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Short Term Direction of Mortgage Rates Dependent Upon Auctions and Stocks

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February 08 2010, 5:20 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Short Term Direction of Mortgage Rates Dependent Upon Auctions and Stocks Nothing has changed from Friday. Mortgage rates continue to run into a floor at 4.75%. This has held true all month! My lock bias is based on the big... - Mortgage

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Home Sellers Still See Conditions as Unfavorable - Shadow Inventory Perspective

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February 05 2010, 6:52 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Home Sellers Still See Conditions as Unfavorable. Perspective on Shadow Inventory Sellers reacting to the depressed price of their houses appear to be holding back improvements in the housing market according to a survey by Thompson

Filed under: shadow inventory, home sellers

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Lenders Improve Mortgage Rates as Stocks Panic. Locking Ahead of Employment Report

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February 04 2010, 6:42 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Lenders Improve Mortgage Rates as Stocks Panic. Locking Ahead of Employment Report I have been advising LOCK all week ahead of the Employment Situation Report, which will be released at 8:30am tomorrow morning. While there have been

Filed under: mortgage rates

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FY 2011 BUDGET: Housing and Mortgage Related Proposals

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February 03 2010, 6:09 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories FY 2011 BUDGET REVIEW: Housing and Mortgage Related Proposals I have spent the last few days using the control-f function to locate anything mentioning housing or the mortgage industry. I searched the document for... - MND NewsWire

Filed under: 2011 Budget

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Census Bureau: 130.6M Housing Units in US; 18.9M Vacant

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February 02 2010, 6:58 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Census Bureau: 130.6 Million Housing Units in the US; 18.9 Million are Vacant At the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, there were 130.58 million housing units in the US. Compare that to the end of 2008 when there were 129.45 million

Filed under: housing units, vacant homes

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Loan Officer Survey: Credit Standards Tighter, Consumer Demand Falling, Deliquencies Expected to Rise

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February 01 2010, 6:45 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Loan Officer Survey: Credit Standards Tighter, Consumer Demand Falling, Deliquencies Expected to Rise Bankers responding to the January 2010 Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices indicated that

Filed under: loan officer survey

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Mortgage Rates End Choppy Week Near Best Levels

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January 29 2010, 6:56 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Mortgage Rates End Choppy Week Near Best Levels Following the release of much better than expected 4th Quarter GDP, mortgage-backed security prices fell. This forced lenders to move mortgage rates slightly... - Mortgage Rate Watch New

Filed under: mortgage rates

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HAMP Guidelines Updated to Improve Loan Modification Conversion Rate

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January 28 2010, 6:27 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories HAMP Guidelines Updated to Improve Loan Modification Conversion Rate The program has enrolled over 850,000 homeowners who are seriously delinquent in their mortgage payments in a trial modification period but has encountered... - MND

Filed under: hamp guidelines, loan modification

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Mortgage Rates Move Higher After FOMC Meeting

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January 27 2010, 6:08 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Mortgage Rates Move Higher After FOMC Meeting MORTGAGE RATES MOVED HIGHER AFTER THE FOMC RELEASE. Reports from fellow mortgage professionals now indicate lender rate sheets to be worse than yesterday... - Mortgage Rate Watch Loan Demand

Filed under: mortgage rates, fomc meeting

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S&P Case-Shiller: Home Prices Lose Momentum in November

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January 26 2010, 6:44 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories S&P Case-Shiller: Home Prices Lose Momentum in November Standard and Poor's released the Case-Shiller Home Price Index this morning. On a month over month basis, home prices in 20 US cities fell 0.2% in... - MND NewsWire FHA Keeps

Filed under: home prices, s&p case shiller

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Existing Home Sales Give Back Incentivized Gains. Jobs Still the Main Roadblock

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January 25 2010, 6:04 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Existing Home Sales Give Back Incentivized Gains. Jobs Still the Main Roadblock After a rising surge from September through November, existing-home sales fell as expected in December after first-time buyers rushed to complete sales

Filed under: mortgage news

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Don't Expect the GSEs to Go Away Anytime Soon

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January 22 2010, 5:54 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Don't Expect the GSEs to Go Away Anytime Soon GNMA paper is already explicitly guaranteed, expect GNMA and the FHA to continue to be a crutch (responsibly). In terms of GSE paper, while I still believe... - MND NewsWire Pay Option ARM

Filed under: gse, fannie mae, freddie mac

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Mortgage Rates Hit New 2010 Lows as Stocks Sell

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January 21 2010, 7:41 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Mortgage Rates Hit New 2010 Lows as Stocks Sell With lenders still offering the best rates we've seen in over a month and further progress unknown in the rates market, I think most should consider... - Mortgage Rate Watch Fed MBS Purchase

Filed under: mortgage news

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Home Builders Waiting for Labor Market to Improve. Nervous About Foreclosures

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January 19 2010, 4:40 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Home Builders Waiting for Labor Market to Improve. Nervous About Foreclosures Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes declined one point to 15 in January on continuing concerns about the poor job market

Filed under: mortgage news

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Fed Heading Towards Mortgage Market Exits?

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January 15 2010, 8:07 PM

Home Today's Headlines ATW Forums Q&A Mortgage Rates Top Stories Fed Heading Towards Mortgage Market Exits? GSEs Need Explicit Government Guarantee First There is much confusion surrounding the guarantee status of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We clear up any misconceptions and call attention to

Filed under: federal reserve

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Short Term Direction of Mortgage Rates Dependent Upon Auctions and Stocks

Home Sellers Still See Conditions as Unfavorable - Shadow Inventory Perspective

Lenders Improve Mortgage Rates as Stocks Panic. Locking Ahead of Employment Report

FY 2011 BUDGET: Housing and Mortgage Related Proposals

Census Bureau: 130.6M Housing Units in US; 18.9M Vacant

Loan Officer Survey: Credit Standards Tighter, Consumer Demand Falling, Deliquencies Expected to Rise

Mortgage Rates End Choppy Week Near Best Levels

HAMP Guidelines Updated to Improve Loan Modification Conversion Rate

Mortgage Rates Move Higher After FOMC Meeting

S&P Case-Shiller: Home Prices Lose Momentum in November

Existing Home Sales Give Back Incentivized Gains. Jobs Still the Main Roadblock

Don't Expect the GSEs to Go Away Anytime Soon

Mortgage Rates Hit New 2010 Lows as Stocks Sell

Home Builders Waiting for Labor Market to Improve. Nervous About Foreclosures

Fed Heading Towards Mortgage Market Exits?