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Las Vegas Dethrones Seattle in Home Price Growth

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by Jann Swanson on August 28 2018, 9:45 AM

Prices slipped in June according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller price indices. The National Index, which covers all nine U.S. Census divisions, showed annual prices were up by 6.4 percent in both April and May but posted only a 6.2 percent increase...
Wells Layoffs; Broker Product; Servicing Buyers and Sellers Wanted

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by Rob Chrisman on August 27 2018, 8:05 AM

Scholars have long pondered if Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was named after my cat Myrtle, or vice versa – the answer is lost in the shrouds of time. Regardless, if you wonder what $3.4 million can take down in Myrtle Beach, the answer is “the...
Fannie/Freddie Invoke Disaster Policies in Wake of Hurricane Lane

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by Jann Swanson on August 24 2018, 9:00 AM

The rain is still pouring down in Oahu, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ahead of the game. Both GSEs have already announced that their disaster relief programs are in effect for those impacted by Hurricane Lane. Assistance is available for borrowers...
Hurricane Effect: Foreclosures Up, Delinquencies Down

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2018, 12:32 PM

The first serious mortgage related impact from last fall's hurricanes started to hit home in July . Foreclosure starts rose 11 percent from June, with the greatest change 19 percent, in storm affected parts of Texas. Black Knight said, in its "first look...
New Home Sales Soften for Second Month

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2018, 10:36 AM

New home sales broke out of the up-one-month, down the next pattern they have adopted since March, and not in a good way . The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that sales of newly constructed single-family homes retreated...
Are Home Prices Finally Pumping the Brakes?

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by Jann Swanson on August 23 2018, 9:38 AM

Home prices for purchases financed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appreciated at an 0.2 percent rate during June, and the estimate for May was increased from the 0.2 percent originally reported to 0.4 percent. It also appears that April's gain, which was...
Fannie and Freddie End Funding of Single-Family Rentals

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by Jann Swanson on August 22 2018, 11:21 AM

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has pulled the plug on pilot programs run by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) to finance institutional investment in single-family home rentals. The programs began in February 2017 with a $1 billion...
Home Price Gains Continue to Dampen Demand

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by Jann Swanson on August 22 2018, 10:35 AM

Existing home sales posted their fourth straight loss in July and have dropped to their slowest pace since February 2016. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said sales of previously owned single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and cooperative...
Mortgage Applications: Refi Index Pulls Out of Slump

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by Jann Swanson on August 22 2018, 7:39 AM

Last week's mortgage application activity was the best since early July as interest rates for most products drifted lower for the second week. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume...
Treasury Weighs in With Mortgage Industry Recommendations

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by Jann Swanson on August 21 2018, 11:30 AM

The Treasury Department has recommended some sweeping changes for consumer financial services including some directly impacting the mortgage industry . A new report recognizes the growing importance of non-depository institutions in the mortgage system...
Great Recession Still Taking Toll

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by Jann Swanson on August 20 2018, 2:06 PM

Irving Berlin once wrote, "The song might be over, but the melody lingers on." That, according to a paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (San Francisco Fed), sort of describes the Great Recession. A decade after the financial crisis and...
Fannie Mae Research: Housing, What a Drag?

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by Jann Swanson on August 17 2018, 10:44 AM

Fannie Mae's monthly Economic Development papers always have the best headlines, pithy and to the point. The August one reads. "Growth Picks Up as Expected, No Thanks to Housing." Sort of says it all. The company's Economic and Strategic Research (ESR...
Second Quarter Loan Performance Shows Steady Improvement

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by Jann Swanson on August 16 2018, 2:14 PM

Loan performance continued to improve in the second quarter. The overall delinquency rate on one-to-four-unit residential properties fell to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.36 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of that period, a 27-basis point...
Purchase Origination Share Remains at Survey High

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by Jann Swanson on August 16 2018, 12:26 PM

Purchase loans held on to the June share of 71 percent of closed loans in July which remains the highest share in the seven-year history of Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report . Refinances also held steady, remaining at 29 percent although the percentage...
Construction Numbers Post Sluggish Recovery

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by Jann Swanson on August 16 2018, 9:37 AM

As analysts had predicted, both housing permits and starts recovered , albeit only slightly, in July after a poor showing the previous month. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development now report that housing permits are...

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