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Weather Continues to Hamper Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on February 28 2014, 9:59 AM

Pending sales changed little from December to January the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today. That is not surprising as the bad weather NAR blamed for the lackluster December pending sales numbers did not change going into January...
Builder Confidence in Multifamily Market Slips even as Vacancies Decline

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2014, 2:06 PM

Builders and developers engaged in the multi-family market grew a little less confident in that market during the fourth quarter of last year. The Multifamily Production Index (MPI) developed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) dropped...
Taxpayer Profit Surpasses $10 Billion on Freddie Mac Earnings

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2014, 12:27 PM

Freddie Mac posted its ninth consecutive quarter of positive net and comprehensive income on Thursday as well as a substantial profit for Fiscal 2013. The company reported net income of $8.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 2013 and $48.7 billion for...
Foreclosure Time Approaches 1000 Days, But There are Fewer of Them

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2014, 10:43 AM

Foreclosure statistics continue to improve in the "first look" at January data provided Thursday by Black Knight Financial Services. While the time needed to complete a foreclosure increased yet again to 943 days, many of the other measures of mortgage...
Foreclosures Increased in January, but Down 19 percent From Last Year

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2014, 10:09 AM

Foreclosure completions accelerated in January, rising 11.8 percent to 48,000 compared to 43,000 in December. CoreLogic's January National Foreclosure Report says this is a 19 percent improvement over January 2013 when 59,000 homes were lost to foreclosure...
Investors Losing Interest in Housing, Despite Rise in Distressed Sales Share

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2014, 3:54 AM

Institutional investors appear to be losing interest in purchasing foreclosed properties for rentals in the face of rising property prices and interest rates and increased competition from homebuyers. According to RealtyTrac's January 2014 U.S. Residential...
California Pending Sales Bounce Back; Potential Turning Point

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2014, 1:25 PM

The index tracking pending home sales in California jumped 22.9 percent in January to 84.8 from 68.9 in December. This was the first increase in the Pending Home Sale Index (PHSI) which is based on signed sales contracts, in three months. While the monthly...
Bank Profits Rise as Loan Loss Provisions Ease

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2014, 12:36 PM

Commercial banks and savings institutions have increased quarterly earnings year over year for the 17 out of the last 18 quarters the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said today. Institutions insured by FDIC reported an aggregate net income of $40...
Neither Snow nor Sleet Deterred New Home Sales in January, Up 9.6%

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2014, 11:02 AM

Buyers seem to have ignored the unusually stormy weather that affected a lot of the country in January, trooping through snow and ice to boost new home sales . The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said today that those...
Mortgage Purchase Apps not Living up to Historical Standards

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2014, 8:03 PM

Applications for mortgage refinancing made up only 58 percent of all mortgage applications during the week ended February 21, down 3 percentage points from the previous week and the lowest market share since last September. According to the Mortgage Bankers...
HUD Ex-Official Faulted in Lobbying Investigation

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2014, 3:20 PM

The House Financial Services Committee (FSC) has released advanced information regarding an investigation conducted by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). The FSC report was based on a draft...
Average Home is 300 sq ft Bigger Since 2009

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2014, 1:11 PM

The growth in the average size of a new home paused briefly at the beginning of the recession as Americans retrenched in a lot of ways, but times have changed. According to Census Bureau data presented at the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB...
Two Quarterly Price Reports, Two Conclusions

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2014, 11:40 AM

The S&P Case-Shiller National home price index and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Home Price Index (HPI), both issued on Tuesday, diverged sharply on the direction of home prices during the fourth quarter of 2013. The FHFA HPI shows an increase...
Florida Cities Dominate List of Price Increases

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by Jann Swanson on February 25 2014, 9:58 AM

Black Knight Financial Services (formerly Lender Processing Services) reports that home values in the U.S. as of December had recovered to within 13.9 percent of the peak reached in 2006. Measured by Black Knight's Home Price Index (HPI) the national...
CFPB Fines Lender for Fee Splitting

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by Jann Swanson on February 24 2014, 4:52 PM

A Connecticut lender has been fined $83,000 by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for violating Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) rules. 1 st Alliance Lending, LLC apparently realized it had illegally split real estate settlement...

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