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Case-Shiller Says Home Price Gains Slowing, Still up 5.5%

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by Jann Swanson on December 26 2018, 9:58 AM

Home prices continued to ratchet down their advances in October, fewer than half of the tracked cities saw prices increase on an unadjusted basis. The slowing is also beginning to show up in the annual readings. The Case-Shiller National Home Price Index...
Freddie Mac Portfolio Grows 6.8 Percent, Refi's on the Rise

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by Jann Swanson on December 24 2018, 10:05 AM

Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 6.8 percent in November, up from 4.7 percent the previous month . The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.172 trillion compared to $2.159...
Urban Institute: QM Rule May Penalize Self-Employed

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by Jann Swanson on December 21 2018, 12:01 PM

Households headed by self-employed persons make up about one-tenth of all households and have a median income higher than those headed by salaried persons. But, while both self-employed and salaried households were hit hard by the Great Recession, the...
Improved Household Debt Levels Could Insulate Against a Downturn

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by Jann Swanson on December 20 2018, 11:14 AM

You can cut the numbers in several ways, but no matter the way it is reported, American households are in relatively good shape when it comes to mortgage debt. While this isn't a number many homeowners think about after they get up from the closing table...
Higher Rates Reinvigorate the ARM Loan Share

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by Jann Swanson on December 20 2018, 9:04 AM

It is still a tiny share, but Ellie Mae says, in its November Origination Insight Report that the percentage of adjustable rate mortgages (ARMS) originated in November was the highest since the company first tracked the data in 2011, 8.9 percent. Not...
FHFA Scorecard - More General than Aspirational

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by Jann Swanson on December 20 2018, 9:44 AM

The 2019 goals for the GSE conservatorship are a good deal more general than those put forward on the yearly Scorecard from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in the early years of the recovery. Many of the goals outlined in 2012 and thereafter...
Prepayment Activity at Recession Lows, Total Delinquencies Down YoY

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by Jann Swanson on December 19 2018, 4:05 PM

Mortgage prepayment activity reached a 10-year low in November. Black Knight said, in its "first look" at the months mortgage data, that the character of prepays has been changing from a good indicator of refinance activity to one driven more by home...
After Extended Losses, Existing Homes Sales Improve for Second Month

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by Jann Swanson on December 19 2018, 10:52 AM

After a prolonged losing streak - existing home sales hadn't seen an increase since March - the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) announced a second consecutive uptick in November. Sales of existing single-family homes, townhomes, condos, and...
Fannie/Freddie "Reform" Discussion Heats Up Again

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by Jann Swanson on December 19 2018, 11:19 AM

The debate has opened again on the fate of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs). Ten plus years after the two were put in federal conservatorship at the start of the housing crisis the issue of what to do with them and when never seems to come any closer...
Mortgage Apps Slide Despite Lower Rates, Market Volatility to Blame?

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by Jann Swanson on December 19 2018, 6:00 AM

It is sad to say, but the good news can't last forever and the recent improvement in mortgage application volume, especially for purchase mortgages, proved that point last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), in its last report of the year, said...
One Region Accounts For Majority of Economic Optimism -NAR Survey

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by Jann Swanson on December 18 2018, 12:10 PM

Only about one third of Americans told the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) in a recent survey that they thought it was a good time to buy a home. Respondents to NAR's fourth quarter Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) survey...
A Positive Housing Report? November Residential Construction Changes Course

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by Jann Swanson on December 18 2018, 9:53 AM

Residential construction performed an abrupt and unexpected about face in October. Permits, housing starts, and completions all improved on a month-over-month basis and, except for completions, they were not token increases. The gains however did all...
Builder Confidence: Lower Rates Helping With Affordability Concerns

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by Jann Swanson on December 17 2018, 10:21 AM

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) is flirting with the danger zone. Although stressing that the index remains in positive territory, NAHB said its measure of home builder confidence lost 4 points compared...
Housing Forecasts Are Getting More Consistent

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by Jann Swanson on December 14 2018, 11:04 AM

Consistency can be boring, but in crazy times it can also be reassuring, even comforting. While they differ on the specifics, economists, at least those in the housing industry, seem to be coming together with much the same outlook and many of the same...
Not Just the Season; MBA Predicts New Home Sales Down Sharply

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by Jann Swanson on December 13 2018, 9:49 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) added a little more evidence to the pile indicating a rather rapid slow-down in the housing market. MBA's Builder Application Survey (BAS) data for November shows mortgage applications for newly constructed home...

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