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 1:59 PM
Completed foreclosures rose slightly in
September CoreLogic said today, but the long-term trend continues to be a
relatively precipitous drop from t...
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 10:59 AM
August data released this morning by S&P Dow Jones Indices reveals that, while home prices throughout the U.S. continue to increase, the rapid pace ...
Mon, Oct 27 2014, 10:40 AM
Pending home sales, while increasing
only slightly in September, exceeded those of a year earlier, the first time in
11 months this has occurred. ...
Mon, Oct 27 2014, 2:15 PM
Home
price increases wound down further in August.
The Home Price Index released by Black Knight Financial Services today
rose a negligibl e 0.1 p...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 12:33 PM
New home sales increased only slightly in September,
up 0.2 percent over August, bringing the annual rate of those sales to
467,000. Sales were up ...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 10:59 AM
Fannie Mae said on Thursday that real economic
growth in the last two quarters of 2014 appear poised to exceed 3.0 percent ,
providing a solid basi...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 10:57 AM
September appears to have been another
month in which loan performance improved and the states continued to slog
through the overhang of delinquen...
Thu, Oct 23 2014, 2:09 PM
Builders who engage in home remodeling continue to
display confidence in their market the National Association of Home Builders
(NAHB) said today. ...
Thu, Oct 23 2014, 2:06 PM
The percentage
of American homeowners a mortgage that was seriously underwater fell to 15
percent in the third quarter of 2014 RealtyTrac said on ...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 8:52 AM
Falling interest rate precipitated a
major refinancing rally during the week ended October 17 even though Columbus
Day shortened the business weeks ...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 3:26 PM
Frank
E. Nothaft and Leonard Kiefer, Freddie Mac's chief and deputy chief economists
have come up with a formula for lifting the economy from its ...
Tue, Oct 21 2014, 11:44 AM
Existing home sales, which ended four
straight months of gains with a 1.8 percent decline in August, bounced back in
September the National Associat...
Tue, Oct 21 2014, 3:03 PM
Financial regulators on Tuesday finally released
the final rule defining Qualified Residential Mortgages (QRM). The definition is intended to determ...
Mon, Oct 20 2014, 5:02 PM
David Stevens, President
of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), told an audience attending the association's
s annual convention in Las Vegas th...
Mon, Oct 20 2014, 4:31 PM
Federal
Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Melvin L. Watt focused his remarks to
attendees at the Mortgage Bankers Association annual conference...
Mon, Oct 20 2014, 2:13 PM
Earlier this year the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) began releasing its Mortgage Credit Availability Index , a
measure of how "loose" or "tigh...
Fri, Oct 17 2014, 2:06 PM
One has to hope that foreclosure data
reported on Thursday by RealtyTrac is a sign that states are wrapping up the
foreclosure crisis that has been ...
Fri, Oct 17 2014, 2:03 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the first wave
of data from the 2013 American Housing Survey (AHS) . It is a massive t...
Fri, Oct 17 2014, 2:03 PM
Over the last year or so mortgage
servicers have transferred a number of large mortgage portfolios to other
servicers. Beyond the selling of
mor...
Fri, Oct 17 2014, 1:36 PM
Increases in construction permits, starts, and
completions for multifamily housing stand out from an otherwise lackluster
batch of construction data...
Thu, Oct 16 2014, 12:57 PM
Federal regulators may finally produce the long anticipated market standards
for Qualified Residential Mortgages (QRM), perhaps even as early as n...
Thu, Oct 16 2014, 12:50 PM
The National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) said on Thursday that sentiment among its new home builder
members reversed course in October, with...
Thu, Oct 16 2014, 1:28 PM
The share of home purchased with all-cash is continuing
to drop, but even with a -3.0 percentage point change between July 2013 and July
2014 they s...
Wed, Oct 15 2014, 10:22 AM
A significant drop in mortgage rates triggered
a surge in refinancing activity during the week ended October 10. The Mortgage Bankers Association ...
Wed, Oct 15 2014, 1:08 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB) has proposed further changes to the new consolidated Loan
Estimate and Closing Disclosure Mortgage...
Tue, Oct 14 2014, 1:58 PM
In July Sam Khater, an
economist at CoreLogic, wrote about the comeback of the condo market
and how construction of units had increased from pos...
Tue, Oct 14 2014, 1:07 PM
Three of the country's largest banks announced
their profits for the third quarter on Tuesday.
For Wells Fargo and Citigroup profits increased comp...
Thu, Oct 9 2014, 10:29 AM
Applications for mortgages with which to
purchase new homes in September were essential unchanged in volume from August the
Mortgage Bankers Associa...
Thu, Oct 9 2014, 2:31 PM
Home equity lines of credit or HELOCs
accounted for over 15 percent of all 2014 home loan originations through the
end of August. RealtyTrac, whi...
Wed, Oct 8 2014, 10:44 AM
Mortgage application volume increased last week for the first time since
the week ended September 12. The
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said...
Tue, Oct 7 2014, 10:34 AM
Nine states established new price peaks
in August CoreLogic said today. The
company's August Home Price Index which includes distressed sales was...
Tue, Oct 7 2014, 2:47 PM
A recent audit of the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB) found that it was doing a good job in general in its role of
regulatory rule-mak...
Tue, Oct 7 2014, 2:20 PM
Fannie Mae said its September National
Housing Survey noted a rebound in consumer housing optimism after a dip was
recorded in August. Most indic...
Mon, Oct 6 2014, 3:45 PM
The average age of a mortgage loan outstanding in
2014 is the highest in history Black Knight Financial Services said today. While the age of mort...
Fri, Oct 3 2014, 1:33 PM
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of
the Federal Reserve System released a report on Thursday critical of the way in
which the Board (and by ext...
Fri, Oct 3 2014, 1:29 PM
Business media are having a lot of fun
today over a throw-away remark Ben Bernanke made yesterday. In a question and answer session with Moody
An...
Thu, Oct 2 2014, 10:59 AM
Along with its monthly report on mortgage credit
availability (MCAI) the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has introduced two
new measures, a conv...
Thu, Oct 2 2014, 1:30 PM
CoreLogic said this morning that over
the last 10 years the number of completed foreclosures in the U.S. has been the
equivalent of 15 percent of a...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 10:58 AM
A lawsuit challenging the manner in
which profits from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) have been allocated to
the U.S. Treasury was dismisse...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 10:19 AM
Last week was another down week for
mortgage applications according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Its Weekly Mortgage Applications Surv...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 1:04 PM
Total construction spending in the U.S.
in August was estimated by the Census Bureau today to be at the seasonally
adjusted annual rate of $961.0 bi...
Tue, Sep 30 2014, 10:48 AM
There was what the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
called "a significant slowdown in price increases in July S&P Dow
Jones Indices said today....
