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CoreLogic says house price increases picked up the pace again in February. After the rate of appreciation dipped from 7.2 percent for the 12 months ended in December, to 6.9 percent annually in January it appeared the long-awaited price deceleration had begun. A similar downturn had been noted in January for indexes maintained by Black Knight Financial Services and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) although S&P Case Shiller's index rose for the month. The monthly indices were mixed. CoreLogic's HPI for February, however, shows the rate of appreciation on the rise again. The company puts the January to February change at 1.0 percent, it was 0.7 percent in January, and the increase from February 2016 at 7.0 percent. CoreLogic also provides a forecast for price changes on both a monthly
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CoreLogic says house price increases picked up the pace again in February. After the rate of appreciation dipped from 7.2 percent for the 12 months ended in December, to 6.9 percent annually in January it appeared the long-awaited price deceleration ... (read more) |
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates fell fairly quickly today as investors adjusted bond market holdings for the new month (higher demand for bonds coincides with lower rates). Money managers have to hold a certain mix of bonds by the end of any given month and are then ... (read more) |
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Rob Chrisman
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How much free time do you have? Not much? You’re not alone, as this story points out, "The rich were meant to have the most leisure time. The working poor were meant to have the least. The opposite is happening. Why?" An interesting skim for an... (read more) |
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MBS Commentary
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Yesterday's bond market activity suggested that traders definitely had some sort of agenda that went beyond a mere punching of the clock. Even with China being out on holiday, volumes were very high --especially for a Monday. Then there ... (read more) |
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MBS Commentary
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From an analytical standpoint, today's trading session was not well-behaved or easy to assess (I saw several iterations of "no one has any idea what happened today" around analysts' campfires). Bonds began the day in relatively unchanged terr... (read more) |
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Housing News
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Spending on residential buildings fared better than overall construction spending in February. The U.S. Census Bureau said on Monday that expenditures for all construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.19 trillion during the month, a... (read more) |
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