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Averages in 2014: LTV, FICO, Loan Types, and More; Pending Home Sales Drop; Rates Holding Near Lows

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Averages in 2014: LTV, FICO, Loan Types, and More

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by Jann Swanson on January 29 2015, 2:42 PM

Fifty-six percent of loans closed in December were for home purchase, somewhat lower than the average for 2014 as a whole according to the Origination Insights Report from Ellie Mae. Lower interest rates pushed refinancing numbers higher toward the end...
Pending Home Sales Suffer Largest Drop of Year

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by Jann Swanson on January 29 2015, 10:40 AM

The rate at which contracts were signed to purchase homes was down slightly in December the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today. Even though buyers were looking at the lowest interest rates of the year NAR’s Pending Home Sales...
Freddie Mac Index Shows Deterioration in some Energy Dependent Markets

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by Jann Swanson on January 28 2015, 1:43 PM

Freddie Mac's Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) rose nationally this month for the third consecutive time. This, along with improving three month trends in thirty-four states and the District of Columbia and 37 of 50 metropolitan areas shows, the company...
Mortgage App Surge Levels off as Rates Ebb

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by Jann Swanson on January 28 2015, 7:10 AM

The law of physics prevailed last week and mortgage applications, riding high for the previous two weeks, returned to earth. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of loan applications volume, was 3.2 percent...
Watt Updates Congress on FHFA Operations

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by Jann Swanson on January 27 2015, 2:16 PM

Melvin L. Watt, appeared before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, his first such appearance since he became director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) a year ago. Watt, in his prepared remarks, recounted to committee members...
2014 New Home Sales 1.2 Percent Higher than 2013

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by Jann Swanson on January 27 2015, 11:31 AM

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE New Home Sales in December scored a big increase over November’s figures according to a joint Census Bureau, Department of Housing and Urban Development report issued today. Sales on a seasonally adjusted...
Case-Shiller: Recovery has Barely Reached First Base

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by Jann Swanson on January 27 2015, 10:50 AM

As has been the case for some months the latest report from S&P/Case Shiller shows a continued slowing of home price increases. November results for both the 10-City and 20-City Composite Indices were lower on a year-over-year basis than in October...
Boomerang – are Buyers Ready, Willing, and Able?

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by Jann Swanson on January 27 2015, 9:26 AM

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Are you ready for The Boomerang Buyer? That is the latest wrinkle in the seemingly endless foreclosure saga and there are apparently a lot of them who are now potentially able to affect the trajectory of...
Texas, Colorado Outshining Pre-Crash Home Prices

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by Jann Swanson on January 26 2015, 12:28 PM

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Black Knight Financial Services said Monday that national home prices eked out another month-over-month gain in November, rising 0.1 percent on its Home Price Index (HPI) to a value of $241,000. This is a...
FHA Premium Cut not about the GSEs

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by Jann Swanson on January 26 2015, 11:55 AM

Julian Castro, Secretary of Housing and Urban said today that the reduction of FHA annual premiums has nothing to do with competition from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The 50 basis point reduction in annual mortgage premiums announced by Castro earlier...
Strengthening Economy Expected to "Drag" Housing Along

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by Jann Swanson on January 22 2015, 2:41 PM

Fannie Mae's economists expect the economy to strengthen in 2015 and that will "drag" housing into a better cycle this year. The company's forecast for the year includes a moderate acceleration of economic growth, "driven by strengthening private domestic...
2015 Housing Opportunities might be Short-Lived

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by Jann Swanson on January 21 2015, 12:49 PM

There is certainly no dearth of economic and housing forecasts afoot in the land. Freddie Mac starts out its current U.S. Economic & Housing Market Outlook by comparing this January with last. Back then, we are reminded, "interest rates were rising...
Existing Home Sales End Year on Higher Note

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by Jann Swanson on January 23 2015, 11:06 AM

Existing home sales yo-yoed again in December. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said total sales of existing homes, including single family residences, condominiums, and co-ops were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04...
Six Economists Reach Similar Conclusions on 2015 Housing Outlook

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by Jann Swanson on January 20 2015, 1:21 PM

Optimism about the housing market has been a "misplaced notion" for the last seven years according to Wells Fargo Senior Economist Mark Vitner, But 2015, he says, could be the year. Vitner was one of six economists making predictions for the housing market...
Wells Kickback Scheme Involved More Than 100 LOs, Garnered Multiple Warnings

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by Jann Swanson on January 22 2015, 4:21 PM

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase along with a former Wells Fargo employee and his wife are the subjects of consent orders filed by the Maryland Attorney General and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The orders ask for close to $37 million...

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