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Construction Spending Slack Picked Up By Non-Residential Sector

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by Mortgage News Daily on October 01 2007, 7:00 AM

There was actually some good news in real estate on Friday. The bad news was it had nothing to do with the housing slump or the mortgage crunch. According to the Census Bureau, spending on non-residential construction projects was up 2.3 percent in August...
New Home Sales See Biggest Year Over Year Drop In 37 Years

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 28 2007, 7:00 AM

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued their monthly joint report on August new house sales on Thursday. The July sales rate was itself revised downward from an original estimate of 870,000 units. The stunning...
Lennar and D.R. Horton Move To Staunch Housing Hemmorage

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 27 2007, 7:00 AM

According to Sudeep Reddy and Michael Corkery writing in The Wall Street Journal, "The housing market is going into a deeper chill, and consumers are starting to shiver." Other market segments that are closely, even loosely tied to housing construction...
ARM Applications Continue To Dwindle While Rates Inched Up

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 26 2007, 7:00 AM

Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist commented that, "Mortgage rates were largely unchanged in the previous week, with long-term rates lingering at lower levels not seen since May. The recent retreat in mortgage rates has brought...
NAR Report of Existing Home Sales No Surprise To Anyone

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 25 2007, 7:00 AM

Probably no one who has read a paper or a website in the last 60 days expected anything different, but the monthly report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Tuesday confirmed that once again the sales of existing homes fell in August....
GSEs May Soon Purchase Jumbo Loans But Other Limits Are Not Budging

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 25 2007, 7:00 AM

Several Executive Branch surrogates indicated late last week that the Administration was sort of willing to compromise about the role of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in solving the current credit crunch. But the announcements made and the methods proposed...
Foreclosure Scams Can Be Complex Enough To Fool Most

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 24 2007, 7:00 AM

Foreclosure scammers have a wide variety of modes of operation and no limit to the kinds of people they target. Particular favorites are the elderly and non-English speaking populations, but given the complexities of mortgage lending and foreclosure laws...
Major Homebuilder Runs Successful Weekend Sale

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 21 2007, 7:00 AM

It seemed to smack a bit of desperation at the time, but in hindsight it appears to look more like marketing genius. Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. , one of the nation's largest homebuilders, threw open the doors of literally thousands of its newly built...
Housing Starts Hit 12-Year Low; Multi-family to the Rescue

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 20 2007, 7:00 AM

Housing starts in August hit the lowest level on an annualized basis since July 1995 The news would have been even worse if it were not for a substantial increase in activity in multi- family housing starts . Construction on projects with......
Another Dramatic Downturn in Mortgage Rates

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 20 2007, 7:00 AM

Even before the Federal Reserve's half point rate cut on Tuesday Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed another dramatic downturn in both long and short term interest rates for conventional mortgages....
FHA Reform Moving Right Along

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 19 2007, 7:00 AM

One day after the Fed cut rates and the House of Representatives approved FHA Reform , the Senate Banking Committee approved legislation that would expand the ability of the FHA to insure mortgages, including higher-risk borrowers....
Fed Slashes Interest Rates By 50 Basis Points

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 18 2007, 7:00 AM

The Federal Reserve slashed benchmark interest rates by a half point in an agressive move to prevent the economy from moving into recession and to ease the pains of the housing bubble. The decision to cut the overnight federal funds rate from 5.25% to...
Mortgage Fraudsters Finding Ways To Exploit Bubble Bust

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 17 2007, 7:00 AM

It is hard to find a tragedy in the world that some heartless rat can't find a way to exploit and the current and growing incidence of foreclosures doesn't violate the rule. "Recent statistics suggest that escalating foreclosures provide criminals with...
Mortgage Market Disruptions Short-Lived According To NAR

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 14 2007, 7:00 AM

Lawrence Yun, senior economist for NAR said that unusual disruptions are dampening the outlook for home sales, notably for August and September. "There's been an unusual hit to home sales, starting in March when subprime problems emerged and more recently...
Countrywide Fundings Fall; Lines Up $12 Billion Credit

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 13 2007, 7:00 AM

Countrywide issued its operational results for the month of August and it comes as no surprise that the numbers were down. Here is a recap of their results: Loan fundings for the month of August totaled $34 billion, a 17% decrease from August 2006. ....

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