Wed, May 25 2011, 10:13 AM
Pssst... Goldman Sachs is in buying jumbo
mortgages . "Goldman has been stockpiling jumbo mortgages at a rate
that far exceeds the buying activity ...
Wed, May 25 2011, 9:41 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week
ending May 20, 2011.
The MBA's lo...
Tue, May 24 2011, 11:45 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have
released New
Residential Sales data for April 2011.
New Residential S...
Tue, May 24 2011, 8:47 AM
Loan pricing is set to weaken this morning as "rate sheet influential" MBS coupons are following benchmark Treasury prices lower after once again fail...
Mon, May 23 2011, 11:29 AM
I don't know if this
quite falls under the "No good deed goes unpunished" category, but
the proposed simplified combined version of the GFE and TI...
Fri, May 20 2011, 12:18 PM
It is easy for originators to focus on daily
rate sheets, mostly determined by what the MBS market is doing. But sometimes
it helps to be reminded t...
Thu, May 19 2011, 11:22 AM
The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales data for April 2011 Existing Home Sales report on the number of completed...
Tue, May 17 2011, 9:30 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have released New Residential Construction statistics for April 2011. ...
Mon, May 16 2011, 9:05 AM
Both fixed income and equity markets are worse off to start the week.
The cause of uncertainty is a strange one - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kah...
Mon, May 16 2011, 2:08 PM
The National Association of Homebuilders
(NAHB) reported on Monday that its Housing Market Index (HMI) came in at 16 for the sixth time in seven ...
Wed, May 11 2011, 3:54 PM
Realtors® attending the National
Association of Realtors (NAR) mid-year legislative meetings and trade expo in
Washington heard a panel of housing e...
Wed, May 4 2011, 9:26 AM
Senior loan officers responding to the April 2011 Federal
Reserve Bank survey on bank lending practices indicated that, on net, bank
lending sta...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:18 AM
Do boom
and bust cycles in real estate only happen in the United States? Of course not: Boom&Bust
Here's a campaign hitting the public: Zillo...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 12:10 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its March Pending
Home Sales Index (PHSI ) . The index is said to be a leading indicator for...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 3:34 PM
The U.S
Census Bureau has released Residential Vacancies and Homeownership data for
the first quarter of 2011.
The data is derived from th...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 9:53 AM
The trivia
for the day is, "Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is
attached at only one end." I bring this up because there will be ple...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 2:43 PM
Standard and Poor's has released February Case- Shiller Home Price data...
S&P/Case- Shiller provides two monthly indices which track the...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 11:42 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have
released New
Residential Sales data for March 2011.
New Residential ...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 10:14 AM
In terms
of powerful world figures, how does the FDIC's Sheila Bair stack up against
Lady Gaga or Katie Couric? ForbesList
For the 1st quarte...
Thu, Apr 21 2011, 11:28 AM
The economy
has hit an "air pocket" according to Fannie
Mae's latest economic projections . If your plane has
ever hit one you're familiar with...
Wed, Apr 20 2011, 3:27 PM
The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales data for March 2011
Existing Home Sales report on the number of comple...
Tue, Apr 19 2011, 12:53 PM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development
have released New Residential Construction statistics for March 2011. ...
Mon, Apr 18 2011, 1:24 PM
There
are a lot of reasons why the nation's homebuilders continue to feel skittish about
the housing market according to both the Chairman and Chief...
Wed, Apr 13 2011, 12:09 PM
Freddie Mac has released its April 2011 Economic Outlook .
Below is a copy of the text. We have taken the liberty of calling attention to a few...
Tue, Apr 5 2011, 2:00 PM
The March edition of the Obama Administration's
Housing Scorecard again remarks on the fragility of the U.S. housing market and
the need to cont...
Mon, Apr 4 2011, 9:55 AM
Buffalo
Springfield wrote, "There's something happening here, what it is ain't
exactly clear..." But there is one movement that appears to be cleare...
Thu, Mar 31 2011, 3:00 PM
For the second time in less than a week economists have
attempted to quantify the amount of shadow inventory currently lurking in the background of ...
Tue, Mar 29 2011, 9:53 AM
How much house is too much house in Michigan? 50 cent is only half of a dollar.
Today the FDIC Board will vote on a credit risk-retention prop...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 10:54 AM
The National
Association of Realtors'® (NAR) have taken a stab at estimating just how wide and deep the much
discussed " shadow inventory " of hou...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 10:30 AM
Did
anyone from your county move in 2008? It is not my job to keep track of them -
but someone does. Privacy issues aside, Realtors may find this in...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 2:41 PM
The
National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its February Pending Home
Sales Index (PHSI) Monday. The index is a leading indicator for the...
Thu, Mar 24 2011, 9:46 AM
Six Federal agencies have to sign
off on the QRM provisions, and apparently the first will be early next week. Early
next week the FDIC opines on, "...
Wed, Mar 23 2011, 9:12 AM
Bonds benefited from a modest flight to safety bid in relatively light
overnight trading flows. The 10-year Treasury traded within a range of
3.33...
Wed, Mar 23 2011, 2:06 PM
he Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have released New Residential Sales data for February 2011. Here is a Quick Re...
Tue, Mar 22 2011, 9:49 AM
The U.S. Treasury announced that it will
begin an "orderly wind down" of its $142 billion MBS portfolio over
about 1 year by selling roughly $10 bil...
Mon, Mar 21 2011, 10:47 AM
Last Thursday, while on a tour of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, my
son and I met and chatted with Rick Santelli, who many know as CNBC's
financ...
Mon, Mar 21 2011, 9:07 AM
While mostly overlooking a dense economic calendar last week, investors
were forced to base their trading behavior on breaking news headlines
and ...
Mon, Mar 21 2011, 2:32 PM
The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales data for February 2011 Existing Home Sales report on the number of comple...
Wed, Mar 16 2011, 4:18 PM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have released New Residential Construction statistics for February 2011...
Mon, Mar 7 2011, 11:38 AM
Late in 2010, mortgage bankers
seemed to be scrambling for warehouse lines. Now that things have quieted down
need-wise, how is the warehouse biz do...
Thu, Mar 3 2011, 10:12 AM
The
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Treasury released their Monthly
Housing Scorecard for February on Wednesday afternoon...
Wed, Mar 2 2011, 11:44 AM
Merrill Lynch/BofA's analysts
took a look at HARP, and whether or not it should be extended. The FHFA
has a number of choices regarding HARP. "We se...
Mon, Feb 28 2011, 10:21 AM
"Qualified Residential Mortgages" is not an everyday topic of conversation but perhaps should be .
Who is going to have "skin in the game"? Here is ...
Mon, Feb 28 2011, 3:08 PM
The National Association of Realtors today released the Pending Home Sales Index for January. The Pending Home Sales
index measures housing...
Fri, Feb 25 2011, 10:03 AM
A servicing
"settlement", mentioned yesterday, certainly has the
industry roiled - especially BofA and Wells Fargo, who together service nearly
$4...
Thu, Feb 24 2011, 12:36 PM
Sales
of new single-family houses in January 2011 were at a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of 284,000, according to estimates released jointly
...
Thu, Feb 24 2011, 10:47 AM
Whoever thought that loan servicing would be so exciting? If
you think that a servicer earning 25 basis points every year is earning
too much if ...
Thu, Feb 24 2011, 8:25 AM
The 10-year Treasury note traded in a yield range of 3.49% to 3.44% overnight, after giving up three basis points and closing at 3.49% yesterday. Rat...
Thu, Feb 24 2011, 2:01 PM
Despite
a sizeable drop in the fourth quarter, sales of foreclosed properties again
accounted for over a quarter of all single-family home sales in ...
Wed, Feb 23 2011, 11:01 AM
Originators and borrowers are often faced with the "rent versus own" question, with varying results. Here is an INTERACTIVE CALCULATOR
Homeo...
