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Prevention Measures and Increased Borrower Equity Lower Foreclosure Risk

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by Jann Swanson on February 18 2021, 1:27 PM

The Urban Institute (UI) says the surge in foreclosures predicted as the COVID-19 pandemic drove unemployment to the highest level since the Great Depression may not materialize, even when the current forbearances end. Two UI researchers, Michael Neal...
Forbearances Post Unsuprising Mid-Month Increase

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by Jann Swanson on February 19 2021, 9:10 AM

There was a 15,000 loan or 0.06 percent increase in the overall number of forbearances last week. Black Knight says that the gain was somewhat typical of the mid-month performance of the program , with the largest declines at the beginning of the month...
Refi Share of Closed Loans Rose 7 bp in January

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by Jann Swanson on February 18 2021, 2:00 PM

Ice Mortgage Technology (formerly Ellie Mae) said that closed loans continued show declining note rates in January, dropping from an average of 2.93 percent in December to 2.88 percent. The decline occurred across all loan types. The 30-year rate on conventional...
Permitting Soars as Builders Prep for Spring

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by Jann Swanson on February 18 2021, 9:42 AM

Builders appear to be prepping for a huge spring . While the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that housing starts were down in January, typically the case in winter, housing permits were issued at what is probably...
Buyer Demand Shores Up Builder Confidence

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by Jann Swanson on February 17 2021, 10:19 AM

After dropping from record high levels by a total of 7 points over the last two months, the index that measures home builder confidence has stabilized. The Housing Market Index (HMI), produced by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells...
Forbearance Relief Extended Through June

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by Jann Swanson on February 16 2021, 12:16 PM

The White House announced on Tuesday that the various COVID-19 relief programs available through The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Administration, and the Department of Agriculture will be extended. The forbearance program, which...
Mortgage Volumes Resume Downward Trend as Rates Rise

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by Jann Swanson on February 17 2021, 6:41 AM

The volume of mortgage applications declined again last week, the fourth loss out of the six full weeks since the year began . The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA says that its Market Composite Index, a measure of application volume, has lost an aggregate...
Fannie/Freddie Report Record Growth for 2020

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by Jann Swanson on February 15 2021, 11:38 AM

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) reported strong financial results in the fourth quarter of 2020 and significant growth in their net worth which, for the first time in their 12 years in conservatorship, they have an unlimited capacity to grow...
Home Buyers Frustrated by More Competitive Bidding

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by Jann Swanson on February 15 2021, 9:26 AM

The quarterly Housing Trends Survey conducted by the National Association of Homebuilders found that 69 percent of those actively seeking to buy a home have spent as much as three months searching without success. Rose Quint, writing in NAHB's Eye on...
Builders Predict Tough Year for Multifamily Construction

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by Jann Swanson on February 12 2021, 11:50 AM

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is expecting a weakened multifamily construction market this year driven by regulatory and supply-side dynamics along with slowing rent increases and higher vacancy rates. It will be short-lived, however...
Q4 2020: Double-Digit Home Price Gains Across All Four Regions

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by Jann Swanson on February 12 2021, 11:14 AM

Each of the 183 metropolitan housing markets tracked by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) posted a home prices increase during the fourth quarter of last year. Eighty percent or 161 of those markets had double digit appreciation compared...
Black Knight Says Forbearance Extensions Could Change Landscape

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by Jann Swanson on February 12 2021, 10:09 AM

There was a net decline of 1.6 percent in the number of mortgages in forbearance during the past week, a decrease of approximately 48,000 loans, as more plans that had expired at the end of January were processed out of the system. After the number of...
Revisions to Fannie's Automated System May Lead to Easier Approval

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by Jann Swanson on February 11 2021, 11:12 AM

Fannie Mae will implement a new version of its Desktop Underwriter (DU) after the weekend of March 13 . Version 11.0 apply to loan casefiles submitted on or after that date, but casefiles created in the previous version. The changes in this release include...
FHFA Extends Forbearance Periods an Extra Three Months

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by Jann Swanson on February 11 2021, 10:13 AM

Most of the accommodations that have been allowed lenders and borrowers by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) due to the COVID-19 pandemic were modified or extended this past week. FHFA, the regulator and conservator of the GSEs Fannie Mae and...
Low Rates, COVID are Motivating Prospective Home Buyers

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by Jann Swanson on February 10 2021, 12:03 PM

A high percentage of those who told the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) late last year that they were thinking of buying a home have now turned thought into action. Rose Quint writes in the NAHB Eye on Housing blog that 15 percent of those...

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