Fri, Nov 18 2016, 10:54 AM
Digital records are giving consumers tremendous new opportunities , Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told ...
Fri, Nov 18 2016, 10:48 AM
Borrowers apparently noted a slight uptick in mortgage rates and pushed refinancing higher in October. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report notes an...
Thu, Nov 17 2016, 10:47 AM
Housing permits improved for the second straight month in October but housing starts skyrocketed, rising 25.5 percent above September's level to a sea...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 9:18 AM
Mortgage application activity fell decisively in the wake of the presidential elections. While the week ending November 11 culminated with the Veteran...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:44 PM
Two recent data releases from CoreLogic's Insurance and Spatial Solutions division assess earthquake risk in California and Oklahoma. Yes, Oklahoma, a...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:21 PM
Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac's Chief Economist said that there is a tendency for housing and mortgage markets to focus on high profile but transitory ev...
Wed, Nov 16 2016, 3:11 PM
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes was unchanged in November, based on data gathered before the election. The Nation...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 11:51 AM
This is the second part of a summary of a Fannie Mae sponsored analysis by the Urban Institute (UI) of the role home equity could play in retirement s...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 10:55 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is estimating that the pace of new home sales slowed slightly in October compared to the previous month. Its Bu...
Tue, Nov 15 2016, 10:54 AM
Mortgage delinquencies are now the lowest they have been since the second quarter of 2006, some two years before the housing crisis began and other mo...
Thu, Nov 10 2016, 2:37 PM
The affordability tug-of-war between home prices and interest rates continued in the third quarter, but the National Association of Home Builders (NAH...
Wed, Nov 9 2016, 10:22 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says that its seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application volume, decreased 1...
Tue, Nov 8 2016, 10:02 AM
The foreclosure inventory was down nearly one-third in September when compared to a year earlier although the pace of completed foreclosures remained ...
Mon, Nov 7 2016, 11:55 AM
A change in conforming loan limits could have a big impact on mortgage originations and on homebuying in general according to Black Knight Financial S...
Mon, Nov 7 2016, 11:45 AM
How much does the roof over your head, today help ensure you will still have one in retirement? That is the question the Urban Institute (UI) is tryin...
Mon, Nov 7 2016, 1:23 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) suffered its third decline in as many months in October. The Index, based on responses to six key q...
Fri, Nov 4 2016, 10:40 AM
A trusted real estate agent could be a loan officer's best friend. A survey, commissioned by Freddie Mac in advance of the National Association of Rea...
Thu, Nov 3 2016, 12:38 PM
The two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) reported improved financial results in the third quarter of 2016. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both said...
Thu, Nov 3 2016, 12:13 PM
Several positive factors contributed to a rise in the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index in October. MBA's Vice...
Wed, Nov 2 2016, 8:22 AM
Mortgage applications dropped to their lowest levels since last spring during the week ended October 28. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said i...
Wed, Nov 2 2016, 4:36 PM
Construction spending continued to be lukewarm in September, lagging behind both September 2015 and August 2016. Multi-family construction was among t...
Tue, Nov 1 2016, 10:16 AM
The first of the September home price indices came out on Tuesday, and the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) showed price gains, while not slowing, are...
Mon, Oct 31 2016, 10:29 AM
The fourth and last of the August home price estimates is in and none of them show any slowing of appreciation. Among peers, Black Knight Financial Se...
Fri, Oct 28 2016, 12:49 PM
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) chief Richard Cordray announced on Thursday that his agency had issued warning letters regarding reporting...
Thu, Oct 27 2016, 11:48 AM
Large burdens of student debt have been blamed by many for the delay in homebuying that has characterized the Millennial generation. In a recent post ...
Thu, Oct 27 2016, 10:47 AM
Pending home sales bounced back in September after falling by 2.5 percent in August the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said on Thursday. NAR'...
Wed, Oct 26 2016, 10:49 AM
New home sales resumed their upward march in September, rising above August sales which had retreated significantly from a near decade-long high of 62...
Wed, Oct 26 2016, 8:12 AM
Mortgage applications declined on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ended October 21 compared to the week ended October 14. The results for ...
Tue, Oct 25 2016, 11:05 AM
Price gains accelerated in August, rising more year-over-year than they did in July according to data released today by both the Federal Housing Finan...
Mon, Oct 24 2016, 2:46 PM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each announced what appear to be essentially identical changes in their loan underwriting programs - Fannie calls its new o...
Mon, Oct 24 2016, 2:32 PM
In unusually personal prepared remarks, David H. Stevens, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) told members gathered at the ass...
Fri, Oct 21 2016, 10:51 AM
Deja vu all over again? Freddie Mac says economic growth is recovering from a weak first half of the year, the labor market is holding steady and Fed ...
Fri, Oct 21 2016, 10:40 AM
Housing industry players have decried the absence of first-time homebuyers and the negative impact they have had on the housing recovery. Fannie Mae's...
Thu, Oct 20 2016, 12:55 PM
There is an old saying that they don't build things like they used to, but it seems that houses at least are still built to last . The National Associ...
Thu, Oct 20 2016, 10:55 AM
There is a lot of upbeat news in the September existing home sales report released by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) on Thursday. Sales r...
Thu, Oct 20 2016, 1:00 PM
Refinancing continued to hold its ground during September, rising from 43 percent of all loan originations in August to 45 percent. Ellie Mae's Origin...
Wed, Oct 19 2016, 10:16 AM
Permits for construction of residential housing improved in September after several dismal months, but housing starts retreated from both August and y...
Wed, Oct 19 2016, 8:48 AM
The week ended October 14 was a quiet one for mortgage applications. The week started with one of those holidays, Columbus Day, that are only partiall...
Wed, Oct 19 2016, 2:46 PM
This month CoreLogic has combined their cash sales and distressed sales data into a single report rather than the two they have issued each month sinc...
Wed, Oct 19 2016, 2:38 PM
Fannie Mae says it expect economic growth will improve on its anemic performance in the first half of 2016 in the second half of the year, rising to 2...
Tue, Oct 18 2016, 10:48 AM
The Housing Market Index (HMI), a measure of home builder confidence in the new home market, gave back a bit of its September surge this month. The Na...
Mon, Oct 17 2016, 10:19 AM
Americans are staying put, both in their homes and in their jobs. The two appear to be related but which is the driving force? In a recent Urban Insti...
Fri, Oct 14 2016, 12:53 PM
Sales of newly constructed homes ticked up 7 percent in September when compared on a non-seasonally adjusted basis to August according to the Mortgage...
Thu, Oct 13 2016, 9:53 AM
Earthquakes may just be the Rodney Dangerfield of natural disasters. They get no respect relative to most other natural disasters--likely due to the i...
Wed, Oct 12 2016, 9:17 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that mortgage applications were down significantly during the week ended October 7, probably respondin...
Wed, Oct 12 2016, 1:31 PM
Anyone who has been paying attention must know that the national homeownership rate, which has been dropping for over a decade , is now at a 50-year l...
Wed, Oct 12 2016, 1:17 PM
A federal appeals court has set aside a massive fine against mortgage lender PHH Corporation and declared that the Consumer Financial Protection Burea...
Tue, Oct 11 2016, 9:57 AM
Fannie Mae acknowledged last week that their form of Acknowledgement Agreement with lenders is " overly complicated and full of dense legal language" ...
Tue, Oct 11 2016, 9:49 AM
As they have following other natural disasters, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have announced that their "full menu of disaster relief policies" will...
Tue, Oct 11 2016, 9:43 AM
CoreLogic reported on Tuesday that all major indicators of housing distress declined by double digits over the last year. The company's August Nationa...
