Mon, Jul 28 2014, 10:40 AM
Pending home sales declined modestly in
June after three months of what the National Association of Realtors®
(NAR) called "solid gains." NAR's P...
Mon, Jul 28 2014, 10:36 AM
How
is it that this is the last week of July already? Lots of lenders seem
to have seen decent Julys - but perhaps not as strong as some of their ...
Fri, Jul 25 2014, 11:09 AM
"Rob, you have mentioned before that you are beginning to see some companies' volumes slowing down, and maybe even some lay-offs .
Is that still ha...
Fri, Jul 25 2014, 1:30 PM
It was a bad day on Wall Street
Thursday for housing stocks. In no particular order Census Bureau
data was released showing that new home sales had...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 12:27 PM
Typically, negative economic data on the scale of this morning's New Home Sales would be a clearly positive factor for bond prices. Sales fell at the...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 11:24 AM
New homes sales retreated in June from
the very strong performance reported for May; a performance that
turns out to have been less strong. A join...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 9:53 AM
For LOs who feel "enough is
enough" with regard to the proposed Pre-Licensure Education Expiration Policy on education, timelines, and requirement...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 4:10 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today
at the fastest pace since July 3rd as bond markets began backing away
from more anxious levels associated wit...
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...
Wed, Jul 23 2014, 10:49 AM
Captain
Obvious likes to say, "Home prices don't always go up." It's probably a
cliché at this point, but it's better than the, "Buy as much home ...
Tue, Jul 22 2014, 11:27 AM
The pace of existing home sales
reached a nine month high in June, topping 5 million units for the first time
since last October while there were ...
Tue, Jul 22 2014, 9:50 AM
What, if anything, is putting a crimp in expected loan
production? Perhaps the CFPB's QM rules are indeed restricting
residential lending. In one...
Tue, Jul 22 2014, 4:56 PM
Mortgage rates were unchanged
in most cases today, though some lenders were slightly worse. Even
then, the difference from yesterday is genera...
Mon, Jul 21 2014, 9:47 AM
What
can you buy on minimum wage? Well, I guess that's a relative question;
relative to a number of factors such as where you live, your current
...
Wed, Jul 16 2014, 11:38 AM
Homebuilder confidence in the market for
new homes crossed into positive territory in July, the first time the measure
has been above the crucial 50...
Thu, Jul 10 2014, 11:23 AM
Applications for new home purchase
mortgages declined in June for the second month in a row the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) said today. ...
Wed, Jul 9 2014, 1:12 PM
A recent survey by Redfin, the
Seattle-based real estate company, found some substantial disconnects among
buyers, sellers, and market reality.
...
Mon, Jul 7 2014, 10:55 AM
Responses to Fannie Mae's National
Housing Survey for June showed more marked changes in several categories than
has been the case in recent month...
Thu, Jul 3 2014, 1:26 PM
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies' most recent edition of The State of the Nation's Housing deals first with the current status of the hous...
Tue, Jul 1 2014, 10:57 AM
Home
prices enjoyed a 27 th straight month of year-over-year growth in May
CoreLogic said today, but noted that those gains are no longer in the ...
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 30 2014, 10:32 AM
There was encouraging home market news
from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) this morning. The association's Pending Home Sales Index
s...
Mon, Jun 30 2014, 10:02 AM
Suddenly
the entire industry seems interested in three things: using the Federal
Home Loan Banks as a pseudo-warehouse line, jumbo deals, and
fo...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 11:25 AM
New home sales rose at the fastest pace in more than 20 years last month, hitting levels not seen since 2008. The Census
Bureau and the Department...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 11:01 AM
There are 2 million "missing households" in
the US - which represents pent up demand for new residences in the US.
These are Millennials who are...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 7:51 AM
While tomorrow arguably hosts the week's most important economic report, today wins in terms of sheer volume and variety. We get almost every flavor...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 1:25 PM
RealtyTrac reports a very large increase
in the median price of a home sold in the U.S. in May compared to the median
price in April. There was a...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 12:28 PM
MBS have managed to hold on to most of their gains seen on Friday, even after Existing Home Sales came in stronger than expected. Prices were highe...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 11:20 AM
There were some healthy signals from the
existing home market in May, as sales rose strongly and price growth
moderated. The National Association...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 9:41 AM
"On
Thursday, June 19, issues of latency and connectivity were reported by
the public across multiple Internet Service Providers. The public can
...
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...
Fri, Jun 20 2014, 5:19 PM
Look up into any window of the closest apartment building and odds
are you'll see someone living there. National apartment occupancy in May
soared...
Fri, Jun 20 2014, 3:38 PM
Mortgage rates moved modestly lower again today.
While that leaves them a bit higher than the best rates of this year,
it enables an important...
Thu, Jun 19 2014, 11:51 AM
As
a rule, it isn't good when economists use words like "sluggish" and "lackluster,"
the very terms that crept into the opening paragraph of Fredd...
Thu, Jun 19 2014, 2:37 PM
A housing industry that remains
focused on originating safe primary mortgages may be overlooking a new purchase
money niche "ready for the tapping...
Wed, Jun 18 2014, 12:29 PM
Information
from the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) on Tuesday echoing the
trend if not the absolute numbers of data released last we...
Fri, Jun 13 2014, 12:42 PM
Sales of new and existing homes in the
previously superheated California market slid again in May. Sales totaled 37,734 houses and condos
statewi...
Fri, Jun 13 2014, 11:25 AM
New homes sales posted a loss in May, erasing the 5 percent gain made in
April. The Mortgage Bankers Association
(MBA) estimated that new single-fa...
Thu, Jun 12 2014, 10:28 AM
$650,000 is a lot of money for many companies. That was the amount of the latest fine levied by the FTC on a Pennsylvania home builder. Yep, one d...
Mon, Jun 9 2014, 12:28 PM
No
matter how the results of Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey for May are
interpreted, it is hard to see them as good short terms news for the...
Thu, Jun 5 2014, 11:10 AM
The Mutual
Mortgage Insurance Fund is a fund that insures mortgages made by the
Federal Housing Administration on single-family homes;
the fun...
Tue, Jun 3 2014, 10:49 AM
Home prices posted a 26th consecutive month of
year-over-year increases in April on the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) Prices nationwide, includ...
Fri, May 30 2014, 10:49 AM
"I'm
going to retire and live off of my savings. The second day, I have no
idea what I'll do." Quips aside, many Americans have no clue about how ...
Thu, May 29 2014, 10:28 AM
There
are many ways to divvy up residential lenders: size, agency approvals,
QM or non-QM, geography, broker and banker, take your choice. One ver...
Thu, May 29 2014, 10:02 AM
Pending home sales in April rose
above those in the previous period for the second month in a row. The National Association of Realtors® said
that ...
Thu, May 29 2014, 9:51 AM
Data released this morning by RealtyTrac
indicate a more widespread recovery in home prices than has been evident from
other data sources. It is ...
Wed, May 28 2014, 10:40 AM
How much is 90-minutes of your time worth? How about that of your
originators, underwriters and processors? MBA recently launched a new web course ...
Tue, May 27 2014, 12:06 PM
All three home price surveys released this morning showed
prices increased in March, a more moderate improvement than in previous months in
some c...
Tue, May 27 2014, 10:11 AM
The industry knows that 2013 was the tale of two profitability profiles for residential lending:
the first half and the second half. Now the MBA hav...
Fri, May 23 2014, 11:36 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau
and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said today that the sales
of new single family homes in April were at a s...
