Tue, Dec 6 2011, 1:27 PM
Two more set of housing price data were
released on Tuesday in addition to the Lender Processing Services (LPS) information
covered here earlier . ...
Mon, Dec 5 2011, 3:00 PM
Commercial real estate loans were the principal cause of the
five bank failures reported in November according to Trepp's November 2011 U.S.
Bank ...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 10:52 AM
Radar Logic has headlined its September
RPX 25-MSA Composite with the disquieting headline "We May be Witnessing the
End of the Beginning of the Hou...
Fri, Dec 2 2011, 9:35 AM
Creation of a multi-agency task
force was announced on Thursday designed specifically to deter scam artists
preying on homeowners looking for he...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 3:05 PM
Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Shaun Donovan told a Congressional hearing on " Perspectives
on the Health of the FHA Single-family Insuranc...
Thu, Dec 1 2011, 2:56 PM
Mortgage
delinquencies continued to decline in October according to information released
today by Lender Processing Services. At
the same time fo...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 10:45 AM
Pending home sales took a big jump in October, surging
10.4 percent above October figures and ending 9.2 percent higher than one year
earlier. T...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 9:26 AM
Mortgage applications were down sharply
during the week ended November 24, a week that was shortened by the
Thanksgiving Day holiday. The Mortgage...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 4:20 PM
Sixteen House Democrats have asked the
Federal Housing Finance Agency to justify its position on reducing principal on
loans owned by Freddie Mac a...
Wed, Nov 30 2011, 4:18 PM
Mortgage Insurance Companies of America
( MICA ), the trade group representing the largest private mortgage insurance
(PMI) companies has issued a s...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 12:42 PM
Over one-quarter of all mortgaged homes
in the U.S. are now either underwater or close to it according to data released
today by CoreLogic. In t...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 11:12 AM
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price
Indices for the third quarter of 2010 indicate that nationally home prices were
flat relative to the second quarte...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 9:54 AM
The Office of the Inspector
General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA-OIG ) will report to
Congress today on its oversight of FHFA.
Th...
Tue, Nov 29 2011, 5:26 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's
seasonally adjusted purchase only price index (HPI) shows that U.S. house
prices rose slightly in the third qua...
Mon, Nov 28 2011, 12:53 PM
Overall consumer debt continued to fall
in the third quarter of 2011, decreasing to 11.6 trillion from revised second
quarter levels of $11.72 tri...
Mon, Nov 28 2011, 11:34 AM
While the commercial real estate markets
are reflecting the overall softness of the economy, there are some signs of improvement
according to data r...
Mon, Nov 28 2011, 3:08 PM
A settlement agreement reached last
month between Citigroup and the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.)
over a 2007 mortgage derivative...
Mon, Nov 28 2011, 2:23 PM
New homes sales in October rose to a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 307,000 according to data released today by
the Census Bureau and the Depar...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 10:07 AM
The
volume of mortgage applications declined 1.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted
basis during the week ended November 18 according to the Mortgag...
Wed, Nov 23 2011, 2:50 PM
Spurred by a strong demand for rental
housing and low property prices , investors are buying more houses according to the latest Campbell/Inside ...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 3:52 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) has announced the conforming loans limits that will apply to the two
government sponsored enterprises (G...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 3:32 PM
The Office of Comptroller of the Currency ( OCC ) has reported on
the actions taken by 12 servicers to comply with consent order issued in April
t...
Tue, Nov 22 2011, 1:27 PM
The National Mortgage Licensing System
reports that, as of the end of the third quarter of 2011, over one-quarter
million mortgage licenses are held...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 11:57 AM
Sales of existing homes improved in October while
inventories declined according to the National Association of Realtors® monthly
report. Total sa...
Mon, Nov 21 2011, 4:31 PM
Freddie Mac's November Economic Outlook
holds some good news for the economy as a whole, but the housing picture
remains relatively bleak. Thir...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 1:37 PM
President Barack Obama signed a bill Friday
that reinstates the recently expired higher loan limits that were in effect for
FHA and VA loans throu...
Fri, Nov 18 2011, 1:28 PM
Fannie Mae's November Economics and
Mortgage Market Analysis released this morning cites the depressed sentiments
from the Conference Board consume...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 11:44 AM
Building permits were issued at a
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 653,000 in October, 10.9 percent above the downwardly
revised (from 594,000) S...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 11:05 AM
Previously delinquent loans that Freddie
Mac was required by contract to repurchase from its Mortgage Participation
Certificate (PC) pools are abou...
Thu, Nov 17 2011, 2:03 PM
Seasonally adjusted mortgage
delinquencies fell 45 basis points (bp) from the second to the third quarter of
2011 to a seasonally adjusted rate of...
Wed, Nov 16 2011, 11:48 AM
Executives at Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac are one step closer to a massive pay cut following a vote by the
House Financial Services Committee to sus...
Wed, Nov 16 2011, 11:22 AM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have released
guidance to their lenders on changes to their loan products occasioned by the
expansion and extension of th...
Wed, Nov 16 2011, 8:19 AM
Mortgage applications volume dropped 10 percent on a
seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended November 11 according to
results of the Mortgag...
Wed, Nov 16 2011, 4:26 PM
After two months of gains the index
measuring builder confidence has reached its highest level in 17 months
according to data released today by th...
Tue, Nov 15 2011, 10:09 AM
Two
George Washington University professors have called current discussions and
proposals to curtail FHA's low down payment loans an overreaction ....
Tue, Nov 15 2011, 2:14 PM
Carol
Galante, FHA's new acting commissioner presented highlights of the agency's
FY2011 Report to Congress in a press briefing on Tuesday, tellin...
Mon, Nov 14 2011, 12:33 PM
If they hold to their original schedule, the Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) along with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government
sponsor...
Mon, Nov 14 2011, 10:56 AM
According to a
recent survey by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), the typical U.S.
homebuyer spent less and borrowed less
in 2011. Th...
Mon, Nov 14 2011, 4:49 PM
Home prices continued to slide in August, dropping another
0.9 percent according to the Lender Processing Services (LPS) home price index
(HPI). Wi...
Fri, Nov 11 2011, 11:37 AM
Edward J. DeMarco, Acting Director of the Federal
Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has responded to an announcement from the House
Financial Services...
Thu, Nov 10 2011, 10:00 AM
Foreclosure activity increased in all categories in
October according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released on
Thursday. There w...
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 12:47 PM
According
to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) home sales rose in every state during
the third quarter compared to the same period one y...
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 8:49 AM
Lower
Treasury rates sparked an increase in mortgage applications during the week
ended November 4 according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's ...
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 3:38 PM
The House Financial Services
Committee is set to vote on the suspension of compensation packages of top
executives at the two government sponsored e...
Wed, Nov 9 2011, 2:32 PM
Ginnie Mae is touting Fiscal Year
2011 as its "Best Year Ever" with a net income of $1.14 billion, nearly
doubling its $541 million net in 2010.
T...
Tue, Nov 8 2011, 11:03 AM
TransUnion, the national credit
reporting company, says mortgage delinquencies inched up slightly during the
third quarter to 5.88 percent, an inc...
Tue, Nov 8 2011, 3:54 PM
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Mon, Nov 7 2011, 10:50 AM
For the second consecutive month the
Home Price Index (HPI) published by CoreLogic posted a decline. The September HPI decreased 1.1 percent com...
Mon, Nov 7 2011, 3:37 PM
The number of homeowners who refinanced
with "cash out" continued to decline in the third quarter according to
information released on Monday by F...
Fri, Nov 4 2011, 11:27 AM
Trepp
has come out with preliminary estimates for third quarter real estate and
business loan delinquencies. While final
reports from banks will n...
