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RedFin Sees Big Changes Coming to Real Estate Commission Model

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by Jann Swanson on August 10 2016, 1:53 PM

Homebuyers and sellers are both apparently finding discounts and rebates readily available in the real estate world. Redfin, the Seattle-based real estate brokerage firm says that a survey it recently conducted in eight of the major markets in which it...
Freddie Mac: Boomer Opportunity

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by Jann Swanson on August 09 2016, 10:42 AM

Instead of writing off citizens in their golden years - or in this case semi-golden - Dave Lowman suggests lenders view them as a business opportunity . Unlike their own parents who, by age 55 were moving toward retirement and into senior living communities...
Refi Apps Surge, Thanks to Timing

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by Jann Swanson on August 10 2016, 6:47 AM

A slight downturn in mortgage interest rates during the week ended August 5 was more than matched by a surge in mortgage activity. Once again it was refinancing that drove most of the across-the board increase in application volume as measured by the...
Signs of Housing Distress Continue to Shrink

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by Jann Swanson on August 09 2016, 8:50 AM

The national foreclosure scenario continues to improve . CoreLogic's June National Foreclosure Report shows the foreclosure inventory declined by 25.9 percent from the previous June and completed foreclosures nationwide decreased year over year from 40...
Housing Confidence Highest Since Fannie Began Keeping Track in 2011

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by Jann Swanson on August 09 2016, 8:15 AM

Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) made, what for it, was a significant jump in July, reaching the highest level in the history of the National Housing Survey from which it is derived. The index rose 3.3 points to 86.5 reflecting, the company...
Stress Test Scenario Would Not Exhaust GSEs' Stockpiles

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by Jann Swanson on August 08 2016, 1:40 PM

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have released results of their respective performances on the " Severely Adverse scenario" of the stress tests required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Federal Housing Finance Agency...
Return of The Bidding War, But Only For Certain States

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by Jann Swanson on August 08 2016, 9:54 AM

The phenomenon is very uneven geographically, but CoreLogic says that one factor behind the sustained pace of home price appreciation is the return of bidding wars . The company's analysis is limited in that it was done on the city level in markets where...
Changes Proposed to Calculation of HPML Appraisal Requirement Threshold

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by Jann Swanson on August 05 2016, 1:07 PM

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Reserve are proposing technical changes to the method in which the financial threshold for "higher-priced mortgages" are adjusted annually. The change...
MBA Fine-Tunes Credit Access Index

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by Jann Swanson on August 04 2016, 11:54 AM

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that its Mortgage Credit Availability Index increased by one point in July, and announced that its methodology for constructing the index had changed. An increase in the index, which analyzes data from Ellie...
Rental Appreciation Already Peaked According to New CoreLogic Index

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by Jann Swanson on August 04 2016, 9:29 AM

As the housing boom ended rents for single-family homes also crashed, going from annual growth of better than 2 percent in late 2007 to -3 percent by the end of 2009. But they began to bounce back long before home sales and prices did so, climbing rapidly...
Fannie Mae's Net Income Doubles from Q1

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by Jann Swanson on August 04 2016, 10:31 AM

Fannie Mae is reporting net income and comprehensive income of $2.9 billion for the second quarter of 2016 compared to first quarter net income of $1.1 billion and comprehensive income of $936 million. Freddie Mac, the other government sponsored enterprise...
Buyers not "Boomeranging" Hastily

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by Jann Swanson on August 03 2016, 10:38 AM

Are those Americans who lost their homes to foreclosure permanently turned off of home ownership? CoreLogic's Senior Economist Kristine Yao looked at that question in an article on the company's Insights Blog and found they do become homeowners again...
Another Slow Week for Mortgage Applications

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by Jann Swanson on August 03 2016, 6:56 AM

Despite interest rates that were lower across the board mortgage applications activity sagged during the week ended July 29. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index and all of its components were down from levels during...
Freddie Mac Won't Need Taxpayer Help After All

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by Jann Swanson on August 02 2016, 11:06 AM

Despite speculation that it might require a Treasury draw after its first quarter financial loss, Freddie Mac reported on Tuesday it had net income of $1.0 billion in the second quarter of 2016 and Comprehensive Income of $1.1 billion. The company said...
Home Price Gains Continue Cooling

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by Jann Swanson on August 02 2016, 9:22 AM

The pace of home price appreciation does finally appear to be slowing. CoreLogic has released its Home Price Index (HPI) for June and both monthly and year-over-year price gains are slightly lower than they were in May. Nationwide home prices, including...

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