Wed, Nov 30 2016, 1:35 PM
Interest rates are, quite naturally, the focus of Freddie Mac's November Outlook. The company's Economic & Housing Research Group looked at the potent...
Fri, Nov 25 2016, 10:40 AM
CoreLogic says it is now able to closely track household mobility through various data sets including property taxes and sales transactions. Some coun...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 10:49 AM
New home sales failed to build on their September momentum, although the October downturn was not a large one. The Census Bureau and the Department of...
Tue, Nov 22 2016, 11:27 AM
October existing home sales added to September's rebound, rising to the highest annualized pace in nearly a decade . The National Association of Realt...
Tue, Nov 22 2016, 3:06 PM
All-cash sales represented 31.1 of the total home sales recorded in August, according to a CoreLogic report on cash and distressed home sales. This wa...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:11 PM
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes was unchanged in November, based on data gathered before the election. The Nation...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 10:55 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is estimating that the pace of new home sales slowed slightly in October compared to the previous month. Its Bu...
Thu, Oct 27 2016, 10:47 AM
Pending home sales bounced back in September after falling by 2.5 percent in August the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said on Thursday. NAR'...
Wed, Oct 26 2016, 10:49 AM
New home sales resumed their upward march in September, rising above August sales which had retreated significantly from a near decade-long high of 62...
Tue, Oct 25 2016, 11:05 AM
Price gains accelerated in August, rising more year-over-year than they did in July according to data released today by both the Federal Housing Finan...
Fri, Oct 21 2016, 10:51 AM
Deja vu all over again? Freddie Mac says economic growth is recovering from a weak first half of the year, the labor market is holding steady and Fed ...
Thu, Oct 20 2016, 10:55 AM
There is a lot of upbeat news in the September existing home sales report released by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) on Thursday. Sales r...
Wed, Oct 19 2016, 2:46 PM
This month CoreLogic has combined their cash sales and distressed sales data into a single report rather than the two they have issued each month sinc...
Wed, Oct 19 2016, 2:38 PM
Fannie Mae says it expect economic growth will improve on its anemic performance in the first half of 2016 in the second half of the year, rising to 2...
Tue, Oct 18 2016, 10:48 AM
The Housing Market Index (HMI), a measure of home builder confidence in the new home market, gave back a bit of its September surge this month. The Na...
Fri, Oct 14 2016, 12:53 PM
Sales of newly constructed homes ticked up 7 percent in September when compared on a non-seasonally adjusted basis to August according to the Mortgage...
Mon, Oct 3 2016, 2:24 PM
In its "first look" at August mortgage performance data Black Knight noted that the Single Month Mortality (SMM) or prepayment rate for the month had ...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 10:51 AM
Pending home sales were unable to sustain the slight upward tick experienced in July and resumed their downward trend in August, declining by 2.4 perc...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 2:06 PM
The lack of housing affordability is rising among the 414 U.S. counties tracked by ATTOM Data Solutions. ATTOM, the new parent company of RealtyTrac, ...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 2:01 PM
Sales of distressed homes, both lender-owned properties (REO) and short-sales continue to decline but are still at levels nearly four times what is co...
Wed, Sep 28 2016, 10:32 AM
The all-cash share of residential sales dipped below 30 percent in June, the first time this has happened since 2007. CoreLogic said on Tuesday that c...
Wed, Sep 28 2016, 10:29 AM
To understand the top-line story in the Urban Institute's (UI's) latest Chartbook released on Monday one has to go back to another UI paper published ...
Mon, Sep 26 2016, 11:00 AM
After a spectacular run for new home sales in July, it was anticipated that August activity would be considerably more modest. While sales did retrenc...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 11:09 AM
Sales of existing homes slowed for the second consecutive month in August according to data released on Thursday by the National Association of Realto...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 9:54 AM
Home price increases appear to have accelerated in most of the country in July as compared to June according to data released on Thursday by the Feder...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 5:04 PM
If nothing else, the headline of this months' Outlook from Freddie Mac was a grabber. "Mortgage Originations Poised to Surge," it read, and what follo...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 10:15 AM
Fannie Mae says that early bets on third quarter economic growth are around 3.0 percent which has the Federal Reserve talking again about raising the ...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 10:50 AM
After half a year of barely budging the Housing Market Index (HMI ) surged by six points in September. The index, jointly sponsored by the National As...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 10:19 AM
You’ve made it to “Talk like a Pirate” day. Many lenders are saying, “Arrggghh” when it comes to appraisals. Mike Simmons with Axis AMC put some thing...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 12:25 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that sales of newly constructed homes increased by 5.0 percent in August compared to July. The estima...
Fri, Sep 9 2016, 3:00 PM
The U.S. housing market continues to move ahead, but a generation of homebuyers is being left behind . That's the conclusion of an analysis of homeown...
Wed, Sep 7 2016, 1:36 PM
So what is going on with residential construction? We hear constantly that inventories are too tight , especially at the lower price levels, new home ...
Wed, Aug 31 2016, 10:47 AM
Despite some predictions that pending home sales would fall in July, they actually rose modestly to reach their second highest level in over a decade....
Tue, Aug 30 2016, 12:40 PM
The share of total home sales made up by distressed properties is now one-quarter the level it was in January 2009. CoreLogic reports that in May the ...
Thu, Aug 25 2016, 1:06 PM
While the both the investor share of home sales and the share represented by distressed properties are setting post-crash lows, the share of cash sale...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 11:15 AM
" Frustratingly low inventory levels in many parts of the country" take the blame from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) for a drop in July ...
Tue, Aug 23 2016, 11:21 AM
Rather than the month-over-month decline expected, July new home sales soared above 600,000 units for the first time since late 2007. The U.S. Census ...
Fri, Aug 19 2016, 11:22 AM
Fannie Mae said it is maintaining its forecast for 2016's GDP at the same 1.8 percent it forecasted in July despite the fact second quarter growth cam...
Wed, Aug 17 2016, 11:42 AM
Touting its record of on-target estimate, CoreLogic has again anticipated the official conclusions about 2015 mortgage originations in advance of the ...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 10:32 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) improved slightly in August, but remained within the narrow ra...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 4:15 PM
Strong home sales, near-historic low interest rates, a burst of refinancing, and continued home price growth are moving Freddie Mac's economic team to...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 11:25 AM
As
the housing boom ended rents for single-family homes also crashed, going from
annual growth of better than 2 percent in late 2007 to -3 percent b...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 9:23 AM
Are those Americans who lost their homes to
foreclosure permanently turned off of home ownership? CoreLogic's Senior Economist Kristine Yao
looke...
Wed, Aug 3 2016, 9:27 AM
Huh? There is now a
robot that can build a house in two days ?
Sounds pretty good to me... It is certainly a step toward lessening the labor
const...
Thu, Jul 28 2016, 4:59 PM
Cash sales continued to account for a significant
portion of all home sales in April.
CoreLogic said on Wednesday that 31.6 percent of home sales t...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 10:39 AM
Pending home sales eked out, although only barely, an
increase in June after a falling by an unexpectedly large percentage in
May. The National Ass...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 8:51 AM
One of the biggest challenges faced by business owners today is attracting and retaining great people. Millennials and those with diverse ethnic backg...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 10:37 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes posted a gain in June, rising 3.5 percent from the May estimate. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 9:13 AM
The capital markets are always changing, and the latest news to turn some heads is that JPMorgan Chase is streamlining its operations and will no lon...
Mon, Jul 25 2016, 9:47 AM
Every day we have news coming out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Some of the news is attempts at changing the structure of the two – being under gover...
