Fri, Aug 30 2019, 8:12 AM
Housing led the way into the last recession, now Freddie Mac's economists are suggesting it might help stave off the next one or at least modify its s...
Thu, Aug 29 2019, 10:26 AM
Pending home sales moved lower in July, declining by 2.5 percent. After two consecutive months of gains the National Association of Realtors'® (NAR's)...
Thu, Aug 29 2019, 8:26 AM
The theme of every sales and price report for the last several years has been the shortage of homes for sale. While new home inventories have held ste...
Wed, Aug 28 2019, 11:18 AM
Two US Census Bureau researchers have determined that the biggest determinants of household wealth are owning a home and having a retirement account ....
Wed, Aug 28 2019, 8:09 AM
Mortgage rates increased last week and in response the volume of applications ratcheted down significantly. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) sai...
Tue, Aug 27 2019, 10:31 AM
Both the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported June price data on Tuesday. Both sets of indices showed the...
Tue, Aug 27 2019, 8:43 AM
Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 6.3 percent in July, increasing from 5.3 percent t...
Mon, Aug 26 2019, 8:45 AM
Increasing home prices are at the heart of a decision by the major federal regulatory agencies to raise the threshold for requiring a residential real...
Fri, Aug 23 2019, 1:16 PM
With the huge Millennial generation finally buying houses, the National Association of Home Builders has taken a deep dive into their various preferen...
Fri, Aug 23 2019, 10:56 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said sales of newly constructed homes fell 12.8 percent in July to a season...
Thu, Aug 22 2019, 2:42 PM
Sources are telling Bloomberg that a report on the White House's plan to release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) from their 11-year long conserv...
Thu, Aug 22 2019, 8:41 AM
There was a dramatic drop in the average note rate for loans originated in July and the refi share of those originations rose significantly. The July ...
Thu, Aug 22 2019, 8:13 AM
Black Knight said on Thursday that the national delinquency rate fell back by 7.27 percent in July , erasing last month's increase that was caused in ...
Wed, Aug 21 2019, 11:19 AM
Existing home sales returned to an upward track in July after dipping 1.7 percent in June. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said pre-owned ...
Wed, Aug 21 2019, 8:16 AM
Residential construction has been famously slow for several years and some new analysis of Census data by the National Association of Home Builders (N...
Wed, Aug 21 2019, 8:11 AM
The volume of mortgage applications continued to be shored up by refinancing during the week ended August 16, but overall activity was down. The Mortg...
Tue, Aug 20 2019, 2:30 PM
Monday's edition of the Federal Register featured a proposed rule that, depending on your viewpoint, would amend the Department of Housing and Urban D...
Mon, Aug 19 2019, 12:09 PM
Fannie Mae used a fair number of trade-offs in while coming up with its revised outlook for the real gross domestic product (GDP) this year. The compa...
Fri, Aug 16 2019, 7:17 PM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) moved one point higher this month. However, at 66, NAHB's meas...
Fri, Aug 16 2019, 7:15 PM
New home purchases are expected to be significantly higher in July according to data released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Its monthly B...
Thu, Aug 15 2019, 8:10 AM
The long-waited Federal Housing Administration (FHA) rule regulating condominium lending was finalized Wednesday afternoon. The Department of Housing ...
Wed, Aug 14 2019, 8:09 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application volume, rose 21.7 percent on a seasonally ad...
Tue, Aug 13 2019, 11:32 AM
Both the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and CoreLogic issued data on recent loan performance on Tuesday. For CoreLogic the Monthly Loan Performanc...
Mon, Aug 12 2019, 3:22 PM
After years of planning, the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac launched their uniform mortgage-backed security (U...
Fri, Aug 9 2019, 10:16 AM
Ever since mortgage rates began to move lower, Black Knight has devoted a big portion of its Mortgage Monitor , a monthly report on loan performance a...
Fri, Aug 9 2019, 8:14 AM
The availability of jumbo mortgage loans increased in July, but not enough to offset tightening in credit access for other types of loans. The Mortgag...
Thu, Aug 8 2019, 8:28 AM
There was an unusually large bump in Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) in July. The company said strong positive responses to question...
Thu, Aug 8 2019, 8:19 AM
Anyone trying to make sense out of current data on the direction of home prices needs more than a calculator. Every new report seems to dump more mud ...
Wed, Aug 7 2019, 10:24 AM
CoreLogic has been running a series of articles in its Insights blog attempting to quantify the potential impact of the expiration of the so-called GS...
Wed, Aug 7 2019, 8:15 AM
CoreLogic said on Tuesday that its Home Price Index (HPI) for June increased by 3.4 percent on an annual basis. Rather than the steady decline in appr...
Wed, Aug 7 2019, 8:08 AM
A sharp drop in mortgage rates helped the Market Composite Index break a 5-time losing streak during the week ended August 2. The Mortgage Bankers Ass...
Tue, Aug 6 2019, 9:57 AM
Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae's chief economist, says homebuyers need to do more shopping around before they settle on a mortgage lender. Results from a rec...
Mon, Aug 5 2019, 9:01 AM
Black Knight has good news for potential homebuyers , especially those in the market for their first home. The new edition of the company's Mortgage M...
Mon, Aug 5 2019, 8:19 AM
Even as homebuilders and affordable housing advocates are pointing to the need for changes in local regulations to reduce housing costs, homebuyers an...
Fri, Aug 2 2019, 12:33 PM
Several weeks ago we summarized CoreLogic's first cut at quantifying the potential effects of the planned expiration of the Consumer Financial Protect...
Thu, Aug 1 2019, 4:17 PM
Construction spending in June missed matching the May level by 1.3 percent. Total spending by both public and private sources was at a seasonally adju...
Thu, Aug 1 2019, 4:15 PM
Both of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) released second-quarter financial results this week. Each had, to varying degrees, better outcomes...
Thu, Aug 1 2019, 4:07 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is reducing the amount of equity that can be withdrawn from a home using either a Federal Housin...
Wed, Jul 31 2019, 10:55 AM
The housing market has been looking slightly better over the last few month and Freddie Mac July economic report reflects that fact. They also maintai...
Wed, Jul 31 2019, 8:09 AM
Mortgage application activity declined for the fifth consecutive period during the week ended July 26. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its...
Tue, Jul 30 2019, 10:50 AM
Pending home sales put in an especially strong performance in June , the second consecutive positive report as well as the fourth in five months. The ...
Tue, Jul 30 2019, 10:07 AM
The rate of appreciation in home prices slipped again in May according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. The metric, w...
Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:09 AM
Freddie Mac reported this week that its total mortgage portfolio increased at an annualized rate of 5.3 percent in June, a bit slower than the 7.5 per...
Mon, Jul 29 2019, 11:55 AM
Remember the Equifax data breach? Maybe not, because it came hard on the heels of the Target data breach, and the one at Home Depot, and so on and on....
Fri, Jul 26 2019, 11:44 AM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regarding the expiration of the so-called G...
Thu, Jul 25 2019, 3:42 PM
The U.S. homeownership rate in the second quarter dipped slightly from its level in both the first quarter of this year and one year earlier, but at 6...
Thu, Jul 25 2019, 12:00 PM
The incidence of mortgage application fraud declined in the second quarter according to CoreLogic. The company's Quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Index f...
Wed, Jul 24 2019, 11:29 AM
New home sales bounced back in June from two prior reports of very weak sales . The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Develop...
Wed, Jul 24 2019, 8:07 AM
It was another mediocre week for mortgage applications. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage ...
Tue, Jul 23 2019, 11:17 AM
Existing home sales are persistent in their inability to maintain a steady course from month to month. Despite low interest rates and hopes for a stro...
