We used to regularly cover the monthly Economic and Housing Market Outlook from Freddie Mac's Office of the Chief Economist, but sometime last summer they stopped doing the usually interesting narrative that accompanied the numbers so we no longer paid a lot of attention to the spreadsheet that remained...
Freddie Mac�s Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported that mortgage rates were down for the most part for the week ending May 5, 2005. This is the fifth week in a row that Freddie has recorded a decline in the two popular fixed rate products and the 5/1 ARM . The 1-year ARM was up a single basis...
Freddie Mac's Office of the Chief Economist has issued its monthly Economic & Housing Outlook report for the month of March. Much of the report is given to a discussion of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's semi-annual report to Congress in which he noted the "conundrum" of the rising federal...