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Diversity Not Destined to Dampen Homeownership

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by Jann Swanson on June 23 2017, 1:43 PM

The final installment of a series of working papers produced by the University of Southern California (USC), in partnership with Fannie Mae, looks at the decade-spanning 10-point plunge in the homeownership rate of young Americans. Homeownership has declined...
New Home Sales Rebound; Prices Crush Previous Record

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by Jann Swanson on June 23 2017, 10:45 AM

The report on May new home sales, released this morning, paints a much brighter picture than last month's release of April data. In that report, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said new home sales had dropped...
FHFA Home Prices Continue Strong Gains

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by Jann Swanson on June 22 2017, 9:29 AM

April data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) indicates that, once again, there was no moderation in the pace of home price increases . FHFA's Housing Price Index (HPI), which is based on loans sold to or guaranteed by the two GSEs, Fannie...
Prepayment Rate and Refinanceable Population Have Both Soared

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by Jann Swanson on June 21 2017, 5:35 PM

Prepayments, apparently spurred by the recent retreat in interest rates, soared in May. Black Knight Financial Services, in its "first look" at the month's mortgage performance data, said there was a 23 percent increase in prepayments, historically a...
Purchase Loans, Closing Rates Improved in May

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by Jann Swanson on June 22 2017, 8:21 AM

Originations are increasingly tilted toward home purchase mortgages per the latest Origination Insight Report from Ellie Mae. The May data show the share of those mortgages gained another three percentage points to represent 68 percent of all closed loans...
Existing Sales Rise, Prices Peak, Time-to-Sell at New Low

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by Jann Swanson on June 21 2017, 10:22 AM

Existing home sales weren't expected to strengthen in May, in fact analysts were looking for a slight decline. Sales however did manage to recover from a significant April loss while inventories increased slightly and the median sales price rose to a...
Refis Take Another Step Toward 50% of All Mortgage Apps

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by Jann Swanson on June 21 2017, 7:38 AM

The volume of applications for refinancing expanded for the third consecutive time during the week ended June 16. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said the increase offset another down week for purchase mortgages, giving overall mortgage volume...
Rise in Purchase Mortgages Boosts Credit Risk

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by Jann Swanson on June 20 2017, 10:05 AM

New home purchase mortgages became a little riskier in the first quarter of 2017 per CoreLogic. The company said its Housing Credit Index (HCI), which measures trends in six mortgage credit risk attributes, edged up to 105.6, a 3.6-point increase from...
MBA Objects to FHFA Non-Bank Servicer Proposal

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by Jann Swanson on June 20 2017, 9:09 AM

Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO David H. Stevens, has released a statement objecting to one of the three recommendations made this week by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in its annual report to Congress. FHFA said it intends...
Hedging Economic Bets

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by Jann Swanson on June 19 2017, 1:02 PM

Fannie Mae's Economic and Strategic Research Team hedged a few bets in its June economic summary. It laid out some wild cards while predicting that the current expansion, which marks its eight-year anniversary this month and is the third longest of the...
Tear-Downs Accounted for 10% of 2016 Housing Starts

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by Jann Swanson on June 19 2017, 10:41 AM

In some areas, they are called "scrape-offs," but the usual term is tear-down ; demolishing an existing home to build a new one in its place. Tear-downs, not to be confused with in-fill building where a house is erected on a vacant lot in a developed...
Drop in Housing Starts Could Intensify Inventory Issues

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by Jann Swanson on June 16 2017, 10:09 AM

Both permits for construction of privately-owned housing units and beginning construction in May were well below expectations, the second consecutive month in which both declined. Each of the two measures was also below its respective pace one year earlier...
Harvard Report Raises Housing Supply, Affordability Issues

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by Jann Swanson on June 16 2017, 7:45 AM

The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University has released its latest report on the State of the Nation's Housing . The report, is a snapshot of housing and housing issues. By many measures, the report says, the national housing market...
MBA Survey Predicts Rebound in New Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on June 15 2017, 10:44 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is expecting May to provide an uptick in new home sales. Results of MBA's Builder Application Survey indicate that applications for new home purchase mortgages increased 4 percent from April on a non-seasonally adjusted...
Tight Supply, Strong Demand Push Record-Setting Home Sales Pace … Again

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by on June 15 2017, 11:35 AM

The competition for housing is heating up along with the summer temperatures and continuing to set new records. The average house sold in May went under contract in just 37 days , that's the fastest reading since Redfin, a real estate brokerage, began...

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