Tue, Apr 10 2018, 11:15 AM
In the company's loan performance report for January, Frank Martell, CoreLogic's president and CEO said, "Except for the metropolitan areas affected b...
Mon, Apr 9 2018, 12:12 PM
If you think the stock market has been volatile, you might consider a dose of Dramamine before checking out Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index...
Thu, Apr 5 2018, 11:03 AM
Mortgage credit access tightened for the second straight month in March. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Mortgage Credit Availability ...
Thu, Apr 5 2018, 9:17 AM
Along with a declining rate of homeownership, analysts have noted over the last few years that fewer Americans appear to be heavily invested in the dr...
Wed, Apr 4 2018, 9:26 AM
The strong showing for both refinancing and purchase applications during the week ended March 23 didn't last, with both reversing course last week. Th...
Tue, Apr 3 2018, 1:01 PM
The Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) presented the Bureaus semi-annual report to Congress on Monday. The report, whi...
Tue, Apr 3 2018, 12:43 PM
February looks as though it may be yet another month when the long-predicted end to rising rates of home appreciation was supposed to happen and didn'...
Tue, Apr 3 2018, 9:54 AM
The amount of equity available for tapping by homeowners hit a new recent high in February . Meanwhile, mortgage prepayment rates (how quickly owners ...
Mon, Apr 2 2018, 11:48 AM
Construction spending continued to have a hard time getting out of the 2018 starting blocks in February. Overall spending from both the public and pri...
Thu, Mar 29 2018, 11:07 AM
ATTOM Data Solutions, formerly known to us as RealtyTrac, has released an affordability report which shows that median home prices in the first quarte...
Wed, Mar 28 2018, 2:49 PM
The long-planned Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security (UMBS), designed to replace the current to be announced- (TBA) eligible MBS issued separately by Fan...
Wed, Mar 28 2018, 10:39 AM
While it didn't serve to completely recoup the 4.7 percent loss in January, pending home sales did snap back strongly in February . The National Assoc...
Wed, Mar 28 2018, 8:27 AM
Applications for both refinancing and home purchases gained ground during the week ended March 23. The result was the largest week-over-week gains for...
Tue, Mar 27 2018, 10:18 AM
It should hardly come as a surprise, each month the report from the S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller home price report starts the same way, "home prices con...
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 4:57 PM
Positive attitudes toward home buying still predominated in the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) most recent Housing Opportunities and Market E...
Mon, Mar 26 2018, 11:13 AM
It is conventional wisdom that homeownership is key to household wealth , and the National Association of Home Builders makes a convincing argument fo...
Fri, Mar 23 2018, 1:10 PM
Per loan profits of Independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks fell dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2017. The Mortg...
Fri, Mar 23 2018, 12:34 PM
There was much better news in February than in January regarding new home sales. Those sales had been reported down by 7.8 percent on top of a 9.3 per...
Fri, Mar 23 2018, 11:14 AM
Mortgage rates have increased 49 basis points since the first of the year, with the 30-year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) standing at 4.44 percent on Marc...
Thu, Mar 22 2018, 10:51 AM
As interest rates rise and refinancing declines, the impact is beginning to manifest in the loan prepayment rate . The single month mortality rate (SS...
Thu, Mar 22 2018, 10:07 AM
Home prices took a big leap in January , at least according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) seasonally adjusted House Price Index (HP...
Thu, Mar 22 2018, 9:27 AM
The 5-point surge in the share of refinancing loans that closed in January didn't survive the month. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report shows that...
Wed, Mar 21 2018, 1:02 PM
Who's afraid of growing up? Apparently not Generation Z. The post-Millennial crop of kids, those born in 1995 and later, are already moving into homeo...
Wed, Mar 21 2018, 11:01 AM
Sales of existing homes reversed direction in February after sliding for two consecutive months. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said comp...
Wed, Mar 21 2018, 10:11 AM
Natural disasters were the backdrop for mortgage loan performance in 2017. CoreLogic has previously reported on delinquencies in Houston and throughou...
Wed, Mar 21 2018, 8:50 AM
Purchase mortgage applications continued to gain strength during the week that ended March 16 but failed to compensate for a declining volume of refin...
Tue, Mar 20 2018, 11:53 AM
Fannie Mae has lowered its forecast for first quarter 2018 growth from 2.9 to 2.8 percent due to " lackluster consumer spending and nonresidential and...
Mon, Mar 19 2018, 3:23 PM
Freddie Mac's economists headlined their March Outlook economic report "Adulting is Hard." The newest crop of young adults may find this to be truer t...
Fri, Mar 16 2018, 1:07 PM
While home prices continue to rise and homeowner equity to increase, CoreLogic reports that there are still 2.5 million mortgages in negative equity ....
Fri, Mar 16 2018, 11:53 AM
Mortgage lenders continue to expect disappointing profit margins . For the sixth consecutive quarter the net responses to a question about those margi...
Fri, Mar 16 2018, 9:56 AM
The two principal measures of residential construction activity had been expected to decline a bit in February after a strong performance to kick off ...
Fri, Mar 16 2018, 9:17 AM
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) passed the Senate Wednesday on a bipartisan basis. Sixteen 16 Democrats a...
Thu, Mar 15 2018, 10:32 AM
Home builder confidence ebbed slightly in March, but according to the National Association of Home Builders, it remains in "strong territory." NAHB's ...
Thu, Mar 15 2018, 10:29 AM
Prior to the housing crisis, homeowners who defaulted on their mortgages faced tax consequences if their lender had to write off or write down any par...
Wed, Mar 14 2018, 11:34 AM
Millennials are picking up the pace of moving into homeownership, but the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) says not all are finding a way. Its ...
Wed, Mar 14 2018, 8:39 AM
Purchase mortgage applications held their ground for the third consecutive week, pushing the Mortgage Banker Association's Market Composite Index a bi...
Tue, Mar 13 2018, 11:04 AM
New home sales are projected to have increased again in February. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that based on its Builder Applications S...
Mon, Mar 12 2018, 10:29 AM
The Senate looks set to pass Senate Bill 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which seeks to undo some of the pr...
Fri, Mar 9 2018, 9:50 AM
CoreLogic has been watching for signs of overvalued markets for some time. The company and its lead analysts Frank Nothaft, Molly Boesel, and Sam Khat...
Thu, Mar 8 2018, 11:29 AM
Lending standards tightened in February, especially for conforming and super-conforming (jumbo) loans. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its...
Wed, Mar 7 2018, 12:11 PM
Americans may be growing a bit pessimistic about housing, that came through loud and clear in the results of Fannie Mae's February edition of the Nati...
Wed, Mar 7 2018, 10:40 AM
Opposition to the recently announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is beginning to emerge from the construction industry. President Donald J. ...
Wed, Mar 7 2018, 8:43 AM
The strong performance of purchase mortgage applications during the week ended February 23 didn't last long, and overall mortgage activity barely stay...
Tue, Mar 6 2018, 9:25 AM
Lenders appear to be easing the way for lending in areas crucial to the home construction industry. The National Association of Homebuilders said its ...
Mon, Mar 5 2018, 11:16 AM
The refinance pool, homeowners who could benefit from exchanging their old first mortgage lien for a new one, is shrinking fast . Black Knight says, i...
Fri, Mar 2 2018, 12:11 PM
Freddie Mac looked at the possible effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in an earlier edition of its Outlook economic forecast. This month it ...
Thu, Mar 1 2018, 11:41 AM
Construction spending stalled in January. Publicly funded spending rose slightly from December but that was offset by reductions in most areas of priv...
Wed, Feb 28 2018, 1:06 PM
Taken together, two recent posts in the CoreLogic Insights blog may indicate that, after several years of being a close trade-off or even more afforda...
Wed, Feb 28 2018, 10:15 AM
Pending home sales took a deep dive in January, falling to their lowest level in over three years . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said i...
Wed, Feb 28 2018, 9:28 AM
A recent Freddie Mac Insights article looks back at earlier incidences of rising rate environments, and how the higher rates affected several populati...
