Tue, Apr 22 2014, 1:57 PM
Recent postings on CoreLogic's Insights Blog have a couple of
different views of some of the housing numbers generally taken at face value by
...
Mon, Apr 21 2014, 9:36 AM
Home remodeling remains strong
throughout the country although it has begun to experience some of the
moderation that has been predicted since lat...
Thu, Apr 17 2014, 10:38 AM
Homes with serious negative equity
numbers have now declined to the lowest point in at least two years RealtyTrac
said today. The company, which ...
Thu, Apr 17 2014, 9:53 AM
Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report said today that 40 percent of mortgage
loans closed in March were originated for refinancing and 60 percen...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 12:10 PM
Two of the three measures of residential
construction activity used by the Census Bureau fell slightly in March. Fewer permits were issued and few...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 9:20 AM
Use of secured loans or advances from the 12 Federal Home
Loan Banks (FHLBanks) by their four largest members has surged over the last
two years. ...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 7:00 AM
Mortgage applications reversed a five week slide during the week ended
April 11 as applications for both purchasing and refinancing increased from ...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 11:45 AM
The National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) rose to 47 this month,
indicating a slight improvement in th...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 10:49 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
estimated today that there was a 15 percent increase in applications for new
home purchases in March compar...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 10:45 AM
Another survey has found a slight
overall improvement in consumer attitudes toward the economy. The New York Federal Reserve Bank said that
its mo...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 12:42 PM
Health care costs aren't rising fast enough for the Fed's liking, and
that may help keep interest rates lower for longer. But is the problem
one ...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 11:26 AM
Two of the nation's largest banks
released their first quarter earnings on Thursday. The results of one outpaced analysts'
expectations while the o...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 1:58 PM
HOPE Now, founded in 2007 as an early
response to the growing threat of foreclosures, continues to negotiate loan
modifications in double-digit numb...
Thu, Apr 10 2014, 1:26 PM
RealtyTrac reported today that an
uptick in foreclosure starts last month drove an overall increase in the nation's
foreclosure activity. There w...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 10:41 AM
Friday
we can look forward to Chase and Wells' earnings . Although their market
share has been slipping, given their collective place in the indu...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 9:15 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's Market
Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application activity, inched down again during the week ended April ...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 1:45 PM
Although the second home mortgage market
experienced a severe decline during the housing downturn, Americans still
aspire to buy second homes and ha...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 12:30 PM
In a recent blog post written by Molly Boesel CoreLogic
questions the true role of the recent severe weather in a lag in single family
housing sta...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 10:17 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) noted this morning that mortgage
credit was slightly more available in March than it was in February. The Ass...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 3:25 PM
Mortgages for multifamily properties outpaced other
commercial and multifamily mortgage originations in 2013 the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 12:22 PM
Black
Knight Financial Services said that mortgage originations at the end of
February were at the lowest levels in at least 14 years , as far back...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 11:00 AM
The Obama Administration's February
Housing Scorecard, just released, harkens back to those not so thrilling days
of yesteryear, using data from sev...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 2:21 PM
The National Association of Home
Builders' (NAHB)/First American Leading Market Index (LMI) was unchanged from
March to April , remaining at 59 met...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 1:30 PM
Fannie Mae sees results from its most recent National
Housing Survey (NHS) as possibly portending a pickup in home buying and selling
activity this ...
Fri, Apr 4 2014, 2:20 PM
More potential buyers are out trolling the nation's neighborhoods
for their dream homes. Unfortunately, they are finding little to look at
and, ev...
Thu, Apr 3 2014, 12:46 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) was assailed by Republican members of the House Financial Services
Committee and by two witnesses fo...
Thu, Apr 3 2014, 9:25 AM
There were a total of 43,000 completed foreclosure in February, CoreLogic
said today. This was 15 percent fewer
than in February 2013 when forecl...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 10:55 AM
Vacation home purchases recovered
strongly in 2013, helping to offset some of the inevitable flagging interest in
investment purchases the Nationa...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 8:56 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that mortgage applications decreased
again during the week ended March 28, The seasonally adjusted M...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 1:51 PM
The government sponsored enterprises
(GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued active foreclosure prevention
activities in the fourth quarter of 2...
Tue, Apr 1 2014, 10:31 AM
Home
prices continue to increase by double digit percentages on a year-over-year
basis CoreLogic said today. The
company's Home Price Index (HPI...
Tue, Apr 1 2014, 1:08 PM
Beginning yesterday morning, the most widely-used Loan Origination Software (LOS) has been offline. Ellie Mae estimates their Encompass platform
...
Mon, Mar 31 2014, 3:48 PM
Dr. Kenneth Rosen, Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate
and Urban Economics and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkley emerges
as ...
Fri, Mar 28 2014, 2:34 PM
CoreLogic Chief Economist Mark
Fleming suggests that an examination of housing's one-percenters might be as valuable
an analysis as a glance at th...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 10:43 AM
The National Association of Realtors®
(NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) for February added more confirmation of a
slowing home housing market. ...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 10:23 AM
The former top executive of Bank of
America (the Bank) was a named party in a settlement between the bank and the
State of New York announced on W...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 10:19 AM
Home
sales continue to cool , dipping to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08
million in February RealtyTrac said today.
This was a -0.2 per...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 4:53 PM
Strong response to an earlier limited incentive offer for home buyers has prompted the Fannie Mae HomePath® Program to briefly extend the offer's de...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 8:55 AM
There were
continued indications during the week ended March 21 of the anticipated 2014
decrease in mortgage volume and the market's gradual shift t...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 4:49 PM
Profits pocketed by independent banks
and banks' mortgage subsidiaries plunged in the fourth quarter of 2013 the
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 3:01 PM
Freddie Mac and its economists would
like to answer the old question "are we there yet?" with "there" in this case
meaning anywhere close to a norma...
Tue, Mar 25 2014, 10:56 AM
After rising by a revised 3.2 percent January, New Home Sales
fell 3.3 percent in February according to data released today by The
Census Bureau...
Tue, Mar 25 2014, 9:46 AM
The current plan to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would result in lower housing prices for everyone. It would harm the United Stat...
Mon, Mar 24 2014, 10:26 AM
Parse Janet Yellen's comments any way you want, but know one thing: This is likely to be an interesting year for bond investors.
Financial market...
Mon, Mar 24 2014, 1:03 PM
Black
Knight Financial Services (formerly Lender Processing Services) reports that
home values in the U.S. as of December remained within 14 percen...
Thu, Mar 20 2014, 11:56 AM
Existing Home Sales, which are completed transactions for
single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, continued
trending lower in Feb...
Wed, Mar 19 2014, 8:11 AM
Mortgage applications fell slightly percent during the week ended March 14. According to MBA's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey the
Market Compos...
Wed, Mar 19 2014, 1:59 PM
Among closed loans in February, the share of refinances fell to 43 percent
from 47 percent in January, and from 68 percent in February 2013,
acc...
Wed, Mar 19 2014, 1:52 PM
Consumers planning to jump into the real estate market this spring will need to reassess pricing, whether they are looking to buy or sell.
The s...
Tue, Mar 18 2014, 3:07 PM
Three non-profit homeowner counseling
organizations have sued California Governor Jerry Brown, charging that the
state had diverted 369 million dol...
