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2008 Conforming Loan Limit Announced By OFHEO

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 27 2007, 8:00 AM

Washington, DC - Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Director James B. Lockhart today announced the maximum 2008 conforming loan limit for single-family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) will remain at the...
Two New Reports Deepen Housing Gloom

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 27 2007, 8:00 AM

The U.S. Council of Mayors released a devastating report on the impact on member communities of the ongoing housing market problems. The report, prepared by Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm, was presenting at a meeting of the Conference attended...
Senator Schumer Seeks Probe of FHLB Loans to Countrywide

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 26 2007, 8:00 AM

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter on Monday to Ronald A Rosenfeld, Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, expressing his "serious concern over the lending practices of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, specifically in regard to the...
Citigroup Knocks Builder Stocks and Takes Hit of Their Own

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 26 2007, 8:00 AM

Late Monday morning one of Citigroup's analysts, Stephen Kim, downgraded the entire homebuilding sector because he could not find anything to suggest that the residential housing market would improve until the second quarter of 2008. Kim downgraded stocks...
Realius - Bringing Joy Back To Real Estate?

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 26 2007, 8:00 AM

It may be hard to remember now but there was a time when real estate was fun , maybe even fun and games. It was in those long ago days before falling housing starts, crashing real estate values, and the sub-prime mortgage debacle consumed so many companies...
GSEs Reported Losses Mean They Are Not the White Knight Some Had Hoped

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 21 2007, 8:00 AM

Some of the financial world may be hoping that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are at least part of the solution to the sub prime mess, but the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) seem to have a propensity for getting into plenty of trouble on their...
Mortgage Rates Steady Among Mixed Economic News

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 21 2007, 8:00 AM

With the exception of the five-year treasury indexed hybrid adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), mortgage rates remained virtually unchanged for the second week in a row according to the results of the Primary Mortgage Market Survey conducted by Freddie Mac...
Housing Starts? Hold the Applause!

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 20 2007, 8:00 AM

The national media was trumpeting the good news about housing start data released Tuesday morning by the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but it is not clear exactly what they were cheering about....
HR 3915 - Getting Warmer

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 20 2007, 8:00 AM

The reason 3915 makes me so incensed is that it will still harm those who it professes to protect. I could care less about what you think CAUSED the CRISIS. If you are focused on blame , like Ralph Roberts and Barney Frank, you are missing the big picture...
Housing and Credit Woes Continue to Weigh on Wall Street

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 19 2007, 8:00 AM

The stock market by mid-day on Monday was heading toward another hefty loss and analysts were blaming - what else - fallout from the sub-prime market for the bearish behavior of investors. Two big housing related corporations seemed to be causing most...
Mortgage Rates Ease for Fourth Straight Week

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 15 2007, 8:00 AM

Both long and short term interest rates dropped slightly last week according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended November 8. "With mortgage rates remaining low, approximately 38 percent of applications were for refinance...
Zillow to Nationalize Local Real Estate Advertising

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 14 2007, 8:00 AM

No matter what you may think about Zillow , the Seattle-based real estate firm and its somewhat crazy approach to the market, credit must be given for its constant innovation. On Tuesday it announced that it was joining 11 major newspaper publishing companies...
E-Trade Suffers Subprime Wrath

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 13 2007, 8:00 AM

It has long since passed the point where the downgrade of a company's credit rating or an announcement of reduced earnings because of problems with mortgages or with mortgage-backed securities stuns anyone. However, on Monday there were particularly dire...
PMI Insurers May Owe Thanks To Piggy-Back Mortgages

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 13 2007, 8:00 AM

It is one of the small ironies of the subprime crisis that the very competition that private mortgage insurers thought was ruining their bottom line may have actually saved their hide. Just a little over two years ago - August 9, 2005 to be exact - we...
Lending Survey Indicates Tightened Standards, Lower Demand

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by Mortgage News Daily on November 12 2007, 8:00 AM

The Federal Reserve has released the October 2007 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices which addresses changes in the supply of and demand for bank loans both to businesses and consumers over the previous three months which, we...

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