Wed, May 15 2019, 10:42 AM
New home builders finally got a little wind under their wings this month. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its NAHB/Wells Fargo H...
Wed, May 15 2019, 9:55 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is seeing some softening in the residential remodeling sector. Carmel Ford noted in an article in NAH...
Tue, May 14 2019, 11:38 AM
According to Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), a typical homeowner in the U.S. saw his or her housing wea...
Tue, Apr 30 2019, 4:55 PM
Freddie Mac's April economic forecast focuses on interest rates and their impact on housing as the company's Economic & Housing Research Group revises...
Tue, Apr 30 2019, 10:44 AM
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices for February continue to show a slowdown in home price gains on a year-over-year basis although all of the mont...
Tue, Apr 30 2019, 10:10 AM
Pending home sales posted a second solid performance in 2019 , with home purchase contract signings in March recovering from their slight dip in Febru...
Thu, Apr 25 2019, 2:13 PM
Home flipping, buying a property with the intent to sell it in a short period of time at a profit, is more popular than almost ever , but a study by C...
Tue, Apr 23 2019, 11:37 AM
New home sales continued on a winning streak in March , increasing for the third straight month. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing ...
Tue, Apr 23 2019, 11:02 AM
The pace of home price appreciation slowed notably in February , at least as reflected in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price In...
Mon, Apr 22 2019, 11:53 AM
The question this morning was whether March's existing home sales could build on the strong numbers posted in February, an 11.8 percent increase from ...
Mon, Apr 22 2019, 8:22 AM
For the second month in a row we find ourselves stating that Fannie Mae's forecast , while still predicting a slowdown in economic growth this year, a...
Wed, Apr 17 2019, 10:48 AM
Two New York Federal Reserve Bank economists are asking whether the tax reform act that went into effect at the beginning of 2018 is playing a role in...
Tue, Apr 16 2019, 10:41 AM
Builder confidence levels as reported by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) remained in the low 60s in April, a space it has now occupie...
Wed, Apr 10 2019, 8:29 AM
Applications for financing new home purchases were up significantly in March. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that Builder Application ...
Mon, Apr 8 2019, 7:37 PM
A few couple of warm days, the appearance of a few tulips, and wham, homebuyer sentiment goes through the roof. At least the results from the March Na...
Fri, Mar 29 2019, 12:59 PM
With the third set of new home sales data in 21 days it seems the Census Bureau has caught up from the partial government shutdown. Whether because of...
Thu, Mar 28 2019, 11:06 AM
Pending home sales fell again in February. The National Association of Realtors® said its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) declined by 1.0 percent comp...
Tue, Mar 26 2019, 11:12 AM
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) Housing Price Index paints two different pictures of the hous...
Fri, Mar 22 2019, 12:41 PM
Like virtually all the experts, including those at the Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac's economists have reduced their expectations for economic growth ....
Fri, Mar 22 2019, 11:03 AM
Existing home sales took off like a rocket in February, with strong results in three of the four major regions. The National Association of Realtors® ...
Wed, Mar 20 2019, 11:52 AM
Forecasts of slowing economic growth have been the norm for some time, but it is easy to sense greater confidence lately among those making them. Fann...
Mon, Mar 18 2019, 10:47 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) held steady in March , after partially recovering from substan...
Fri, Mar 15 2019, 8:12 AM
Even though the January Census Bureau report on new home sales published on Thursday wasn't all that encouraging for the spring market, the Mortgage B...
Thu, Mar 14 2019, 10:57 AM
It seems like only yesterday that we were looking at the December new home sale numbers - well actually it was 6 days ago. Now we have the January sal...
Thu, Mar 7 2019, 10:16 AM
Earlier this week CoreLogic reported that the annual rate of appreciation in January, 4.2 percent, was exactly two-thirds the rate in January 2018. Th...
Tue, Mar 5 2019, 11:51 AM
It is our first glance at home prices in the new year and CoreLogic estimates the rate of appreciation has fallen by more than 2 percentage points sin...
Tue, Mar 5 2019, 10:45 AM
Analysts were not expecting new home sales in December to outpace the strong and surprising gains they made in November, when they jumped 16.9 percent...
Fri, Mar 1 2019, 10:06 AM
Freddie Mac's economists see low interest rates continuing, at least through the end of next year . The company's Economic and Strategic Research Grou...
Wed, Feb 27 2019, 10:27 AM
Expectations were high for a strong pending home sales report to christen the New Year. Those expectations were more than satisfied. The National Asso...
Tue, Feb 26 2019, 12:05 PM
Both the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller housing indices acknowledged further slowing in home price appreciat...
Fri, Feb 22 2019, 8:20 AM
Fannie Mae is predicting a notable slowdown in the growth of the U.S. economy in the first quarter of 2019. They have downgraded their earlier forecas...
Thu, Feb 21 2019, 11:29 AM
Existing home sales fell again in January although the decline was a minor one compared to the 6.4 percent drop in December. The National Association ...
Tue, Feb 19 2019, 10:33 AM
The Housing Market Index (HMI) continues to recover from the plunge it took in November and December when it dropped an aggregate of 12 points. The Na...
Tue, Feb 19 2019, 8:53 AM
Where’s John Mellencamp when you need him ? Lenders in rural areas know that over half of U.S. farm households lost money farming in the past few year...
Thu, Feb 14 2019, 5:22 PM
While we have not yet seen figures from the Census Bureau for December let alone January, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is reporting a surge ...
Tue, Feb 12 2019, 11:41 AM
An asset bubble can burst, or it can develop a slow leak, and float more or less gradually back to normal levels. The National Association of Realtors...
Thu, Feb 7 2019, 1:35 PM
Respondents to Fannie Mae's January National Housing Survey adopted a new outlook to go along with the new year, primarily in responses about their pe...
Tue, Feb 5 2019, 11:57 AM
The CoreLogic Home Price Index puts the annual rate of appreciation nationally at 4.7 percent in December and the gain from November 2018 to December ...
Thu, Jan 31 2019, 11:51 AM
The chant throughout 2018 from housing industry sources was inventory, inventory, inventory - or lack of same. It was blamed first for rising home pri...
Thu, Jan 31 2019, 10:49 AM
New home sales exploded in November, rising 16.9 percent from October's dismal performance to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 657,000 units. The ...
Wed, Jan 30 2019, 11:31 AM
Pending home sales were down again in December , falling below the Pending Home Sale Index's (PHSI's) benchmark 100 level to 99.0. The index was at 10...
Wed, Jan 30 2019, 8:45 AM
Freddie Mac's Economic Research Group says in its January forecast that much of the volatility in the mortgage market since the end of the year has ar...
Wed, Jan 23 2019, 8:27 AM
Fannie Mae does not expect a lasting impact from the current partial government shutdown, at least if it is over soon. In its January Economic Develop...
Tue, Jan 22 2019, 11:03 AM
Existing home sales finished up the year on a decidedly sour note. After putting together consecutive increase in October and November and ending a si...
Tue, Jan 22 2019, 8:57 AM
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” How about “26 of the World’s Richest Own the Same Wealth as Poorest Half” in the world!? To the bes...
Fri, Jan 18 2019, 8:22 AM
Applications for new home purchases dropped in December , falling 6.8 percent behind those a year earlier. The deficit from November was even larger, ...
Thu, Jan 17 2019, 8:12 AM
"The most important question in housing policy heading into the new year has nothing to do with interest rates, housing supply, or home sales," Urban ...
Wed, Jan 16 2019, 10:35 AM
After falling an aggregate of 12 points in November and December the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HM...
Tue, Jan 15 2019, 6:40 PM
Homeownership as an American dream is alive and well according to new data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) 2018 Housing Opportunities...
Fri, Jan 11 2019, 10:11 AM
The November Mortgage Monitor from Black Knight focused largely on the shifting of the mortgage market toward purchase originations and the unexpected...
