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Housing Improving but Rental Crisis Looms

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by Jann Swanson on June 26 2014, 12:15 PM

The U.S. housing recovery should regain its footing, but also faces a number of challenges . Tight credit, still elevated unemployment, and mounting student loan debt among young Americans are responsible for moderating growth and keeping millennials...
Surprise! Bank-Owned Properties Actually Sell For More!

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by Jann Swanson on June 26 2014, 10:03 AM

RealtyTrac recently analyzed residential sales over the year that ended in March to determine what drives discounts in the market value or premiums in the sales price for distressed properties. They looked at four factors, foreclosure status, occupancy...
OCC: Home Retentions Nearly Triple Home Forfeiture Actions

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by Jann Swanson on June 26 2014, 1:20 PM

The percentage of current and performing mortgages serviced by large national and federal savings banks improved by more than a percentage point during the first quarter of 2014 the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said today. At the end...
Banks' Efforts to Turn Profits are Risky -OCC

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2014, 2:13 PM

The Office of Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) National Risk Committee (NRC) pronounced the financial position of federally chartered institutions " improved " last year in its Semiannual Risk Perspective issued on Wednesday. The federal banking system...
FHFA Enlists Local Leaders in HARP Recruitment Drive

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2014, 11:35 AM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is making another attempt to reach homeowners who might benefit from its Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). FHFA feels that there are hundreds of thousands of homeowners who may not be aware that they are...
Rising Employment, Declining Delinquencies Fail to Buoy Housing

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2014, 11:06 AM

Freddie Mac said today that the U.S. housing market is sending mixed signals . Most markets, according to the company's Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) remain weak even though mortgage delinquencies are declining and local employment is improving...
OIG to FHFA: Be More Litigious Over Force-Placed Insurance

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2014, 10:26 AM

The Office of Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (OIG-FHFA) has completed an evaluation of how well FHFA oversees Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae's management of lender-placed insurance (LPI). FHFA has been conservator of the two government...
Lackluster Week for Mortgage Applications

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2014, 6:33 AM

Mortgage Applications slowed for the second straight time last week but the loss was modest compared to the 9.2 percent plunge during the week that preceded it. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Mortgage Applications Survey found that applications...
Price Increase Reflects Shift to More Costly Homes

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by Jann Swanson on June 24 2014, 11:00 AM

RealtyTrac reports a very large increase in the median price of a home sold in the U.S. in May compared to the median price in April. There was also a surge in the price on an annual basis, one more in keeping with the types of price hikes that were seen...
Foreclosure Inventory at Six-Year Low

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by Jann Swanson on June 24 2014, 12:16 PM

The U.S. foreclosure inventory rate dropped below 2 percent in May for the first time since the summer of 2008 . The rate, which reflects the percentage of mortgaged homes in the country that are in some stage of the foreclosure process, was 1.91 percent...
New Home Sales Rise at Quickest Pace in 22 Years

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by Jann Swanson on June 24 2014, 11:01 AM

New home sales rose at the fastest pace in more than 20 years last month, hitting levels not seen since 2008. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that sales of newly constructed homes in May were at a seasonally...
Case-Shiller, FHFA Agree House Appreciation Slowing

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by Jann Swanson on June 24 2014, 10:17 AM

Depending on which report you read this morning - that from Case-Shiller or from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), home prices in April were either flattening or out and out flat . S&P's Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI) were up by about...
Fannie Economist Sees Rates Rising to Top of Range

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by Jann Swanson on June 23 2014, 12:19 PM

Almost one year ago Mark Palim, Fannie Mae's Vice President of Applied Economic and Housing Research, analyzed what impact rising rates might have on the housing recovery. When he wrote about this for the company's website last July, rates which had recently...
Home Prices Nearing Pre-Crash Levels

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by Jann Swanson on June 23 2014, 1:24 PM

Home price are again approaching the high point they reached in 2006, before the bottom fell out of the housing market. Black Knight in its Home Price Index Report for April says that U.S. home prices are now only 12 percent off of that peak. Black Knights...
Existing Homes in May: Stronger Sales, Moderating Price Gains

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by Jann Swanson on June 23 2014, 11:12 AM

There were some healthy signals from the existing home market in May, as sales rose strongly and price growth moderated. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said all four regions of the country experienced a month-over-month improvement in...

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