MND NewsWire : Housing and Economic News

Place your ad here

Email Alerts

Receive an Email Alert each time a story is posted to MND NewsWire.

- Subscribe to Email Alerts

RSS

- Posts | Comments

- View All RSS Feeds

Newsletters

- Subscribe to Newsletter

- Subscribe to Mortgage Rates Update

Latest Headlines

From MND NewsWire

Longest Recorded Refi Boom Ends; New Demographic Emerges

Concentration of Foreclosure Inventory is a Concern - CoreLogic

California Realtors get Heads-Up on Short Sale Complications

Homeownership at 19 Year Low

Slow, Mixed Week for Mortgage Applications

View All

Other Top Headlines

MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Bounce Back After Anxiety-Ridden Start...

JD Powers Report on Servicing; Non-Vanilla Securitization Market...

MBS Day Ahead: What Yesterday's GDP Shocker Means for Rates

Mortgage Rates Highest in More Than a Month After GDP

MBS RECAP: FOMC Announcement Wholly Overshadowed by GDP

Latest Video

Longest Recorded Refi Boom Ends; New Demographic Emerges; Foreclosure Concentration Concern; What GDP Means for Rates

Published: 7/31/2014

VIEW | SUBSCRIBE | ARCHIVE

Comments

Latest Questions

Channel Options ↓ More

MND NewsWire Headlines

RSS

EMAIL ALERTS

News » MND NewsWire

Home » News Headlines » MND NewsWire Home

About this Channel

MND NewsWire features plain and simple interpretations of industry related data and events written in a manner that maintains the interest of random readers while still catering to the perspective of a housing market professional.

Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented

Longest Recorded Refi Boom Ends; New Demographic Emerges

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 30 2014, 11:57 AM

Freddie Mac has officially declared that the refinancing boom is over. The company's Refinance Report for the second quarter of 2014 said that the longest refinance boom in the 24 years since it started keeping records officially ended in the second quarter...
Concentration of Foreclosure Inventory is a Concern - CoreLogic

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 31 2014, 9:30 AM

While completed foreclosures increased slightly from May to June, the foreclosure inventory, a count of homes in the process of foreclosure, continued to slide. CoreLogic's National Foreclosure Report for June puts the number of homes lost to foreclosure...
California Realtors get Heads-Up on Short Sale Complications

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 30 2014, 9:26 AM

A short sale program for properties serviced by Nationstar, which bills itself as one of the nation's largest independent loan servicers, is the subject of a new member advisory from the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.). C.A.R. is acquiescing...
Homeownership at 19 Year Low

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 29 2014, 3:12 PM

The rate of homeownership in the U.S. continued to slide in the second quarter of 2014, reaching a 19 year low . The Commerce Department said that the seasonally adjusted homeownership rate fell to 64.8 percent during the quarter, down 0.1 percentage...
Slow, Mixed Week for Mortgage Applications

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 29 2014, 9:17 PM

It was a mixed and largely directionless week for mortgage applications as the volume of applications for home purchases inched up fractionally while applications for refinancing fell . The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index...
Seasonally-Adjusted Home Prices Declined in May

Comments (2)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 29 2014, 10:40 AM

Home price gains continued to slow in May, posting smaller annual increases than In April the S&P Dow Jones Indices said today. The Indices' Case-Shiller 10-City Composite Index was up 9.4 percent compared to May 2013 and the 20-City was 9.3 percent...
CFPB Seeks to Modify HMDA Data Collection; Raises Privacy Concerns

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 28 2014, 9:24 AM

Public comments are being requested a a new proposed rule for collecting data under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said the new rule includes changes the could help in shedding more light on consumers...
Home Prices up Again in May Black Knight says

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 28 2014, 12:06 PM

The Home Price Index (HPI) released on Monday by Black Knight Financial Services showed another strong month-over-month gain for housing values in May. The HPI increased by 0.9 percent to a value of $239,000 from $236,000 in April. The index is up 3.4...
Zillow to Acquire Trulia; both Companies to Maintain Course

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 28 2014, 11:13 AM

Zillow, the Seattle based company which started out in the mid-2000s as a website where one could check on one's own and one's neighbor's property values and has grown to a large on-line source of information on homes for sale is acquiring another housing...
Pending Sales Down but Holding above “Normal” Mark

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 28 2014, 10:15 AM

Pending home sales declined modestly in June after three months of what the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) called "solid gains." NAR's Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) declined 1.1 percent to 102.7 in June from 103.8 in May. June's value was...
Strong Reaction on Wall Street to So-So Home Builder Results

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 25 2014, 12:12 PM

It was a bad day on Wall Street Thursday for housing stocks. In no particular order Census Bureau data was released showing that new home sales had declined by 8.1 percent in June compared to May and that May's numbers weren't nearly as shiny as was first...
Housing Market Sending Mixed Signals -Freddie Mac

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 23 2014, 2:15 PM

Freddie Mac said today that its Multi-Indicator Market Index or MiMi for May is sending out mixed signals to the housing market. While more markets entered their stable range of housing activity, most markets remained stalled, just as they were in April...
New Home Sales Decline from Downgraded May Numbers

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 24 2014, 10:52 AM

New homes sales retreated in June from the very strong performance reported for May; a performance that turns out to have been less strong. A joint release from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development this morning put June...
Modest Housing Recovery Will Continue -Fannie

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 23 2014, 11:26 AM

The theme for the economy and the housing market's in 2014 has been set for months; the economy will continue to slowly strengthen; the modest recovery in housing will be sustained . Each monthly or quarterly report or round of economic analysis seems...
Foreclosure Inventory Continues to Shrink but Distressed Loans up

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on July 23 2014, 10:22 AM

Black Knight Financial Services said today that both delinquencies and foreclosure starts were up slightly in June. The information was part of the company's “first look” preview of data from its Mortgage Monitor report that will be published...

1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »

More From MND