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Housing Costs Take the Most Blame for Millennial Homeownership Gap

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by Jann Swanson on June 29 2018, 12:34 PM

A current post in Freddie Mac's Insight blog looks again at the decline in homeownership among young adults and tries to determine the role played by rising housing costs. The post is based on recent research by the company's Economic and Housing Research...
Affordability Perceptions: Consumers Weigh in on Rent vs. Own

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by Jann Swanson on June 29 2018, 8:12 AM

Housing inventory shortages, lack of new construction, and the not-unrelated issues of rising prices and falling measures of affordability have been major topics of discussion and analysis for several years. Fannie Mae included some special questions...
Freddie Mac Extends Appraisal Waivers to Condo Loans

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by Jann Swanson on June 28 2018, 10:22 AM

Persons who buy or refinance a condominium using a Freddie Mac mortgage may soon be able to skip having a traditional on-the-ground appraisal. The company announced on Thursday that condos will soon be eligible for its automated collateral evaluation...
HUD Head Ben Carson Touts Agency's Improvements

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by Jann Swanson on June 27 2018, 4:18 PM

Ben Carson, MD, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) told the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday that his department has made "tremendous progress" since he last testified before them in October. Citing his background...
Pending Home Sales Fall Behind 2017 Levels for Fifth Month

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by Jann Swanson on June 27 2018, 10:21 AM

The number of new contracts for existing home sales barely made it onto the bottom rung of analysts' expectations in May. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) was down from the April reading of 106.4...
Freddie Mac's Investment Portfolio Posts Second Gain of 2018

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by Jann Swanson on June 27 2018, 8:49 AM

Freddie Mac reported today that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 6.3 percent in May. The portfolio balance at the end of the period was $2.123 trillion compared to $2.112 trillion at the end of April and $2.033 trillion...
Mortgage Application Volume Falls Back into Old Pattern

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by Jann Swanson on June 27 2018, 5:54 AM

The sharp uptick in mortgage applications during the week ended June 15 was short lived. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported a strong reversal last week which nearly wiped out that 5.1 percent increase in the Market Composite Index, a measure...
Commercial/Multifamily Debt Growth Largest Since Recession

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by Jann Swanson on June 26 2018, 2:47 PM

Multifamily and commercial mortgage debt grew by $44.3 billion in the first quarter of 2018, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 1.4 percent, and the largest gain since before the Great Recession. The total debt at the end of the quarter was $3.21 trillion...
Case-Shiller: Higher Home Prices and a Reality Check

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by Jann Swanson on June 26 2018, 9:56 AM

The producers of the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price indices injected a dose of reality into their report for April. David M. Blitzer Managing Director and Chairman of the company's Index Committee sprinkled his analysis of yet another month...
Big Shift in Lender Attitudes Toward Cutting Costs

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2018, 12:55 PM

There was plenty of foreshadowing, but Fannie Mae's Chief Economist Doug Duncan said last week that cost-cutting has risen as a priority for mortgage lenders. Both the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) first quarter Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Performance...
New Home Sales Up Sharply; Prices Slump

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by Jann Swanson on June 25 2018, 9:57 AM

The sales of new homes surged in May, outpacing the consensus of expectations, and while one months' data is just that, both median and average home prices were down sharply. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated...
NAHB: Lumber Shortages and Prices Hampering Affordability

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by Jann Swanson on June 22 2018, 11:49 AM

In back-to-back blog posts in the National Association of Home Builder's (NAHB's) Eye on Housing Blog , Paul Emrath details both the extent of the current shortage of lumber facing homebuilders and its impact on home prices. Emrath says that shortages...
Massive Government Reorganization Plan Includes Housing Changes

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by Jann Swanson on June 22 2018, 10:08 AM

The Trump Administration formally rolled out a plan on Tuesday to massively reorganize the federal government . The proposal is largely the work of Office of Management and Budget Director and acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB...
Inventory Woes: Are They Worse Than They Look?

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by Jann Swanson on June 21 2018, 10:03 AM

There has been a lot of hand-wringing for going on two years or so about the incredible shrinking inventory of homes for sale . This week CoreLogic analyst Molly Boesel joins the chorus with another analysis of the problem. Boesel says the inventory of...
FHFA: Home Price Index Continues to Rise

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by Jann Swanson on June 21 2018, 9:30 AM

There was another 0.1 percent increase in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI) in April. The index, which is calculated using home sales prices from mortgages sold to or guaranteed by the government sponsored enterprises...

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