Fri, Nov 14 2014, 12:44 PM
Although cash sales ticked up slightly in August, a
pattern that has been maintained for 14 of the last 15 years, that share of all
home sales conti...
Thu, Nov 13 2014, 9:56 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) noted a significant
increase in new home sales in October.
MBA's estimate is based on responses to its Bui...
Fri, Nov 7 2014, 1:31 PM
I was struck by a comment made by the Mortgage Bankers’ Association President David Stevens last week: "It's time to acknowledge all the safeguard...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 2:07 PM
Institutional
investor participation in the single family residential market fell another
notch in the third quarter of 2014. RealtyTrac
said to...
Wed, Nov 5 2014, 10:40 AM
If
you don't think that the gap between the haves and have-nots is
widening, Forbes reports about 50% of global wealth is controlled by 1%
of th...
Thu, Oct 30 2014, 12:30 PM
"A real estate market that should be flying high is
instead a real estate market that is faltering ," according to Brian Mushaney,
Executive Vice...
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 10:59 AM
August data released this morning by S&P Dow Jones Indices reveals that, while home prices throughout the U.S. continue to increase, the rapid pace ...
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 10:53 AM
This
is the season that CEOs are asking underlings for 2015 projections, and
of course no one wants to tell the boss that volume is going to go
...
Mon, Oct 27 2014, 10:40 AM
Pending home sales, while increasing
only slightly in September, exceeded those of a year earlier, the first time in
11 months this has occurred. ...
Mon, Oct 27 2014, 10:38 AM
The
Fed reports home ownership among families with a head of household
younger than 40 years old have fallen from about 50% from 2005 to 42%
tod...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 12:33 PM
New home sales increased only slightly in September,
up 0.2 percent over August, bringing the annual rate of those sales to
467,000. Sales were up ...
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...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 10:55 AM
According
to Zillow Real Estate Research, home ownership rates among millennials
have declined over the past four decades mainly due to changing...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 7:22 AM
We approached Thursday's session with a mainstream viewpoint and alternative, more bullish possibilities to consider. The mainstream viewpoint (amo...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 10:49 AM
If I was going to build a house, I'd want to make sure it was on the right lot. For some folks that doesn't work out so well
- thanks to Ali F. fo...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 8:52 AM
Falling interest rate precipitated a
major refinancing rally during the week ended October 17 even though Columbus
Day shortened the business weeks ...
Tue, Oct 21 2014, 11:44 AM
Existing home sales, which ended four
straight months of gains with a 1.8 percent decline in August, bounced back in
September the National Associat...
Tue, Oct 21 2014, 10:57 AM
I
was dealt a serious setback yesterday here at the MBA conference, being
held in the immense Four Seasons, Mandalay, Delano, conference center
...
Mon, Oct 20 2014, 9:57 AM
I
brought a set of workout clothes to the MBA conference, which turned
out to be a waste because we're all burning lots of calories dashing to
m...
Thu, Oct 16 2014, 12:50 PM
The National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) said on Thursday that sentiment among its new home builder
members reversed course in October, with...
Thu, Oct 16 2014, 1:28 PM
The share of home purchased with all-cash is continuing
to drop, but even with a -3.0 percentage point change between July 2013 and July
2014 they s...
Tue, Oct 14 2014, 1:58 PM
In July Sam Khater, an
economist at CoreLogic, wrote about the comeback of the condo market
and how construction of units had increased from pos...
Thu, Oct 9 2014, 10:29 AM
Applications for mortgages with which to
purchase new homes in September were essential unchanged in volume from August the
Mortgage Bankers Associa...
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...
Mon, Oct 6 2014, 10:11 AM
Marriott
was fined $600,000 by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for
blocking hotel customers from connecting to the internet on personal...
Tue, Sep 30 2014, 11:00 AM
How did we arrive at the end of the 3 rd
quarter so quickly? It has been filled with legal news about the
financial services sector right up to...
Tue, Sep 30 2014, 10:48 AM
There was what the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
called "a significant slowdown in price increases in July S&P Dow
Jones Indices said today....
Mon, Sep 29 2014, 10:52 AM
Pending home sales declined slightly in
August, mirroring a similar pull-back in existing home sales announced last
week. The National Association ...
Mon, Sep 29 2014, 10:23 AM
Is it against the law for an employer to provide
an employee with better-than-market rates? KPMG hopes not . And the only thing I could find employ...
Fri, Sep 26 2014, 3:34 PM
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch says its official outlook
for the economy is neither that of a Bull forecasting a cyclical surge or a
Bear's view of s...
Thu, Sep 25 2014, 11:23 AM
A
Harvard study tells us that 35% of American households (both homeowners
and renters) spend at least 30% of their pre-tax income on housing
cos...
Thu, Sep 25 2014, 2:35 PM
RealtyTrac estimated on Thursday that
sales of residential property including single family homes, condominiums, and
townhomes set an annual pace of...
Wed, Sep 24 2014, 10:40 AM
There was a significant jump in new home sales in
August as the seasonally adjusted rate broke through the half million mark for
the first time sin...
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...
Tue, Sep 23 2014, 12:43 PM
Home prices as measured by the Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) eked out another small increase in July, but monthly
figures show a definite s...
Tue, Sep 23 2014, 10:58 AM
It would be nice to think that fraud in any industry doesn't exist - but it does. And a story in the Los Angeles Times
reminds readers that frau...
Mon, Sep 22 2014, 12:31 PM
This morning's Existing Home Sales data was slightly weaker than expected. The annual pace fell to 5.05 mln from 5.15 mln last month. Expectations...
Mon, Sep 22 2014, 11:35 AM
The investors who kept the real estate market living and breathing through
the worst days of the housing crash continue to drift out of the market th...
Mon, Sep 22 2014, 10:14 AM
I've been hearing it for a while, "the market is slow, and home appreciation is stagnant." But here in South Carolina, for example, many markets are o...
Thu, Sep 11 2014, 1:43 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's)
measure of new home sales reflected a significant drop in the volume of applications
for mortgages to p...
Wed, Sep 10 2014, 10:55 AM
The
city of San Francisco has 121 square kilometers (about 47 square
miles). The Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport's area is about 70 square
kilometers, ...
Tue, Sep 9 2014, 2:38 PM
The market share of all-cash home sales
continues to fall and in June made up the lowest share since the beginning of
the financial crisis . Cor...
Fri, Sep 5 2014, 10:35 AM
There's
a lot of data swirling around the demographic black-hole of lending
known as "the Millennials." I've come to the conclusion that this is
...
Fri, Aug 29 2014, 12:42 PM
RealtyTrac estimated that home
sales in July were at an annualized rate of 4.63 million units , a decrease of 3
percent from June and down 12 perce...
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...
Thu, Aug 28 2014, 11:14 AM
What's this? The borrower receives a cat when their mortgage closes?
What would the CFPB say? Will fleas lead to a class action lawsuit a
year d...
Thu, Aug 28 2014, 11:09 AM
Favorable housing conditions were
credited for leading pending home sales higher in July to their best level
since August 2013 . Pending sales as...
Wed, Aug 27 2014, 1:11 PM
Home prices have now increased on a quarterly
basis 12 consecutive times. The Federal
Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said yesterday that the 12 th ...
Tue, Aug 26 2014, 11:39 AM
The S&P Dow Jones Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for June confirm
what reports from earlier months have indicated, that there is a sustained
slowd...
Tue, Aug 26 2014, 10:04 AM
Counterparty
risk continues to be a BIG DEAL, and word broke yesterday of a huge
title agency defalcation in Georgia. (Defalcation: an amount of f...
