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Housing Market Sending Mixed Signals -Freddie Mac

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Finally an “Up” Week for Mortgage Applications

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by Jann Swanson on July 23 2014, 6:33 AM

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Market Composite Index, a measure of loan application volume had its first positive week since June 6 last week, increasing 2.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous week. The Mortgage...
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...

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