Tue, Aug 25 2020, 12:02 PM
New home sales were expected to dip slightly in July after posting 13.8 percent growth in June and setting a 13-year high. Instead, the June sales wer...
Tue, Aug 25 2020, 11:55 AM
Both the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) Housing Price Index (HPI) and the several S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices showed price gains acr...
Fri, Aug 21 2020, 12:08 PM
Like the report from Black Knight earlier today, the second quarter National Delinquency Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows the effect...
Fri, Aug 21 2020, 11:38 AM
Existing-home sales posted a second month of significant sales gains in July, building on a record 20.7 percent increase in June. The National Associa...
Fri, Aug 21 2020, 11:29 AM
The financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are beginning to emerge and while it appears the crisis initially hit homeowners hard, the duration of ...
Thu, Aug 20 2020, 6:15 PM
Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has provided a couple of updates on housing construction trends tak...
Wed, Aug 19 2020, 11:48 AM
Refinance loans continued to dominate mortgage originations in July, but the gap with purchase loans is closing. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Repor...
Wed, Aug 19 2020, 9:58 AM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing a new category of qualified mortgage (QM) which it says is intended to "encourage innovat...
Wed, Aug 19 2020, 8:27 AM
Mortgage rates rose during the week ending August 14 and, while purchase applications sustained some of their momentum, a slowdown in refinancing pull...
Tue, Aug 18 2020, 10:53 AM
Residential construction rates soared in July with both permits and starts increasing from their June pace by double digits and topping 2019 numbers f...
Mon, Aug 17 2020, 4:06 PM
At the midway point of the current (3 rd ) quarter Fannie Mae is looking for a huge improvement in the gross domestic product (GDP). The company's Eco...
Mon, Aug 17 2020, 10:21 AM
Builders have tied their 32-year old record for confidence as measured by the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (...
Fri, Aug 14 2020, 10:05 AM
Two entities, Black Knight and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) have been tracking loans in forbearance plans since the start of the pandemic. T...
Thu, Aug 13 2020, 12:14 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicting another strong month for new home sales. The association says its Builder Application Survey (BAS...
Thu, Aug 13 2020, 8:15 AM
Home prices continued to rise during the second quarter of the year, although at a slower pace than before the advent of the pandemic. The National As...
Wed, Aug 12 2020, 8:52 AM
Refinancing rebooted again last week, driving overall mortgage applications volume higher after two weeks of dwindling volume. The Mortgage Bankers As...
Tue, Aug 11 2020, 11:22 AM
COVID-19 continued to impact mortgage performance in May. CoreLogic said the number of loans in each stage of delinquency, with the exception of those...
Mon, Aug 10 2020, 4:17 PM
New research by dv01, a loan data agent (LDA) providing securitization reporting and analytics on consumer unsecured, mortgage, small business, and st...
Fri, Aug 7 2020, 2:38 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) faltered a bit in July as it tried to recover from its 29.5-point aggregate plunge in March and Apri...
Fri, Aug 7 2020, 8:30 AM
There was a significant decline in the number of active COVID-19 related forbearance plans over the past week, but that decrease did not necessarily m...
Thu, Aug 6 2020, 11:43 AM
Foreign buyers cut back their investment in U.S. residential properties over the 12 months that ended in March. It was the second year-over-year decli...
Wed, Aug 5 2020, 9:58 AM
Home prices increased in June at the fastest pace in more than seven years. CoreLogic said its Home Price Index (HPI) rose 1.0 percent from May, the l...
Wed, Aug 5 2020, 8:20 AM
Mortgage application volume declined during the week ended July 31 even as mortgage interest rates reached another all-time low. The Mortgage Bankers ...
Mon, Aug 3 2020, 4:31 PM
Construction spending held firm in June, inching down fractionally from the May level and increasing a bit compared to June 2019. The U.S. Census Bure...
Mon, Aug 3 2020, 11:56 AM
In the second quarter of 2020, 11 percent of American adults were planning on purchasing a home over the next 12 months, and of those, almost half wer...
Mon, Aug 3 2020, 11:52 AM
The last report from Freddie Mac put its 30-year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) at 2.99 percent, up 1 basis point from the all-time low. Black Knight, in i...
Mon, Aug 3 2020, 10:40 AM
The National Home Builders Association (NHBA) has been saying since the COVID-19 virus first began to ravage the economy, that it might be housing tha...
Fri, Jul 31 2020, 10:20 AM
As of Wednesday, there were 4.102 million mortgages in forbearance plans. This is 7.7 percent of the 53 million loans in servicer portfolios. Black Kn...
Thu, Jul 30 2020, 5:34 PM
The performance of mortgage loan servicers is lacking in the eyes of many of their customers, even this early in the pandemic driven recession. J.D. P...
Thu, Jul 30 2020, 5:32 PM
Both government supported enterprises (GSE) reported increased profits in the second quarter of 2020 compared to Q1. Fannie Mae said its net comprehen...
Wed, Jul 29 2020, 10:59 AM
Pending home sales soared again in June, although the liftoff was relatively shallow compared to the 43 percent increase in May. The National Associat...
Wed, Jul 29 2020, 9:22 AM
Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 14.2 percent in June compared to a 5.5 percent gai...
Wed, Jul 29 2020, 8:37 AM
Mortgage application volume declined for the first time in four weeks during the week ended July 24. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said is Ma...
Tue, Jul 28 2020, 11:53 AM
The U.S. homeownership rate moved significantly higher in the second quarter of 2020, reaching the highest level since the third quarter of 2008 at a ...
Tue, Jul 28 2020, 11:48 AM
Home prices increases slowed slightly in May on both a month-over-month and an annual basis according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. The U...
Mon, Jul 27 2020, 11:39 AM
The National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB') Housing Trends Report for the second quarter of 2020 found slightly less than a quarter of prospect...
Fri, Jul 24 2020, 11:00 AM
New Home sales have done it again, rising for the third straight month. The U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development estimat...
Fri, Jul 24 2020, 10:50 AM
It had been threatened from the beginning of the Trump administration, but this week the hammer fell. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Fri, Jul 24 2020, 9:50 AM
Black Knight notes a slight increase in the number of forbearance plans in effect this week even as the number of forborne loans serviced for the GSEs...
Fri, Jul 24 2020, 9:02 AM
While serious delinquencies felt the first impact from the COVID-19 pandemic in June, overall delinquencies were actually lower. Black Knight's "first...
Thu, Jul 23 2020, 10:24 AM
The Urban Institute (UI) is speculating that a new penalty imposed on loan originators and arising out of the COVID-19 forbearance plans is beginning ...
Wed, Jul 22 2020, 11:35 AM
Existing home sales ended a three-month string of losses arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic with a flourish, soaring by 20.7 percent from May to Jun...
Wed, Jul 22 2020, 10:42 AM
House prices fell in May, although they remain well ahead of prices a year earlier. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said its House Price Ind...
Wed, Jul 22 2020, 8:17 AM
Even with some interest rates ticking higher, both purchase and refinance activity increased last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said it...
Tue, Jul 21 2020, 11:53 AM
One of the trends in attempts to provide more affordable housing is the growth of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) such as granny flats, garage apartme...
Fri, Jul 17 2020, 11:50 AM
All three measures in the Census Bureaus June residential construction report moved higher , as the building industry continued to recover from its Ap...
Fri, Jul 17 2020, 8:52 AM
The interest rates on mortgage loans that closed in June averaged 3.40 percent, down 3 basis points from the average in May according to Ellie Mae's O...
Fri, Jul 17 2020, 8:37 AM
There was another decline in forbearance starts this past week and the number of loans in active plans also fell for the third straight week. Black Kn...
Thu, Jul 16 2020, 4:29 PM
The House Financial Service Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on Thursday entitled, "Protecting Homeowners Durin...
Thu, Jul 16 2020, 10:33 AM
Economists talk about the potential for a V shaped recovery from the pandemic and that is exactly the pattern displayed by the National Association of...
