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January's Double-Digit Home Price Gains Continue to Break Records

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by Jann Swanson on March 30 2021, 10:07 AM

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price indices and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI) all show that the growth of home prices continued to accelerate through January , even as interest rates began to creep higher...
Refis Constituted Three-Quarters of Freddie Mac's February Volume

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by Jann Swanson on March 29 2021, 7:40 AM

Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 17.7 percent in February compared to a 16.1 percent gain in January. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.818 trillion compared to $2...
States Vary Widely in Housing Stock Age

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by Jann Swanson on March 26 2021, 10:43 AM

The age of the U.S. housing stock is, to a certain extent, a reflection of the decline in new home construction since the onset of the housing crisis. However, Na Zhao, in a blog post in the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB's) Eye on Housing...
Borrowers are Exiting Forbearance at an Increased Rate

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by Jann Swanson on March 26 2021, 8:45 AM

For the moment at least, the number of loans in forbearance are heading downhill and picking up speed. Black Knight says the number of active plans declined by 135,000 over the past month (-5 percent), 19,000 (-0.7 percent) occurred in the last week alone...
Mortgage Profits Decline but Remain Close to Record Levels

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by Jann Swanson on March 23 2021, 12:33 PM

Mortgage originators' profits remained strong in the fourth quarter of 2020, although they were down considerably from the previous period. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Bankers Performance Report says that independent mortgage banks...
Purchase Application Volume up for Fourth Consecutive Week

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by Jann Swanson on March 24 2021, 8:07 AM

Mortgage application volume declined for the third consecutive time during the week ended March 19 as refinancing continued to retreat. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey revealed a 2.5 percent decrease in the...
February New Home Sales Decline Sharply

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by Jann Swanson on March 23 2021, 10:33 AM

The two-month rally in new home sales ended abruptly and definitively in February. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development said sales of newly constructed single-family homes dropped by 18.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted...
February's Shortened Calendar Likely Responsible for Delinquency Increase

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by Jann Swanson on March 23 2021, 9:22 AM

Mortgage delinquency rates rose in February, ending eight straight months of recovery from the spike that followed the onset of the pandemic. Black Knight, in its first look at February loan performance data, said the national mortgage delinquency rate...
Payment Concerns Ebbing for Homeowners, Renters --Survey

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by Jann Swanson on March 22 2021, 1:15 PM

A new Freddie Mac survey found that both homeowners and renters are still concerned about their ability to pay their mortgage or their monthly rent as the pandemic wears on. but those concerns have lessened since last fall. The COVID-19 Tracking Poll...
Home Sales Fall Short, But Remain Well Above The Pre-Pandemic Pace

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by Jann Swanson on March 22 2021, 11:13 AM

Sales of existing homes fell sharply in February after two months of modest gains. The National Association of Realtors® said pre-owned single-family houses, townhouses, condominiums, and cooperative apartments sold at a seasonally adjusted annual...
Fannie Forecast: Home Sales Will Weather the Rising Rate Environment

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by Jann Swanson on March 19 2021, 1:59 PM

Fannie Mae made a few modest changes to its economic projections this month as consumer spending in January was above expectations and interest rates rose. The company's Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group expects the growth in GDP in 2021 to...
With Forbearance Periods Ending, Corelogic Looks at Options for Borrowers to Exit

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by Jann Swanson on March 19 2021, 11:06 AM

The number of loans in forbearance experienced the largest weekly decline since early January as servicers reviewed the hundreds of thousands that are due to expire at the end of March. Black Knight's weekly report on the COVID-19 related programs noted...
Refinance Activity Broke an Almost 9-Year Record in February

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by Jann Swanson on March 18 2021, 11:00 AM

It hasn't exactly been a scramble, but homeowners have stepped up their refinancing activity over the last two months as they saw interest rates begin a slow but steady march higher. The February Origination Insights Report from ICE Mortgage Technology...
Builder Survey Predicts a Dip in New Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on March 18 2021, 9:55 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicting a slowdown in new home sales when the Census Bureau releases its statistics next week. MBA's Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for February 2021 shows mortgage applications for new home purchases...
Millennials Make up Largest Share of Buyers for 8th Consecutive Year

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by Jann Swanson on March 16 2021, 12:01 PM

Whether or not it was another biproduct of the pandemic, The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said the popularity of multigenerational homes increased last year. Homes that will house adult siblings, adult children, parents, or grandparents...

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