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It is our first glance at home prices in the new year and CoreLogic estimates the rate of appreciation has fallen by more than 2 percentage points since January 2018. However, the company also predicts a small uptick in the rate of increase over the next 12 months. CoreLogic's Home Price Insights report for January has an increase in its Home Price Index (HPI), which includes sales of distressed properties, of 0.1 percent from December 2018 to January and puts it 4.4 percent higher than the previous January. The HPI gained 6.6 percent in the 12 months that ended in January 2018. The company's President and CEO Frank Martell said, "The slowing growth in home prices was inevitable in many respects as buyers pull back in the face of higher borrowing and ownership costs. As we head into 2019, we
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It is our first glance at home prices in the new year and CoreLogic estimates the rate of appreciation has fallen by more than 2 percentage points since January 2018. However, the company also predicts a small uptick in the rate of increase over the ... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Equal pay rates and equality for men and women in the U.S.? Nope – our world ranking isn’t so hot. Turns out, however, that the construction industry is one business where women are “shattering the glass ceiling” and making th... (read more)
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Housing News
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Analysts were not expecting new home sales in December to outpace the strong and surprising gains they made in November, when they jumped 16.9 percent. They managed to be both right and wrong. Sales were up from November by 3.7 percent, to a seasonal... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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It may seem a bit counter-intuitive to be talking up economic data in light of last week's bond sell-off. Friday saw weaker-than-expected consumer spending and sentiment as well as the lowest ISM Manufacturing PMI in more than 2 years. No... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates finally caught their breath today after rising quickly in the second half of last week. Specifically, the average lender managed to avoid getting any worse. Considering the past few business days, that's a victory. But is it as much of... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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As we watched bond markets sell-off abruptly last week, the best case scenario would have been that the selling was overdone and that we would soon be settling-in to the wider sideways range we expected to see in early March.
Why did we expect a w... (read more)
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