MND NewsWire : Housing and Economic News

Place your ad here

Email Alerts

Receive an Email Alert each time a story is posted to MND NewsWire.

- Subscribe to Email Alerts

RSS

- Posts | Comments

- View All RSS Feeds

Newsletters

- Subscribe to Newsletter

- Subscribe to Mortgage Rates Update

Latest Headlines

From MND NewsWire

No Big Spring Bounce for Housing Starts

Surge in Federal Home Loan Bank Borrowing by 4 Biggest Banks

Mortgage Applications Reverse 5 Week Slide

No Spring Breakout as Builder Confidence Stalls

New Home Applications Up in March

View All

Other Top Headlines

MBS MID-DAY: Grinding Back Toward Unchanged Amid Lack of Inspiration...

Business vs Consumer Purposes; Wells and Chase Numbers Reflect...

MBS Day Ahead: Wide Variety of Potential Motivations and a Retracement...

MBS RECAP: Bond Markets Try to Hold Gains After Ukraine-Inspired...

Mortgage Rates Hold Ground After Ukraine Headlines

Latest Video

No Big Spring Bounce for Housing Starts; Rates Higher Today, but Still Near Recent Lows; Mortgage Apps Improve

Published: 4/16/2014

VIEW | SUBSCRIBE | ARCHIVE

Comments

Latest Questions

Channel Options ↓ More

MND NewsWire Headlines

RSS

EMAIL ALERTS

News » MND NewsWire

Home » News Headlines » MND NewsWire Home

About this Channel

MND NewsWire features plain and simple interpretations of industry related data and events written in a manner that maintains the interest of random readers while still catering to the perspective of a housing market professional.

Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented

Credit Availability Improves as Lenders Introduce Jumbo Programs

Comments (1)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 08 2014, 9:23 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) noted this morning that mortgage credit was slightly more available in March than it was in February. The Association's Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) rose to 114.00 from 113.5 in February. Higher index...
Energy States Continue to Dominate Leading Markets

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 07 2014, 1:39 PM

The National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB)/First American Leading Market Index (LMI) was unchanged from March to April , remaining at 59 metropolitan areas. A position on the index indicates that those markets returned to or exceeded their last...
Fannie Survey Hints at Warmer Spring for Housing

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 07 2014, 12:50 PM

Fannie Mae sees results from its most recent National Housing Survey (NHS) as possibly portending a pickup in home buying and selling activity this spring. Results of the survey show that despite recent month-to-month volatility in housing markets and...
Despite Record Low Mortgage Originations, "Significant Opportunity to Grow"

Comments (3)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 07 2014, 10:19 AM

Black Knight Financial Services said that mortgage originations at the end of February were at the lowest levels in at least 14 years , as far back as the company has kept records. Still, the company's Senior Vice President of Data and Analytics said...
Scorecard Shows Home Price Recovery Ahead of Projections

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 07 2014, 5:07 AM

The Obama Administration's February Housing Scorecard, just released, harkens back to those not so thrilling days of yesteryear, using data from several sources to contend that the housing recovery is in a lot better shape today than conventional wisdom...
Spring homebuyers facing sticker shock

Comments (2)

Read More

by on April 04 2014, 2:20 PM

More potential buyers are out trolling the nation's neighborhoods for their dream homes. Unfortunately, they are finding little to look at and, even worse, they are finding higher prices than they expected. "People quite frankly came out and got sticker...
Whistleblower Claims Cordray Called to say "Back Down." FSC Not Amused

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 03 2014, 11:57 AM

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was assailed by Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee (FSC) and by two witnesses for what was termed "a culture of racial and gender discrimination and retaliation against its employees...
Shadow Inventory Quickly Evaporating

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 03 2014, 9:10 AM

There were a total of 43,000 completed foreclosure in February, CoreLogic said today. This was 15 percent fewer than in February 2013 when foreclosures numbered 51,000. It was also 7,000 fewer foreclosures than in January 2014, a decrease of 13.1 percent...
Loan Modifications Stay Steady as Short Sales Dry Up

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 02 2014, 12:53 PM

The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued active foreclosure prevention activities in the fourth quarter of 2013, completing just shy of 100,000 transactions, most of which permitted distressed borrowers to stay...
Vacation Home Sales Pick up Slack as Investments Wane

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 02 2014, 10:50 AM

Vacation home purchases recovered strongly in 2013, helping to offset some of the inevitable flagging interest in investment purchases the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today. NAR's 2014 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey shows...
Purchase Applications up Slightly, More than Offset by Drop in Refis

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 02 2014, 7:00 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that mortgage applications decreased again during the week ended March 28, The seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index, a measure of application volume, was down 1.2 percent from the week ended March 21....
Massive Software Outage Brings Some Mortgage Operations to a Standstill

Comments (8)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on April 01 2014, 1:08 PM

Beginning yesterday morning, the most widely-used Loan Origination Software (LOS) has been offline. Ellie Mae estimates their Encompass platform handles over 20% of all mortgage transactions in the US, and helped process 3.2 million applications in 2012...
Home Prices Will Keep Rising, but Level-Off Soon

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on April 01 2014, 9:52 AM

Home prices continue to increase by double digit percentages on a year-over-year basis CoreLogic said today. The company's Home Price Index (HPI) for February, an index that includes distressed sales, was up 12.2 percent compared to February 2013. Thus...
New Housing Proposals Will Only Make Credit Conditions Tighter - Report

Comments (3)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on March 31 2014, 3:39 PM

Dr. Kenneth Rosen, Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkley emerges as a bit of a contrarian in an article in RealtyTrac's March Housing News Report . Rosen says he is concerned...
A Look at Housing’s One-Percenters

Comments (0)

Read More

by Jann Swanson on March 25 2014, 10:53 AM

CoreLogic Chief Economist Mark Fleming suggests that an examination of housing's one-percenters might be as valuable an analysis as a glance at that segment's income and/or wealth distribution. Historically, at least for the last two decades, homes that...

< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »

More From MND