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By Any Measure FHA's Role is Shrinking

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2015, 12:43 PM

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) saw its share of the mortgage insurance market soar to 72 percent of all insured mortgages issued in 2008 and to 25% of the total origination market in 2009 as other lenders pulled back and FHA moved into one of...
Q4 Home Price Gains Outpace Inflation -FHFA

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2015, 10:12 AM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said today that home prices in the fourth quarter of 2014 were up 1.4 percent compared to the previous quarter and 4.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2013. The fourth quarter was the fourteenth consecutive...
Housing Indicator Continues to Stabilize; Energy States at Risk

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2015, 12:15 PM

Freddie Mac said on Wednesday that its Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) still shows that, at the national level, housing is continuing to stabilize . Thirty-eight of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia are now showing an improving three-month...
Black Knight Notes Home Price Decline

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by Jann Swanson on February 24 2015, 11:17 AM

The Home Price Index (HPI) report issued this week by Black Knight Financial Services shows the December national index at $241,000, a -0.1 percent change from November. The HPI has increased by 4.6 percent since December 2013, and is now 10.2 percent...
90-day Delinquencies Increasingly Ended in Foreclosure Last Month

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2015, 11:13 AM

Black Knight Financial Services has released a "first look" at its month-end January mortgage performance statistics. The company regularly previews data that is covered in a more comprehensive form in its Mortgage Monitor scheduled for publication on...
Northeast Drags Down New Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2015, 10:40 AM

Sales of newly constructed single-family homes dipped only slightly in January from December levels. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Developing said today that January sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000...
Purchase Apps Pick Up Some Slack From Falling Refi Volume

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2015, 7:16 AM

Mortgage applications declined again during the week ended February 20. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that its Market Composite Index, a measure of application volume, was down 3.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the week ended...
Clear Regional Patterns as Home Prices Falter

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by Jann Swanson on February 24 2015, 10:03 AM

Despite increases in 2014 that were twice that of inflation, house prices are "faltering." The S&P/Case-Shiller composite city indices for December were nearly flat while the National index was slightly negative. Both the 10-City and 20-City Composite...
Battle for Listings Between Realtors and Zillow Group Set to Intensify

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by Jann Swanson on February 23 2015, 2:35 PM

There appears to be a battle in the making between Realtor.com, which has provided on-line nationwide residential listing information since the Internet was only a novelty and upstarts Zillow and Trulia. Both companies have made their own radical changes...
2015 Starts Slowly for Existing Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on February 23 2015, 10:51 AM

Existing home sales in January were disappointing to start the New Year, declining to their lowest rate in nine months. The sales, which include completed sales of single-family homes, townhouses, condominiums, and co-ops, were down 4.9 percent from December...
January Refinacing Share was 18 Month High

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by Jann Swanson on February 20 2015, 12:27 PM

Loans for home refinance made up 51 percent o f all loan originations in January, an 8 percent jump compared to December. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report said this was the highest share refinancing has had in more than 18 months. Refinancing hit...
Not to be Outdone; Fannie Profits Bring Dividend Total to $136.4 Billion

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by Jann Swanson on February 20 2015, 11:30 AM

Like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae has also reported a profitable fourth quarter of 2014 and a profitable year. The company had both net and comprehensive income for the quarter of $1.3 billion and for the year a net of $14.2 billion and comprehensive income...
Freddie Mac Profits Put Taxpayers $91.8 Billion in the Black

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by Jann Swanson on February 19 2015, 1:12 PM

Freddie Mac said today that full-year net income and comprehensive income, $7.7 billion and 9.4 billion respectively, made 2014 the company's third straight year of profitability. The financial results were driven primarily by: Net interest income of...
Rates, Declining Home Prices Improved Affordability in Q4

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by Jann Swanson on February 19 2015, 11:44 AM

Housing affordability grew slightly in the fourth quarter of 2014 according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) released today. NAHB said that the increase was due to interest rates which declined...
Freddie's Economic Revisions Optimistic for Housing

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by Jann Swanson on February 19 2015, 9:54 AM

Freddie Mac's economists have revised many of their earlier estimates for the 2015 U.S. economy. In terms of overall economic growth the revisions are not positive as they see a slowing of "the torrid pace in the third quarter of 2014," but their new...

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