A young relative called over the long weekend. He had just made an
Fri, Dec 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Wed, Nov 29 2006, 8:00 AM
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) has announced
as expected that 2007 dollar limits on conforming mortgages would remain
unc...
Wed, Nov 29 2006, 8:00 AM
Reports on the sales of existing homes for October were
released on November 28 by the National Association of Realtors. On a
slightly optimistic no...
Tue, Nov 28 2006, 8:00 AM
Co-housing is not a well known term in real estate but
it is a growing housing movement. It is also called " intentional
communities ," but if you we...
Mon, Nov 27 2006, 8:00 AM
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), the agency
charged with keeping an eye on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae has alerted
lenders t...
Thu, Nov 23 2006, 8:00 AM
Mortgage rates continued a general downward trend
during the week ended November 16 with the long term rate retreating
substantially.
According to...
Wed, Nov 22 2006, 8:00 AM
Accentuate the positive. Gild the lily.
Lots of cliches come to mind after reading the third quarter summary of
existing home sales released on M...
Tue, Nov 21 2006, 8:00 AM
Voters have made it clear that they have not forgotten
Kelo
v New ...
Mon, Nov 20 2006, 8:00 AM
The Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development have released October figures on building permits and
housing starts and ...
Thu, Nov 16 2006, 8:00 AM
When I went back into real estate in the mid-90's I expected a level
of real estate technology at least as high as our
commercial real estate firm...
Wed, Nov 15 2006, 8:00 AM
Interest rates during the week ended November 9
continued to exhibit the same meandering pattern that they have for
months according to the Primary...
Tue, Nov 14 2006, 8:00 AM
Remember the days when it was thought a bit unseemly to brag about
spending money to influence the political process? Apparently in today's
world it...
Thu, Nov 9 2006, 8:00 AM
The slowdown in housing has begun to take a toll on the overall economy
according to the November Economic Outlook issued by Freddie Mac on
November 8...
Wed, Nov 8 2006, 8:00 AM
Frank Nothaft, vice and president and chief economist of Freddie Mac
credited declining third quarter Gross Domestic Product figures for a
slight drop...
Tue, Nov 7 2006, 8:00 AM
The Consumer Federation of America had a lot of critical things to say
about the real estate industry in general and the National
Association of Rea...
Mon, Nov 6 2006, 8:00 AM
Executive Director Stephen Brobeck spoke for CFA at the hearing and his
testimony was titled " Residential Real Estate Brokerage Services: A
Cockamami...
Thu, Nov 2 2006, 7:00 AM
Interest rates were up slightly this week according
to the Freddy Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended
October 26. The 30-year fix...
Wed, Nov 1 2006, 7:00 AM
A few months ago we reported on testimony given before a subcommittee of
the House Financial Services Committee, largely targeting the National
Associ...
Tue, Oct 31 2006, 7:00 AM
In addition to focusing on older Americans' role in the second house
market, Housing Trends Among Baby Boomers , a study jointly
conducted by Researc...
Fri, Oct 27 2006, 7:00 AM
New home prices took a heck of a hit in September according to
information released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of
Housing and U...
Fri, Oct 27 2006, 7:00 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association went missing yesterday, a day when they
usually release information on contract mortgage rates and
mortgage applica...
Thu, Oct 26 2006, 7:00 AM
After surging a bit during the week ended October 12, mortgage
rates barely moved according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey
conducted by Fredd...
Wed, Oct 25 2006, 7:00 AM
Two studies out in the last week or so are taking at look at the impact
on housing of - what else - the Baby Boomers .
Both the Research Institute...
Mon, Oct 23 2006, 7:00 AM
If you follow network or cable news you probably believe that the
real estate market has gone from unbridled insanity where
buyers apparently losing...
Thu, Oct 19 2006, 7:00 AM
The various new home construction indicators tracked by
the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development were mixed i...
Wed, Oct 18 2006, 7:00 AM
Maybe it was just too good to last.
After four weeks of declining interest rates Freddie
Mac reported a relatively sharp jump for each of the pro...
Tue, Oct 17 2006, 7:00 AM
Credit repair is a subject that has been on our back
burner for a long time, but a piece of spam received a few days ago brought
it to the forefront....
Thu, Oct 12 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates for the week ended October 5 barely
budged. After substantial downward moves over the last ten weeks only the
30-year fixed-rate mortg...
Wed, Oct 11 2006, 7:00 AM
Freddie Mac's Economic and Housing Market Outlook for October is
headlined " Finding Solid Ground. " It is another in a series of
projections that the...
Tue, Oct 10 2006, 7:00 AM
Could America's record balance of payments deficit with China be the
solution to low cost housing? Might it even be an unprecedented
opportunity to ...
Thu, Oct 5 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage fraud is back in the news. However, this time
it is the lenders rather than the borrowers who appear to be the main
targets of the scams.
...