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Home Price Gains Shift Away from the Coasts

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by Jann Swanson on April 30 2019, 10:17 AM

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices for February continue to show a slowdown in home price gains on a year-over-year basis although all of the monthly changes were higher than in January. The U.S. National Home Price Index, covering all nine U...
Pending Sales Beat Estimates, Resume Climb

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by Jann Swanson on April 30 2019, 10:05 AM

Pending home sales posted a second solid performance in 2019 , with home purchase contract signings in March recovering from their slight dip in February. However, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR's) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) continues...
Mortgage Application Fraud Highest in Florida

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by Jann Swanson on April 29 2019, 1:34 PM

CoreLogic says that, while the incidence of mortgage fraud has remained relatively stable in recent quarters, income fraud remains a growing problem. The company's National Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index increased only slightly in the first quarter...
Freddie Mac Mortgage Portfolio Jumps by 8.0 Percent in March

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by Jann Swanson on April 29 2019, 9:30 AM

Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 8.0 percent in March, growing from 3.0 percent the previous month. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.204 trillion compared to $2.190...
Homeownership Rates and Vacancies Holding Steady

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by Jann Swanson on April 26 2019, 9:50 AM

Both homeownership and vacancy rates were essentially unchanged in the first quarter of this year according to data released on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The national homeownership rate slipped 0.4 percentage point to 64.2 percent compared to...
Flipped Home Market Share Surpasses 2006 Levels, But Things Are Different This Time

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by Jann Swanson on April 25 2019, 12:18 PM

Home flipping, buying a property with the intent to sell it in a short period of time at a profit, is more popular than almost ever , but a study by CoreLogic finds it has morphed into a different kind of business. Flippers are tending to hold on to property...
March's Low Rates Caused a Spike in Refis

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by Jann Swanson on April 25 2019, 8:14 AM

The declining interest rates earlier in the year along with increased refinancing made themselves felt in March as prepayment activity surged. Black Knight, in its "first look" at the month's mortgage data, notes the rate rose 28 percent compared to February...
Urban Institute Debunks Myth of Risky Small-Dollar Loans

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by Jann Swanson on April 24 2019, 10:30 AM

Conventional wisdom, according to the Urban Institute (UI), holds that small mortgages are riskier than large ones. That may be one reason that only one out of four homes sold for $70,000 or less in 2015 was financed with a mortgage compared to 80 percent...
Purchase Volume Takes a Hit, Responding to Rising Interest Rates

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by Jann Swanson on April 24 2019, 5:20 AM

Rising interest rates continued to take a toll on mortgage applications during the week ended April 19. Even purchase mortgage volume fell victim to the increasing rates after rising for six consecutive weeks. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said...
New Home Sales Best Estimates, Inventories Decline

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by Jann Swanson on April 23 2019, 10:34 AM

New home sales continued on a winning streak in March , increasing for the third straight month. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said sales of newly constructed homes were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate...
Home Price Appreciation Hit the Brakes in February per FHFA

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by Jann Swanson on April 23 2019, 9:44 AM

The pace of home price appreciation slowed notably in February , at least as reflected in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI). The index, which is calculated using home sales information from mortgages sold to or guaranteed...
Lenders Look to Technology Solutions to Increase Profitability

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by Jann Swanson on April 22 2019, 1:09 PM

As profit margins have continued to shrink, mortgage lenders have been seeking to utilize technology to reduce their production expenses which involve in part transmitting large volumes of data among several interconnected parties such as consumers, investors...
March Home Sales Couldn't Repeat February's Win

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by Jann Swanson on April 22 2019, 10:43 AM

The question this morning was whether March's existing home sales could build on the strong numbers posted in February, an 11.8 percent increase from the prior month with a seasonally adjusted pace of 5.51 million. It was the largest gain in more than...
Fannie Mae: Residential Investment, Home Sales Will Improve in 2019

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by Jann Swanson on April 19 2019, 12:29 PM

For the second month in a row we find ourselves stating that Fannie Mae's forecast , while still predicting a slowdown in economic growth this year, appears overall more upbeat than in the previous month . The April report is still predicting that growth...
Residential Construction Lags Expectations, Except in the West

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by Jann Swanson on April 19 2019, 9:46 AM

Contrary to expectations, all three of the residential construction measures from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development fell in March . Not only were they lower than in February, but they were down year-over-year,...

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