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New Housing Proposals Will Only Make Credit Conditions Tighter - Report

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by Jann Swanson on March 31 2014, 3:39 PM

Dr. Kenneth Rosen, Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkley emerges as a bit of a contrarian in an article in RealtyTrac's March Housing News Report . Rosen says he is concerned...
A Look at Housing’s One-Percenters

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by Jann Swanson on March 25 2014, 10:53 AM

CoreLogic Chief Economist Mark Fleming suggests that an examination of housing's one-percenters might be as valuable an analysis as a glance at that segment's income and/or wealth distribution. Historically, at least for the last two decades, homes that...
Fannie Mae REO Purchase Incentives Extended

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by Jann Swanson on March 27 2014, 12:19 PM

Strong response to an earlier limited incentive offer for home buyers has prompted the Fannie Mae HomePath® Program to briefly extend the offer's deadline. HomePath is the marketing program for Fannie Mae's foreclosed properties (REO). Its FirstLook...
Pending Home Sales Weaker Again, but May be Stabilizing

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by Jann Swanson on March 27 2014, 10:24 AM

The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) for February added more confirmation of a slowing home housing market. The PHSI, released this morning, showed an eighth straight month of declining contract signings . PHSI...
Former BofA CEO Kenneth Lewis Banned from Wall Street

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by Jann Swanson on March 27 2014, 7:13 AM

The former top executive of Bank of America (the Bank) was a named party in a settlement between the bank and the State of New York announced on Wednesday. Kenneth D. Lewis, who was essentially forced out of the bank's chairmanship and then from his position...
Home Sales Cool as Distressed Inventory Evaporates

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by Jann Swanson on March 27 2014, 8:55 AM

Home sales continue to cool , dipping to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08 million in February RealtyTrac said today. This was a -0.2 percent change from January and marked the fourth consecutive month where sales have fallen on a month-over-month...
Mortgage Profits Hit Record Lows in Q4

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by Jann Swanson on March 26 2014, 4:19 PM

Profits pocketed by independent banks and banks' mortgage subsidiaries plunged in the fourth quarter of 2013 the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Wednesday. On a per-loan-originated basis the average profit fell from $743 in the third quarter...
For Housing, a New Definition of 'Normal,' and a New Index to Track it

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by Jann Swanson on March 26 2014, 12:45 PM

Freddie Mac and its economists would like to answer the old question "are we there yet?" with "there" in this case meaning anywhere close to a normal housing market. As part of that goal, the company today premiered a new tool, the Freddie Mac Multi-Indicator...
Mortgage Applications Continue Shifting Towards Purchases

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by Jann Swanson on March 26 2014, 7:34 AM

There were continued indications during the week ended March 21 of the anticipated 2014 decrease in mortgage volume and the market's gradual shift to one dominated by purchasing rather than refinancing. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has projected...
New Home Sales Turn Negative Year-Over-Year, First Time Since 2011

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by Matthew Graham on March 25 2014, 10:56 AM

After rising by a revised 3.2 percent January, New Home Sales fell 3.3 percent in February according to data released today by The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The annualized sales pace of 440k homes is the lowest...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must not Die: Bove

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by on March 25 2014, 9:46 AM

The current plan to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would result in lower housing prices for everyone. It would harm the United States economy by lowering growth. It would increase unemployment. Despite this probability, the president and Congress...
Home Price Appreciation Decelerating on Average; Lots of Regional Variation

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by Matthew Graham on March 24 2014, 12:37 PM

Black Knight Financial Services (formerly Lender Processing Services) reports that home values in the U.S. as of December remained within 14 percent of the peak reached in 2006. Measured by Black Knight's Home Price Index (HPI) the national single family...
'Pretty incredible' changes in bond market coming

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by on March 24 2014, 7:16 AM

Parse Janet Yellen's comments any way you want, but know one thing: This is likely to be an interesting year for bond investors. Financial markets last week took a jolt over comments from the Federal Reserve chair that traders immediately interpreted...
Existing Home Sales Lowest Since July 2012

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by Matthew Graham on March 20 2014, 10:43 AM

Existing Home Sales, which are completed transactions for single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, continued trending lower in February, falling to their lowest level since July 2012 according the the National Association of Realtors ...
Lenders Reach Farther Out Credit Spectrum to Fill Capacity

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by Matthew Graham on March 19 2014, 1:04 PM

Among closed loans in February, the share of refinances fell to 43 percent from 47 percent in January, and from 68 percent in February 2013, according to to Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report. Every month, Ellie Mae compiles statistics on closed and...

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