Mon, Jul 30 2018, 10:21 AM
Pending home sales rose marginally again in June, beating the National Association of Realtors® (NAR's) Pending Home Sale Index (PHSI) for the previou...
Wed, Jul 25 2018, 10:38 AM
New home sales have adopted an up and down pattern since March and continued in that trend in June. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housi...
Mon, Jul 23 2018, 12:11 PM
While official existing home sales data, released this morning by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), showed the sector's losing streak exten...
Mon, Jul 23 2018, 10:59 AM
Existing home sales extended their losing streak to three months in June. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said that single-family homes, t...
Fri, Jul 20 2018, 10:03 AM
Fannie Mae's economists have upgraded their second quarter economic forecast but say that may be about it for the year . In their July forecast, the c...
Thu, Jul 12 2018, 2:57 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is projecting a decline in new home sales for June, putting them significantly behind those in June 2017. MBA's...
Wed, Jun 27 2018, 10:21 AM
The number of new contracts for existing home sales barely made it onto the bottom rung of analysts' expectations in May. The National Association of ...
Mon, Jun 25 2018, 2:50 PM
There was plenty of foreshadowing, but Fannie Mae's Chief Economist Doug Duncan said last week that cost-cutting has risen as a priority for mortgage ...
Mon, Jun 25 2018, 10:43 AM
The sales of new homes surged in May, outpacing the consensus of expectations, and while one months' data is just that, both median and average home p...
Thu, Jun 21 2018, 10:26 AM
There has been a lot of hand-wringing for going on two years or so about the incredible shrinking inventory of homes for sale . This week CoreLogic an...
Wed, Jun 20 2018, 10:55 AM
Analysts were expecting existing home sales to rebound in May after they fell behind year-ago levels in April. However, the National Association of Re...
Tue, Jun 19 2018, 8:35 AM
Despite a slowing rate of economic growth in the second estimate for the first quarter, Fannie Mae's economists are holding firm in their forecast for...
Mon, Jun 18 2018, 10:22 AM
Builder confidence in the market for new single-family homes ended a three-month slide in May , as the Housing Market Index ticked up two points. This...
Thu, Jun 14 2018, 2:24 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is projecting a decline in new home sales in May. Its computation is based on information from its Builder Appl...
Fri, Jun 8 2018, 10:05 AM
Despite declining consumer confidence about buying a home, Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) hit a second consecutive survey high in ...
Thu, May 31 2018, 10:10 AM
Pending home sales, like both new and existing home sales reported earlier this month, posted an April loss. The National Association of Realtors® sai...
Fri, May 25 2018, 10:18 AM
The May edition of Freddie Mac's monthly Outlook , produced by its Economic & Housing Research Group, is focused on the resiliency of the American hom...
Fri, May 25 2018, 8:10 AM
CoreLogic says flipping is back. The term applies to the act of buying, renovating and/or repairing a house, then reselling it, all within a short tim...
Thu, May 24 2018, 11:00 AM
Existing home sales put an end to two straight months of gains , retreating in April on both a monthly and annual basis. The National Association of R...
Thu, May 24 2018, 10:29 AM
Home prices in the first quarter of 2018 were 1.7 percent higher than at the end of the fourth quarter of last year. The Federal Housing Finance Agenc...
Thu, May 24 2018, 9:08 AM
Fannie Mae is backing down slightly on its economic forecast for the remainder of 2018. The first quarter GDP growth of 2.3 percent was the slowest in...
Wed, May 23 2018, 10:44 AM
New home sales dipped in April, a reversal that was expected by many analysts . The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Develop...
Fri, May 18 2018, 9:09 AM
In the face of continuing inventory shortages, declining consumer sentiment in favor of buying a home, and concern about the homeownership impacts of ...
Tue, May 15 2018, 10:37 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo said on Tuesday that builder confidence in the new home market ticked up two points o...
Mon, May 14 2018, 11:58 AM
Not only did the pace of home price increases quicken nationally during the first quarter of 2018, but the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) sai...
Thu, May 10 2018, 4:21 PM
Applications for new home purchase mortgages slowed significantly in April when compared to March the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Thurs...
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10:34 AM
It wasn't much of a gain , even missing analysts' predictions, but given the recent performance of the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), any positive c...
Tue, Apr 24 2018, 11:24 AM
New home sales continue to improve after grim reports in December and January. New home sales posted a solid gain in March, and revisions to the Febru...
Mon, Apr 23 2018, 2:09 PM
Freddie Mac's economists say, "The broader economic environment remains favorable for home sales," but they add a lot of caveats to that statement . S...
Mon, Apr 23 2018, 10:56 AM
Existing-home sales seemed to have reclaimed their footing, posting their second consecutive gain after two straight months of declines. The National ...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 9:32 AM
Fewer homes on the market are affordable than a year ago, and fewer households can afford them with their current income. The National Association of ...
Tue, Apr 17 2018, 12:27 PM
Fannie Mae's economists remain upbeat about economic growth in the medium term but said on Monday that they see increasing downside risks. In its Marc...
Thu, Apr 12 2018, 12:20 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicting a strong increase in new home sales in March. Its Builder Application Survey (BAS), conducted wit...
Tue, Apr 3 2018, 9:54 AM
The amount of equity available for tapping by homeowners hit a new recent high in February . Meanwhile, mortgage prepayment rates (how quickly owners ...
Wed, Mar 28 2018, 10:39 AM
While it didn't serve to completely recoup the 4.7 percent loss in January, pending home sales did snap back strongly in February . The National Assoc...
Fri, Mar 23 2018, 12:34 PM
There was much better news in February than in January regarding new home sales. Those sales had been reported down by 7.8 percent on top of a 9.3 per...
Thu, Mar 22 2018, 10:07 AM
Home prices took a big leap in January , at least according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) seasonally adjusted House Price Index (HP...
Wed, Mar 21 2018, 11:01 AM
Sales of existing homes reversed direction in February after sliding for two consecutive months. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said comp...
Tue, Mar 20 2018, 11:53 AM
Fannie Mae has lowered its forecast for first quarter 2018 growth from 2.9 to 2.8 percent due to " lackluster consumer spending and nonresidential and...
Thu, Mar 15 2018, 10:32 AM
Home builder confidence ebbed slightly in March, but according to the National Association of Home Builders, it remains in "strong territory." NAHB's ...
Tue, Mar 13 2018, 11:04 AM
New home sales are projected to have increased again in February. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that based on its Builder Applications S...
Wed, Feb 28 2018, 10:15 AM
Pending home sales took a deep dive in January, falling to their lowest level in over three years . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said i...
Wed, Feb 28 2018, 9:28 AM
A recent Freddie Mac Insights article looks back at earlier incidences of rising rate environments, and how the higher rates affected several populati...
Tue, Feb 27 2018, 10:25 AM
Like one of those one-a-decade astrological anomalies, issuance of three home price reports for December along with a quarterly summary coincided toda...
Mon, Feb 26 2018, 10:44 AM
New home sales fell again in January, although not quite as sharply as in December . Stalling sales in recent months has now dragged the annual rate b...
Mon, Feb 26 2018, 9:22 AM
It was nice while it lasted, but the long run of historically low mortgage rates is clearly coming to an end. This month Freddie Mac's Outlook looks b...
Wed, Feb 21 2018, 11:16 AM
Sales of existing homes fell again in January, the second consecutive month-over-month decline. Sales of pre-owned single-family homes, townhomes, con...
Fri, Feb 16 2018, 12:36 PM
Some people are never happy . For most of the ten years following the start of the Great Recession the experts have focused (can we say harped?) on th...
Wed, Feb 14 2018, 9:33 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is forecasting a sizable jump in new home sales in January. Based on responses to its Builder Application Surve...
Tue, Feb 13 2018, 11:42 AM
While home price increases softened slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said, an uptick in existi...
