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Low Rates "Nudged" Existing Home Buyers NAR says

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by Jann Swanson on August 21 2019, 10:57 AM

Existing home sales returned to an upward track in July after dipping 1.7 percent in June. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said pre-owned single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, and cooperative apartments sold at a seasonally adjusted...
Share of Custom Home Construction Remains Flat

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by Jann Swanson on August 20 2019, 1:17 PM

Residential construction has been famously slow for several years and some new analysis of Census data by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) shows that the lack of robustness is shared in the custom home sector. In an Eye-on-Housing blog...
Refinancing Wave Continues; Lenders May Have Capacity Restraints

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by Jann Swanson on August 21 2019, 5:32 AM

The volume of mortgage applications continued to be shored up by refinancing during the week ended August 16, but overall activity was down. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index slipped 0.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted...
New Fair Housing Rule Eases Defense of Disparate Impact Claims

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by Jann Swanson on August 20 2019, 11:44 AM

Monday's edition of the Federal Register featured a proposed rule that, depending on your viewpoint, would amend the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) interpretation of the Fair Housing Act's disparate impact standard, (HUD) or "make...
Fannie Mae Predicts Two Additional 2019 Rate Cuts, Here's Why

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by Jann Swanson on August 19 2019, 11:48 AM

Fannie Mae used a fair number of trade-offs in while coming up with its revised outlook for the real gross domestic product (GDP) this year. The company's economists, headed by Chief Economist Doug Duncan, upgraded its full year forecast from 2.1 percent...
Builder Confidence is Good, But it Could be Better

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by Jann Swanson on August 15 2019, 10:22 AM

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) moved one point higher this month. However, at 66, NAHB's measure of builder confidence in the new home market stayed within the 64 to 66 range where it has been now...
New Home Sales Expected to Reflect Interest Rate Trend

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by Jann Swanson on August 16 2019, 2:15 PM

New home purchases are expected to be significantly higher in July according to data released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Its monthly Builder Application Survey (BAS), indicates that applications for new home purchase mortgages increased...
New FHA Rule Will Ease Condo Approval Process

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by Jann Swanson on August 15 2019, 5:15 AM

The long-waited Federal Housing Administration (FHA) rule regulating condominium lending was finalized Wednesday afternoon. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the parent agency of FHA, published the final regulation and the policy...
Refinance Spree Continues with Rates at Near 3-Year Lows

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by Jann Swanson on August 14 2019, 5:31 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application volume, rose 21.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended August 9. MBA attributed the substantial decline in interest rates...
Loan Performance Responds to Slowing Economy, Natural Disasters

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by Jann Swanson on August 13 2019, 11:07 AM

Both the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and CoreLogic issued data on recent loan performance on Tuesday. For CoreLogic the Monthly Loan Performance Report covered May, MBA's National Delinquency Survey is for the second quarter of this year. MBA notes...
Fannie/Freddie Universal MBS Launch Has Been Seamless So Far

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by Jann Swanson on August 12 2019, 1:25 PM

After years of planning, the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac launched their uniform mortgage-backed security (UMBS) in early June. So far, the Urban Institute (UI) likes what it sees. UI analysts Karan Kaul and Laurie...
Recent Rate Cuts Bolster Refinance Pool

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by Jann Swanson on August 09 2019, 9:35 AM

Ever since mortgage rates began to move lower, Black Knight has devoted a big portion of its Mortgage Monitor , a monthly report on loan performance and other mortgage issues, to tracking the ebb and flow of the refinanceable loan population. The company...
Jumbo Credit Access Increased in July

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by Jann Swanson on August 08 2019, 12:29 PM

The availability of jumbo mortgage loans increased in July, but not enough to offset tightening in credit access for other types of loans. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) dipped 0.4 percent compared...
Home Purchase Sentiment Hits Record High

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by Jann Swanson on August 07 2019, 3:48 PM

There was an unusually large bump in Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) in July. The company said strong positive responses to questions on the National Housing Survey (NHS) about job security and interest rate declines sent the index up...
Home Price Picture Grows More Complex

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by Jann Swanson on August 07 2019, 12:01 PM

Anyone trying to make sense out of current data on the direction of home prices needs more than a calculator. Every new report seems to dump more mud in the water, show price growth slowing, stabilized or driven higher by falling interest rates. This...

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