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Foreign Buyers are Pumping the Brakes on Home Purchases

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by Jann Swanson on August 06 2020, 11:13 AM

Foreign buyers cut back their investment in U.S. residential properties over the 12 months that ended in March. It was the second year-over-year decline. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) annual survey among its members about their transactions...
Maybe Home Prices Aren't in Trouble After All?

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by Jann Swanson on August 04 2020, 10:40 AM

Home prices increased in June at the fastest pace in more than seven years. CoreLogic said its Home Price Index (HPI) rose 1.0 percent from May, the largest month-over-month gain since January 2013. The appreciation from April to May was 0.7 percent....
Mortgage Application Volume Pulls Back For Second Consecutive Week

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by Jann Swanson on August 05 2020, 7:47 AM

Mortgage application volume declined during the week ended July 31 even as mortgage interest rates reached another all-time low. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, decreased 5.1 percent on...
Construction Spending Largely Unchanged as Shutdowns End

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by Jann Swanson on August 03 2020, 3:27 PM

Construction spending held firm in June, inching down fractionally from the May level and increasing a bit compared to June 2019. The U.S. Census Bureau said total spending during the month was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.355 trillion,...
More Home Buyers are in the Market, but Shopping Takes Longer

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by Jann Swanson on August 03 2020, 11:46 AM

In the second quarter of 2020, 11 percent of American adults were planning on purchasing a home over the next 12 months, and of those, almost half were actively engaged in doing so. Rose Quint, writing in the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB...
Housing Affordability Best in Four Years, Purchase Rate Locks Surge

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by Jann Swanson on August 03 2020, 9:41 AM

The last report from Freddie Mac put its 30-year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) at 2.99 percent, up 1 basis point from the all-time low. Black Knight, in its new Mortgage Monitor , says that has made home affordability the best in four years. As of mid-July...
More Evidence of Strength in Housing as GDP Tumbles

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by Jann Swanson on July 31 2020, 11:14 AM

The National Home Builders Association (NHBA) has been saying since the COVID-19 virus first began to ravage the economy, that it might be housing that would drive the eventual recovery. Now they have some real evidence. The record setting 32.9 percent...
FHA/VA Forbearances Continue to Climb

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by Jann Swanson on July 31 2020, 8:46 AM

As of Wednesday, there were 4.102 million mortgages in forbearance plans. This is 7.7 percent of the 53 million loans in servicer portfolios. Black Knight said its weekly survey noted a 17,000-loan decrease in total forborne loans over the previous week...
JD Power Ranks Mortgage Servicer Satisfaction

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by Jann Swanson on July 30 2020, 2:02 PM

The performance of mortgage loan servicers is lacking in the eyes of many of their customers, even this early in the pandemic driven recession. J.D. Power's 2020 U.S. Primarily Mortgage Servicer Satisfaction Study found customers reporting long wait times...
Fannie and Freddie Remain Profitable Despite Mortgage Delinquencies

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by Jann Swanson on July 30 2020, 12:44 PM

Both government supported enterprises (GSE) reported increased profits in the second quarter of 2020 compared to Q1. Fannie Mae said its net comprehensive income was $2.53 billion compared to $476 million and Freddie Mac's quarterly results were 1.94...
Pending Home Sales Continue Remarkable Rebound

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by Jann Swanson on July 29 2020, 10:00 AM

Pending home sales soared again in June, although the liftoff was relatively shallow compared to the 43 percent increase in May. The National Association of Realtors'® (NAR's) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI). The index, a forward-looking indicator...
Freddie Mac's Volume Increased in June, Delinquencies Skyrocketed

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by Jann Swanson on July 29 2020, 8:58 AM

Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 14.2 percent in June compared to a 5.5 percent gain in May. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.46 trillion compared to $2.407 trillion...
Mortgage Apps Pull Back for the First Time in a Month

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by Jann Swanson on July 29 2020, 8:09 AM

Mortgage application volume declined for the first time in four weeks during the week ended July 24. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said is Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, was down 0.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from...
Q2 Homeownership Hits 12-Year High

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by Jann Swanson on July 28 2020, 11:23 AM

The U.S. homeownership rate moved significantly higher in the second quarter of 2020, reaching the highest level since the third quarter of 2008 at a rate of 67.9 percent. The U.S. Census Bureau reported the rate in the first quarter of the year was 65...
May Home Prices Unexpectedly Stall

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by Jann Swanson on July 28 2020, 9:41 AM

Home prices increases slowed slightly in May on both a month-over-month and an annual basis according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. The U.S. National Home Price Index which covers all nine U.S. census divisions, rose 4.5 percent in May...

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