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Builders Find Loan Standards Easing

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by Jann Swanson on March 05 2018, 3:31 PM

Lenders appear to be easing the way for lending in areas crucial to the home construction industry. The National Association of Homebuilders said its fourth quarter 2017 survey of builders and developers showed a net easing in conditions for funding acquisition...
Black Knight Sees Future Holding Fewer Refinances, More ARMs

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by Jann Swanson on March 05 2018, 10:58 AM

The refinance pool, homeowners who could benefit from exchanging their old first mortgage lien for a new one, is shrinking fast . Black Knight says, in its March Mortgage Monitor , that the pool declined by 40 percent from the beginning of the year through...
Tax Law Unlikely to Impact Home Prices

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by Jann Swanson on March 02 2018, 11:49 AM

Freddie Mac looked at the possible effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in an earlier edition of its Outlook economic forecast. This month it takes that analysis granular - right down to two families, the Smiths and the Johnsons, both in the market...
Freddie/Fannie Program and Guideline Changes; Powell Takes Center Stage

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by Rob Chrisman on March 02 2018, 8:32 AM

As various parts of the nation are hunkered down due to weather, just think of “2.4 million.” That is a lot of anything, especially when that is how many additional people had their names & driver license number data exposed in the Equifax...
Construction Spending Down Despite Increase in Single Family

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by Jann Swanson on March 01 2018, 11:25 AM

Construction spending stalled in January. Publicly funded spending rose slightly from December but that was offset by reductions in most areas of private construction . Residential construction did remain in the black, due to a slight increase in single...
Homeownership's Price Tag Rising as Rents Moderate

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by Jann Swanson on February 28 2018, 12:31 PM

Taken together, two recent posts in the CoreLogic Insights blog may indicate that, after several years of being a close trade-off or even more affordable than renting, buying a home might be losing any advantage. Shu Chen writes that the growth in rents...
Pending Home Sales Plunge to Three-Year Lows

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by Jann Swanson on February 28 2018, 9:59 AM

Pending home sales took a deep dive in January, falling to their lowest level in over three years . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a forward-looking indicator of existing home sales, fell 4.7...
Exploring a Trio of Risks and Outcomes

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2018, 2:53 PM

A recent Freddie Mac Insights article looks back at earlier incidences of rising rate environments, and how the higher rates affected several populations including borrowers, mortgage lenders, homeowners, real estate agents, and home builders. MND summarized...
Purchase Applications Improve; Refi Slump Slows

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by Jann Swanson on February 28 2018, 6:05 AM

Purchase mortgage applications gained ground last week for the first time since mid-January. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said the volume of applications for home purchases increased by 6.0 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week...
Home Prices Start to Slow Their Gains

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by Jann Swanson on February 27 2018, 10:01 AM

Like one of those one-a-decade astrological anomalies, issuance of three home price reports for December along with a quarterly summary coincided today. As usual, S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller, Black Knight, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency all...
Despite Gains in Midwest, New Home Sales Down 7.8%

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2018, 10:35 AM

New home sales fell again in January, although not quite as sharply as in December . Stalling sales in recent months has now dragged the annual rate below that of a year earlier. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Rising Rates: Who Will Be Hit and How Hard?

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by Jann Swanson on February 26 2018, 8:56 AM

It was nice while it lasted, but the long run of historically low mortgage rates is clearly coming to an end. This month Freddie Mac's Outlook looks back at where rates have been, where they are going, and what the effect might be on home buyers, homeowners...
Foreclosures, Inventories Move Higher as Hurricane Moratorium Ends

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by Jann Swanson on February 23 2018, 10:24 AM

The effects of last summer's hurricanes, while fading from their early impact on loan performance stats, are still being felt. Black Knight reports, in its "First Look" at January data, that past due mortgages nationwide declined by 8.6 percent or 210...
Refinancing: Seasonal Pattern or Last Chance Surge?

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by Jann Swanson on February 23 2018, 8:22 AM

Although the company said it was regular January phenomenon, last month's surge in refinancing also feels a little like borrowers "headed for the last roundup." Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report noted that the share of refinancing originations shot...
Existing Home Sales Decline, Inventory Still a Big Issue

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by Jann Swanson on February 21 2018, 9:54 AM

Sales of existing homes fell again in January, the second consecutive month-over-month decline. Sales of pre-owned single-family homes, townhomes, condos, and cooperative apartments were down 3.2 percent compared to December, and the seasonally adjusted...

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