Fed Governor Randall Kroszner said rising mortgage foreclosures are an " urgent problem " and called on Congress to pass a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulatory bill. Speaking at the NeighborWorks America Symposium in Cincinnati on Wednesday, Kroszner said foreclosures lead to a loss of one-fifth to...
What a fascinating and tumultuous time is upon us! Both the housing and the mortgage market are convulsing wildly! There are so many facets to the "big picture" that I would never presume have all the answers, so the following disclaimer is in order: I am a mortgage broker and the following is my opinion...
The OFHEO House Price Index (HPI) usually doesn't get too much attention (except here where we regard it as the best, or at least the most interesting of the periodic housing indicators) but this time around people began anticipating it days before it was actually issued and there was speculation that...
Slower economic growth and rising inflationary pressures are cited as competing trends in the U.S. economy by Freddie Mac in its monthly Economic Outlook for August which was released on Wednesday. The report contrasted the growth in the economy during the first half of the year which was perking along...
Freddie Mac issued its monthly "outlook" for the month of July as well as a round-up of the first half of 2006 . While the report still projects a housing market that is undergoing a "moderate and orderly cooling," a comparison to the January outlook shows a slight decline in optimism. Freddie harkened...
One of the most vocal proponents of the Chicken Little philosophy of real estate is John R. Talbott, who in 2003 wrote the best selling book The Coming Crash in the Housing Market . His new book Sell Now! The End of the Housing Bubble was published this year and has occasioned a lot of press and a certain...
Last month we ended our report on Freddie Mac's April Economic Outlook with the statement that "Freddie Mac's April Economic Outlook deviates only slightly from predictions in earlier months; the housing market is slowing but certainly not screeching to a halt." May's report which was issued this week...
The headline reads "Growth Continues," but probably the big news coming out of Freddie Mac's November 2005 Economic Outlook was that, for the first time since August, that headline wasn't about yet another hurricane. Still the lingering impacts of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma were prominently featured in...
Two major economic players, Freddie Mac and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, continue to be upbeat about the near future of real estate. **GOOGLEAD** The Chairman, in a series of speeches delivered last week, stated that neither record high oil prices or soaring consumer debt should be of undue...