Thu, Mar 30 2006, 7:00 AM
Fannie Mae's Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended
March 23 indicated that the average rates for mortgages closed that week
were as...
Mon, Mar 27 2006, 7:00 AM
The housing market threw the world another curve on Thursday. After five
straight months of declining sales of existing homes, a sixth dreary month
wa...
Fri, Mar 24 2006, 7:00 AM
The National Association of Realtors recently released an interesting
report about the sale of second homes in the United
States. While the survey i...
Wed, Mar 22 2006, 7:00 AM
Most interest rates continued their recent pattern of two steps up -one
step back during the week ending March 16 (Freddie Mac) and March 17
(Mortgage...
Mon, Mar 20 2006, 7:00 AM
It is hard to be sympathetic to someone who cannot, as the saying goes,
get out of their own way. But Fannie Mae is beginning to seem like the
hapless...
Thu, Mar 16 2006, 7:00 AM
...So, now that we are comfortable with what constitutes a score, what
our own scores are, and how that indicates that we stack up, it is all
going to...
Wed, Mar 15 2006, 7:00 AM
After months of apparent indecisiveness, mortgages
rates seem to have decided on a direction and are heading toward
it.
Unfortunately that direct...
Mon, Mar 13 2006, 7:00 AM
When the Supreme Court, in June 2005, upheld a lower court's decision
allowing the City of New London, Connecticut to proceed in seizing property
from...
Fri, Mar 10 2006, 8:00 AM
The long awaited independent accounting report on Fannie
Mae was released late last month, and while it sort of absolves
Franklin Raines, former Cha...
Wed, Mar 8 2006, 8:00 AM
According to Freddie Mac, mortgage rates moved only
slightly during the week ended March 2 and what little movement there was
served only to narrow ...
Fri, Mar 3 2006, 8:00 AM
Last week was a big week for news about the housing
bubble and the quarterly House Price Index (HPI) report of the
Office of Federal Housing Enterpr...
Fri, Mar 3 2006, 8:00 AM
Following hard on the heels of the January new home sales report issued
jointly by The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census
Bure...
Wed, Mar 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Americans have been straining to hear the sound of the housing
bubble bursting for many months, and according to the media on
Monday, they might not...
Wed, Mar 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Most mortgage rates retreated ever-so-slightly during
the week ended February 23, 2006 according to the Weekly Primary Mortgage
Market Survey conduc...
Fri, Feb 24 2006, 8:00 AM
We have had a lot of feedback from readers about our first article about
the Zillow.com website which was published here during the
week of February...
Fri, Feb 24 2006, 8:00 AM
Zillow is the website with all the hype, but there is another which, in
its so-far modest press notices, has been widely hailed as the new way of
buyi...
Wed, Feb 22 2006, 8:00 AM
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended February
16 reported mortgage interest rates at their highest levels of the New
Year. ...
Tue, Feb 21 2006, 8:00 AM
After hearing all of the hype about the new website, www.zillow.com, of
course we had to challenge it. We gave Zillow a lot
of leeway, deferring t...
Wed, Feb 15 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending February 9, 2006
Wed, Feb 15 2006, 8:00 AM
Zillow may soon be a great website but, as even they admit, they are not there yet.
Mon, Feb 13 2006, 8:00 AM
Reducing the impervious materials used to accommodate vehicles and recycling the water that washes off of our roofs can pay big dividends to the envir...
Fri, Feb 10 2006, 8:00 AM
While refinancing as a share of overall mortgage activity continues to
decrease as rates rise, Americans who do refinance continue to liberate
home e...
Thu, Feb 9 2006, 8:00 AM
If the air is leaving the housing bubble, The National Association of Realtors still sees it leaving home sales at sustainable levels.
Wed, Feb 8 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending February 2, 2006
Mon, Feb 6 2006, 8:00 AM
Finally Fannie Mae has some good news to announce - a gift from NYSE, a portfolio increase, and Greenspan off of its back.
Thu, Feb 2 2006, 8:00 AM
Prior planning can prevent a lot of damage done to the land by construction.
Wed, Feb 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending January 27, 2006
Wed, Feb 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Home sales are obviously beginning to slow, but records were still set during 2005 in both volume and value .
Thu, Jan 26 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending January 19, 2006
Wed, Jan 25 2006, 8:00 AM
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg shares some thoughts about the NYC Real Estate Market.
Wed, Jan 25 2006, 8:00 AM
Foreclosure activity is up over the last year along with an increasing number of mortgage defaults from the Gulf Region.
Tue, Jan 24 2006, 8:00 AM
Builders are using land clearing techniques and impermeable materials which are a direct assault on the environment, one that most people don’t even r...
Wed, Jan 18 2006, 8:00 AM
Freddie Mac is not saying No Way to the housing bubble bursting, but seems much to like about housing in 2006.
Wed, Jan 18 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending January 13, 2006
Tue, Jan 17 2006, 8:00 AM
Whether it is out of concern for the environment or the pocketbook, building in harmony with nature is again in fashion.
Thu, Jan 12 2006, 8:00 AM
While the flattening of the yield curve has not noticeably hurt the popularity of ARMS, it is largely lender discounts that have kept the products in ...
Wed, Jan 11 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending January 6, 2006
Mon, Jan 9 2006, 8:00 AM
Home warranties are not new, but they are increasingly being marketed to home owners rather than buyers and sellers.
Fri, Jan 6 2006, 8:00 AM
We all want what we cannot have when it comes to a home search, but recognizing what we want and why we want it can make compromise easier to accept w...
Wed, Jan 4 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending December 29, 2005
Mon, Jan 2 2006, 8:00 AM
NAR report on competitiveness contains a lot of information about agent incomes, mobility, and small versus large firms.
Fri, Dec 30 2005, 8:00 AM
Existing home sales continue to decline nationally and by region, but median home prices are still on the uptick.
Wed, Dec 28 2005, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending December 22, 2005
Wed, Dec 21 2005, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending December 15, 2005
Wed, Dec 21 2005, 8:00 AM
Per NAR, real estate is a nearly perfect competitive market. Banking, uh,.not so much.
Fri, Dec 16 2005, 8:00 AM
NAR counters claims of non-competitiveness with major review of real estate and banking industry structures.
Wed, Dec 14 2005, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending December 8, 2005
Mon, Dec 12 2005, 8:00 AM
Economists generally agree that housing is slowing but differ greatly on the pace and the effect.
Thu, Dec 8 2005, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending November 30, 2005
Wed, Dec 7 2005, 8:00 AM
Do not give up on your dream house just because the inspection report is less than dreamy. Money can fix most problems and your seller may be willing ...
