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2020 Property Tax Increases Outpaced Inflation

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by Jann Swanson on April 09 2021, 10:17 AM

American home owners received bills for $323 billion in property taxes last year, a 5.4 percent increase from $306.4 billion in 2019. ATTOM Data Solutions says that the average bill for each of the 87 million single-family homes in the country was $3...
Forbearance Decline Largest in Six Months

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by Jann Swanson on April 09 2021, 9:00 AM

Black Knight reports that the number of loans in forbearance programs declined last week for the sixth straight time and it was the largest drop in six months . As of April 6, the number of loans in active plans was 2.312 million or 4.4 percent of all...
Jumbo Loans Easier to Obtain as Economy Recovers

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by Jann Swanson on April 08 2021, 10:45 AM

Non-government lenders continue to return to mortgage lending after fleeing at the start of the pandemic. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says this has helped increase the supply of jumbo mortgages for six straight months and helped drive MBA's...
People Are Finally Starting to Think About Selling Homes Instead of Just Buying Them

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by Jann Swanson on April 07 2021, 2:12 PM

Consumer attitudes perked up in March, sending the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) up 5.2 points compared to February. The company said four of the HPSI's components rose during the month, taking the index to 81.7. The percentage of respondents...
Pandemic Threatens Women's Growing Homeownership Rates

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by Jann Swanson on April 07 2021, 11:05 AM

After years of gains in educational attainment, employment, and wages, women have increased their rates of both homeownership and headship (the number who are heads of households). Now the Urban Institute (UI) says the pandemic may have put those advances...
Mortgage App Volume Declines, Refinancing Down 30 Percent

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by Jann Swanson on April 07 2021, 8:25 AM

Mortgage application volume declined for the fifth straight week during the period ending April 2, and by the largest amount over that period. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index fell by 5.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted...
Realtors Say Staging a Home Increased Offered Prices, Cut Marketing Time

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by Jann Swanson on April 06 2021, 10:39 AM

Does staging really work? That was among the home buying and selling topics covered in a new survey from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and the answer appears to be "yes." Eight-two percent of buyers' agents said home staging made it...
Despite Pandemic, Homeowners View Housing as a Good Investment

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by Jann Swanson on April 06 2021, 9:26 AM

Fannie Mae says results from its fourth quarter 2020 National Housing Survey show that consumers continue to view homeownership as a good investment. Respondents were asked about various investment types, including stocks, bonds, homes, and savings accounts...
Home Price Surge Seen Slowing After Record Run

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by Jann Swanson on April 06 2021, 8:11 AM

CoreLogic's February Home Price Index (HPI) essentially echoed that the price report last week from Black Knight. The company said that its index recorded its highest annual growth since 2006 at 10.4 percent. Demand continues to clash with an historically...
February's Single-Family Home Price Growth Set New Records

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by Jann Swanson on April 05 2021, 8:31 AM

Stories of rising home prices are no longer breaking news, but still, they are pretty remarkable. Black Knight, in its latest Mortgage Monitor , says the 12.3 percent growth in the selling price of single family homes in February was the highest such...
Forbearances Decline but CFPB Warns Servicers to Prepare for Default Surge

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by Jann Swanson on April 02 2021, 10:50 AM

While the number of mortgages in forbearance continues to fall, Black Knight said there was a 33,000 reduction over the last week and 172,000 homeowners have exited the various programs over the last month, 2.54 million borrowers remain in forbearance...
Residential Outlays Dominate Construction Spending

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by Jann Swanson on April 01 2021, 10:58 AM

Construction spending, public and private, was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.517 trillion in February. The U.S. Census Bureau said this was down 0.8 percent from the January rate of $1.529 trillion but was 5.3 percent higher than spending...
FHA Will Keep Mortgage Insurance Fund Rates Stable

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by Jann Swanson on March 30 2021, 5:34 PM

The newly installed Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released her first quarterly report on the agency to Congress on Tuesday. A key point regarded the Federal Housing Administration's Single Family Mutual Mortgage Insurance...
Pending Home Sales Take a Big Hit, Back to Pre-Covid Levels

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by Jann Swanson on March 31 2021, 10:02 AM

February's pending home sales suffered a double digit month-over-month decline in February and fell below the pace a year earlier for the first time in eight months. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI...
Even With Recent Declines, Purchase App Volume is Still Outpacing 2020

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by Jann Swanson on March 31 2021, 6:18 AM

Mortgage Application volume continued to trend down during the week ended March 26. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, declined 2.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous...

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