Wed, Sep 23 2015, 10:48 AM
How bad is the housing market in San Francisco, California? Well, here's a "beauty" that is on the market for $350,000 . Run that one by any investor...
Tue, Sep 8 2015, 3:00 PM
Fannie
Mae's Economic & Strategic Research Group have taken the company's National
Housing Survey (NHS), conducted since 2011, and attempted to dist...
Fri, Aug 28 2015, 1:39 PM
Fannie Mae has published a set of changes to its Selling Guide . The changes affect verification of
self-employed income , Home-Style Renovation l...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 11:32 AM
Yesterday
I attended the California Association of Mortgage Professionals
conference in Southern California, and was talking to a buddy who works ...
Fri, Aug 7 2015, 8:06 PM
Negativity was pervasive in the results of Fannie Mae's July
National Housing Survey (NHS).
Respondents indicated falling expectations about the ec...
Thu, Jul 23 2015, 3:20 PM
Despite
improved consumer spending and stronger residential and non-residential
investments Fannie Mae's Economic and Strategic Research team are ho...
Tue, Jul 14 2015, 10:28 AM
June marked the beginning of hurricane season , as the North Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 st and ends November 30 th .
The last time ...
Fri, Jul 10 2015, 1:01 PM
One of the biggest challenges
(and greatest opportunities) loan officers face today is the maze of constantly
changing guidelines, programs, and pol...
Wed, Jul 8 2015, 4:08 PM
Another milestone was reached on Wednesday as the government
sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and their conservator the Federal Housing Finance
Agency m...
Tue, Jul 7 2015, 12:23 PM
Are you in debt? You're not alone - and check out this United States debt clock - enough to make your stomach turn over.
Back in February the Col...
Wed, Jul 1 2015, 4:07 PM
Highlights from the most recent update to Fannie's Selling Guide:
Conversion of
Principal Residence Requirements
At the height of the
finan...
Wed, Jun 3 2015, 11:01 AM
There
is plenty of dialog and discussion in the lending industry. Certainly some of the conversation
involves the fact that, for the popular pres...
Wed, May 27 2015, 2:47 PM
Fannie Mae
has issued a slew of updates, clarifications, and extensions affecting its Selling Guide . Announcement SEL-2015-06 includes the followi...
Fri, May 22 2015, 1:42 PM
Fannie
Mae's economists used their May economic and strategic summary to downgrade
expectations for 2015 growth but at the same time painted a slig...
Thu, May 7 2015, 3:57 PM
Fannie Mae said on Thursday that while
the results of its April National Housing Survey showed some improvement in housing
sentiment, it was "likely...
Mon, May 4 2015, 9:53 AM
By
now the remains of the pizza lunches for everyone working OT to deliver
a successful April have been cleared away, and lenders are optimistic
...
Fri, Apr 17 2015, 10:48 AM
Since inflation doesn't exist much anymore in the economy, how about in your garage ? Detroit has plenty of empty garages and so the city announced a...
Tue, Apr 14 2015, 4:03 PM
First-time homebuyers seeking to buy a house through Fannie
Mae's HomePath ® program can
receive a significant hand-up from a new program the com...
Wed, Apr 8 2015, 3:50 PM
If data from Fannie Mae's March National Housing Survey is
any indication, consumers seem to have grown a bit uneasy as many of the positive
respo...
Wed, Mar 18 2015, 10:40 AM
What is the Willis Tower? I don't know, but the $1.3 billion Sears Tower , complete with a $775 million loan, was sold to Blackstone.
The WSJ repor...
Tue, Mar 10 2015, 2:03 PM
The percentage of consumers believing the economy is on the right track finally crossed paths with those who say the economy is on the wrong track i...
Thu, Mar 5 2015, 4:38 PM
In a speech on Thursday the director of the Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) emphasized one of the three familiar goals of his agency's
2015 ...
Wed, Feb 25 2015, 9:27 AM
Although
the focus of this 6-day a week commentary is residential, it is good to
have an awareness of commercial lending - especially as it compet...
Fri, Feb 20 2015, 1:33 PM
Like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae has
also reported a profitable fourth quarter of 2014 and a profitable year. The company had both net and comprehensive...
Thu, Jan 29 2015, 10:45 AM
"Rob, I just heard of a major lender offering an internal incentive for originating FHA streamline refinances .
The bonus is 100 bps on top of thei...
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, 1:14 PM
Once again, bond markets find themselves in weaker territory simply due to the corrective forces that follow strong rallies, and once again, resilient...
Fri, Jan 2 2015, 10:27 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau projected the United States population to be 320.1 million as of yesterday.
(And no, not all of them contribute to NAR.) Th...
Tue, Dec 23 2014, 10:34 AM
Let's talk about the $26 billion in equity gain
in Colorado in 2014 - Rocky Mountain High! What are not gaining are the
stock prices of non-ban...
Wed, Dec 17 2014, 10:53 AM
For
folks who like paper and documentation, in 2015 nearby Iowa (I am in
Kansas for a few days) will become the first state to offer an official
...
Fri, Nov 21 2014, 10:44 AM
In New York, the New York Mortgage Bankers Association's website
is now live. The group is functioning and has already had meetings with
DFS, so...
Wed, Nov 19 2014, 10:56 AM
Seattle's Zillow has published good news for the real estate industry . Its report
regarding hidden households and future housing activity indica...
Mon, Nov 10 2014, 2:11 PM
Consumer attitudes toward housing and the
economy in general continued the slow improvement that has become the norm according
to results from the...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 1:43 PM
Both Freddie Mac
and Fannie Mae released third quarter financial results on Thursday. The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs)
each reported tha...
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...
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...
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...
Tue, Sep 23 2014, 12:58 PM
Fannie
Mae's economists are painting a much improved picture for the economy in the
coming months with encouraging news in the area of business in...
Fri, Aug 29 2014, 10:11 AM
Cleverness
is alive and well in lending, and the "free Russian cat with your loan
funding" story yesterday brought a few e-mails. Chris L. contrib...
Tue, Aug 12 2014, 4:44 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) moved another step closer on Tuesday to its strategic goal of issuing a
single mortgage-backed security...
Fri, Aug 8 2014, 3:08 PM
The gap between Americans who think it
is a good time to buy a house and those who feel it is a good time to sell
narrowed by six percentage points ...
Mon, Aug 4 2014, 10:44 AM
Are you an appraiser ? Maybe you should be honored: there are fewer and fewer of you every year, and your ranks are down to 80,500 nationwide . Ther...
Wed, Jul 30 2014, 10:18 AM
There
are plenty of ways to divvy up people (those who like soggy cereal,
those that don't, those that can form their tongue into an "o", and
th...
Wed, Jul 23 2014, 12:58 PM
The theme for the economy and the
housing market's in 2014 has been set for months; the economy will
continue to slowly strengthen; the modest reco...
Tue, Jul 1 2014, 10:47 AM
Yes, smaller lenders sue each other. The latest verdict announced was a decision between Stearns and Prospect Mortgage . And we have the latest set...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 3:24 PM
Almost one year ago Mark Palim, Fannie
Mae's Vice President of Applied Economic and Housing Research, analyzed what impact rising
rates might hav...
Thu, Jun 19 2014, 10:26 AM
"My
friend has a lifesaving tool in her car which is designed to cut
through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the car trunk."
So...
Thu, May 29 2014, 1:31 PM
Real estate agents will soon be able
to negotiate terms of a short sale directly with Fannie Mae rather than
communicating through servicers. Thi...
Tue, May 13 2014, 1:00 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) will not use its conservatorship authority to reduce current conforming
loan limits. FHFA Director Melv...
Thu, Apr 24 2014, 10:18 AM
It
is "bring your kid to work" day. Some kids are fascinated with how much
others make. They grow up to be underwriters . Others are fascinated
...
