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...
Fri, Oct 7 2016, 12:44 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), which hit an all-time high of 86.5 in July, has now retreated for two consecutive months. The index...
Fri, Oct 7 2016, 10:50 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said credit availability increased slightly in September. The Association's Mortgage Credit Availability Index ...
Thu, Oct 6 2016, 11:28 AM
In the first part of a series of article Market Pulse CoreLogic Principal Economist Mark Liu looked at the possibility that a new housing "bubble" was...
Wed, Oct 5 2016, 8:52 AM
Declining rates, in one case returning to July 2016 levels, stoked mortgage application activity during the week ended September 30. The Mortgage Bank...
Tue, Oct 4 2016, 10:10 AM
Prices increases escalated again on a year-over-year basis in August according to information released on Tuesday by CoreLogic. The company's Home Pri...
Tue, Oct 4 2016, 2:16 PM
In the last four years housing prices, according to CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI) have risen 40 percent. So, are we heading toward a repeat of th...
Mon, Oct 3 2016, 11:17 AM
Construction spending in August declined slightly from its July pace the Census Bureau said on Monday. It was the third consecutive month it has falle...
Mon, Oct 3 2016, 2:24 PM
In its "first look" at August mortgage performance data Black Knight noted that the Single Month Mortality (SMM) or prepayment rate for the month had ...
Fri, Sep 30 2016, 1:54 PM
The second quarter Mortgage Metric Report from the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) shows a universe of mortgage loans that are performing ...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 10:51 AM
Pending home sales were unable to sustain the slight upward tick experienced in July and resumed their downward trend in August, declining by 2.4 perc...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 10:22 AM
Why are so many people holding on to mortgages with high interest rates? Sentiment? Inertia? Apparently not. In the current issue of CoreLogic's Marke...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 2:06 PM
The lack of housing affordability is rising among the 414 U.S. counties tracked by ATTOM Data Solutions. ATTOM, the new parent company of RealtyTrac, ...
Thu, Sep 29 2016, 2:01 PM
Sales of distressed homes, both lender-owned properties (REO) and short-sales continue to decline but are still at levels nearly four times what is co...
Wed, Sep 28 2016, 10:32 AM
The all-cash share of residential sales dipped below 30 percent in June, the first time this has happened since 2007. CoreLogic said on Tuesday that c...
Wed, Sep 28 2016, 10:29 AM
To understand the top-line story in the Urban Institute's (UI's) latest Chartbook released on Monday one has to go back to another UI paper published ...
Wed, Sep 28 2016, 8:39 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported hardly a ripple in the mortgage market during the week ended September 23. Its Market Composite Index,...
Tue, Sep 27 2016, 10:38 AM
Fannie Mae has announced the implementation of a new version of its automated underwriting system . The company said Version 10.0 of Desktop Underwrit...
Tue, Sep 27 2016, 10:35 AM
While the annual gains in its nationwide index accelerated slightly in July the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 10- and 20-City Composite Indices showed a ...
Mon, Sep 26 2016, 11:00 AM
After a spectacular run for new home sales in July, it was anticipated that August activity would be considerably more modest. While sales did retrenc...
Mon, Sep 26 2016, 2:27 PM
Black Knight Financial Services released its Home Price Index (HPI) report for July on Monday and, unlike reports from CoreLogic and the Federal Housi...
Fri, Sep 23 2016, 10:45 AM
Refinancing jumped to 43 percent of all loans originated in August, a 6 percentage point higher share than in July. Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Re...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 11:09 AM
Sales of existing homes slowed for the second consecutive month in August according to data released on Thursday by the National Association of Realto...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 9:54 AM
Home price increases appear to have accelerated in most of the country in July as compared to June according to data released on Thursday by the Feder...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 1:45 PM
Mortgage prepayments, generally a good indicator of refinance activity , skyrocketed in August. According to Black Knight Financial Services "first lo...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 8:57 AM
Mortgage rates crept higher during the week ended September 16, and mortgage applications, while rebounding from the previous holiday-shortened prior ...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 5:13 PM
"Credit unions are thriving " in the words of Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He told members of the Nat...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 5:04 PM
If nothing else, the headline of this months' Outlook from Freddie Mac was a grabber. "Mortgage Originations Poised to Surge," it read, and what follo...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 10:15 AM
Fannie Mae says that early bets on third quarter economic growth are around 3.0 percent which has the Federal Reserve talking again about raising the ...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 10:04 AM
All three measures of residential construction activity fell in August compared to the July numbers and one, building permits, continued to lag year-a...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 10:50 AM
After half a year of barely budging the Housing Market Index (HMI ) surged by six points in September. The index, jointly sponsored by the National As...
Fri, Sep 16 2016, 9:52 AM
In last month's Housing Finance Chartbook the Urban Institute showed how a recent surge in issuance of private mortgage insurance (PMI) had come at th...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 12:25 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that sales of newly constructed homes increased by 5.0 percent in August compared to July. The estima...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 10:23 AM
More than a half-million fewer homeowners were underwater at the end of the second quarter of 2016 than at the beginning CoreLogic said today. At quar...
