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Mortgage Turnover is 121 Percent Faster Year-Over-Year

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by Jann Swanson on October 24 2019, 10:37 AM

Homeowners continued to reduce and/or retire their mortgage debt at an accelerated clip in September according to Black Knight's "first look" at the month's loan performance data. The single month mortality (SMM) rate, an indication of early mortgage...
New Home Sales Rise to Double Digit Annual Gain

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by Jann Swanson on October 24 2019, 10:28 AM

New home sales came in at a respectable seasonally adjusted annual rate of 701,000 in September, down only 0.7 percent from the revised rate of 706,000 in August. The August rate was originally estimated at 713,000. Sales of newly constructed homes are...
Lenders Gauge the Success of Going Digital

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by Jann Swanson on October 23 2019, 10:35 AM

Fannie Mae asked lenders, as part of its third quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey about their digital transformation efforts. The company says that, in previous surveys, lenders have consistently shown a strong interest in leveraging technology...
Home Price Gains Decline by 50% From Previous Month

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by Jann Swanson on October 23 2019, 10:22 AM

Home price increases slowed appreciably in August. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said its House Price Index (HPI) was up 4.6 percent on an annual basis in August compared to a 5.0 percent annual gain in July and the month-over-month gain was...
Refinancing Apps up 126% From 2018, But Starting to Cool

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by Jann Swanson on October 23 2019, 7:23 AM

Mortgage rates increased last week. Mortgage application activity, however, did not. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of that volume, declined 11.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week...
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear CFPB Constitutionality Case

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by Jann Swanson on October 22 2019, 12:05 PM

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The case "Seila Law v CFPB could spell the end of the regulatory agency established by the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform...
Home Sales Pull Back From 18-Month Highs

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by Jann Swanson on October 22 2019, 10:48 AM

Sales of existing homes, which had posted advances in both July and August, fell back in September. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said sales of single-family houses, townhouses, condominiums, and cooperative apartments were completed...
Elderly Housing Needs Must be Addressed as Homeowners Retire Later

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by Jann Swanson on October 21 2019, 11:05 AM

In an early article, we summarized the first part of a new report on America's aging population, especially as related to homeownership, published by the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies. The second part of the report deals with the elderly's housing...
FHA Tops the List for Non-Conventional Purchases

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by Jann Swanson on October 18 2019, 12:49 PM

More than a quarter of new home purchases in 2018 were financed through non-conventional sources. Data from the Census Bureau's Survey of Construction shows that, while the new home market was dominated by loans from Fannie and Freddie Mac, other funding...
After Two Years, Residential Fixed Investment Returns to Positive Territory

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by Jann Swanson on October 18 2019, 10:44 AM

Even though the pace of home building remains below where the industry would like it to be, Fannie Mae says it helped drive residential fixed investment into the black in the third quarter. The company's Economic and Strategic Research Macroeconomic Forecast...
MBA Predicts Economic and Rate Uncertainty Depressed New Home Sales

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by Jann Swanson on October 17 2019, 12:18 PM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says it expects that new home sales declined in September relative to August based on a drop in mortgage applications to finance their purchase. MBA says its Builder Application Survey showed there were 8 percent...
Single Family Construction Improves, Multi-Family Not So Much

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by Jann Swanson on October 17 2019, 9:47 AM

After posting some of the best results in a year the previous month, all three construction indicators fell back in September . The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said housing starts and completions of residential...
Nearly Half of October Originations Were Refinances

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by Jann Swanson on October 16 2019, 4:47 PM

The 30-year note rate on closed mortgages fell to 3.93 percent in September, down from 4.07 percent in August, and along with the decline, the ninth in as many months, the share of refinances crept close to half of all the month's originations. Ellie...
Builder Confidence at Best Levels Since 2018

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by Jann Swanson on October 16 2019, 10:18 AM

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), which has held in the mid-to-upper 60 range since May, finally got moving this month. The Index, a measure of home builder confidence in the market for newly constructed...
Harvard Study Looks at Where, How Aging Baby Boomers Live

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by Jann Swanson on October 16 2019, 9:17 AM

While a lot of attention is now focused on Millennials, the country is still aging. A new report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies looks at how the growing population of elderly is poised to change the characteristics of homeownership...

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