Thu, Apr 23 2020, 11:59 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development's report on new home sales in March is the first real time indication of the impact ...
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 11:33 AM
Existing home sales fell back last month from their unexpectedly good performance in February, but still maintained their long record of annual increa...
Fri, Apr 17 2020, 12:59 PM
Fannie Mae's April Economic Developments summary is, like Freddie Mac's, relatively optimistic only because they see the impact of the pandemic as bei...
Thu, Apr 16 2020, 1:44 PM
Is it possible that home buyers are adjusting more quickly to this brave new virus-driven world than was hoped? Will Americans now do the whole home p...
Wed, Apr 15 2020, 10:42 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing Market Index (HMI), which it sponsors jointly with Wells Fargo, suffered the largest...
Tue, Apr 14 2020, 10:48 AM
Freddie Mac's Quarterly Forecast is more upbeat than one might expect . While it acknowledges that, with big chunks of the U.S. economy currently in l...
Thu, Apr 9 2020, 11:15 AM
Realtors don't expect the 2020 "spring market" is going to happen, but they are optimistic there will be a post-pandemic rebound driven by delayed dem...
Tue, Apr 7 2020, 4:53 PM
Black Knight has done an early analysis of the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing market . In our summary of the first part of ...
Mon, Mar 30 2020, 10:41 AM
Pending home sales, which jumped 5.2 percent in January, did not retrench as expected last month. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its...
Tue, Mar 24 2020, 10:36 AM
Sales of newly constructed home jumped to a 13-year high of 764,000 annualized units in January , a number that was revised even higher today to 800,0...
Fri, Mar 20 2020, 11:45 AM
Who knows what tomorrow will bring? At least for today we have some welcome good news from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). Existing home ...
Wed, Mar 18 2020, 8:42 AM
New home sales in February are expected to be down from January's levels based on loan application volume data reported by the Mortgage Bankers Associ...
Wed, Mar 18 2020, 8:27 AM
Builder confidence slipped slightly in March according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), but there was one huge caveat. The monthly...
Fri, Mar 13 2020, 3:31 PM
Fannie Mae's forecasts for the rest of 2020 took a bit of a hit from the pandemic panic. The company's Economic Developments report for March contains...
Fri, Mar 6 2020, 10:28 AM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its latest study on generational trends in homeownership has found that some homebuying characteristi...
Tue, Mar 3 2020, 11:01 AM
Home prices nationwide accelerated on an annual basis by 4.0 percent in January according to CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI). Annual appreciation h...
Thu, Feb 27 2020, 10:19 AM
Pending home sales bounced back last month after an unexpectedly dismal performance ended the prior year. The National Association of Realtors ® said ...
Wed, Feb 26 2020, 11:12 AM
New home sales had ended 2019 in a much stronger fashion than they had started the year. December sales were at an annual rate of 708,000 (a revision ...
Fri, Feb 21 2020, 11:12 AM
If it's January it must mean fewer home sales. That, at least, has been the recent pattern according to National Association of Realtors (NARs). Exist...
Fri, Feb 21 2020, 9:32 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said information from its January Builder Application Survey shows applications to finance new home purchases s...
Tue, Feb 18 2020, 3:33 PM
Fannie Mae says the U.S. economy appears to be sustaining itself despite both the problems faced by Boeing and the fears about the global impact of th...
Tue, Feb 18 2020, 10:40 AM
Builder confidence dipped a notch in February but still remains at elevated levels. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) says its Housing ...
Thu, Jan 30 2020, 12:05 PM
In the throes of the housing crisis, it sometimes seemed as though FHA was the only way to finance a home purchase , especially for those with less th...
Thu, Jan 30 2020, 8:51 AM
Homeownership is apparently still one of the best ways to build wealth. The Year-End Home Sales Report from ATTOM Data Solutions shows that the typica...
Wed, Jan 29 2020, 10:35 AM
December's pending home sales erased the small gain posted in November and the National Association of Realtors' (NAR's) Pending Home Sales Index (PHS...
Mon, Jan 27 2020, 10:58 AM
A lot of expectations and optimism were probably dashed by the December report on new home sales from the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and ...
Wed, Jan 22 2020, 11:00 AM
Existing home sales rose convincingly in December, gaining 3.6 percent compared to sales the prior month. Sales of all existing home types , single-fa...
Wed, Jan 22 2020, 8:18 AM
In its first economic forecast of 2020, Fannie Mae's Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group is doubling down on its late 2019 predictions. The ec...
Fri, Jan 17 2020, 10:30 AM
While permits fell from the previous month, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said December was another excep...
Thu, Jan 16 2020, 10:33 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) settled back a bit after its 5-point surge in December took it...
Mon, Jan 13 2020, 1:36 PM
CoreLogic is continuing its analysis of the potential impact of the January 2021 expiration of the so-called "GSE Patch." Under the Consumer Financial...
Fri, Jan 10 2020, 2:24 PM
After the housing crash and as the recovery began home builders ratcheted up the size of the homes they were building because the profit margin was hi...
Wed, Jan 8 2020, 8:10 AM
The Mortgage Banker Association's (MBA's) offices were closed over the two-week holiday period. The data in this week's report on mortgage application...
Mon, Jan 6 2020, 10:11 AM
Depending on how you look at it, either Texas and Florida or Nevada and Idaho were the fastest growing states in 2019. Frank Nothaft, CoreLogic's chie...
Mon, Dec 30 2019, 10:13 AM
Pending home sales bounced back in November , partially recovering from a 1.7 percent decline in October. The National Association of Realtors® said i...
Mon, Dec 23 2019, 10:53 AM
New home sales continued their recent run in November, increasing by 1.3 percent from the revised October rate of 710,000 to a seasonally adjusted ann...
Thu, Dec 19 2019, 11:46 AM
Fannie Mae substantially revised its housing forecast this month, especially as regards new home construction. The company's Economic and Strategic Re...
Thu, Dec 19 2019, 11:32 AM
Existing home sales fell back again in November, erasing most of October's 1.9 percent gain. Sales have now declined in two of the last three months ....
Wed, Dec 18 2019, 8:08 AM
The volume of mortgage applications retreated this past week, giving back most of the gains scored during the week ended December 6 following the Than...
Tue, Dec 17 2019, 10:37 AM
The numbers for November residential construction permits and housing starts came in higher than expected , marking the second straight month of incre...
Mon, Dec 16 2019, 10:41 AM
Home builders ended the year with an apparent outbreak of euphoria. Responding to higher trending sales and low interest rates they sent the National ...
Thu, Dec 12 2019, 10:06 AM
While the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicting newly constructed homes sold at a much higher rate in November than they did a year earlier...
Mon, Dec 9 2019, 9:49 AM
Black Knight continues to review, in its new Mortgage Monitor , how the effects of nearly a year of lower interest rates have ricocheted throughout th...
Mon, Dec 2 2019, 10:07 AM
We started this piece by noting that Freddie Mac's economists wrapped up November in an unusually brief summary. Then we realized we had said almost e...
Wed, Nov 27 2019, 10:13 AM
Pending home sales slipped in October after two months of solid gains. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sale Index (P...
Tue, Nov 26 2019, 10:56 AM
The headline for the new home sales report for October was the year-over-year increase in sales. While sales of newly constructed homes were actually ...
Thu, Nov 21 2019, 11:24 AM
Existing-home sales got back on track in October, partially recovering from a 2.2 percent slip in September that ended a two-month winning streak. The...
Wed, Nov 20 2019, 9:58 AM
Applications for mortgages to purchase newly constructed homes surged in October and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is expecting that sales wi...
Wed, Nov 20 2019, 8:09 AM
Despite the Veterans' Day holiday which shortened the work week of November 15, purchase mortgage applications gained momentum. The Mortgage Bankers A...
Tue, Nov 19 2019, 1:31 PM
Fannie Mae's economists are predicting that economic growth will slow significantly in the fourth quarter to 1.6 percent. This downward revision howev...
