Thu, Dec 23 2021, 1:05 PM
November was another one of those months for new home sales when the topline numbers look terrific. And then you take a second look. The U.S. Census B...
Thu, Dec 23 2021, 11:36 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is ending their business year, they will be closed until January 3, with their annual housing and economic fore...
Wed, Dec 22 2021, 11:19 AM
Existing home sales came in a little lower than expected in November, but it was still the third consecutive gain. The National Association of Realtor...
Mon, Dec 20 2021, 1:35 PM
Fannie Mae jumped up its forecast for real GDP on a Q4/Q4 basis this week, revising it from 4.8 percent in last month's report to 5.5 percent. The com...
Wed, Dec 15 2021, 10:37 AM
Builder confidence in the new home market is finishing 2021 strong despite what the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) says are inflation co...
Mon, Nov 29 2021, 11:05 AM
The number of signed contracts for the purchase of existing homes made another significant about face in October. The National Association of Realtors...
Wed, Nov 24 2021, 10:47 AM
New home sales improved slightly on the unexpected, reported surge in September and still managed to disappoint. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Depart...
Mon, Nov 22 2021, 11:11 AM
Existing home sales moved higher in October, the second consecutive month of growth . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said sales of pre-ow...
Fri, Nov 19 2021, 12:45 PM
The ink wasn’t dry on Fannie Mae’s October economic forecast when the month’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) was published showing an inflation rate two-t...
Tue, Nov 16 2021, 11:26 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is expecting that a higher volume of new home sales occurred in October than in the previous month, even as pur...
Tue, Nov 16 2021, 11:20 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said builder confidence in the new home sales market increased in November for the third consecutive ...
Mon, Nov 15 2021, 10:57 AM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR), holding its annual conference in San Diego, heard from chief economist Lawrence Yun about the prospects f...
Thu, Oct 28 2021, 11:04 AM
The 8.1 percent increase in pending home sales in August, the first gain in three months, didn't start a trend. The National Association of Realtors® ...
Wed, Oct 27 2021, 10:53 AM
Applications for purchase mortgages recovered from a 5 percent drop the prior week to drive a small increase in overall volume during the week ended O...
Tue, Oct 26 2021, 10:48 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes surged unexpectedly in September, reaching the highest rate since March . However, a downward revision in the August ...
Thu, Oct 21 2021, 4:27 PM
Existing home sales resumed an upward trajectory in September after dipping 2.0 percent in August. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said sa...
Wed, Oct 20 2021, 10:22 AM
The volume of applications for mortgages to purchase newly constructed homes plunged in September, falling 16.2 percent from the September 2020 level ...
Mon, Oct 18 2021, 12:21 PM
Members of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) are holding their annual convention in San Diego this week and the opening day was accompanied by th...
Mon, Oct 18 2021, 12:19 PM
Home builders apparently pushed aside current concerns about supply chain disruptions to display increased confidence in the new home market in Octobe...
Tue, Oct 12 2021, 4:14 PM
A new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) says housing affordability in the U.S. improved in August for the second straight month. ...
Fri, Oct 8 2021, 2:50 PM
As the result of a Local Employment Dynamics Webinar held earlier this year, the Census Bureau has paired up with Zillow, using their combined data to...
Wed, Sep 29 2021, 10:49 AM
Pending home sales rebounded in August after falling in both June and July. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales In...
Fri, Sep 24 2021, 11:36 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes performed better than expected in August but remain well behind the pace set in August 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau a...
Thu, Sep 23 2021, 3:49 PM
Existing home sales ended two months of gains in August, falling 2.0 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous month. The National Asso...
Wed, Sep 22 2021, 8:10 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that there were 17 percent fewer applications for new home purchases in August than in July, but thos...
Mon, Sep 20 2021, 11:23 AM
Builder confidence edged its way higher in September, ending a three-month slump. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that the NA...
Fri, Sep 17 2021, 1:19 PM
The number of homes flipped by investors grew by 3.5 percent in the second quarter of the year. It was the first increase in more than a year. ATTOM s...
Fri, Sep 3 2021, 12:27 PM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are running away with new home financing. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates that conventional loan...
Mon, Aug 30 2021, 10:53 AM
While existing home sales have increased in the last two months after a four-month slump, those sales don't look especially bright as we head into the...
Tue, Aug 24 2021, 11:00 AM
New home sales recovered slightly in July after two months which saw the annual rate of sales dip by an aggregate of more than 100,000 units. The U.S....
Mon, Aug 23 2021, 2:11 PM
Existing homes sales posted the second consecutive increase in July after breaking out of a slump in June that had endured for four months. The Nation...
Fri, Aug 20 2021, 1:42 PM
Fannie Mae's economists provided a mixed forecast this month. The baseline view of the company's Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) group is for th...
Tue, Aug 17 2021, 3:34 PM
Mortgage applications for the purchase of newly built homes fell sharply in July, but the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said it expects new home ...
Tue, Aug 17 2021, 12:36 PM
Fears about construction costs, supply shortages, and concern over fast rising home prices acted to deflate builder confidence this month. The Nationa...
Thu, Jul 29 2021, 11:24 AM
Pending home sales fell back slightly in June after a notable and unexpected 8.0 percent gain in May. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said...
Mon, Jul 26 2021, 2:58 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) reports that there was a fourth consecutive year-over-year decline in the rate of investment in U.S. real ...
Mon, Jul 26 2021, 12:42 PM
In May, the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that the seasonally adjusted annual sales of newly constructed...
Thu, Jul 22 2021, 11:52 AM
Existing home sales snapped a four-month losing streak in June. Sales of pre-owned single-family houses, townhouses, condominiums, and cooperative apa...
Tue, Jul 20 2021, 3:29 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association is projecting a sizeable decline in new home sales occurred last month as applications for their purchase declined 3 ...
Tue, Jul 20 2021, 8:10 AM
Like most recent economic forecasts, that one from Fannie Mae's Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) group for July continues to project a pull-back ...
Mon, Jul 19 2021, 11:30 AM
Strong buyer demand appears to be offsetting concerns about labor shortages and rising prices , keeping builder confidence near historic highs the Nat...
Fri, Jul 16 2021, 12:48 PM
The rapid run up in house prices may be starting to exhaust potential homebuyers according to the quarterly forecast from Freddie Mac's Economic and H...
Thu, Jul 1 2021, 11:25 AM
Pending home sales in April unnerved a lot of people. At what should have been a high point in the spring market, they fell 4.4 percent from the previ...
Wed, Jun 23 2021, 2:51 PM
New home sales dropped for the second month in May, falling below an 800,000 unit pace for the first time in a year. The U.S. Census Bureau and the De...
Tue, Jun 22 2021, 1:03 PM
Existing home sales experienced their fourth consecutive decline in May . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said sales of previously owned s...
Thu, Jun 17 2021, 4:44 PM
Fannie Mae's economists have revised a lot of their forecast from last month as new data has come in. The outlook for the 2021 GDP has been revised mo...
Wed, Jun 16 2021, 8:13 AM
The latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) dropped 2 points in June. The Index, a measure of home ...
Wed, Jun 16 2021, 8:10 AM
A new report from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) says that the demand for and sale of vacation homes soared during the pandemic. While th...
Fri, Jun 11 2021, 8:40 AM
Redfin says the second home market appears to be cooling although annual sales, measured by mortgage rate locks, were up nationwide by 48 percent in M...
Tue, May 25 2021, 11:28 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes gave back some of their March gains last month, declining 5.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 863,000...
