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...
Mon, Jan 30 2017, 10:08 AM
Pending home sales recovered from the reported 2.5 percent downturn they took in November, posting an increase of 1.6 percent in December. The Nationa...
Thu, Jan 26 2017, 10:56 AM
Sales of distressed properties continue to represent a diminishing share of the housing market as does the use of all-cash for housing purchase. Still...
Thu, Jan 26 2017, 10:52 AM
New home sales contracted sharply in December, more than reversing their November gain and ending the year at a slightly lower rate than that of the p...
Wed, Jan 25 2017, 10:29 AM
Home prices continued their nearly unabated upward trend in November according to data released on Wednesday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FH...
Wed, Jan 25 2017, 8:46 AM
Applications for purchase mortgages increased during the week ended January 20, pushing the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Market Composite In...
Tue, Jan 24 2017, 11:15 AM
Existing home sales finished out 2016 with a generally expected decline. Still, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today that 2016 overa...
Mon, Jan 23 2017, 11:18 AM
The only loan performance metric reported by Black Knight Financial Service's December and thus year-end "first look" that rose in 2016 was the prepay...
Fri, Jan 20 2017, 3:02 PM
As was being widely rumored yesterday, the newly installed Trump Administration has indefinitely suspended a scheduled reduction in the annual premium...
Fri, Jan 20 2017, 2:59 PM
How will the economic philosophy that was altered by the last election actually evolve into policy? The is the question raised by Fannie Mae's Economi...
Fri, Jan 20 2017, 2:53 PM
Ellie Mae said its Origination Insight Report for December reflects the first effects of rising interest rates . Loans for refinancing slipped from 47...
Fri, Jan 20 2017, 2:50 PM
While it trails well behind credit history and debt-to-income levels, collateral problems are consistently the third most frequent cause of loan denia...
Thu, Jan 19 2017, 12:19 PM
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee Ben Carson said at his confirmation hearing, "Certainly, if confirmed, I am going to work wit...
Thu, Jan 19 2017, 10:04 AM
Housing starts continued their see-saw pattern in December, rising 11.3 percent from November when they had fallen significantly after a sensational O...
Wed, Jan 18 2017, 10:39 AM
The Housing Market Index (HMI) backed down a bit from its post-election surge in January, dropping 2 points to a composite reading of 67. The National...
Wed, Jan 18 2017, 8:19 AM
Mortgage applications rose on a seasonally adjusted annual basis during the week ended January 13. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Co...
Tue, Jan 17 2017, 12:51 PM
Debt finances additional consumption. That could be the summary of a speech given on Tuesday to the National Retail Federation's annual convention by ...
Fri, Jan 13 2017, 11:33 AM
The surprise reduction in FHA annual premiums announced last week by the current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may not survive long...
Thu, Jan 12 2017, 9:40 AM
It ain't over 'til it's over, and that seems to be increasingly true of contacted home sales. Trulia reported on Wednesday that, "Deals to sell homes ...
Thu, Jan 12 2017, 9:32 AM
New home sales are projected to fall in December relative to November, not an unexpected pattern as the year-end holidays approach. The Mortgage Banke...
Wed, Jan 11 2017, 8:22 AM
Mortgage applications continue to decompress from the two-week holiday moratorium as well as from the usual holiday business interruptions, so it is h...
Tue, Jan 10 2017, 9:49 AM
It is a bi-annual bonanza of data for anyone in need of facts about housing in America and how people use it. The 2015 edition of the American Housing...
Tue, Jan 10 2017, 9:36 AM
Foreclosures are, at long last, approaching what CoreLogic says was the level in the pre-crisis environment . The company's November National Foreclos...
Mon, Jan 9 2017, 11:24 AM
The annual premium paid by borrowers on mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is going down by a quarter of a percent. Housing ...
Mon, Jan 9 2017, 11:00 AM
In its current edition of the Mortgage Monitor , covering data from November 2016, Black Knight Financial Services looks at the changing landscape of ...
Mon, Jan 9 2017, 3:08 PM
Consumer perceptions about rising interest rates and stagnant income levels were the main contributors to a half-point decrease in Fannie Mae's Home P...
Thu, Jan 5 2017, 9:54 AM
Access to credit continued to inch up last month according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI). Th...
Wed, Jan 4 2017, 11:43 AM
We often hear that there is no such thing as a perfect crime. Perhaps that is why there is always a fraudster trying to improve them. CoreLogic says t...
Wed, Jan 4 2017, 9:11 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association returned from its holiday hiatus today, issuing its first update on mortgage applications' activity since that for th...
Tue, Jan 3 2017, 10:58 AM
Perhaps construction spending is finally emerging from the doldrums where it has lingered for months. For the second month in a row the Census Bureau ...
