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 ...
Tue, Nov 29 2016, 1:42 PM
The national foreclosure inventory rate, according to Black Knight Financial Services, fell below 1 percent in October for the first time since July 2...
Mon, Nov 28 2016, 11:09 AM
Black Knight Financial Services says that its Home Price Index (HPI) inched up only 0.1 percent from August to September. Monthly appreciation has dec...
Fri, Nov 25 2016, 10:40 AM
CoreLogic says it is now able to closely track household mobility through various data sets including property taxes and sales transactions. Some coun...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 10:52 AM
House prices increases moderated slightly compared to the pace set in August, but the Federal Housing Finance Index (FHFA) said the month-over-month g...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 10:49 AM
New home sales failed to build on their September momentum, although the October downturn was not a large one. The Census Bureau and the Department of...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 9:52 AM
Purchase mortgage application activity picked up significantly during the week ended November 18. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its Market Com...
Wed, Nov 23 2016, 3:47 PM
After leaving them in a holding pattern for 10 long years the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has raised conforming loan limits for mortgages ac...
Tue, Nov 22 2016, 11:27 AM
October existing home sales added to September's rebound, rising to the highest annualized pace in nearly a decade . The National Association of Realt...
Tue, Nov 22 2016, 3:06 PM
All-cash sales represented 31.1 of the total home sales recorded in August, according to a CoreLogic report on cash and distressed home sales. This wa...
Mon, Nov 21 2016, 12:26 PM
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance recently held a hearing on " Modernizing Appraisals : A Regulatory Review and the F...
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...
