Mon, May 21 2018, 11:10 AM
Late last year Fannie Mae included questions in one of its National Housing Surveys about working in the "gig" economy. About a fifth of respondents c...
Mon, May 21 2018, 10:36 AM
Last week the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported that severe shortages of construction tradespeople were slowing homebuilding and i...
Fri, May 18 2018, 9:09 AM
In the face of continuing inventory shortages, declining consumer sentiment in favor of buying a home, and concern about the homeownership impacts of ...
Thu, May 17 2018, 9:25 AM
Two noted economists seem to be holding little hope that Congress will take up in any way changing the status quo of the government-sponsored enterpri...
Thu, May 17 2018, 9:06 AM
The interest rates on loans that closed in April were the highest since Ellie Mae started tracking data in 2011. According to the company's Originatio...
Wed, May 16 2018, 12:51 PM
Improving loan performance doesn't make headlines any longer, but worth noting that the improvement is still good news. The Mortgage Bankers Associati...
Wed, May 16 2018, 10:52 AM
The leading construction indicators performed generally as analysts had predicted in April, stepping back from March's solid increases in both permits...
Wed, May 16 2018, 9:18 AM
Mortgage activity slowed again last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index, which measures the volume of mortgage loan...
Tue, May 15 2018, 10:37 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo said on Tuesday that builder confidence in the new home market ticked up two points o...
Mon, May 14 2018, 11:58 AM
Not only did the pace of home price increases quicken nationally during the first quarter of 2018, but the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) sai...
Thu, May 10 2018, 4:21 PM
Applications for new home purchase mortgages slowed significantly in April when compared to March the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Thurs...
Wed, May 9 2018, 11:42 AM
Two Texas civil rights groups and the National Fair Housing Alliance are suing the Trump Administration over enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. The ...
Wed, May 9 2018, 9:26 AM
Five out of the six components of Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) gained ground in April, driving the index to a new all-time high ....
Wed, May 9 2018, 8:58 AM
On one hand it could be said that mortgage application volume declined last week for the third straight week. Or, one could conclude that the changes ...
Tue, May 8 2018, 4:32 PM
The Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI), a measure developed by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), was unchanged in April at 177.9. The Ind...
Tue, May 8 2018, 10:54 AM
Home owners who have needed help from someone in the trades in the recent past will probably agree with a report from the National Association of Home...
Mon, May 7 2018, 11:59 AM
The month of March nearly always sees a significant decline in the national delinquency rate. The average March decrease during this century has been ...
Thu, May 3 2018, 3:46 PM
Consumers are increasingly tuning in to the topic of rising home prices in their communities. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said pr...
Thu, May 3 2018, 1:08 PM
Both government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) reported strong earnings in the first quarter of 2018. In separate announcements this week Freddie Mac sa...
Wed, May 2 2018, 12:27 PM
Affordable housing isn't just a problem in high cost places like New York City and San Francisco according to a new study by the Urban Institute (UI) ...
Wed, May 2 2018, 9:22 AM
The volume of both purchase and refinancing applications moved lower last week , The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Inde...
Tue, May 1 2018, 1:02 PM
The construction spending report for March was a bit of a jolt , especially given the reason for the unexpected decline . Some significant softness in...
Tue, May 1 2018, 11:16 AM
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business News on Monday, that changing the current status of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is something that h...
Mon, Apr 30 2018, 10:34 AM
It wasn't much of a gain , even missing analysts' predictions, but given the recent performance of the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), any positive c...
Fri, Apr 27 2018, 11:10 AM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced a technical change to its October 2015 "Know Before You Owe" mortgage disclosure rule. T...
Fri, Apr 27 2018, 11:07 AM
The rate of homeownership as well as the national vacancy rates were statistically unchanged in the first quarter of this year, and prices, especially...
Thu, Apr 26 2018, 12:32 PM
Not sure whether to call it cooperation, a coincidence or a non-musical "call and response," but a proposal unveiled by Ben Carson, Secretary of Housi...
Wed, Apr 25 2018, 12:43 PM
A new poll indicates that 17 percent of adults are ready and willing to purchase a home over the next year, and many will be first-time buyers . The i...
Wed, Apr 25 2018, 9:09 AM
The volume of mortgage applications received during the week ended April 20 was largely unchanged from the previous week . The Mortgage Bankers Associ...
Tue, Apr 24 2018, 11:24 AM
New home sales continue to improve after grim reports in December and January. New home sales posted a solid gain in March, and revisions to the Febru...
Tue, Apr 24 2018, 10:32 AM
Both the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller reported on February home prices on Tuesday and both showed little m...
Mon, Apr 23 2018, 2:09 PM
Freddie Mac's economists say, "The broader economic environment remains favorable for home sales," but they add a lot of caveats to that statement . S...
Mon, Apr 23 2018, 10:56 AM
Existing-home sales seemed to have reclaimed their footing, posting their second consecutive gain after two straight months of declines. The National ...
Fri, Apr 20 2018, 9:27 AM
Once again Wells Fargo is about to pay dearly for its inability to walk the straight and narrow. The Washington Post , under the byline of Renae Merle...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 2:57 PM
The Remodeling Market Index (RMI) is to home remodelers as the Housing Market Index (HMI) is to new home builders. Each is constructed by the National...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 9:36 AM
The share of refinancing loans dropped to 38 percent of loans closed in March, down from 43 percent in February. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Repor...
Thu, Apr 19 2018, 9:32 AM
Fewer homes on the market are affordable than a year ago, and fewer households can afford them with their current income. The National Association of ...
Wed, Apr 18 2018, 12:01 PM
Access to credit remains tight and the Urban Institute (UI) blames in part that lenders are not measuring the credit risk of borrowers appropriately. ...
Wed, Apr 18 2018, 10:36 AM
They aren't suggesting you shop 'til you drop, but Freddie Mac says neither should borrowers buy the first mortgage they see. Doug McManus and Elias Y...
Wed, Apr 18 2018, 8:31 AM
The pace of mortgage applications picked up during the week ended April 13, ending a two-week slide. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported i...
Tue, Apr 17 2018, 12:27 PM
Fannie Mae's economists remain upbeat about economic growth in the medium term but said on Monday that they see increasing downside risks. In its Marc...
Tue, Apr 17 2018, 9:54 AM
Both housing permits and housing starts recovered in March from very disappointing performances in February. The New Residential Construction Report ,...
Tue, Apr 17 2018, 9:18 AM
Less than a month after reporting some bad news about mortgage production and profits in the fourth quarter of 2017 the Mortgage Bankers Association (...
Mon, Apr 16 2018, 11:01 AM
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes slipped again in April, edging down 1 point to 69. The National Association of Ho...
Fri, Apr 13 2018, 11:23 AM
If they had a report card, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) would have been afraid to take it home to mom and dad. Laura S. Wertheimer, FHFA'...
Thu, Apr 12 2018, 12:20 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicting a strong increase in new home sales in March. Its Builder Application Survey (BAS), conducted wit...
Thu, Apr 12 2018, 11:17 AM
As Americans are nearing the deadline to file their 2017 federal income tax return, what this will put on their 2018 return is still open to debate. T...
Wed, Apr 11 2018, 11:17 AM
Can the past be reliably expected to predict the future? Probably not if one is talking about consumer behavior and structural breaks in the housing c...
Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:56 AM
Multifamily mortgage financing was the big winner overall in what was a record setting year for commercial and multifamily originations. The Mortgage ...
Wed, Apr 11 2018, 8:53 AM
Mortgage applications, both for home purchases and refinancing, declined for the second consecutive week during the period ending April 6. The Mortgag...
