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Housing Fundamentals Move In Right Direction, Price Gains Continue

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by Jann Swanson on July 22 2014, 11:08 AM

US Department of Treasury 15.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The pace of existing home sales reached a nine month high in June, topping 5 million units for the first time since last October while there were reports of continued but moderating...
Home Prices to Level Off and Reverse Course Within 2 Years - Analysts

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by Jann Swanson on July 21 2014, 12:51 PM

Two Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) analysts are defending what they call their big high conviction views for what should happen in the housing world over the next two years. Chris Flanagan and Gregory Fitter, ABS and MBS strategists say that their...
New Housing Normal; Pent-up Supply and Demand

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by Jann Swanson on July 18 2014, 7:47 AM

While he has written about some of the elements in the past, Mark Fleming neatly summed up the current state of housing's supply and demand constraints in the latest edition of CoreLogic's Market Pulse. That issue, the company's chief economist said,...
Small Lenders Increased Selling Directly to GSEs a Double-Edged Sword

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by Jann Swanson on July 17 2014, 11:44 AM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's Office of Inspector General (FHFA OIG) has released an evaluation of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's (the GSEs) increased recent level of purchases of loans from small banks, credit unions, and non-bank mortgage companies...
Foreclosures hit Important Milestone; Concerning Trends in Some States

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by Jann Swanson on July 16 2014, 3:44 PM

It has been a long eight years, but foreclosure activity appears to have returned to levels last seen before the housing downturn was born in 2006. RealtyTrac said today that the 2 percent decrease in the various types of foreclosure filings in June brought...
Housing Starts Fall Enough to Break 3yr Trend of Improvement

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by Jann Swanson on July 17 2014, 10:14 AM

All three residential construction indicators fell in June according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Housing permits and housing starts were down for the second month in a row and completions, which increased...
Smarting over Fines, Chase will Reduce FHA Lending

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by Jann Swanson on July 15 2014, 5:07 PM

JP Morgan Chase appears to be questioning the wisdom of remaining an FHA lender. The company's Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, made critical comments about the FHA program during a conference call on Tuesday accompanying release of its 2 nd quarter financial...
Homebuilder Confidence Back Into Positive Territory

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by Jann Swanson on July 16 2014, 11:05 AM

Homebuilder confidence in the market for new homes crossed into positive territory in July, the first time the measure has been above the crucial 50 mark since January. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index...
Mortgage Application Volume back to pre-Holiday Levels

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by Jann Swanson on July 16 2014, 7:00 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Market Composite Index notched another decline during the week ended July 11, the fifth straight down week for the index which measures the volume of mortgage applications. The index decreased 3.6 percent on a...
Affordability is the big Challenge for Housing

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by Jann Swanson on July 15 2014, 2:31 PM

The rule of thumb for household budgeting is that no more than 30 percent of income should go toward housing; more constitutes a cost-burdened household and spending more than 50 percent a severely cost one. The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies...
Rental Market Stabilizing but Renter Profile is Changing

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by Jann Swanson on July 14 2014, 11:17 AM

While the magnitude isn't clear, that the growth of renter households has risen far above average in recent years is. The Housing Vacancy Survey reports that the number of these households increased by half a million in 2013 while the Current Population...
Profound Commentary on Homebuying Demand From MBA President's Daughter

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by Jann Swanson on July 11 2014, 12:34 PM

MND's fourth part of its summary of the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies' State of the Nation's Housing published yesterday looked at the impact the Millennial Generation, those young adults born between the early 1980s and early 2000s are having...
Housing Scorecard sees Recovery Slowly Getting Back on Track

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by Jann Swanson on July 11 2014, 10:30 AM

Growing equity and a rebound in sales of new and existing homes were the highlight of the June edition of the Obama Administration's Housing Scorecard. New home purchases surged by 18.6 percent in May, to the highest level since May 2008 indicating, the...
Comments Invited on new PMI Provider Requirements

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by Jann Swanson on July 10 2014, 5:18 PM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released new draft requirements for private insurance companies that insure mortgages purchased by the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. FHFA is inviting public comment...
Size and Face of Homeownership, Changed and Changing

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by Jann Swanson on July 09 2014, 1:26 PM

Part 4 of the recent edition of the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies' report on the State of the Nation's Housing looks at the declining rate of homeownership in the U.S. which has now fallen for the seventh straight year. The rate edged down 0...

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