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Big Changes at Fannie/Freddie, Is Conservatorship Nearing an End?

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by Jann Swanson on January 22 2019, 11:25 AM

MarketWatch is reporting that Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) along with Treasury and other parts of the administration are about to reveal a plan to end the 10-year plus conservatorship of the two GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Joseph Otting...
Rising Inventories Tempering Prices, Existing Home Sales Resume Slide

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by Jann Swanson on January 22 2019, 10:41 AM

Existing home sales finished up the year on a decidedly sour note. After putting together consecutive increase in October and November and ending a six-month losing streak, the National Association of Realtors® reports sales plummeted 6.4 percent...
Fannie/Freddie Changes Run the Gamut, Including Shutdown Underwriting Shift

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by Rob Chrisman on January 22 2019, 8:24 AM

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” How about “26 of the World’s Richest Own the Same Wealth as Poorest Half” in the world!? To the best of my knowledge the PUGS (partial U.S. government shutdown) is not helping...
Has RESPA's Servicer Rule Reduced Foreclosures?

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by Jann Swanson on January 18 2019, 12:27 PM

In accordance with requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently conducted five-year assessments of two rules it promulgated under the act. We summarized their assessment...
New Home Sales Pull Back Amid Global Uncertainty

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by Jann Swanson on January 17 2019, 10:45 AM

Applications for new home purchases dropped in December , falling 6.8 percent behind those a year earlier. The deficit from November was even larger, a decline of 13 percent. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that those numbers, which do...
Will New FHFA Head Follow his Instincts or Bow to Reality?

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by Jann Swanson on January 16 2019, 12:03 PM

"The most important question in housing policy heading into the new year has nothing to do with interest rates, housing supply, or home sales," Urban Institute (UI) non-resident fellow Jim Parrott says. "It's what kind of director of the Federal Housing...
Builder Confidence Buoyed by Lower Rates

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by Jann Swanson on January 16 2019, 10:21 AM

After falling an aggregate of 12 points in November and December the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) appears to have stabilized. The HMI, a measure of home builders' confidence in the market for newly...
Millionaires Cash-Out Too; Big Refis for Big Homes

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by Jann Swanson on January 15 2019, 1:16 PM

Somewhere in this country there are 230 homes with mortgage balances between $10 and $20 million dollars. According to a post written by Arthur Jobe in the CoreLogic Insights blog, 75 percent of them were originated since 2013, and 180 represent refinances...
Purchase Mortgage Applications Reach 8 Year High

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by Jann Swanson on January 16 2019, 5:29 AM

January 11 ended the first full business week in a while and mortgage activity responded accordingly. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported a strong rebound when, despite a government shutdown, business returned more or less to normal. MBA's...
NAR Survey Finds American Dream Depends on Affordability

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by Jann Swanson on January 14 2019, 12:57 PM

Homeownership as an American dream is alive and well according to new data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) 2018 Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) Survey. The survey was conducted across all 12 months of last year...
MBA Revives Income Verification During Govt Shutdown

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by Jann Swanson on January 14 2019, 8:49 AM

At least one part of the shutdown is over as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it has resumed its Income Verification Express Service (IVES.) The service, which provides tax transcripts essential for processing mortgage applications for non...
CFPB: How ATR/QM Rule has Changed Lending

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by Jann Swanson on January 11 2019, 1:02 PM

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) contains a requirement that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), author of many of the rules under the act, publish an assessment of its "significant rules and...
Prepayment Rate Shrinks, Composition Shifts

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by Jann Swanson on January 10 2019, 1:46 PM

The November Mortgage Monitor from Black Knight focused largely on the shifting of the mortgage market toward purchase originations and the unexpected expansion of the refinancing pool due to recent interest rate drops, but it also had an interesting...
Credit Access Takes a Hit as HARP Expires

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by Jann Swanson on January 10 2019, 9:38 AM

Credit availability suffered an unusually large decline in December. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) fell 7.3 percent to 175.0 in December (it was 188.8 in November.) A decline in the MCAI indicates...
Small Price and Rate Changes Make a Big Difference for Homebuyers

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by Jann Swanson on January 09 2019, 11:58 AM

As home sales have slowed, attention has shifted to the subject of affordability. The combination of rising home prices and higher interest rates is blamed by many as the cause of the lagging sales. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has...

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