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Affordable Housing Units Needed for Low Income Renters

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by Jann Swanson on May 02 2011, 12:42 PM

Almost every American is a renter at some point in his life but today both economic conditions and demographic forces are increasing rental demand , reversing trends that have prevailed from the mid-1990s. Harvard's Joint Center on Housing Studies has...
Home Remodeling a Forward Indicator of Housing Bottom?

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by Jann Swanson on April 29 2011, 11:46 AM

Builders who specialize in home remodeling are seeing a better market than they have in years according to the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) Remodeling Market Index (RMI) released on Friday. The index rose to 46.5 in the first quarter...
GSEs Align Servicing Regs to Streamline Delinquency Resolution

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by Jann Swanson on April 29 2011, 10:54 AM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to establish consistent mortgage loan servicing and delinquency management requirements for the companies servicing the two government sponsored enterprises' (GSEs) delinquent...
Homeless Assistance Programs Get $216 Million in HUD Funding

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by Jann Swanson on April 28 2011, 1:23 PM

In a telephone press conference this afternoon U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded more than $216 million to nearly 700 homeless programs that have never received HUD homelessness funding. The awards are expected to provide...
Home Sales Seen Rising into Summer Months: NAR

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by Matthew Graham on April 28 2011, 12:10 PM

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its March Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI ) . The index is said to be a leading indicator for the housing sector; it measures sales activity based on sales of single-family homes, coops and condos...
Neighborhood Stabilization: Tailored Tactics Needed

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by Jann Swanson on April 28 2011, 10:01 AM

Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth A Duke told a Community Affairs Research Conference on Thursday that, while every community across the country has been affected by the financial crisis, the results look different in each. The impact of foreclosed,...
Homeownership Out of Favor. Rentals in Demand

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by AQ on April 27 2011, 3:34 PM

The U.S Census Bureau has released Residential Vacancies and Homeownership data for the first quarter of 2011. The data is derived from the Housing Vacancy Survey, which is a supplement to the Current Population Survey. The homeowner vacancy rate is the...
Purchase Applications Deflate After FHA Fee Hike

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by Matthew Graham on April 27 2011, 9:37 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 22, 2011. The MBA's loan application survey covers over 50% of all U.S. residential mortgage loan applications taken by mortgage bankers...
Financial Literacy: Is Homeownership Counseling Helpful?

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by Jann Swanson on April 26 2011, 1:40 PM

Much has been made about the value of homeowner education and counseling both as a way to make homeowners more responsible about obtaining and maintaining a mortgage and a method to assist those who fall behind in their payments. The Mortgage Bankers...
Home Prices Down Seven Months in a Row: Case-Shiller

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by AQ on April 26 2011, 12:35 PM

Standard and Poor's has released February Case-Shiller Home Price data... S&P/Case-Shiller provides two monthly indices which track the price path of single family homes in a 10-City and a 20-City data base. Each index combines matched price pairs...
New Home Sales Follow Building Permits Higher in March

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by Matthew Graham on April 25 2011, 10:55 AM

The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have released New Residential Sales data for March 2011. New Residential Sales data provides statistics on the sales of new privately-owned single-family residential structures in the United...
Profits Down at Mortgage Banks in Q4 2010

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by Jann Swanson on April 21 2011, 10:44 AM

Declining secondary marketing income driven by rising interest rates eroded profits at independent mortgage banks and their subsidiaries during the fourth quarter of 2010. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Mortgage Bankers Performance...
Financial Literacy: Your Best Defense Against Predatory Lending

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by Jann Swanson on April 21 2011, 1:03 PM

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that financial education must be a life...
Fannie Mae Outlook: Economy Hits Air Pocket

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by Jann Swanson on April 20 2011, 10:56 AM

The economy has hit an "air pocket" according to Fannie Mae's latest economic projections . If your plane has ever hit one you're familiar with the feeling; weightlessness, stomach not quite where you left it. You know or at least hope the plane will...
Existing Home Sales Still Hindered by Uber Tight Lending Regs

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by AQ on April 20 2011, 3:27 PM

The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales data for March 2011 Existing Home Sales report on the number of completed real estate sales transactions on single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops. The methodology...

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