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Weekly Mortgage Rates and Activity Mostly Lackadaisical

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by Glenn Setzer on March 30 2006, 7:00 AM

Fannie Mae's Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended March 23 indicated that the average rates for mortgages closed that week were as follows: the 30-year fixed was at 6.32 percent with fees and ... Loan activity was up slightly. According...
Housing Bubble Conflicting Data Released

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by Glenn Setzer on March 27 2006, 7:00 AM

The housing market threw the world another curve on Thursday. After five straight months of declining sales of existing homes, a sixth dreary month was pretty generally expected. Instead the National Association of Realtors announced that February sales...
Second Home Sales Increase Their Share Of Real Estate Market

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by Glenn Setzer on March 24 2006, 7:00 AM

The National Association of Realtors recently released an interesting report about the sale of second homes in the United States. While the survey is a little outdated, the data covers sales over five years to the end of 2004, it still provides a perspective...
Mortgage Rates Drop Slightly But Delinquent Mortgage Payments Rise

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by Glenn Setzer on March 22 2006, 7:00 AM

Most interest rates continued their recent pattern of two steps up -one step back during the week ending March 16 (Freddie Mac) and March 17 (Mortgage Bankers Association.) In other news, The Mortgage Bankers Association announced that more homeowners...
Fannie Mae Feels Fallout From Rudman Report

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by Glenn Setzer on March 20 2006, 7:00 AM

It is hard to be sympathetic to someone who cannot, as the saying goes, get out of their own way. But Fannie Mae is beginning to seem like the hapless victim of a crowd of school yard bullies determined to bring it down. The review of Fannie's financial...
Credit Bureaus Roll Out VantageScore Credit Scoring System

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by Glenn Setzer on March 16 2006, 7:00 AM

...So, now that we are comfortable with what constitutes a score, what our own scores are, and how that indicates that we stack up, it is all going to change. On March 14 the three bureaus announced that they have collaborated on a new credit scoring...
Mortgage Rates Hit Three Year Highs

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by Glenn Setzer on March 15 2006, 7:00 AM

After months of apparent indecisiveness, mortgages rates seem to have decided on a direction and are heading toward it. Unfortunately that direction is up! Both of the mortgage market surveys we track reported rates at their highest levels since mid-2002...
Over 100 Bills Limiting Eminent Domain Fill State And Federal Hoppers

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by Glenn Setzer on March 13 2006, 7:00 AM

When the Supreme Court, in June 2005, upheld a lower court's decision allowing the City of New London, Connecticut to proceed in seizing property from private owners to facilitate a redevelopment project by private developers, it set off a firestorm that...
Fannie Mae Saga Continues As Rudman Report Is Issued

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by Glenn Setzer on March 10 2006, 8:00 AM

The long awaited independent accounting report on Fannie Mae was released late last month, and while it sort of absolves Franklin Raines, former Chairman and CEO of the mega-mortgage company who, along with Timothy Howard the CFO lost his job at the height...
Mortgage Rates Flat in Freddie Mac Report, Up Sharply Per MBA

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by Glenn Setzer on March 08 2006, 8:00 AM

According to Freddie Mac, mortgage rates moved only slightly during the week ended March 2 and what little movement there was served only to narrow the gap between fixed and variable rate mortgages. Freddie Mac's weekly primary Mortgage Market Survey...
What Housing Bubble? Report Shows House Prices Still Soaring

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by Glenn Setzer on March 03 2006, 8:00 AM

Last week was a big week for news about the housing bubble and the quarterly House Price Index (HPI) report of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) released on March 1 was a good deal more optimistic about price growth than were...
NAR Issues Existing Home Sales Report For January

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by Glenn Setzer on March 03 2006, 8:00 AM

Following hard on the heels of the January new home sales report issued jointly by The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau (Department of Commerce), last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has issued its report...
Mortgage Rates Retreat A Bit But So Does Mortgage Activity

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by Glenn Setzer on March 01 2006, 8:00 AM

Most mortgage rates retreated ever-so-slightly during the week ended February 23, 2006 according to the Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey conducted by Freddie Mac and the Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended February 24 which was...
Listen Closely, The Housing Bubble Might Not Be Leaking

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by Glenn Setzer on March 01 2006, 8:00 AM

Americans have been straining to hear the sound of the housing bubble bursting for many months, and according to the media on Monday, they might not have heard a pop but there was definitely a ssssst....

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