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How Lenders Plan to Find and Retain Customers (And How That Might Change)

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by Jann Swanson on February 04 2020, 12:53 PM

Almost 200 senior mortgage lenders told Fannie Mae about their plans to both acquire and keep customers through the company's Fourth Quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey. Mortgage lenders cited a number of channels and strategies and ranked them by...
Home Price Gains at Entry Level Vex First-Time Buyers

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by Jann Swanson on February 04 2020, 9:27 AM

Home price increases, as measured by CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI) continued to pick up speed in December on an annual basis. However, they pulled back a bit from the sudden surge they had displayed in November. The HPI, which includes distressed...
Total Construction Spending Essentially Unchanged in 2019

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by Jann Swanson on February 03 2020, 12:35 PM

Total construction spending ended 2019 down slightly from the prior year. The U.S. Census Bureau said the total value of construction, both public and private, put in place during the year was $1.304 trillion compared to $1.307 trillion in 2018, an 0...
Low Rates Boost Homebuying Power 16 Percent

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by Jann Swanson on February 03 2020, 9:32 AM

Black Knight, it the current edition of its Mortgage Monitor covering December mortgage performance data, writes an epitaph for slowing home price appreciation. Prices had been appreciating at an annual rate of nearly 7 percent in early 2018 but had fallen...
Homeownership Rate Still Barely Budging

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by Jann Swanson on January 30 2020, 12:51 PM

The homeownership rate seems stubbornly stuck only a few percentage points from where it bottomed out in the second quarter of 2016. The U.S. Census Bureau said the national rate in the fourth quarter of 2019 was 65.1 percent compared to 64.8 percent...
FHA Loans Becoming More Popular as Market Recovers

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by Jann Swanson on January 30 2020, 11:45 AM

In the throes of the housing crisis, it sometimes seemed as though FHA was the only way to finance a home purchase , especially for those with less than stellar credit or unable to come up with a large downpayment. The government sponsored insurance program...
2019 Was a Great Year to Sell Your Home

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by Jann Swanson on January 29 2020, 3:05 PM

Homeownership is apparently still one of the best ways to build wealth. The Year-End Home Sales Report from ATTOM Data Solutions shows that the typical homeowner who sold a home in 2019 realized a gain of $65,500. This is up from $58,100 in 2018 and ...
Pending Home Sales Erase More Than Half of 2019's Gains in a Single Report

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by Jann Swanson on January 29 2020, 10:01 AM

December's pending home sales erased the small gain posted in November and the National Association of Realtors' (NAR's) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) ended the year exactly where it had begun. The PHSI is a forward-looking indicator of existing home...
Refis Still Shine as Lower Rates Drive Mortgage Applications

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by Jann Swanson on January 29 2020, 7:11 AM

Refinancing continues to dominate mortgage activity, spurred by another dip in mortgage rates. The Mortgage Banker Association (MBA) said the volume of loan applications rose during the week ended January 24 even though some businesses were impacted by...
Refis Made up More Than Half of Freddie Mac December Business

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by Jann Swanson on January 28 2020, 11:26 AM

Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 15.2 percent in December, a substantial change from the 0.4 percent gain in November. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.33 trillion...
Home Price Gains Resumed in November

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by Jann Swanson on January 28 2020, 9:48 AM

The recent re-acceleration of home price gains continued in November. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index which covers all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.5 percent annual gain for the month, up from 3.2 percent...
New Home Sales Pull Back Slightly in December; Year-Over-Year Gains Continue

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by Jann Swanson on January 27 2020, 10:34 AM

A lot of expectations and optimism were probably dashed by the December report on new home sales from the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development. Analysts were expecting sales to build on the November seasonally adjusted annual...
Changes to FICO are on the Way

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by Jann Swanson on January 24 2020, 9:33 AM

Paying bills on time is about to become more important for American consumers, and this as their debt levels are reaching new highs. Fair Isaac Corporation, the company which creates the FICO credit score models, will introduce two new ones this summer...
Here's How The Average Loan Looked in December

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by Jann Swanson on January 23 2020, 11:34 AM

The average interest rate on closed loans inched up in December and the share of those loans that were for refinancing moved lower. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report for the month says the average 30-year fixed rate in December rose to 3.99 percent...
Foreclosures at 14-Year Low; Loan "Mortality" up 126% Annually

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by Jann Swanson on January 23 2020, 9:07 AM

Even though many of the measures are already at record lows, mortgage delinquencies continue to tick downward according to Black Knight's "first look" at December loan performance data. At the same time, the Single Month Mortality (SMM) rate, an indicator...

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