Tue, Jan 3 2017, 9:40 AM
For the sixth consecutive month , the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) increased on an annual basis by a greater degree than it had in the previous mo...
Thu, Dec 29 2016, 9:32 AM
When Freddie Mac introduced its Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) in March 2014 only 11 of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia were deemed s...
Wed, Dec 28 2016, 10:46 AM
Pending sales, which were widely expected to make a good showing in November, pulled back sharply instead. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR)...
Wed, Dec 28 2016, 10:36 AM
In an earlier article we summarized the first part of a report by Urban Institute's Housing Finance Policy Center, Senior Fellow Jim Parrott about the...
Tue, Dec 27 2016, 10:28 AM
Price gains in October once again accelerated on an annual basis. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Index, which covers all nine U.S. census div...
Tue, Dec 27 2016, 2:21 PM
While securitization of auto loans is about 16 percent higher than it was in 2001 and agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are up over 50 percent, ...
Tue, Dec 27 2016, 2:17 PM
Black Knight Financial Services wrapped up the October series of national home price reports with its Home Price Index (HPI). It contained numbers nea...
Fri, Dec 23 2016, 11:10 AM
There was a slight uptick in a couple of housing distress measures in November, but the general trend continues down. Still, as Black Knight Financial...
Fri, Dec 23 2016, 10:52 AM
New home sales continued their recent pattern of advancing and retreating in alternate months. The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban D...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 12:52 PM
This year, with less than two weeks left to go, is shaping up to be the best year for housing in a decade according to Freddie Mac's Economic & Housin...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 10:13 AM
The share of cash sales appears to be holding fairly steady , even as investors pull back from the residential market (NAR put the investor share of s...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 9:59 AM
Price increases moderated slightly in October according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) Housing Price Index (HPI). The national index...
Thu, Dec 22 2016, 9:50 AM
Refinancing originations remained unchanged at 47 percent of all closed loans in November, not yet reflecting the sharp increase in interest rates tha...
Wed, Dec 21 2016, 11:21 AM
Existing home sales rose for the third consecutive month in November. The increase was fueled by condo sales and a surge of sales in the Northeast. Tw...
Wed, Dec 21 2016, 9:28 AM
Despite the 3.2 percent annualized growth in the GDP in the third quarter, Fannie Mae's economists expect the full-years growth to moderate to less th...
Wed, Dec 21 2016, 9:22 AM
Applications for mortgages increased during the week ended December 16, managing to narrowly cling to a gain in activity compared to a year earlier. T...
Tue, Dec 20 2016, 11:32 AM
Back in July, President Obama signed HR3700 The Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016. The law makes a number of changes in existing h...
Mon, Dec 19 2016, 9:37 AM
Tis the season - for hearing from all the experts about what we can expect the coming year to bring. Today it is CoreLogic's Senior Vice President and...
Mon, Dec 19 2016, 9:28 AM
Post-election interest rate changes have considerably dampened mortgage lenders' expectations for mortgage demand. Fannie Mae's fourth quarter Mortgag...
Fri, Dec 16 2016, 11:09 AM
Housing starts retrenched in November , taking back much of their spectacular gains of October, while permits continued to display the general weaknes...
Thu, Dec 15 2016, 11:56 AM
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) soared by 7 points in December, reaching a level of 70, the highest r...
Thu, Dec 15 2016, 9:24 AM
Both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will be rolling out a new foreclosure prevention programs next year to replace the expiring Home Affordable Mortgage P...
Wed, Dec 14 2016, 9:45 AM
Under a final rule issued on Tuesday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has set forth three underserved markets for activities the GSEs Fred...
Wed, Dec 14 2016, 8:09 AM
Mortgage applications were down across the board during the week ended December 9. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that its Market Composi...
Tue, Dec 13 2016, 10:12 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that applications for new home purchase mortgages were down 3 percent in November compared to October. ...
Tue, Dec 13 2016, 10:10 AM
Foreclosures in October 2016 were down by a quarter compared to the previous October and the foreclosure inventory shrank by nearly one third. CoreLog...
Tue, Dec 13 2016, 10:05 AM
Fannie Mae said new updates to its Collateral Underwriter® (CU) and Desktop Underwriter® (DU) should increase the speed and efficiency of lending and ...
Mon, Dec 12 2016, 12:10 PM
Another in a series of articles from Corelogic Senior Product Manager, MaiClaire Bolton, about assessing earthquake risk from a mortgage and insurance...
Mon, Dec 12 2016, 2:23 PM
Multi-family housing, in the words of a Freddie Mac executive vice president, is on a roll . David Brickman says his company is on track to purchase a...
Fri, Dec 9 2016, 12:08 PM
A post on CoreLogic's blog just came to our attention. It was written (by Stuart Pratt, the company's newly appointed senior vice president of Governm...
Fri, Dec 9 2016, 10:51 AM
A post on CoreLogic's blog just came to our attention. It was written (by Stuart Pratt, the company's newly appointed senior vice president of Governm...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 12:32 PM
Freddie Mac just announced that it has implemented Release 1, utilizing the Common Securitization Platform (CSP) . The Release was launched on Novembe...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:57 AM
Analysts from the Urban Institute recently put a hard number on tight credit. The company says that lenders failed to make about 5.2 million mortgages...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:48 AM
A dramatic uptick in consumer perceptions about household income kept Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment (HPSI) Index from tanking in November. Even...
Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:40 AM
The number of "underwater" homeowners continued to decrease at a rapid pace in the third quarter of 2016 as home values grew. Negative equity, often r...
Wed, Dec 7 2016, 12:24 PM
Profit margins increased for mortgage lenders in the third quarter of 2015. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said independent mortgage banks and...
Wed, Dec 7 2016, 8:57 AM
Mortgage application activity was essentially flat on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended December 2 while swinging broadly on a non-sea...
Tue, Dec 6 2016, 10:30 AM
Home price growth accelerated further in October according to CoreLogic. The company's Home Price Index (HPI) increased 6.7 percent from the prior Oct...
Mon, Dec 5 2016, 12:05 PM
As everyone knows, interest rates shot up immediately in the wake of the November 8 presidential elections, triggered by a sell-off in Treasury bonds....
Mon, Dec 5 2016, 10:06 AM
Access to mortgage credit continued its recent upward trend in November. The Mortgage Bankers Association said on Monday that its Mortgage Credit Avai...
Mon, Dec 5 2016, 9:59 AM
Another piece of the President-elect Donald J. Trump's administration fell into place on Monday with the announcement that former Republican president...
Fri, Dec 2 2016, 9:27 AM
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has now joined the Federal Housing Finance Agency in raising the dollar limits for loans that qualify for FHA...
Thu, Dec 1 2016, 11:43 AM
Construction spending rose only slightly in October, with residential construction coming in stronger than most other sectors. The Census Bureau said ...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 10:37 AM
Pending home Sales eked out a 0.1 percent gain in October. The National Association of Realtors® said its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) barely manag...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 8:29 AM
Thanksgiving wreaked the usual holiday-related damage on the Mortgage Bankers Association's report of mortgage activity during the week ended November...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 1:35 PM
Interest rates are, quite naturally, the focus of Freddie Mac's November Outlook. The company's Economic & Housing Research Group looked at the potent...
Wed, Nov 30 2016, 1:25 PM
President-elect Donald J. Trump may have just handed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae a "get out of jail free" card. Trump has picked Steven Mnuchin to be S...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 10:54 AM
While it will remain unchanged in 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Reserve Board, and Office of the Comptroller of the C...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 10:16 AM
It took ten years and change, but national prices as measured by the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Index have finally surpassed the previous pre...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 1:50 PM
Freddie Mac has certified six companies as meeting its requirements for creating, signing, and storing eNotes , i.e. electronic promissory notes. The ...
