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Rental Market Stabilizing but Renter Profile is Changing

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by Jann Swanson on July 14 2014, 11:17 AM

While the magnitude isn't clear, that the growth of renter households has risen far above average in recent years is. The Housing Vacancy Survey reports that the number of these households increased by half a million in 2013 while the Current Population...
Profound Commentary on Homebuying Demand From MBA President's Daughter

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by Jann Swanson on July 11 2014, 12:34 PM

MND's fourth part of its summary of the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies' State of the Nation's Housing published yesterday looked at the impact the Millennial Generation, those young adults born between the early 1980s and early 2000s are having...
Housing Scorecard sees Recovery Slowly Getting Back on Track

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by Jann Swanson on July 11 2014, 10:30 AM

Growing equity and a rebound in sales of new and existing homes were the highlight of the June edition of the Obama Administration's Housing Scorecard. New home purchases surged by 18.6 percent in May, to the highest level since May 2008 indicating, the...
Comments Invited on new PMI Provider Requirements

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by Jann Swanson on July 10 2014, 5:18 PM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released new draft requirements for private insurance companies that insure mortgages purchased by the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. FHFA is inviting public comment...
Size and Face of Homeownership, Changed and Changing

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by Jann Swanson on July 09 2014, 1:26 PM

Part 4 of the recent edition of the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies' report on the State of the Nation's Housing looks at the declining rate of homeownership in the U.S. which has now fallen for the seventh straight year. The rate edged down 0...
MBA says New Home Sales up while Mortgage Applications Drop

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by Jann Swanson on July 10 2014, 9:10 AM

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Applications for new home purchase mortgages declined in June for the second month in a row the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said today. Its Builder Application Survey (BAS), taken among mortgage subsidiaries...
Buyers and Sellers Not on Same Page With Housing Market Reality

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by Jann Swanson on July 09 2014, 11:36 AM

A recent survey by Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate company, found some substantial disconnects among buyers, sellers, and market reality. They are, the company said, not on the same page when it comes to the state of the housing market. While inventories...
Mortgage Apps Bounce Back Despite Slightly Higher Rates

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by Jann Swanson on July 08 2014, 11:41 PM

The Mortgage Bankers Association reported this morning that its Market Composite Index, which measures the volume of mortgage applications, increased 1.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended July 4. On an unadjusted basis the index...
Foreclosures up Again in May, but Annual Counts Still Falling

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by Jann Swanson on July 08 2014, 10:51 AM

Even as various indicators of foreclosure activity continue to tumble from their year ago levels, they still tend to bounce up and down from month to month. CoreLogic today said that completed foreclosures were up again in May when compared to April while...
Higher LTV and Lower Credit Scores in June

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by Jann Swanson on July 08 2014, 8:48 AM

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE There was a slight loosening of credit in June according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a creation of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MCAI increased from a reading of 115.1...
Consumers Increasingly Expect Higher Rents and Lower Home Prices

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by Jann Swanson on July 07 2014, 10:21 AM

Responses to Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey for June showed more marked changes in several categories than has been the case in recent months when data has been relatively flat. Most of the changes indicted slowly increasing confidence in the housing...
Two Generations will Determine Housing's Future

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by Jann Swanson on July 02 2014, 12:33 PM

In the second part of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies' latest update on The State of the Nation's Housing, the authors look at the nation's demographics and how they currently affect housing and will do so in upcoming years. This Center's...
Housing Making Convincing Progress toward Normalcy

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by Jann Swanson on June 27 2014, 11:13 AM

The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies' most recent edition of The State of the Nation's Housing deals first with the current status of the housing market. Some of it is a restatement of previous information, but with added perspective that makes...
No Surprise: Sale/Refi Incentive Highest for 2008 Loans

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by Jann Swanson on July 03 2014, 12:22 PM

Mortgage prepayments have picked up over the last three months as interest rates pulled back from recent highs. Black Knight Financial Services said today that the rate of prepayment which is closely associated with refinancing, was at 0.9 percent in...
Little Change in Mortgage Apps Despite Lower Rates

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by Jann Swanson on July 01 2014, 8:35 PM

Even as mortgage interest rates retreated across the board last week Mortgage application volume remained essentially unchanged . The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that applications for mortgages during the week ended June 27 were down 0...

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