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Freddie Mac Updates Selling Guide, Introduces New Product

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by Jann Swanson on August 30 2018, 10:36 AM

Freddie Mac will be consolidating two of its mortgage products into a single offering effective October 29, 2018. The company announced this and other changes to its Selling Guide in a Bulletin on Wednesday. The affected products are Freddie Mac's Home...
Freddie Mac's Portfolio up 3.2 Percent for Year

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by Jann Swanson on August 30 2018, 9:48 AM

Freddie Mac reported today that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 3.5 percent in July. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.136 trillion compared to $2.130 trillion at the end of June and $2.044 trillion...
Sun Belt has Lock on "Young" Housing

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by Jann Swanson on August 29 2018, 11:08 AM

Earlier this month the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB's) Eye on Housing blog featured a story on America's aging housing stock. NAHB analyst Na Zhao used 2016 American Community Survey (ACS) data to put the median age of owner-occupied homes...
NAR Sees Overheated Housing Market Starting to Cool

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by Jann Swanson on August 29 2018, 10:01 AM

Expectations weren't particularly high for a solid July report on home purchase contracts, but today's report from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) didn't meet even those . NAR's Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) came in at 106.2, down from...
Mortgage Lenders Back in Black After Earlier Losses

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by Jann Swanson on August 28 2018, 2:11 PM

In the first quarter of 2018, independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks posted only their second period of financial losses in the ten years the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has covered the issue. This week MBA was...
Mortgage Applications Resume Downward Spiral

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by Jann Swanson on August 29 2018, 6:32 AM

The surge in mortgage applications last week, fostered by a 6.0 percent increase in refinancing, was short-lived. Despite slightly lower interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that its Market Composite Index, a measure of applications...
Freddie Sees 2 Big Problems For Housing

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by Jann Swanson on August 28 2018, 1:22 PM

Freddie Mac analysts see a two-pronged threat to housing sales for the remainder of the year, especially in the previously high-flying western part of the country. The company's economic outlook for August notes that the ongoing lack of housing supply...
Consumers Want More Online Mortgage Features

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by Jann Swanson on August 28 2018, 10:49 AM

The Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey (NHS) polls a large panel of consumers monthly about their attitudes toward housing and related topics and generally reports on five or six of the survey's trendlines. Others of the 100 or so questions form the...
Las Vegas Dethrones Seattle in Home Price Growth

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by Jann Swanson on August 28 2018, 9:45 AM

Prices slipped in June according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller price indices. The National Index, which covers all nine U.S. Census divisions, showed annual prices were up by 6.4 percent in both April and May but posted only a 6.2 percent increase...
Wells Layoffs; Broker Product; Servicing Buyers and Sellers Wanted

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by Rob Chrisman on August 27 2018, 8:05 AM

Scholars have long pondered if Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was named after my cat Myrtle, or vice versa – the answer is lost in the shrouds of time. Regardless, if you wonder what $3.4 million can take down in Myrtle Beach, the answer is “the...
Fannie/Freddie Invoke Disaster Policies in Wake of Hurricane Lane

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by Jann Swanson on August 24 2018, 9:00 AM

The rain is still pouring down in Oahu, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ahead of the game. Both GSEs have already announced that their disaster relief programs are in effect for those impacted by Hurricane Lane. Assistance is available for borrowers...
Hurricane Effect: Foreclosures Up, Delinquencies Down

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2018, 12:32 PM

The first serious mortgage related impact from last fall's hurricanes started to hit home in July . Foreclosure starts rose 11 percent from June, with the greatest change 19 percent, in storm affected parts of Texas. Black Knight said, in its "first look...
New Home Sales Soften for Second Month

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2018, 10:36 AM

New home sales broke out of the up-one-month, down the next pattern they have adopted since March, and not in a good way . The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that sales of newly constructed single-family homes retreated...
Are Home Prices Finally Pumping the Brakes?

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2018, 9:38 AM

Home prices for purchases financed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appreciated at an 0.2 percent rate during June, and the estimate for May was increased from the 0.2 percent originally reported to 0.4 percent. It also appears that April's gain, which was...
Fannie and Freddie End Funding of Single-Family Rentals

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by Jann Swanson on August 22 2018, 11:21 AM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has pulled the plug on pilot programs run by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) to finance institutional investment in single-family home rentals. The programs began in February 2017 with a $1 billion...

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