Wed, Jan 13 2016, 4:36 PM
The
House Committee on Financial Services held its second day of hearings on
Wednesday regarding the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). N...
Tue, Jan 12 2016, 5:40 PM
The final rule for membership in the Federal Home Loan
Banking System (FHLBank) was announced on Tuesday by its regulator the Federal
Home Finance...
Tue, Jan 12 2016, 5:39 PM
The number of completed foreclosures nationwide in November was
down to about 30 percent of the level in the worst days of the housing crisis. CoreL...
Mon, Jan 11 2016, 4:07 PM
Consumers are displaying a bit of bearishness toward the
economy according a Federal Reserve Bank of New York's recent survey of how
they expect o...
Mon, Jan 11 2016, 4:00 PM
Years into the refinance boom Black Knight Financial
Services estimates there are still millions of homeowners who could qualify for
and benefit fro...
Thu, Jan 7 2016, 11:01 AM
Credit available as measured by the Mortgage Bankers
Association's (MBA's) Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) appeared to
have declined in De...
Wed, Jan 6 2016, 9:51 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is playing catch-up this morning
after a two week holiday hiatus for its Weekly Mortgage Applications
Survey....
Tue, Jan 5 2016, 11:43 AM
Freddie Mac is dismissing concerns of some analysts that the
change in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy may bode ill for the housing
industry. ...
Tue, Jan 5 2016, 11:22 AM
Lots of flex in the estimates of home price increases as we
reach the end of the year. Last week
Case-Shiller put the number (as of October) at 5....
Mon, Jan 4 2016, 3:34 PM
California appears to have topped out in terms of price
increases, at least for the present.
While Black Knight Financial Services reports a 0.2 ...
Mon, Jan 4 2016, 3:29 PM
Both public and private spending on construction eased back
slightly in November. The Census Bureau
said on Monday that total construction spending...
Thu, Dec 31 2015, 1:46 AM
Sales of distressed properties made up 10.2 percent of total
home sales in October CoreLogic said on Tuesday. The October number represented a sli...
Wed, Dec 30 2015, 10:45 AM
Pending home sales dipped slightly in November, the third
time in four months they have done so. The
National Association of Realtors®
(NAR's) P...
Wed, Dec 30 2015, 3:26 PM
The Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) produced by Freddie
Mac's Office of the Chief Economist shows that the U.S. housing market is
within the out...
Tue, Dec 29 2015, 12:25 PM
Home prices continue to confound predictions
of decelerating gains. The S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index
gained 5.2 percent over the 12 ...
Mon, Dec 28 2015, 5:19 PM
The new RESPA-TILA Know Before You Owe regulations, commonly
called TRIID, was cited as a probable reason for a three day increase in the
average ti...
Thu, Dec 24 2015, 11:50 AM
Freddie
Mac's Office of the Chief Economist takes an intensive look at marketplace
lending in the December issue of its Insights
and Outlook . ...
Wed, Dec 23 2015, 10:51 AM
Newly constructed single-family homes continued to sell well
in November however October's earlier robust report was scaled down
dramatically . Th...
Wed, Dec 23 2015, 10:49 AM
There was, as expected
only a minimal immediate impact on either mortgage rates or mortgage
application volume in the few days following the Feder...
Tue, Dec 22 2015, 11:20 AM
Existing home sales declined considerably in November
although the National Association of Realtors, in reporting the data, blamed in part new
dis...
Mon, Dec 21 2015, 11:09 AM
Cash sales rose incrementally in
September while continuing to diminish as a share of all sales on a
year-over-year basis. CoreLogic, in it's
mont...
Fri, Dec 18 2015, 3:15 PM
Should national housing policy move beyond its traditional
emphasis on homeownership to focus more broadly on "shelter?" Faith Schwartz, CoreLogic...
Thu, Dec 17 2015, 12:04 PM
Fannie Mae said Thursday there are indications
that easing lending standards may help mitigate some of the loss of housing
affordability moving into...
Thu, Dec 17 2015, 11:46 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) has posted a proposed new rule for comment that seeks to provide greater
access to affordable housing for ...
Wed, Dec 16 2015, 10:20 AM
Residential construction activity surged in November with
both residential construction permits and housing starts, permits especially,
beating anal...
Wed, Dec 16 2015, 9:07 AM
Refinancing remained strong relative to purchase mortgage activity during
the week ended December 11 while application activity overall slipped. The...
Wed, Dec 16 2015, 1:39 PM
In order to end what it considered excessive borrowing by
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) and the Federal Home Loan Banks the
Federal Reserve,...
Tue, Dec 15 2015, 10:26 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said on
Tuesday that its NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) dropped one point
in December ...
Tue, Dec 15 2015, 10:23 AM
Ninety-two percent of mortgaged homeowners now have positive
equity in their homes after more than a quarter-million emerged from being
underwater i...
Mon, Dec 14 2015, 3:19 PM
Could mortgage fraud be coming back? According to Bret Fortenberry, writing in
CoreLogic's Insights blog, there are
indications the incidence is ...
Mon, Dec 14 2015, 3:08 PM
The Office of Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC) reported on Monday that mortgage performance continued to
improve during the third quarter. Both
r...
Fri, Dec 11 2015, 6:49 PM
Over the next three weeks we will probably be subjected to more housing
forecasts for 2016 than ads for Chia Pets.
Here is the version provided b...
Thu, Dec 10 2015, 10:56 AM
Tis the season could be the
theme for the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) estimate of November new
home sales . According to data acquired
...
Wed, Dec 9 2015, 9:07 AM
Mortgage application volume was higher across the board during the week
ended December 4 as activity rebounded from the essentially three-day work ...
Wed, Dec 9 2015, 4:34 PM
CoreLogic's October National Foreclosure Report puts the foreclosure
inventory, the number of residential properties in process of foreclosure that
...
Tue, Dec 8 2015, 6:48 PM
Per-loan profitability fell in the third quarter of 2015 the
Mortgage Bankers Association. (MBA) said today, but remained substantially
above ...
Tue, Dec 8 2015, 6:39 PM
Credit availability decreased in November for the first time since early summer. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Mortgage Credit Avai...
Mon, Dec 7 2015, 10:53 AM
The government sponsored enterprises'' (GSE's)
introduction of 97 percent loan-to-value (LTV) mortgages, implemented by Fannie
Mae' in late 2014 and...
Mon, Dec 7 2015, 7:36 PM
The New York
Times has fired the first salvo in what already looks like a battle of
words between it and the mortgage finance industry with the ...
Mon, Dec 7 2015, 6:57 PM
The latest Home Purchase Sentiment
Index (HPSI) remained at an elevated level Fannie Mae said today, but internal
data within the index does not b...
Fri, Dec 4 2015, 10:33 AM
A Fannie Mae vice president wrote
recently about some of the company's products designed to help existing
homeowners move up or improve their homes...
Thu, Dec 3 2015, 5:14 PM
When it comes to mortgage risk there is a lot of good news. Sam
Khater, CoreLogic's Deputy Chief Economist says in the current issue of the
comp...
Wed, Dec 2 2015, 9:10 AM
Mortgage applications during the week ended November 27 were generally
higher on an adjusted basis and much lower on an unadjusted basis due to the...
Wed, Dec 2 2015, 4:24 PM
Is it our imagination or has the return to normal levels of
distressed home sales become an agonizing endurance test? Despite a nearly steady down...
Tue, Dec 1 2015, 10:25 AM
Home price appreciation, which had decelerated somewhat in
September, regained momentum in October.
CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI) dropped ba...
Tue, Dec 1 2015, 2:50 PM
Both overall construction spending and spending for
residential purposes in October was little changed from September according to
data released by ...
Mon, Nov 30 2015, 10:58 AM
There was a slight uptick in contract signings for home
purchases in October after two straight months of declines. The National Association of Re...
Fri, Nov 27 2015, 1:46 PM
We noted a few months ago that Freddie Mac's monthly Insights and Outlook had changed in both
format and publication schedule and credited those ch...
Fri, Nov 27 2015, 1:39 PM
Since demographics, Freddie
Mac says, drive the housing market, the company's economists focused part of
its November Insights and Outlooks on
th...
Wed, Nov 25 2015, 11:53 AM
New home sales in October reversed their sharp downturn in
September and also bucked other recent sales trends, rising by a substantial 10.7
perce...
