Thu, May 24 2007, 7:00 AM
According to Frank Nothaft , vice present and chief
economist of Freddie Mac, "Mortgage rates inched up this week following
the Federal Open Market...
Wed, May 23 2007, 7:00 AM
Never underestimate Sir Richard Branson .
The mega-millionaire Brit has been an innovator from the beginning of
his career and now it is hard to r...
Tue, May 22 2007, 7:00 AM
NAHB's chief economist David Seiders said, "The pattern of building
permits clearly shows that the dramatic downward
correction in housing productio...
Wed, May 16 2007, 7:00 AM
It didn't take the National Association of Realtors
(NAR) long to come out swinging at CBS after the network
aired a report on discount real est...
Wed, May 16 2007, 7:00 AM
"Low employment growth in April - the slowest pace since November
2004 - and downward revisions to both February and March job growth
tempered marke...
Wed, May 16 2007, 7:00 AM
But a big part of the Second Life economy is virtual real
estate and besides entrepreneurship many factors motivate
residents to purchase property...
Tue, May 15 2007, 7:00 AM
How can something that is virtual be real? Over 6 million
people apparently find no problem with the concept as they
socialize, create, build, and...
Fri, May 11 2007, 7:00 AM
Every so often a house comes on the market that is said to be
stigmatized . Most of the time the stigma is in the mind
of one or two buyers, but so...
Thu, May 10 2007, 7:00 AM
With the growth of house price appreciation now stalled or even
reversed, this has fueled fears that homeowners may face an inability to
withdraw eq...
Wed, May 9 2007, 7:00 AM
The two mortgage rate surveys we follow each week
showed few significant changes for the weeks ended May 3 (Freddie Mac)
and May 4 (Mortgage Banke...
Tue, May 8 2007, 7:00 AM
Declining home sales and prices have not succeeded in discouraging
homeowners from pulling equity out of their homes
according to Freddie Mac's qu...
Mon, May 7 2007, 7:00 AM
Two associations representing owners of multi-family
properties have brought suit again the Department of Housing and
Urban Development over new r...
Fri, May 4 2007, 7:00 AM
It seems impossible to get a clear look at the housing situation these
days. Where there is hope there is despair, if good news there is bad,
existi...
Thu, May 3 2007, 7:00 AM
Lots of news on the mortgage front in the last few days.
...A second part of the proposed legislation is designed to "seal the
cracks in our regul...
Wed, May 2 2007, 7:00 AM
To use the word "drift" in conjunction with the mortgage market the past
week would be suggesting too much energy in mortgage rates
and in the marke...
Tue, May 1 2007, 7:00 AM
Thu, Apr 26 2007, 7:00 AM
The two most closely watched monthly housing reports
came out this week and served only to muddy the real estate waters even
further. On Tuesday t...
Wed, Apr 25 2007, 7:00 AM
Soothing news about inflation was reflected by declining
mortgage interest rates last week, although Freddie Mac
and the Mortgage Bankers Associat...
Tue, Apr 24 2007, 7:00 AM
The chief executives of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as well as the
Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal
Housing...
Fri, Apr 20 2007, 7:00 AM
The right of the federal banking oversight system to preempt any
attempts by the various states' to regulate federally chartered financial
systems h...
Thu, Apr 19 2007, 7:00 AM
Redfin , the Seattle based and self-
described " first Internet brokerage " turned one year old
recently. It has been nearly that long since we took ...
Wed, Apr 18 2007, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates bumped upward last week, buoyed
largely by encouraging news about job growth. However, at the same time
the fees and points charge...
Tue, Apr 17 2007, 7:00 AM
Builders appeared to have remained cautious about the housing market
in March, pulling permits and starting construction on new houses in
numbers li...
Mon, Apr 16 2007, 7:00 AM
The Senate Banking Committee and one of its subcommittees dealt this
week, however superficially, with two issues that should be of
interest to a l...
Fri, Apr 13 2007, 7:00 AM
A coalition of housing activists and civil rights groups has called
for a six month moratorium on
foreclosures to provide time for financially t...
Thu, Apr 12 2007, 7:00 AM
Will the economy return the favor?
Spring usually provides the strongest home selling period of the year
and with interest rates still relatively ...
Wed, Apr 11 2007, 7:00 AM
In a statement accompanying the release of Freddie Mac's Primary
Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended April 5, Frank Nothaft, Freddie
Mac vice ...
Tue, Apr 10 2007, 7:00 AM
David Lereah, the chief economist for the National Association
of Realtors (NAR) has weighed in on the bankruptcies,
foreclosures, and predicted A...
Mon, Apr 9 2007, 7:00 AM
April is Fair Housing Month and the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) just released its Annual Report on Fair
Housing .
The 2006...
Thu, Apr 5 2007, 7:00 AM
True story. In 2004 a woman bought a small vacant lot, one of the last
remaining, in a 1960's development of 400 homes. No one seemed to notice
the ...
Wed, Apr 4 2007, 7:00 AM
In its report of the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey for
last week, Freddie Mac took some credit for the stability in
mortgage rates ...