Wed, Mar 16 2016, 9:46 AM
Rising interest rates took their toll on mortgage application activity last week. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that application volu...
Tue, Mar 15 2016, 11:52 AM
After dropping three points in February to 58, the Housing Market Index, a measure of builder confidence in the single-family home market, remained u...
Mon, Mar 14 2016, 2:19 PM
A lot has been written over the past few weeks about the Millennial generation and what it is and is not doing in the housing market. CoreLogic recen...
Fri, Mar 11 2016, 4:45 PM
The number of second homes in the U.S. has increased by more than a half million in the five years following the recession. Using 2014 data, the Nati...
Thu, Mar 10 2016, 11:56 AM
If the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is correct there was a huge jump in new home sales in February. MBA's Builder Application Survey (BAS) whic...
Thu, Mar 10 2016, 11:54 AM
The share of homeowners with positive equity in their homes crossed the 90 percent mark in 2015 according to CoreLogic. Over the course of the year ...
Wed, Mar 9 2016, 8:14 AM
Mortgage application activity during the week ended March 4 was, at best, lackluster with a small gain in purchase mortgage applications offsetting a ...
Tue, Mar 8 2016, 11:52 AM
The national foreclosure inventory dropped by about a
quarter year over year, bringing the number of homes in the process of
foreclosure at the end ...
Tue, Mar 8 2016, 11:36 AM
The most dramatic change in responses to Fannie Mae's most recent National Housing Survey was in the net number of Americans who think home prices are...
Tue, Mar 8 2016, 11:28 AM
Even as the share of originations going for refinancing began to flag in the fourth quarter of 2015 the cash-out share of those refinancing increased....
Mon, Mar 7 2016, 11:27 AM
The sharp drop in interest rates that began 2016 has had a very real impact on the so-called "refinanceable" population of homeowners. Black Knight...
Mon, Mar 7 2016, 10:41 AM
Three financial regulatory agencies have clarified current rules on the use of appraisals versus property evaluations Three financial regulatory agen...
Fri, Mar 4 2016, 12:13 PM
Lenders, especially mortgage banks and larger lending institutions, are increasingly pessimistic about their profits. Fannie Mae says that response...
Thu, Mar 3 2016, 12:49 PM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have long advocated for homebuyer education but as Freddie Mac points out in this month's edition of Insight and Outlook, ...
Thu, Mar 3 2016, 9:58 AM
Any loosening of credit access in February was offset by
tightening by other programs the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on
Thursday. Cons...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 9:50 AM
Despite slightly lower interest rates mortgage applications slowed during the week ended February 26. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) said m...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 1:46 PM
Only slightly more than 10 percent of all home sales in December were distressed properties. CoreLogic said on Wednesday that sales of lender owned r...
Wed, Mar 2 2016, 1:45 PM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) took an in-depth look at one aspect of the Census Bureau's report on January construction expenditure...
Tue, Mar 1 2016, 12:04 PM
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Tue, Mar 1 2016, 11:56 AM
Home prices rose 0.1 percent in December according to Black
Knight Financial Services. The company's
Home Price Index (HPI) ended the month at $253...
Tue, Mar 1 2016, 11:32 AM
Publicly funded construction accounted for most of the gain in overall construction spending in January. The Census Department said on Tuesday that...
Mon, Feb 29 2016, 11:00 AM
Pending home sales kicked off 2016 by declining nationally and in three of the country's four regions. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) sa...
Mon, Feb 29 2016, 10:58 AM
Why has one of the nation's most critical issues been missing from the presidential debates? Faith Schwartz, CoreLogic's Senior Vice President for ...
Fri, Feb 26 2016, 2:42 PM
In a speech this week to its Consumer Advisory Board the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) laid out nine goals for the Bur...
Fri, Feb 26 2016, 2:33 PM
The percentage of homes sales that were all cash transactions increased in November, bucking a long term trend . CoreLogic, in its monthly cash sale...
Thu, Feb 25 2016, 11:17 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's House Price Index (HPI) for December came in slightly higher than the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index di...
Thu, Feb 25 2016, 1:14 PM
In a new white paper titled Home Equity Lending Landscape , CoreLogic says that in the recent past homeowners who wanted to tap the equity in their h...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 11:00 AM
A sharp drop in sales in the West brought about an overall decline in the national rate of new home sales in January. The U.S. Census Bureau and the ...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 9:33 AM
After two straight weeks of solid refinance-driven growth, mortgage application volume retreated during the week ended February 19. The Mortgage Ban...
Wed, Feb 24 2016, 3:59 PM
Fannie Mae is updating its Selling Guide to include changes several areas. The changes include elimination of the continuity of obligation policy ...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 11:01 AM
Existing home sales and home prices both increased in January, the latter again driven by a tight supply of available houses in many markets. The Nat...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 10:39 AM
One of the sea changes that swept in with the housing crisis was the growth of single family houses as a share of rental properties . Frank Nothaft,...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 10:31 AM
Mortgage delinquencies rose in January, topping the 5 percent mark for the first time in 11 months Black Knight Financial Services said on Monday. Th...
Tue, Feb 23 2016, 10:30 AM
Home price gains were somewhat mixed in December with some of the S&P Case-Shiller posting larger increases than in November and others negative or un...
Mon, Feb 22 2016, 10:14 AM
Foreclosure activity declined on a month-over-month basis nationwide in January although completed foreclosures were up significantly on an annual b...
Mon, Feb 22 2016, 1:19 PM
Despite three years of solid recovery in home prices, a surprising number of homeowners don't realize what they've gained.
Most underestimate w...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 7:13 PM
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) released fourth quarter and year-end results for their 2015 fiscal years this week. While both GSEs post...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 7:05 PM
Both lower home prices and decreasing interest rates contributed to an increase in home affordability during the fourth quarter of 2015 according to...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 3:35 PM
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) released fourth quarter and year-end results for their 2015 fiscal years this week. While both GSEs post...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 3:31 PM
Both lower home prices and decreasing interest rates contributed to an increase in home affordability during the fourth quarter of 2015 according to...
Thu, Feb 18 2016, 10:43 AM
Freddie Mac is announcing changes to its Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide which the company says will provide expanded homeownership opportuniti...
Thu, Feb 18 2016, 2:00 PM
The overall delinquency rate on
mortgage loans has now fallen below historic average levels. The Mortgage
Bankers Association (MBA) said on Thursd...
Wed, Feb 17 2016, 9:07 AM
Applications for refinancing again drove a significant increase in mortgage applications during the week ended February 12 as mortgage rates continu...
Wed, Feb 17 2016, 8:56 AM
U.S. housing starts unexpectedly fell in January likely as bad weather disrupted building projects in some parts of the country, in what could be a te...
Tue, Feb 16 2016, 10:54 AM
Confidence among new home builders cooled considerably this month. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing Market Index (HM...
Fri, Feb 12 2016, 11:44 AM
A proposed new rule from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), if enacted, could significantly impact mortgage workers' paychecks, and affect mortgage c...
Fri, Feb 12 2016, 11:37 AM
In a hearing on Thursday before the House
Financial Services Committee, Edward L. Golding,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of...
Thu, Feb 11 2016, 6:57 PM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) early estimate of new home sales for
January projects a 14 percent increase compared to December. MBA ...
Wed, Feb 10 2016, 9:57 AM
Average mortgage rates declined during the week ended February 5, in at least one case to the lowest level in nearly three years. In response there w...
Wed, Feb 10 2016, 3:18 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said on Tuesday that its proposed budget for Fiscal 2017 will include $48.9 billion in gross d...
