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...
Wed, Nov 25 2015, 10:51 AM
Price increases did not slow in the
third quarter as expected the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said
today. The agencies purchase-only
s...
Wed, Nov 25 2015, 8:51 AM
Mortgage applications were a bit of a mixed bag during the week ended
November 20, a week in a hammock strung between two holidays. The Mortgage B...
Wed, Nov 25 2015, 1:15 PM
In short, the general loan limits remain unchanged from 2015's levels, but several high-cost county limits have been increased . As a reminder, Fa...
Tue, Nov 24 2015, 10:55 AM
Black Knight Financial Service's monthly "first look" at
October month-end mortgage performance standards continues to show a steady
decline almos...
Tue, Nov 24 2015, 10:54 AM
Home prices continue to rise faster than
the rate of inflation and the increase speeded up again in September. The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National ...
Mon, Nov 23 2015, 10:51 AM
Pending sales, which had declined in
both September and October did indeed prove to be a leading indicator for
existing home sales in October. The
...
Fri, Nov 20 2015, 10:09 AM
Those of you who are expecting Millennials
to shift gears and start becoming homeowners will have to keep holding your
breath. A new Freddie Mac su...
Fri, Nov 20 2015, 9:45 AM
With the year nearing an end Fannie Mae's chief
economist Doug Duncan and his Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group are
holding to their most r...
Thu, Nov 19 2015, 11:28 AM
Measures of mortgage distress continued to reach new eight
to ten year lows during the third quarter of 2015. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MB...
Thu, Nov 19 2015, 11:24 AM
Is the dream of a decent education gone
for the children of middle-class Americans?
A new study by RealtyTrac indicates that if you consider standa...
Thu, Nov 19 2015, 11:00 AM
The share of cash sales inched up
slightly in August, reaching 31.7 percent, a 0.8 percent month-over-month
change. Despite the marginal change,
c...
Thu, Nov 19 2015, 10:57 AM
Ellie Mae says its October data on
closed and denied loans indicate that credit is loosening. The company said that average FICO scores continued
...
Thu, Nov 19 2015, 2:49 PM
Home sales appeared to slam on the brakes in October, at
least according to Redfin. The company
said sales increased by only 0.3 percent compared...
Wed, Nov 18 2015, 12:19 PM
Residential construction data from October were mixed, but declines were largely due to the multi-family sector . Permitting was up modestly while th...
Wed, Nov 18 2015, 8:44 AM
It was another holiday muddled week for the Mortgage Bankers Association's
Market Composite Index. The index, a
measure of applications volume, ro...
Tue, Nov 17 2015, 10:52 AM
Well that didn't last long.
After jumping to the highest level in a decade in October the Housing
Market Index (HMI) a measure of builder confidenc...
Mon, Nov 16 2015, 3:48 PM
FHA's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMIF) is back in the
money . Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Julian Castro told Congress today that ...
Mon, Nov 16 2015, 3:42 PM
While we have all been
sitting around waiting for millennials to take the homeowner plunge we have
apparently overlooked that both they and their pa...
Fri, Nov 13 2015, 12:10 PM
After last months' disappointing Census Bureau report on September
new home sales - down 11.5 percent from a solid August - one might hope for an
Oc...
Thu, Nov 12 2015, 3:36 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) is calling the third quarter of 2015
unquestionably the best quarter for the housing market in a decade...
Wed, Nov 11 2015, 1:13 PM
Mortgage rates rose sharply during the week ended November 6. Most contract rates had an average basis
point increase near double digits, returni...
