Mon, May 4 2020, 10:48 AM
Construction spending posted a gain in April, rising 0.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.36 trillion from a revised estimate of $1....
Mon, May 4 2020, 9:08 AM
Black Knight's new Mortgage Monitor restates some of the statistics on COVID-19 related forbearance plans it released late last week - i.e. that the n...
Fri, May 1 2020, 12:36 PM
Given their respective sizes, the economic dislocation created by the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have hit Fannie Mae harder than its competitor GSE ...
Fri, May 1 2020, 11:07 AM
Homeownership continued to be a significant builder of household wealth in the first quarter of this year. ATTOM Data Solutions said home sellers nati...
Fri, May 1 2020, 9:47 AM
The number of COVID-19 related forbearance plans in effect with servicers continued to increase through the end of April according to a report release...
Thu, Apr 30 2020, 6:15 PM
Freddie Mac eked out a positive comprehensive income of $0.62 billion in the first quarter, $1.83 billion less than it posted in the fourth quarter of...
Wed, Apr 29 2020, 11:06 AM
Everyone knew that the March pending home sales report, the first real measure of the impact of the COVID-19 impact on the residential real estate mar...
Wed, Apr 29 2020, 8:16 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported a second strong week for purchase applications last week although refinancing continued to dominate th...
Tue, Apr 28 2020, 6:24 PM
The U.S. Homeownership Rate reached its highest level in nearly seven years in the first quarter of 2020. The Census Bureau said the rate, 65.3 percen...
Tue, Apr 28 2020, 10:04 AM
In what will probably prove to be the last full month of normal home sales for a while , prices of homes accelerated significantly. The S&P CoreLogic ...
Tue, Apr 28 2020, 9:05 AM
Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 9.2 percent in March, up from a 5.5 percent gain i...
Mon, Apr 27 2020, 11:52 AM
Freddie Mac has laid out options that borrowers who have been granted forbearance on its loans have when it comes to repayment. The company's CEO Davi...
Fri, Apr 24 2020, 9:52 AM
March is typically the strongest month of the year for mortgage performance, probably because, according to Black Knight the receipt of tax refunds al...
Thu, Apr 23 2020, 2:21 PM
Two Urban Institute (UI) researchers pose a pertinent question in a recent paper. Laurie Goodman and Aaron Klein ask, "What is the purpose of the Fed ...
Thu, Apr 23 2020, 11:59 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development's report on new home sales in March is the first real time indication of the impact ...
Wed, Apr 22 2020, 10:56 AM
In its early April survey of builders for its Housing Market Index the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) added questions about the impact o...
Wed, Apr 22 2020, 10:52 AM
House price growth continued to accelerate through February on the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) Housing Price Index with the U.S. index p...
Wed, Apr 22 2020, 8:26 AM
Purchase application volume was up slightly last week, the first gain since early March. Refinancing and overall volume, however, were flat. The Mortg...
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 12:31 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has clarified the obligations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's (the GSEs') servicers to investors during the ...
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 11:33 AM
Existing home sales fell back last month from their unexpectedly good performance in February, but still maintained their long record of annual increa...
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 10:17 AM
There are now two entities tracking forbearance statistics on a regular basis, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and Black Knight. The informatio...
Tue, Apr 21 2020, 8:28 AM
Single-family homes now provide half of all rental units in the U.S. CoreLogic's Single Family Rental Index (SFRI) recorded an annual gain of 3.3 perc...
Fri, Apr 17 2020, 1:33 PM
It is only a little more than a month into the COVID-19 crisis, but mortgage forbearances are already adding up. Black Knight has begun tracking that ...
Fri, Apr 17 2020, 12:59 PM
Fannie Mae's April Economic Developments summary is, like Freddie Mac's, relatively optimistic only because they see the impact of the pandemic as bei...
Fri, Apr 17 2020, 9:28 AM
Declining interest rates in March pushed the refinance share of closed loans higher again according to information in Ellie Mae's March Origination In...
Thu, Apr 16 2020, 1:44 PM
Is it possible that home buyers are adjusting more quickly to this brave new virus-driven world than was hoped? Will Americans now do the whole home p...
Thu, Apr 16 2020, 10:41 AM
While the March residential construction report from the U.S Census Bureau is grim, one can find a small glimmer of optimism in the fact that, while h...
Wed, Apr 15 2020, 1:15 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have made arrangements to share information during the C...
Wed, Apr 15 2020, 10:42 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing Market Index (HMI), which it sponsors jointly with Wells Fargo, suffered the largest...
Wed, Apr 15 2020, 8:50 AM
Even though many were probably doing it on their phone or tablet while sitting at their kitchen tables, Americans were busy submitting applications to...
Tue, Apr 14 2020, 10:48 AM
Freddie Mac's Quarterly Forecast is more upbeat than one might expect . While it acknowledges that, with big chunks of the U.S. economy currently in l...
Mon, Apr 13 2020, 5:38 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says the surge in unemployment claims filed since mid-March resulting from the mitigation efforts to slow the s...
Mon, Apr 13 2020, 11:49 AM
In this third article summarizing an analysis by Black Knight of the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic housing the company looks at mortgage ...
Mon, Apr 13 2020, 8:28 AM
The list of things for the housing industry to worry about in the current COVID-19 emergency has been growing steadily over the last few weeks, but a ...
Mon, Apr 13 2020, 8:20 AM
Millennials have lagged most of their predecessor generations in terms of their homeownership rate but when they did begin to buy, they become the fas...
Thu, Apr 9 2020, 11:15 AM
Realtors don't expect the 2020 "spring market" is going to happen, but they are optimistic there will be a post-pandemic rebound driven by delayed dem...
Wed, Apr 8 2020, 11:33 AM
American's attitudes regarding buying and selling homes and about their own financial outlook made an abrupt U-turn last month and Fannie Mae's Home P...
Wed, Apr 8 2020, 8:24 AM
The negative effects of the COVID-19 epidemic appear to have set in last week as mortgage applications, which had managed to increase even after much ...
Tue, Apr 7 2020, 4:53 PM
Black Knight has done an early analysis of the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing market . In our summary of the first part of ...
Tue, Apr 7 2020, 4:37 PM
Homeowners who are either already feeling the financial effects of COVID-19 or anticipate it will happen are being proactive in requesting help from t...
Tue, Apr 7 2020, 11:04 AM
Home price gains accelerated for the fourth straight month in February with a 4.1 percent annual increase in the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) The ...
Mon, Apr 6 2020, 11:25 AM
The Jobless Claims Report and the Employment Situation Report and were both pretty devastating last week with more than 6 million new unemployment cla...
Fri, Apr 3 2020, 1:49 PM
Black Knight has taken what will probably prove to be only their first in-depth analysis of the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the econ...
Fri, Apr 3 2020, 9:26 AM
Home building might be the answer to more than just the housing shortage according to some information provided by Paul Emrath, economist for the Nati...
Fri, Apr 3 2020, 9:04 AM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced how it will be allocating its initial portion of funds from the massive Coronaviru...
Wed, Apr 1 2020, 11:46 AM
Nationwide outlays for construction slipped slightly in February. The Census Bureau said public and private sources spent at a seasonally adjusted ann...
Wed, Apr 1 2020, 8:54 AM
In an earlier article , (before more pressing issues shelved the topic) we summarized highlights from a recent New York Times Magazine article about t...
Wed, Apr 1 2020, 8:27 AM
Well this was a surprise. In a week when unemployment claims soared to the highest level in probably ever and several large states went into a COVID-1...
Tue, Mar 31 2020, 10:58 AM
Home prices entered 2020 still on the uptick according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices. The U.S. National Home Price Index, which covers all...
Mon, Mar 30 2020, 11:29 AM
Among responses to the job losses and reduced income already emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic has been a moratorium on foreclosures and a requireme...
