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Housing Starts Reach Highest Levels Since 2006

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Housing Starts Reach Highest Levels Since 2006

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by Jann Swanson on April 16 2021, 10:00 AM

Residential construction recovered in March after a serious decline the prior month. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development said all three measures rose, with housing starts hitting a 15 year high . Some regional increases...
COVID-19 Forbearance Decline Hits Mid-Month Lull

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by Jann Swanson on April 16 2021, 8:26 AM

There was little change in the number of active forbearance plans over the past week, but Black Knight reminds, in its regular Friday report, that this it was simply another mid-month lull as servicers finished processing the prior month's expired plans...
New Home Purchase Applications Ramping up for Spring

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by Jann Swanson on April 15 2021, 11:36 AM

True to tradition, new home sales appear to have moved higher in March as the calendar closed in on the start of the spring market. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates sales of newly constructed homes increased by 7 percent compared to February...
Buyer Demand Provides Modest Boost to Builder Confidence

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by Jann Swanson on April 15 2021, 10:45 AM

New home builders seem to be slowly getting their mojo back. After recovering from the hit they took in the first days of the pandemic, they encountered labor shortages, supply chain issues, and rising material costs. The National Association of Home...
Freddie Mac Sees Rates and Prices Leveling Off Through 2022

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by Jann Swanson on April 14 2021, 1:21 PM

Freddie Mac's Economic and Housing Research Group finds a lot to like in the present economic environment. . The company's quarterly forecast credits the increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines and the easing of virus related restrictions, the passage...
Purchases Now Account For a Majority of New Mortgages

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by Jann Swanson on April 14 2021, 10:39 AM

Black Knight has launched a new monthly report covering mortgage origination activity as gathered through its Optimal Blue loan product and pricing engine. The company says its Originations Market Monitor will publish a series of key indicators drawn...
Mortgage Applications Decline Further, High Costs Constraining Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on April 14 2021, 8:10 AM

Higher interest rates drove the volume of mortgages applications lower again last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, decreased 3.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week...
Mortgage Banks Report 2020 Financials Shattered Last Years Records

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by Jann Swanson on April 13 2021, 12:46 PM

While most of us couldn't wait for 2020 to be over, it turns out to have been a superlative year for mortgage originators. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) annual Mortgage Bankers Performance Report shows the profit independent mortgage banks...
Delinquencies Post Fifth Month of Improvement

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by Jann Swanson on April 13 2021, 10:05 AM

The national delinquency rate posted its fifth consecutive decline in January, retreating to the lowest level since the start of the pandemic. CoreLogic says 5.6 percent of all mortgages were at least 30 days past due during the month, including those...
Fannie/Freddie Announce End Dates for QM Rules

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by Jann Swanson on April 12 2021, 8:35 AM

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) have released information to their lenders confirming that any loans they purchase after July 1, 2021 must conform to the agreement made on their behalf in January by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA...
2020 Property Tax Increases Outpaced Inflation

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by Jann Swanson on April 09 2021, 10:17 AM

American home owners received bills for $323 billion in property taxes last year, a 5.4 percent increase from $306.4 billion in 2019. ATTOM Data Solutions says that the average bill for each of the 87 million single-family homes in the country was $3...
Forbearance Decline Largest in Six Months

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by Jann Swanson on April 09 2021, 9:00 AM

Black Knight reports that the number of loans in forbearance programs declined last week for the sixth straight time and it was the largest drop in six months . As of April 6, the number of loans in active plans was 2.312 million or 4.4 percent of all...
Jumbo Loans Easier to Obtain as Economy Recovers

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by Jann Swanson on April 08 2021, 10:45 AM

Non-government lenders continue to return to mortgage lending after fleeing at the start of the pandemic. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says this has helped increase the supply of jumbo mortgages for six straight months and helped drive MBA's...
People Are Finally Starting to Think About Selling Homes Instead of Just Buying Them

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by Jann Swanson on April 07 2021, 2:12 PM

Consumer attitudes perked up in March, sending the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) up 5.2 points compared to February. The company said four of the HPSI's components rose during the month, taking the index to 81.7. The percentage of respondents...
Pandemic Threatens Women's Growing Homeownership Rates

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by Jann Swanson on April 07 2021, 11:05 AM

After years of gains in educational attainment, employment, and wages, women have increased their rates of both homeownership and headship (the number who are heads of households). Now the Urban Institute (UI) says the pandemic may have put those advances...

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