Tue, Mar 7 2017, 11:53 AM
Wells Fargo's annual Construction Industry Forecast, based on a survey of construction industry contractors and equipment distributors, reports increa...
Mon, Mar 6 2017, 1:40 PM
A strong fourth quarter helped push mortgage originations for the whole of 2016 to the highest level in four years . Black Knight's Mortgage Monitor r...
Fri, Mar 3 2017, 11:56 AM
Homeowners are opening their favorite piggy bank again — their homes. As home values rise faster than expected, that increased homeowner wealth sudden...
Thu, Mar 2 2017, 5:29 PM
The shifting of the mortgage market toward more purchases as well as declining origination volumes are expected to boost the incidence of mortgage fra...
Wed, Mar 1 2017, 11:03 AM
Construction spending had been expected to recover from the 0.2 percent loss it suffered in December. Analysts polled by Econoday were looking for an ...
Wed, Mar 1 2017, 9:37 AM
Freddie Mac's Insight forecast for February looks at reports that consumer price inflation is rising, and the ensuing debate over "whether or not we a...
Wed, Mar 1 2017, 7:40 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said mortgage applications rose , on a seasonally adjusted basis, during the week ended February 24, although t...
Tue, Feb 28 2017, 12:07 PM
The spring housing market started early this year, not because of higher-than-average temperatures but because of hotter-than-average demand and overh...
Tue, Feb 28 2017, 10:11 AM
The end is near. CoreLogic said today that the market share of home sales accounted for by distressed properties may return to normal levels by the en...
Tue, Feb 28 2017, 10:09 AM
Black Knight Financial Services reported on Monday that its Home Price Index posted another 5.7 percent annual increase in the national rate of apprec...
Tue, Feb 28 2017, 10:07 AM
Home prices accelerated their growth again in December. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, which covers all nine U.S. ...
Mon, Feb 27 2017, 10:36 AM
The Truth-in-Lending/RESPA (TRID) rules implemented in late 2015 have placed increased pressure on the accurate forecasting of estimation of non-mortg...
Mon, Feb 27 2017, 10:24 AM
Tight inventories are again being blamed for a downturn in home sales, this time January's ones. The National Association of Realtor's® (NAR's) Pendin...
Fri, Feb 24 2017, 10:53 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes, had a strong start in 2016 but flattened out toward the end of the year and ended with a dismal December. Now 2017 h...
Thu, Feb 23 2017, 10:15 AM
The Urban Institute (UI) is asking "What has happened to black homeownership?" It has "declined to levels not seen since the 1960s when private race-b...
Thu, Feb 23 2017, 10:10 AM
Rising interest rates took a toll on mortgage prepayments in January. Black Knight Financial Services said the pre-payment rate (SMM) was down 29.83 p...
Thu, Feb 23 2017, 4:15 PM
It seemed just an aside in the National Association of Realtors press release regarding January existing home sales. NAR President William E. Brown, t...
Thu, Feb 23 2017, 4:08 PM
Home prices, as measured by the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) Housing Price Index (HPI), rose even faster on an annual basis in December t...
Wed, Feb 22 2017, 11:01 AM
Existing home sales kicked off 2017 with a spurt that brought sales of single family homes, townhomes, condos, and cooperative apartments to the faste...
Wed, Feb 22 2017, 8:25 AM
Mortgage applications activity was down slightly during the week ended February 17 compared to the previous week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MB...
Tue, Feb 21 2017, 2:02 PM
It can require as little as replacing doorknobs with levers or as complex as installing a walk-in shower, but Fannie Mae says very few existing homes ...
Fri, Feb 17 2017, 9:40 AM
Despite the regulations imposed by the Truth-in-Lending/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules and disclosure forms in October 2015, some homebuyers...
Fri, Feb 17 2017, 9:30 AM
The National Association of Realtors ® and on-line real estate marketplace have unveiled a new housing affordability model . The model uses data on mo...
Fri, Feb 17 2017, 8:56 AM
What is that cloud of dust in the distance? Is it a bird, a plane? We mix our popular culture references, but maybe it is a faint signal of approachin...
Fri, Feb 17 2017, 2:21 PM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) each reported positive financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016. The two have posted nearly uninterrupte...
Thu, Feb 16 2017, 9:53 AM
Results from this morning's residential construction report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development were mixed...
Thu, Feb 16 2017, 9:53 AM
Most mortgages contain a requirement that the collateral property carry adequate insurance to cover repayment of the mortgage in the event of a loss. ...
Wed, Feb 15 2017, 10:36 AM
Builder confidence in the market for single family homes slid 2 points again in February to a score of 65 on the National Association of Home Builders...
Wed, Feb 15 2017, 8:44 AM
Applications for both purchase and refinance mortgages declined during the week ended February 10 compared to activity a week earlier. The Mortgage Ba...
Wed, Feb 15 2017, 1:47 PM
Mortgage delinquencies had their first fourth quarter uptick since 2013, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Wednesday. Its quarterly Natio...
Tue, Feb 14 2017, 2:55 PM
Both the size of the foreclosure inventory and the number of foreclosures completed declined by large percentages from December 2015 to December 2016....
Tue, Feb 14 2017, 2:42 PM
No one asks for their employment verification or computes their debt-to-income ratio. Yet, when it comes to buying, selling, or renovating a home the ...
Tue, Feb 14 2017, 2:39 PM
Mortgage applications for new home purchases surged in January according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Builder Application S...
Fri, Feb 10 2017, 4:37 PM
On the cusp of the all-important and usually busy spring housing season, an increasing number of local markets are mismatched; that is, buyers are not...
Thu, Feb 9 2017, 1:14 PM
Prices in more than half of major metropolitan markets with available data are now at or above their previous price peaks after what the National Asso...
Wed, Feb 8 2017, 12:20 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) reversed a five-month long decline in January, posting a 2-percentage point increase . The Index, wh...
Wed, Feb 8 2017, 12:12 PM
MND recently summarized an analysis by the Urban Institute about a recent Fannie Mae pilot program to underwrite securitization of a $1 billion loan w...
Wed, Feb 8 2017, 8:25 AM
Mortgage activity increased during the week ended February 3, with applications for both purchase and refinance mortgages pulling in small gains . The...
Tue, Feb 7 2017, 10:12 AM
The year ended with home price increases, as measured by CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI) dropping below 1 percent on a month-over-month basis for t...
Tue, Feb 7 2017, 10:10 AM
Increased availability and flexibility in jumbo lending was the principal reason for an increase in the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgag...
Mon, Feb 6 2017, 12:19 PM
Apparently we aren't all procrastinators. Black Knight Financial Services looked at Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filing statistics and how they rela...
Fri, Feb 3 2017, 4:45 PM
Blackstone Group has disclosed that it has secured Fannie Mae's backing for a mortgage backed by some of the single-family homes it purchased, princip...
Wed, Feb 1 2017, 10:38 AM
Freddie Mae's Outlook for January looks at the uncertainties facing the housing market heading into the second month of 2017. While acknowledging that...
Wed, Feb 1 2017, 10:30 AM
Prospect Mortgage, a Sherman Oaks, California based lender has been cited by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for paying illegal kickba...
Wed, Feb 1 2017, 10:28 AM
Calling it the final piece of unfinished business from the financial crisis, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has published a paper with its rec...
Wed, Feb 1 2017, 8:28 AM
Mortgage application volume was generally lower during the week ended January 27. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Composite Index, a ...
Wed, Feb 1 2017, 1:15 PM
Publicly funded expenditures continued to drag on overall construction spending numbers in December, offsetting a small uptick in private spending. Da...
Tue, Jan 31 2017, 10:18 AM
The headline of the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices press release for the last three months has been exactly the same: NATIONAL INDEX HITS NEW PEAK...
Tue, Jan 31 2017, 3:51 PM
The Urban Institute releases a regular report, Housing Finance at a Glance , a "chartbook" loaded with charts and commentary on mortgage activity. The...
Mon, Jan 30 2017, 10:54 AM
Home price increases reported by Black Knight Financial Services based on November home sales were little changed from those reported for October. The...
