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Urban Institute: Mortgage Lending Shortchanges Women

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by Jann Swanson on September 12 2016, 12:54 PM

Is there still a gender gap when it comes to mortgages? While single women have come a long way from the days when a man had to guarantee their mortgage, the Urban Institute thinks that they, or perhaps more correctly the industry, still have a long way...
Mortgage Rates Finally Break Higher: What You Should Watch

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by on September 12 2016, 11:19 AM

Mortgage rates took their biggest leap in two months on Friday, thanks to a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury (U.S.: US10Y) . It was only an eighth of a percentage point move, but enough...
Millennials Will Be Renting For a Lot Longer

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by on September 09 2016, 1:47 PM

The U.S. housing market continues to move ahead, but a generation of homebuyers is being left behind . That's the conclusion of an analysis of homeownership by John Burns, a real estate consultant and author who has crunched the numbers in a new report...
Credit Index Tightens as One Investor Shutters Division

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by Jann Swanson on September 08 2016, 8:54 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) ticked down in August, indicating a slight and largely operational tightening of mortgage credit. The index lost 0.4 percent to a reading of 164.7. Lynn Fisher, MBA's...
Construction: A Tale of Shifts and Imbalances

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by Jann Swanson on September 07 2016, 12:21 PM

So what is going on with residential construction? We hear constantly that inventories are too tight , especially at the lower price levels, new home sales keep rising, yet four years after home prices bottomed out, new residential construction is only...
Housing Sentiment Index Falls From All-Time High

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by Jann Swanson on September 07 2016, 10:30 AM

Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) was down slightly in August, dipping 1.5 percentage points to 85.0. The index, based on the company's National Housing Survey (NHS) reached its all-time high in July. Two of the six index components suffered...
Mortgage App Activity Listless Heading Into Holiday

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by Jann Swanson on September 07 2016, 6:26 AM

Mortgage application activity was listless as summer unofficially ended and the nation prepared for the Labor Day weekend. Changes during the week ended September 2 were minor and moved in both directions depending on whether seasonality entered the picture...
Q2 Originations hit Three Year High

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by Jann Swanson on September 06 2016, 11:57 AM

First lien mortgage originations reached their highest level in the second quarter of 2016 of any single quarter since the same period in 2013. Black Knight Financial Services, in its latest Mortgage Monitor , said the strong numbers were due to both...
Maybe Home Price Gains Aren't Decelerating After All

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by Jann Swanson on September 06 2016, 9:35 AM

Home price increases continued to exceed CoreLogic's own projections in July. The company's Home Price Index (HPI) indicates that home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, rose 1.1 percent from June and were 6 percent higher than in July 2015...
Construction Spending Flat in July

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by Jann Swanson on September 01 2016, 11:23 AM

Construction spending was largely unchanged in July according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Spending on all public and privately funded building was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.1532 trillion, statistically unchanged...
Housing Market Could Anchor a Troubled Economy

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by Jann Swanson on September 01 2016, 9:20 AM

Isn't it amazing that, after the near-decade of turmoil we have just gone through, that CoreLogic is calling the housing market "an oasis of stability? " Maybe more surprising that those long-lamented tight inventories could be, in one respect, a good...
Pending Home Sales Near 10-Year High

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by Jann Swanson on August 31 2016, 10:47 AM

Despite some predictions that pending home sales would fall in July, they actually rose modestly to reach their third highest level in nearly a decade. The National Association of Realtors® reported that its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) was up...
Mortgage Apps Eke Out Small Gain

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by Jann Swanson on August 31 2016, 6:16 AM

The volume of applications increased slightly during the week ended August 26 as mortgage rates made minor changes and moved in both directions. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that its Market Composite Index, a measure of application...
Mortgage Bank Profits Doubled in Q2

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by Jann Swanson on August 30 2016, 12:34 PM

Mortgage originators surveyed by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) saw production profits more than double in the second quarter compared to what had been a dismal Quarter One. Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks...
Distressed Sales To Remain Elevated into 2019 -CoreLogic

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by Jann Swanson on August 30 2016, 11:06 AM

The share of total home sales made up by distressed properties is now one-quarter the level it was in January 2009. CoreLogic reports that in May the total of foreclosed homes and houses sold through a short sale was 8.4 percent with foreclosures accounting...

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