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Housing Bubble Watch: Home Prices Decline For First Time In 11 Years

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 27 2006, 7:00 AM

Buyers have been hoping for it and sellers have been dreading it but home prices have apparently started a long-expected decline while existing home sales continued their five month slide. ...According to The New York Times, this was the first time since...
Ethnicity Counts When It Comes To Higher-Priced Subprime Loans

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 26 2006, 7:00 AM

In an earlier article we reported some interesting mortgage lending information from a recently released report of The Federal Reserve Board based on data collected under the 1975 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Today lenders price loans primarily...
Federal Reserve Report Highlights Lending Concentration and Other Loan Patterns

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 21 2006, 7:00 AM

The Federal Reserve Board recently released the latest in a series of occasional reports on mortgage lending based on data collected under the 1975 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) . The law, broadly amended in 1989 and several times since, requires...
Mortgage Rates Resume Slow Decline - Application Volume Increases

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 20 2006, 7:00 AM

After a single "up" week, long term interest rates have resumed the slow downward pattern that began the week ending July 20. Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended September recorded an average rate of 6.43 percent for the 30...
Housing Bubble Watch: New Home Construction Reports

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 19 2006, 7:00 AM

Two monthly housing market indicators have been released so far this week, both relating broadly to home construction and showing a continued slowing of the housing sector and a related loss of builder confidence....
National Delinquency Study Is Just A Bit Disquieting

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 15 2006, 7:00 AM

The results are too subtle (and also presented in an incredibly confusing format) to determine if rate shock is starting to take its toll on American homeowners, but, looking beyond the cheerful lead paragraph, "The delinquency rates for mortgage loans...
Mortgage Rates Up For First Time In Seven Weeks

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 13 2006, 7:00 AM

Mortgage rates reversed a six week downward trend, increasing slightly during the week ended September 7 according to the Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey released by Freddie Mac. Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist said...
Housing Bubble Watch: Freddie Mac Report Partially Frosty

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 12 2006, 7:00 AM

" A Cooling Trend " was the title given to Freddie Mac's September 2006 Economic Outlook released recently. In keeping with the seasonal theme, the report, issued by the Office of the Chief Economist, projected a cooling trend for the balance of the year...
Option ARMs At The Center of Rate Shock Fears

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 11 2006, 7:00 AM

The concept of rate shock is getting a lot of press and a portion of it is pretty scary. BusinessWeek.com has just published a stunning article that postulates that the fallout from "exotic" mortgages - i.e. interest only and option mortgages - will reach...
Home Price Increases Seen Slowing In OFHEO Report

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 07 2006, 7:00 AM

We have often said that the quarterly Office of Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) Home Price Index (HPI) report is one of the most interesting of the dozens of surveys and measures of the housing market that come out every month, quarter, or year....
Mortgage Rates Down Nearly 40 Basis Points From Year High

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 06 2006, 7:00 AM

Once again Freddie Mac is reporting that mortgage rates are down from the preceding week and have now reached levels not seen since late March and early April. Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist said, " Mortgage rates continued...
Candidate For Rate Shock? Some Suggestions, Maybe Some Comfort

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 05 2006, 7:00 AM

Now that the housing bubble has officially started to deflate we can turn our worries to the newest wiggle: Rate Shock . At least three of the major television and cable networks have run stories in the past week about the danger confronting homeowners...
You Might Be Surprised By What Triggers Credit Bureau Actions

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by Mortgage News Daily on September 01 2006, 7:00 AM

Have you ever had a credit card company suddenly lower your credit line in spite of your sterling payment record? Have you wondered how every mortgage lender in the world is aware that you have been shopping for a good refinance opportunity? Or why your...
Mortgage Rates Continue Five Week Slide

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by Mortgage News Daily on August 30 2006, 7:00 AM

For the fifth straight week Freddie Mac reported that mortgage rates fell from the previous week's level. During the past week which ended August 24 all four the of the mortgage products tracked by Freddie Mac reached levels last seen at some point this...
House Real Estate Hearings - Prosecution Rests And Defense Steps Up

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by Mortgage News Daily on August 29 2006, 7:00 AM

After a parade of seven witnesses (plus Full Committee Chair Michael Oxley) who appeared before the House Banking Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity to testify about alleged limitations on competition from Internet competitors by the National...

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