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Millennials Differ in Housing Preferences, But Not by Much

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2019, 12:30 PM

With the huge Millennial generation finally buying houses, the National Association of Home Builders has taken a deep dive into their various preferences for where and how they are going to live. Last year it conducted the fourth in a series of buyer...
Junes New Home Sales Revision Was a Post-Crisis Record

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2019, 10:32 AM

The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said sales of newly constructed homes fell 12.8 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 635,000 units. Forecasts pinned that number at 645k. While missing the mark...
Treasury Report Sparks Rumors of Fannie/Freddie Liberation

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by Jann Swanson on August 22 2019, 2:14 PM

Sources are telling Bloomberg that a report on the White House's plan to release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) from their 11-year long conservatorship has landed on the desks of several agencies and is also in the hands of Lawrence Kudlow, head...
Loan Closing Rates Hit Record High

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by Jann Swanson on August 22 2019, 8:32 AM

There was a dramatic drop in the average note rate for loans originated in July and the refi share of those originations rose significantly. The July Origination Insight Report from Ellie Mae shows a seventh consecutive monthly drop in the 30-year note...
July Delinquency Rate Lowest in Almost 20 Years

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by Jann Swanson on August 21 2019, 3:51 PM

Black Knight said on Thursday that the national delinquency rate fell back by 7.27 percent in July , erasing last month's increase that was caused in party by the calendar. The new rate, 3.46 percent of all active mortgages, is the lowest of any July...
Low Rates "Nudged" Existing Home Buyers NAR says

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by Jann Swanson on August 21 2019, 10:57 AM

Existing home sales returned to an upward track in July after dipping 1.7 percent in June. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said pre-owned single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, and cooperative apartments sold at a seasonally adjusted...
Share of Custom Home Construction Remains Flat

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by Jann Swanson on August 20 2019, 1:17 PM

Residential construction has been famously slow for several years and some new analysis of Census data by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) shows that the lack of robustness is shared in the custom home sector. In an Eye-on-Housing blog...
Refinancing Wave Continues; Lenders May Have Capacity Restraints

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by Jann Swanson on August 21 2019, 5:32 AM

The volume of mortgage applications continued to be shored up by refinancing during the week ended August 16, but overall activity was down. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index slipped 0.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted...
New Fair Housing Rule Eases Defense of Disparate Impact Claims

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by Jann Swanson on August 20 2019, 11:44 AM

Monday's edition of the Federal Register featured a proposed rule that, depending on your viewpoint, would amend the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) interpretation of the Fair Housing Act's disparate impact standard, (HUD) or "make...
Fannie Mae Predicts Two Additional 2019 Rate Cuts, Here's Why

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by Jann Swanson on August 19 2019, 11:48 AM

Fannie Mae used a fair number of trade-offs in while coming up with its revised outlook for the real gross domestic product (GDP) this year. The company's economists, headed by Chief Economist Doug Duncan, upgraded its full year forecast from 2.1 percent...
Builder Confidence is Good, But it Could be Better

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by Jann Swanson on August 15 2019, 10:22 AM

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) moved one point higher this month. However, at 66, NAHB's measure of builder confidence in the new home market stayed within the 64 to 66 range where it has been now...
New Home Sales Expected to Reflect Interest Rate Trend

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by Jann Swanson on August 16 2019, 2:15 PM

New home purchases are expected to be significantly higher in July according to data released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Its monthly Builder Application Survey (BAS), indicates that applications for new home purchase mortgages increased...
New FHA Rule Will Ease Condo Approval Process

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by Jann Swanson on August 15 2019, 5:15 AM

The long-waited Federal Housing Administration (FHA) rule regulating condominium lending was finalized Wednesday afternoon. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the parent agency of FHA, published the final regulation and the policy...
Refinance Spree Continues with Rates at Near 3-Year Lows

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by Jann Swanson on August 14 2019, 5:31 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application volume, rose 21.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended August 9. MBA attributed the substantial decline in interest rates...
Loan Performance Responds to Slowing Economy, Natural Disasters

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by Jann Swanson on August 13 2019, 11:07 AM

Both the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and CoreLogic issued data on recent loan performance on Tuesday. For CoreLogic the Monthly Loan Performance Report covered May, MBA's National Delinquency Survey is for the second quarter of this year. MBA notes...

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