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New Study Shows Impact of Government Fees On Home Affordability

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by Glenn Setzer on July 31 2007, 7:00 AM

The National Association of Home Builders sponsors an economic publication for the housing industry which publishes at HousingEconomics.com. In mid-July it released a study on Metropolitan Area House Prices and Affordability written by Elliot F. Eisenberg...
Housing News Turns The Stock Market To Mush

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by Glenn Setzer on July 27 2007, 7:00 AM

It's been a rough week for the housing market. Homebuilder confidence is in the gutter, existing home sales fell substantially and the bad news emanating from the subprime debacle continues top headlines. Now we have new home sales and builders reporting...
Home Prices Hold Their Own As Existing Home Sales Fall

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by Glenn Setzer on July 26 2007, 7:00 AM

There was mixed news on the existing housing front in last month. The monthly survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) � showed the sales of existing homes , including single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops declined 3.8 percent...
Mortgage Rates Virtually Unchanged From Previous Week

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by Glenn Setzer on July 25 2007, 7:00 AM

In perhaps the only good news in the mortgage and real estate worlds this week, both long and short term interest rates for the week ended July 19 barely budged from their positions a week earlier. With hedge funds that had heavily invested in residential...
Subprime Mess Continues To Wreak Havoc on the Mortgage Market

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by Glenn Setzer on July 24 2007, 7:00 AM

...on Tuesday Countrywide reported a 33 percent drop in net income for the second quarter and announced that payments were delinquent on nearly 24 percent of its subprime mortgage loans compared to 15.33 percent at the same time in 2006. More disquieting...
Foreclosure Help Is Available

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by Glenn Setzer on July 23 2007, 7:00 AM

A lot of people are getting nervous about their mortgages, and some have real reason to worry as they approach the reset dates on their adjustable rate, interest only, or option payment loans. We have talked before about avoiding foreclosure but it is...
Builders Confidence Hits 26 Year Low as Permits and Starts Fall Again

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by Glenn Setzer on July 20 2007, 7:00 AM

The homebuilding industry is obviously in distress. But, in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made an interesting statement about employment in the home- building industry. Remarking that there...
Mortgage Rates Mixed But Application Volume Remains Steady

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by Glenn Setzer on July 19 2007, 7:00 AM

Short-term adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) were unchanged during the last week, but longer term fixed and adjustable rate mortgages did move; if up or down depends on whether you accept the surveys behind the reports of Freddie Mac or the Mortgage Bankers...
Nobody Understands Buyer Agency - Certainly Not Newsweek

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by Glenn Setzer on July 18 2007, 7:00 AM

An otherwise very smart real estate attorney once said to a friend "Nobody understands dual agency." It seemed like a weird thing for a lawyer to say at the time but Newsweek has just proven his point. In a rather remarkable short piece promoting buyer...
More Action RE: Subprime Lending and Mortgage Regulation

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by Glenn Setzer on July 17 2007, 7:00 AM

At the end of June the five agencies that regulate federally chartered banks and their subsidiary lending corporations issued final guidance to those institutions regarding subprime lending , particularly the so-called exotic or non-traditional loans...
NAACP Subprime Discrimination Suit

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by Glenn Setzer on July 16 2007, 7:00 AM

We mentioned briefly last week that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP) has filed a class action suit against more than a dozen subprime lenders in an effort to stop those lenders from engaging in what the suit calls...
Subprime Disaster Continues To Unfold

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by Glenn Setzer on July 13 2007, 7:00 AM

It seems that nary a week can pass without a subprime disaster of some type. This week is no exception although there was at least a bit of variety due to bad news coming from other parts of the housing industry. Here is the rundown......
Mortgage Rates Move In Opposite Directions on Surveys

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by Glenn Setzer on July 12 2007, 7:00 AM

According to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the previous week, long term interest rates were down for the third week in a row. However, the Weekly Mortgage Market Survey released by the Mortgage Bankers Association reported quite the...
Pros and Cons of the Various Housing Indicators

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by Glenn Setzer on July 11 2007, 7:00 AM

The Office of the Chief Economist of Freddie Mac issued its monthly economic outlook for July on Monday and, in the narrative provided a helpful analysis of the reasons for the confusing messages emerging from various reports on current house prices....
Two MBA Surveys Paint Picture of Mortgage Market in 2006

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by Glenn Setzer on July 10 2007, 7:00 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association released the results of two surveys covering the mortgage world in the second half of 2006 on Tuesday. 84 lenders participated in the Mortgage Originations Survey , including almost all of the top 30 mortgage originators...

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