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Black Knight, it the current edition of its Mortgage Monitor covering December mortgage performance data, writes an epitaph for slowing home price appreciation. Prices had been appreciating at an annual rate of nearly 7 percent in early 2018 but had fallen to 3.8 percent in August of 2019 as affordability worsened. But then, as Black Knight's President of Data & Analytics, President Ben Graboske writes, "The national home-price-growth rate gained a good deal of steam as mortgage interest rates declined throughout the second half of last year. In fact, December marked four consecutive months of home price growth acceleration and the largest single-month acceleration in more than 6.5 years, while the annual rate of appreciation saw nearly a full percentage point increase over the last four
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Black Knight, it the current edition of its Mortgage Monitor covering December mortgage performance data, writes an epitaph for slowing home price appreciation. Prices had been appreciating at an annual rate of nearly 7 percent in early 2018 but had ... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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The total count of confirmed coronavirus cases will continue to grow for quite some time (several months, perhaps). Markets and epidemiologists alike agree on that fact. The greater unknown is the trajectory of that case count. The ... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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“I boarded a Southwest flight over the weekend, sat down, sneezed, and muttered something in Mandarin. I had the whole row to myself for entire flight. It was great!” Sometimes things aren’t what they seem. When you “borrow&rd... (read more)
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Total construction spending ended 2019 down slightly from the prior year. The U.S. Census Bureau said the total value of construction, both public and private, put in place during the year was $1.304 trillion compared to $1.307 trillion in 2018, an 0... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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Mortgage rates inched even lower today as the market resumed efforts to react to and account for risks surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. Weaker economic data also played a part. That said, it's good to remember that the market's coronavirus react... (read more)
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The homeownership rate seems stubbornly stuck only a few percentage points from where it bottomed out in the second quarter of 2016. The U.S. Census Bureau said the national rate in the fourth quarter of 2019 was 65.1 percent compared to 64.8 percent... (read more)
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