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Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac's Chief Economist said that there is a tendency for housing and mortgage markets to focus on high profile but transitory events - for example the weekly reports on interest rates - while the factors that will actually determine the future of housing evolve so slowly we tend to overlook them. He points to three long-standing trends: increasing income inequality, the increasing role of land costs in housing prices, and increasing land use restrictions. These, he writes in Freddie Mac's monthly Insights, will shape the future of housing by permanently shifting both the demand for and supply of housing. Increasing income inequality is the first and possibly most important trend, but not the growing gap between the richest and the rest. The high pay and lavish lifestyles
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Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac's Chief Economist said that there is a tendency for housing and mortgage markets to focus on high profile but transitory events - for example the weekly reports on interest rates - while the factors that will actually deter... (read more)
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Two recent data releases from CoreLogic's Insurance and Spatial Solutions division assess earthquake risk in California and Oklahoma. Yes, Oklahoma, a place normally thought of in terms of tornados risk, now outstrips California in the frequency of e... (read more)
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Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes was unchanged in November, based on data gathered before the election. The National Association of Home Builders said its Housing Market Index (HMI), which it sponsors jointly with ... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Baby Boomers like lists and rankings. Here is one that I ran across: the 50 highest paying professions not needing a college degree. There are a couple mortgage-related jobs on the list, arguably including #1 which is "Financial Service Sales Agents.... (read more)
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Mortgage application activity fell decisively in the wake of the presidential elections. While the week ending November 11 culminated with the Veterans Day holiday, the downturn appeared more related to the sharp increase in mortgage rates that follo... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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We started to talk about "the gap" in yesterday's closing commentary and unless bond market momentum manages to stay far weaker than anyone expects, we'll be talking about "the gap" again very soon. Well, technically, we'll be talking about i... (read more)
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