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Home Purchase Sentiment Rebounds to Near Record Highs

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by Jann Swanson on December 10 2019, 10:21 AM

After a steep dive in October, America's attitude toward buying a home is on the rise again. Positive answers to the question of whether it is a good time to buy on Fannie Mae's November National Housing Survey rose 11 percentage points to a net of 32...
FHA's Mortgage Insurance Fund Improvement Has Come a Long Way

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by Jann Swanson on December 09 2019, 12:23 PM

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) released its annual Report to Congress several weeks ago, reporting significant improvement in its Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund. Late last week Brian D. Montgomery, FHA Commission and Assistant Secretary...
Lots of Refinancing, So Why Are Servicers Losing Business?

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by Jann Swanson on December 09 2019, 8:43 AM

Black Knight continues to review, in its new Mortgage Monitor , how the effects of nearly a year of lower interest rates have ricocheted throughout the industry. This month's Monitor looks both at loan data from October and from the third quarter of 2019...
Loan Characteristics Mostly Account for Conforming/Jumbo Spread

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by Jann Swanson on December 06 2019, 11:44 AM

For many years homebuyers looking for homes priced above entry level employed every device they could to keep their loan amount below whatever might be the current limit for conforming (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac) loans. It might mean determining between...
October's Increases Suggest a Reversal in Home Price Slump

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by Jann Swanson on December 05 2019, 12:12 PM

After slowing for 17 months, home price gains rose 3.8 percent in July and then held nearly flat in August according to Black Knight's Home Price Index. Now the first tranche of price data for October seems to indicate a rapid shift into an acceleration...
Access to Government Backed Mortgages Finally Improves

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by Jann Swanson on December 05 2019, 9:29 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) moved significantly higher in November, gaining 2.1 percent compared to October. The index measures borrower access to mortgage credit and has components for each of...
FHA 2020 Loan Limits Set

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by Jann Swanson on December 04 2019, 2:30 PM

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Brian D. Montgomery has announced the loan limits for FHA forward mortgages in 2020. The limits are based on the conforming loan limis announced last week by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) for...
Housing Construction too Slow for Growing Population of Millennials

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by Jann Swanson on December 04 2019, 10:15 AM

There is widespread industry concern that new homes and apartment buildings are not being constructed fast enough to keep up with demand and now the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) says there is a mismatch between where they are being built...
Mortgage Apps Hit on a Technicality, But Purchases Still Increased

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by Jann Swanson on December 04 2019, 5:10 AM

Mortgage activity during the week ended November 29 was predictably impacted by the Thanksgiving Day holiday which effectively shortened the business week to three days. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says its data on application volume contains...
Could FHA's Recovery Lead to Reduced Mortgage Insurance Premiums?

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by Jann Swanson on December 03 2019, 1:22 PM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHA) had to be bailed out by the U.S. Treasury during the financial crisis after its Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund was nearly depleted. Congress has long mandated a 2.0 percent ratio in its fund, but the agency's 2011...
Home Price Gains Aren't For Everyone (Or Everywhere)

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by Jann Swanson on December 03 2019, 10:44 AM

Home prices increased on an annual basis by 3.5 percent in October according to CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI). The index rose 0.2 percent from the previous month. The rate of increase in home prices appears to have stabilized for the moment. After...
Construction Spending up 1.1% YoY, Private Sector Losing Momentum

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by Jann Swanson on December 02 2019, 11:47 AM

The nation's total spending on construction projects was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.291 trillion in October, 1.1 percent higher than a year earlier, but down 0.8 percent from the seasonally adjusted total in September of $1.301 trillion...
Freddie Mac Predicts Lower Rates in the Next Two Years

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by Jann Swanson on December 02 2019, 9:49 AM

We started this piece by noting that Freddie Mac's economists wrapped up November in an unusually brief summary. Then we realized we had said almost exactly the same thing about the company's Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group's report last month...
Refinancing Share of Freddie's Volume Soared in October

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by Jann Swanson on November 27 2019, 12:06 PM

Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 3.0 percent in October, down from 10.7 percent the previous month. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.301 trillion compared to $2.295...
Pending Home Sales Decline, But Still in Strong Territory

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by Jann Swanson on November 27 2019, 9:59 AM

Pending home sales slipped in October after two months of solid gains. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sale Index (PHSI), a leading indicator of existing home sales, retreated 1.7 percent to 106.7 in October. The...

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