Mon, Jan 9 2012, 11:40 AM
The list of housing markets demonstrating
improvement on a trio of housing-related measures took a big jump in January,
rising to 76 cities from 4...
Mon, Jan 9 2012, 11:30 AM
Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah
Bloom Raskin told a law school group on Friday that the judicial morass arising
out of the mortgage crisis , ...
Mon, Jan 9 2012, 9:36 AM
Freddie Mac gave unemployed homeowners who
are struggling to pay mortgages owned or guaranteed by the company a break on
Friday when it eased its t...
Mon, Jan 9 2012, 3:32 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing
and Urban Development have released their joint December 2011 Housing
Scorecard . The report is essentiall...
Mon, Jan 9 2012, 1:32 PM
Americans are feeling better about the economy
according to results from Fannie Mae's December Housing Survey released by the
company this morning...
Fri, Jan 6 2012, 8:51 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association
released a response late Thursday to a
white paper submitted to Congress the previous day by the Federal Reserve....
Fri, Jan 6 2012, 5:58 PM
The latest Mortgage Monitor report released by Lender Processing Services, Inc.
(LPS) presents the kind of mixed message that is now commonplace amon...
Fri, Jan 6 2012, 1:37 PM
In remarks prepared for delivery to the
New Jersey Bankers Association Economic Forum on Friday, Federal Reserve Bank
of New York President and Chi...
Thu, Jan 5 2012, 4:06 PM
Holes are being filled in the story of the controversial appointment of Rich Cordray as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 11:09 AM
The Office of Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC) is rolling out its first public service announcements to alert
consumers about the Independent Fore...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 10:27 AM
As part of the temporary resolution to the recent battle over the Tax Cut Extension that took place in the last weeks of December, Congress decided ...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 9:48 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association
released an abbreviated report Wednesday on mortgage activity over the two week
Christmas and New Year's holiday ...
Wed, Jan 4 2012, 5:41 PM
In a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the
Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees on Wednesday, Federal Reserve
Chairman B...
Tue, Jan 3 2012, 11:58 AM
The
major private mortgage insurers wrote 25,074 new policies in November against
27,970 applications received for coverage.
According to the mont...
Thu, Dec 29 2011, 4:23 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR)
announced on Thursday that pending home sales in November reached the highest
levels seen in 19 months. ...
Tue, Dec 27 2011, 1:11 PM
While home prices continued to decline in October, the
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released on Tuesday indicate that the
downward trend ma...
Fri, Dec 23 2011, 10:14 AM
New homes sales in November rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 315,000 according to data released today by the Census Bureau and the Depart...
Thu, Dec 22 2011, 11:34 AM
The value of U.S. residential units
continued to decline in October and is now down almost 20 percent from the
levels reached at the peak of the hou...
Thu, Dec 22 2011, 11:26 AM
Assistant
U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez condemned the lending practices of the
former Countrywide Financial Corporation while announcing a...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 12:49 PM
Existing home sales rose 4.0 percent in
November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.42 million homes, up from
4.25 million in October accord...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 12:15 PM
As the National Association of Realtors®
(NAR) first announced last week, its periodic rebenchmarking of existing home
sales data uncovered some p...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 11:27 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has demonstrated again that the
public's perception of the real estate market depends on which side of the
cl...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 9:05 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Market Composite Index decreased 2.6
percent on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended December ...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 4:04 PM
According to data reported on Wednesday
by CoreLogic, the residential shadow inventory as of October stood at 1.6
million housing units, a supply ...
Wed, Dec 21 2011, 3:59 PM
The Office of Comptroller of the
Currency released its Quarterly Mortgage Metrics Report on Wednesday showing
that delinquencies among mortgages ser...
Tue, Dec 20 2011, 10:15 AM
Building permits issued in November were
up 5.7 percent from the number issued in October according to joint data
released this morning by the U....
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 12:53 PM
While the full Mortgage Monitor report won't
be available until January, Lender Processing Services has released some
highlights for its November mo...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 11:04 AM
Another shoe dropped last week as the Nevada attorney general brought suit
against Lender Processing Services , DOCX, LPS Default Solutions and othe...
Mon, Dec 19 2011, 10:03 AM
Homebuilders are more optimistic than they've been about single-family home sales in a year and a half according to a report released today by the Na...
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 12:12 PM
Six
former top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were charged with securities
fraud Friday morning in connection with mortgage backed s...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 9:51 AM
Foreclosure activity continued to
decline in November and is now down 14 percent from one year ago when one in
every 492 U.S. housing units was t...
Thu, Dec 15 2011, 1:10 PM
Nearly half of Fannie Mae's eligible servicers
are on track to receive at least a three STAR rating for 2011. Fannie
Mae announced third quarter r...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 10:51 AM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) will
hold a press conference next week to announce revisions to its data on sales of
previously owned U...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 10:50 AM
Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) told the Interagency Council on Homelessness on Tuesday
that homelessness in the cou...
Wed, Dec 14 2011, 9:45 AM
Buoyed
by a surge in refinancing , the Market Composite Index issued weekly by the
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) increased by 4.1 percent on a...
Tue, Dec 13 2011, 10:14 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) has reacted
on two fronts to a recent move by The City of Chicago to enforce parts of its
housing cod...
Mon, Dec 12 2011, 1:44 PM
The Census Bureau regularly issues a
vacant properties report which is generally covered by MND, and less extensive
data on vacancies is kept by oth...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 12:05 PM
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) has submitted
legislation to Congress that would put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of
business while creating a ne...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 11:07 AM
The National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB) reports that one out of every three of its builder members has
lost a sale during the last six mo...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 10:22 AM
The net worth of U.S. households worsened during the third
quarter of 2011 according to the Federal Reserve's Flow of Funds Summary for
the quarte...
Fri, Dec 9 2011, 9:41 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) submitted an
Alternative Mortgage Servicing Compensation Discussion Paper to the Federal
Housing Finance Ag...
Thu, Dec 8 2011, 12:57 PM
Average per-loan profits among independent mortgage banks and
subsidiaries more than doubled in the third quarter according to the Mortgage
Bankers ...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 11:36 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored
enterprises, reached the 2 million mark in their foreclosure prevention actions
during the ...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 9:42 AM
Mortgage
application volume jumped back after the shortened Thanksgiving holiday week with
activity rising 12.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted ba...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 4:47 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing
and Urban Development have released their joint November 2011 Housing
Scorecard . The report is essentiall...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 3:52 PM
For the first time in six months
responses to Fannie Mae's Monthly National Housing Survey were positive
regarding home prices . Respondents
su...
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 2:43 PM
Members of the House Financial Services
Subcommittee on Capital Markets and the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE)
heard testimony from six mark...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 11:50 AM
Data released by Lender Processing
Services, Inc. (LPS) on Monday indicates that the seasonal pattern in home
prices LPS has noted since 2009 is sti...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 10:27 AM
A
moderate Pennsylvania senator has offered legislation to end the impasse over
continuing payroll tax cuts that have been in place since the first ...
Tue, Dec 6 2011, 4:24 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
reports that, in the third quarter of 2011, delinquencies among commercial and
multifamily mortgages were m...
