Tue, May 3 2011, 11:24 AM
This article was originally published in the May issue of Asset Securitization Report As part of a joint initiative, the FHFA and HUD recently rele...
Tue, May 3 2011, 11:16 AM
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Mon, May 2 2011, 11:16 AM
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Mon, May 2 2011, 11:15 AM
Builders who specialize in home remodeling are seeing a better market than
they have in years according to the National Association of Home Builders'...
Mon, May 2 2011, 9:18 AM
Occasionally
I receive e-mails that are worth saving. Like the one where someone wrote,
"Your vocabulary is as bad as, like, whatever." And some web...
Mon, May 2 2011, 8:53 AM
Can killing the world's most infamous terrorist give a boost to global equity markets?
The markets unambiguously answer: yep. After President Oba...
Mon, May 2 2011, 4:42 PM
Home loan borrowing costs ended last week near their most aggressive levels of the year. Little has changed from Friday...check out this chart of ...
Mon, May 2 2011, 4:16 PM
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Mon, May 2 2011, 3:09 PM
Almost every American is a renter at some point in his life
but today both economic conditions and demographic forces are increasing rental
demand...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:18 AM
Do boom
and bust cycles in real estate only happen in the United States? Of course not: Boom&Bust
Here's a campaign hitting the public: Zillo...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:16 AM
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Fri, Apr 29 2011, 10:52 AM
Japan is out for 黄金週間 ( Golden Week ) and London is shut down for the Royal Wedding . Add in event exhaustion and another high-risk event in the ...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 8:28 AM
Rates moved mostly sideways overnight before making a break through key resistance early in the N.Y. session. Trading volume was low as Japan has chec...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 4:16 PM
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Fri, Apr 29 2011, 3:35 PM
Home loan borrowing costs ended the week near their most aggressive levels of the year.
The chart below illustrates how borrowing costs have behav...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 1:22 PM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to
establish consistent mortgage loan servicing and delinquenc...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 12:10 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its March Pending
Home Sales Index (PHSI ) . The index is said to be a leading indicator for...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 11:16 AM
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Thu, Apr 28 2011, 11:16 AM
Federal
Reserve Governor Elizabeth A Duke told a Community Affairs Research Conference
on Thursday that, while every community across the country ha...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 10:32 AM
Fun with
numbers: Freddie Mac's mortgage delinquencies on single-family homes declined
in March from both month- and year-earlier levels. March's de...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 8:27 AM
The bond market shrugged off a warmer inflation outlook from the Fed yesterday and instead chose to focus on its transitory effects which include a mo...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 5:24 PM
Home loan borrowing costs improved enough today to say Best-Execution
mortgage rates could be considered "in the process of" a shift lower. This does...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 4:30 PM
Yesterday the mid 3.34's clearly emerged as a resistance level in benchmark 10s....which they were unable to break. As we often discuss, yesterday's ...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 4:16 PM
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Thu, Apr 28 2011, 2:17 PM
In a
telephone press conference this afternoon U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded more than $216 million to nearl...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 12:20 PM
Treasury just auctioned $35bn 5s. The bid to cover ratio, a measure of auction demand, was 2.77 bids submitted for every 1 accepted by Treasury. This...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 11:17 AM
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Wed, Apr 27 2011, 9:58 AM
Huh? Maybe Freddie and Fannie are
not going to evaporate, which many in the industry were not looking forward to
anyway: MSNBCAgencies
One se...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 9:37 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week
ending April 22, 2011.
The MBA's lo...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 8:37 AM
The Federal Reserve will make history today when the Chairman of the Board stands before the media to usher in a new era of transparency in monetary p...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 4:26 PM
Today's much anticipated high risk event, the FOMC Statement and subsequent press
conference, leaves fence-sitters unscathed as no changes in home lo...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 4:17 PM
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Wed, Apr 27 2011, 3:34 PM
The U.S
Census Bureau has released Residential Vacancies and Homeownership data for
the first quarter of 2011.
The data is derived from th...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 1:51 PM
Plain and Simple: The Fed acknowledged that inflation has
picked up recently but is still expected to be "transitory". Thus
rates will be kept lo...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 11:20 AM
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Tue, Apr 26 2011, 9:53 AM
The trivia
for the day is, "Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is
attached at only one end." I bring this up because there will be ple...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 8:31 AM
Yesterday was pretty much an extension of the 3.5 day Easter holiday weekend. Volume was about as low as we can remember seeing it recently and tradin...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 5:19 PM
Although home loan borrowing costs improved slightly today, Best Execution
mortgage rates remain in a holding pattern ahead of tomorrow's high-risk F...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 5:03 PM
Scattered reprices for the better were reported today. Rate sheets are about as strong as they've been in a month. Price action in the bond market was...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 4:16 PM
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Tue, Apr 26 2011, 3:54 PM
Much has
been made about the value of homeowner education and counseling both as a way
to make homeowners more responsible about obtaining and maint...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 2:43 PM
Standard and Poor's has released February Case- Shiller Home Price data...
S&P/Case- Shiller provides two monthly indices which track the...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 11:42 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have
released New
Residential Sales data for March 2011.
New Residential ...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 10:53 AM
Declining secondary marketing income driven by rising interest rates eroded profits at independent mortgage banks and their subsidiaries during the fo...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 10:14 AM
In terms
of powerful world figures, how does the FDIC's Sheila Bair stack up against
Lady Gaga or Katie Couric? ForbesList
For the 1st quarte...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 9:34 AM
The holiday-shortened work week that just past stands in stark contrast to the week ahead which offers a robust calendar of events and economic data. ...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 4:54 PM
Best Execution mortgage rates have moved into a holding pattern ahead of a high-risk event in the week ahead. It's going to take a sustained effort, c...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 4:20 PM
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Mon, Apr 25 2011, 2:10 PM
The bond market must've had too many marshmallow peeps yesterday cause trading flows are comatose in the "rate sheet influential" portion of the yield...
