Fri, Feb 5 2010, 8:14 AM
Equity futures are deep in the red this morning after substantial losses yesterday. The culprit continues to be European sovereign debt concerns in Gr...
Fri, Feb 5 2010, 4:49 PM
Sellers reacting to the depressed price of their houses appear to be holding back improvements in the housing market according to a survey by Thompson...
Fri, Feb 5 2010, 2:21 PM
When considering the LOCK vs FLOAT decision, I think of it as so: WE ARE PLAYING CHESS, NOT CHECKERS. My lock bias is based on the big picture outlook...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 11:05 AM
We've been here before! We've seen bond bearish NFP prints, we've seen tons of "better than expected" data, we've watched stocks rally on and on and o...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 11:03 AM
We find time and time again see owners of company, managers of departments and individual loan officers neglecting to measure the performance of their...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 10:27 AM
GMAC Cuts Ditech; Top GFE Mistakes; ASF Non-Agency Loan Product Outlook; Biggest Commercial Loan Servicers
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 8:57 AM
Jobless Claims increased by 8,000 last week to 480,000 new claims. This was worse than expected. The rates market, which was already rebounding from y...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 8:18 AM
Equity markets are in the red across the globe as investors become increasingly concerned that the Greek debt tragedy could spread to other countries ...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 5:12 PM
I have been advising LOCK all week ahead of the Employment Situation Report, which will be released at 8:30am tomorrow morning. While there have been...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 3:45 PM
"There will be a jobs revision I'm told tomorrow that's likely to show additional job loss at the first part of the recession that started in December...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 3:06 PM
In the week ending February 3, 2010, the Federal Reserve purchased a total of $17.63 billion agency MBS. In those five days the Federal Reserve sold $...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 1:03 PM
Mortgage rates rose slightly during the past week according to information released today by both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Only the one-year ARM re...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 12:01 PM
While Treasury issuance remains elevated at high levels, issuance size is not expected to continue to grow. Again, this is not a huge supportive infl...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 11:13 AM
We’ve helped many companies identify their trailing risk and develop a strategy to attend to the resulting losses. We agree with Wayne Gretzky that a...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 10:39 AM
Appraisal Requirements; No New GSE Loan Programs; Jumbo Products Needed; Itemized Deductions; Several Lender Updates
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 8:37 AM
We have been pretty firm about locking on strength and willing to float at the outer limits of the range...at this point that is getting very risky. A...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 8:14 AM
Equity futures are mixed after a steady incline yesterday pushed the Dow and S&P 500 up 1.09% and 1.30%, respectively. 90 minutes before the opening b...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 4:56 PM
Michael Fratantoni, MBA's VP of Research and Economics, warned to expect rising mortgage rates over the next few months as the Fed exits the MBS buyin...
Wed, Feb 3 2010, 1:04 PM
Because the Employment Situation Report is so influential in the marketplace, it is also a source of great speculation. One source that provides a hin...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 12:51 PM
Reports from fellow mortgage professionals indicate lender rate sheets to be similar to yesterday’s...again. This keeps the par 30 year conventional ...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 12:23 PM
Lots of mortgage bankers talk about buying a bank, but aside from this writer, very few have ever done it. So a huge round of applause to Rob Hirt, ...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 11:25 AM
MBS are angry this morning, well not really but it looks like it on the charts. "Rate sheet influential" MBS prices have CHOPPED CHOPPED CHOPPED aroun...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 10:16 AM
Economists were expecting to see a small rebound in December Pending Homes Sales following a 16.4% decline in November, they got exactly what they wer...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 10:07 AM
Fannie Mae Imminent Default Indicator; Borrower Funded Temporary Buydowns; DR Horton Out of the Red; Anti-Flipping Debate
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 8:21 AM
Equity markets are rallying ahead of key housing market data for December. 90 minutes before the opening bell, Dow futures are up 24 points to 10,161...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 4:52 PM
I have spent the last few days using the control-f function to locate anything mentioning housing or the mortgage industry. I searched the document fo...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 4:41 PM
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, there were 130.58 million housing units in the US. Compare that to the end of 2008 when there were 129.45 mi...
Tue, Feb 2 2010, 1:10 PM
The MBA reported Tuesday that commercial loan originations had increased during the fourth quarter over both the previous quarter and the same quarter...
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 11:53 AM
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 11:11 AM
Comedian George Carlin had a colorful career winning five Grammy Awards. He was known for his black humor as well as thoughts on politics, the Englis...
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 9:53 AM
FDIC Bank Closures and Links; Auto Delinquencies vs. Home Loan Delinquencies; Wells, GMAC Bulletins
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 9:14 AM
Both benchmarks and "Rate sheet influential" MBS coupons have found their way back toward important pivot points. The FN 4.0 is 0-05 at 97-28 yielding...
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 8:09 AM
It’s a busy week ahead and two hours before Monday’s opening bell investors are optimistic.
Dow futures are up 41 points to 10,058 and S&P 500 futu...
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 6:13 PM
Bankers responding to the January 2010 Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices indicated that residential loan st...
Mon, Feb 1 2010, 2:54 PM
The Commerce Department today released December New Construction Spending data. Spending was worse than forecast, -1.2 percent to an annual rate of $9...
