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Housing Starts, Building Permits Slowed in August

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by Jann Swanson on September 20 2016, 9:58 AM

All three measures of residential construction activity fell in August compared to the July numbers and one, building permits, continued to lag year-ago levels. The report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Builder Confidence Matches Post-Crisis High

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by Jann Swanson on September 19 2016, 10:30 AM

After half a year of barely budging the Housing Market Index (HMI ) surged by six points in September. The index, jointly sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo, jumped from a downwardly revised 59 in August to 65...
Impac to Raise Funds; Servicing Packages; Fannie/Freddie Program Changes

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by Rob Chrisman on September 19 2016, 8:28 AM

You’ve made it to “Talk like a Pirate” day. Many lenders are saying, “Arrggghh” when it comes to appraisals. Mike Simmons with Axis AMC put some things in perspective. “Fannie Mae...sees approximately 90% of all residential...
Resurgence of PMI Could Force FHA to Cut Premiums

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by Jann Swanson on September 16 2016, 8:45 AM

In last month's Housing Finance Chartbook the Urban Institute showed how a recent surge in issuance of private mortgage insurance (PMI) had come at the expense of the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA's) Mortgage Insurance Fund (MIF). PMI grew from...
Lenders Anticipate Higher Profits, Less Drag from Compliance Costs

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by Jann Swanson on September 15 2016, 12:54 PM

Mortgage lenders are feeling more positive about profits this quarter than they did in the second quarter with 28 percent of those surveyed by Fannie Mae expecting an increase over the next three months. Seventeen percent expect lower profits and 55 percent...
MBA Sees New Home Builders "Catching Up" with Demand

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by Jann Swanson on September 15 2016, 11:40 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that sales of newly constructed homes increased by 5.0 percent in August compared to July. The estimate, which is not seasonally adjusted, is based on applications for new home purchases submitted through...
Q2 Price Gains Rescue Half Million Underwater Homes

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by Jann Swanson on September 15 2016, 10:03 AM

More than a half-million fewer homeowners were underwater at the end of the second quarter of 2016 than at the beginning CoreLogic said today. At quarter's end there were approximately 47 million residential properties with positive equity, 92.9 percent...
Lower FICO Buyers Head For The Hills

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by Jann Swanson on September 14 2016, 9:52 AM

The return of Americans to urban living, while well documented, may be a "head-fake" as far as the mortgage industry is concerned. Sam Khater, CoreLogic's Deputy Chief Economist says that inbound migration is happening, but not precisely in the way many...
Yes, Mortgage Apps Slowed Way Down Last Week (Before Seasonal Adjustment)

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by Jann Swanson on September 14 2016, 5:53 AM

Mortgage applications, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, increased on a seasonally adjusted basis by 4.2 percent during the week ended September 9. The week's results included an adjustment for...
5 States Account For 40 Percent of Completed Foreclosures

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by Jann Swanson on September 13 2016, 9:20 AM

There were 34,000 completed foreclosures in July, as banks continue to clean up foreclosure inventories eight years after the housing crisis began. CoreLogic said the monthly total was down 16.5 percent from a year earlier when 41,000 properties were...
Urban Institute: Mortgage Lending Shortchanges Women

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by Jann Swanson on September 12 2016, 12:54 PM

Is there still a gender gap when it comes to mortgages? While single women have come a long way from the days when a man had to guarantee their mortgage, the Urban Institute thinks that they, or perhaps more correctly the industry, still have a long way...
Mortgage Rates Finally Break Higher: What You Should Watch

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by on September 12 2016, 11:19 AM

Mortgage rates took their biggest leap in two months on Friday, thanks to a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury (U.S.: US10Y) . It was only an eighth of a percentage point move, but enough...
Millennials Will Be Renting For a Lot Longer

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by on September 09 2016, 1:47 PM

The U.S. housing market continues to move ahead, but a generation of homebuyers is being left behind . That's the conclusion of an analysis of homeownership by John Burns, a real estate consultant and author who has crunched the numbers in a new report...
Credit Index Tightens as One Investor Shutters Division

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by Jann Swanson on September 08 2016, 8:54 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) ticked down in August, indicating a slight and largely operational tightening of mortgage credit. The index lost 0.4 percent to a reading of 164.7. Lynn Fisher, MBA's...
Construction: A Tale of Shifts and Imbalances

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by Jann Swanson on September 07 2016, 12:21 PM

So what is going on with residential construction? We hear constantly that inventories are too tight , especially at the lower price levels, new home sales keep rising, yet four years after home prices bottomed out, new residential construction is only...

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