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New Home Prices Take a Real Hit But Sales May Be Stabilizing

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by Glenn Setzer on October 27 2006, 7:00 AM

New home prices took a heck of a hit in September according to information released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday. This disquieting news came hard on the heels of a National Association...
MBA Mortgage Rates and Applications

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by Glenn Setzer on October 27 2006, 7:00 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association went missing yesterday, a day when they usually release information on contract mortgage rates and mortgage application activity. We caught up with them today and here is the report....
Mortgage Rates Remain Static - MBA Releases Prime and Subprime Activity Report

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by Glenn Setzer on October 26 2006, 7:00 AM

After surging a bit during the week ended October 12, mortgage rates barely moved according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey conducted by Freddie Mac for the week ended October 19. The Mortgage Bankers Association released the results of their Mortgage...
Two New Studies Look at Homebuying Patterns of Older Americans

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by Glenn Setzer on October 25 2006, 7:00 AM

Two studies out in the last week or so are taking at look at the impact on housing of - what else - the Baby Boomers . Both the Research Institute for Housing (an affiliate of the Mortgage Bankers Association) and the National Association of Realtors...
Home Sellers Should Remember That They And Their Homes Are Not National Statistics

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by Glenn Setzer on October 23 2006, 7:00 AM

If you follow network or cable news you probably believe that the real estate market has gone from unbridled insanity where buyers apparently losing all perspective, bid wantonly against dozens of other equally crazed buyers for the same house, stretched...
Housing Starts and Builder Confidence Show Slight Improvement

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by Glenn Setzer on October 19 2006, 7:00 AM

The various new home construction indicators tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were mixed in September, but all in all painted the picture of a market sector that is, at worst, in an orderly retreat...
Mortgage Rates Resume Climb After Brief Respite

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by Glenn Setzer on October 18 2006, 7:00 AM

Maybe it was just too good to last. After four weeks of declining interest rates Freddie Mac reported a relatively sharp jump for each of the products it tracks during the week ended October 12. Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac's vice president and chief economist...
Slow and Steady is the Best Way to Clean Up Bad Credit

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by Glenn Setzer on October 17 2006, 7:00 AM

Credit repair is a subject that has been on our back burner for a long time, but a piece of spam received a few days ago brought it to the forefront. It was a cleverly crafted piece of email - addressed to me, not only in the heytheirfriend @ yayada.com...
Mortgage Rates Stagnant But Refinancing Strong

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by Glenn Setzer on October 12 2006, 7:00 AM

Mortgage rates for the week ended October 5 barely budged. After substantial downward moves over the last ten weeks only the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the one-year ARM changed at all, declining only slightly from the previous week. Freddie Mac�s...
October Forecast Sees Housing Finding Solid Ground

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by Glenn Setzer on October 11 2006, 7:00 AM

Freddie Mac's Economic and Housing Market Outlook for October is headlined " Finding Solid Ground. " It is another in a series of projections that the housing market is cooling not crashing and that the "cooling" market will have little impact on the...
Shipping Container Houses Are Coming

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by Glenn Setzer on October 10 2006, 7:00 AM

Could America's record balance of payments deficit with China be the solution to low cost housing? Might it even be an unprecedented opportunity to be Green? America is buying so much merchandise from other countries, primarily China and selling so little...
Mortgage Lender Fraud Increase Seen By Law Enforcement

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by Glenn Setzer on October 05 2006, 7:00 AM

Mortgage fraud is back in the news. However, this time it is the lenders rather than the borrowers who appear to be the main targets of the scams. The Wall Street Journal quotes The Federal Bureau of Investigation as stating that mortgage fraud led to...
Most Mortgage Rates Decline as Mortgage Applications Increase Sharply

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by Glenn Setzer on October 04 2006, 7:00 AM

The old mortgage tracking clock has just rolled back to March 2 . That was the last time that the interest on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was lower than the average contract rate that Freddie Mac reported for last week, the week ending September 28...
Energy Costs Not Likely To Encourage Green Home Improvements

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by Glenn Setzer on October 03 2006, 7:00 AM

There has been much speculation over the last few months that as housing sales continue to decline, the home remodeling industry will also take a big hit. It makes sense for a couple of reasons; sellers may be reluctant to put a lot of money into home...
Federal Bank Regulators Offer Guidelines For Exotic Mortgage Lending

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by Glenn Setzer on October 02 2006, 7:00 AM

Last Friday, as had been expected, the five federal departments or quasi-agencies charged with overseeing the nation's banking system jointly issued "guidance" to those banks regarding so-called " exotic " or non-traditional mortgages. The recent popularity...

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