Thu, May 21 2015, 11:01 AM
Existing home sales in April failed both to match their
corresponding numbers in March and to live up to the consensus of analysts in
advance of thi...
Thu, May 21 2015, 5:02 PM
Purchase loans continued to increase as a
percentage of loan originations in April.
Ellie Mae's Origination Insight
Report for the month put the...
Wed, May 20 2015, 9:13 AM
Mortgage application
volume continued a downward spiral during the week ended May 15. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's)
Market Composite...
Wed, May 20 2015, 1:17 PM
Earlier this week Freddie Mac asked if the housing market recovery could
withstand a rate increase (the answer, with some qualification was yes). No...
Tue, May 19 2015, 10:30 AM
Residential construction numbers soared in April after a
dismal March and both the number of residential permits issued and housing
starts easil...
Tue, May 19 2015, 2:00 PM
That headline question is the focus of the May Economic and Housing Outlook produced by
Freddie mac's Office of the Chief Economist.
The economic...
Mon, May 18 2015, 12:10 PM
While they were discussing different vintages, home sellers
have a slightly more upbeat outlook on home sales then do the builders of those
homes. ...
Mon, May 18 2015, 5:01 PM
"Everyone working in the mortgage business feels
like there is a giant target on their backs ," David H. Stevens said in remarks
prepared for deliv...
Fri, May 15 2015, 10:53 AM
It's all relative. The Mortgage
Bankers Association (MBA) said that applications for the purchase of newly
constructed homes rose a scant 0.3 perc...
Fri, May 15 2015, 3:55 PM
Any change in interest rates will be sprung on the markets
if John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president, gets his
way. While w...
Fri, May 15 2015, 3:41 PM
There was an unusual degree of consensus
at a Congressional hearing on implementation of the new Truth-in-Lending (TILA)
and RESPA Integrated Disclo...
Thu, May 14 2015, 10:22 AM
Lenders originated 1.55 million residential
mortgage loans during the first quarter of 2015. The number, includes loan originations for
both purch...
Thu, May 14 2015, 3:22 PM
The Housing and Insurance subcommittee of the House
Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing this afternoon titled "TILA- RESPA
Integrat...
Wed, May 13 2015, 10:57 AM
The influence of cash sales on the residential real estate
market continued to decline in February with those sales accounting for 37.9
percent of...
Wed, May 13 2015, 10:50 AM
Rising
interest rates took a toll on mortgage applications again during the week ended
May 8. The Mortgage Bankers Association said
that its Marke...
Tue, May 12 2015, 10:56 AM
While the decline in foreclosure activity is still ragged on
a month-to-month basis significant changes are increasingly evident
year-over-year. ...
Tue, May 12 2015, 10:50 AM
Incremental
increases in credit access continued in April according to the Mortgage Bankers
Association's Credit Availability Index (MCAI).
The In...
Mon, May 11 2015, 2:20 PM
Home price appreciation accelerated in
many metropolitan areas in the first quarter of 2015. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) again
sa...
Mon, May 11 2015, 2:08 PM
The House Financial Services Committee (FSC) has scheduled a hearing
(through its subcommittee on Housing and Insurance) on May 14 titled "TILA-RESPA...
Fri, May 8 2015, 3:17 PM
A million or more consumers nationwide
may see their credit histories improve as a result of an agreement in a Federal
Bankruptcy Court in White Pla...
Thu, May 7 2015, 3:57 PM
Fannie Mae said on Thursday that while
the results of its April National Housing Survey showed some improvement in housing
sentiment, it was "likely...
Thu, May 7 2015, 3:49 PM
Both
government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) reported profitable first quarter
financial results for the first quarter.
Both will pay a dividend...
Wed, May 6 2015, 10:58 AM
Applications for refinancing cratered last week, reaching their lowest
level in four months according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's) W...
Wed, May 6 2015, 4:58 PM
Six federal regulators recently issued a final rule setting requirements for
state registration and supervision of appraisal management companies (A...
Wed, May 6 2015, 1:40 PM
About one in 10 American adults have
no credit history according to a report from the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau, a total of 26 million ...
Tue, May 5 2015, 11:52 AM
Nationwide
home prices are now within 10 percent of their pre-crash peaks and seven states
have surpassed those peaks, some have been establishing...
Tue, May 5 2015, 6:17 PM
Given how critical first-time homebuyers are
to the housing system the Urban Institute says it is important to accurately
measure how present they...
Mon, May 4 2015, 3:45 PM
After looking at housing booms and busts in 20 countries,
three economists have concluded that the likelihood of a boom ended in a
housing market cy...
Mon, May 4 2015, 2:34 PM
Black Knight's
Mortgage Monitor report for May took
a close look at complaint trends lodged with the Consumer Financial Protection
Agency (CFPB)....
Fri, May 1 2015, 11:38 AM
The
first quarter of 2015 was the third in a row that more than half of the
refinances funded through Freddie Mac were cash out transactions. Th...
Fri, May 1 2015, 11:00 AM
Total construction spending fell in March from February
levels and remained only slightly higher than one year earlier the Census
Bureau said today....
Thu, Apr 30 2015, 2:32 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency reports that the two
government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might
together require g...
Thu, Apr 30 2015, 2:11 PM
Remember 2010-2011 and the daily revelations about robosigning ?
Behind the shortcuts taken by servicers
in processing foreclosure documents (some...
Wed, Apr 29 2015, 10:16 AM
Momentum appears to be building toward a
healthy spring market according to data released today on March pending home sales. The National Associat...
Wed, Apr 29 2015, 8:28 AM
A modest uptick in purchase mortgage applications during the week ended
April 24 was insufficient to offset a sizable drop in refinancing. The Mor...
Tue, Apr 28 2015, 10:30 AM
While CoreLogic says February is typically
a month in which distressed sales post a seasonal decline, real-estate owned
(REO) and short sales this p...
Tue, Apr 28 2015, 10:27 AM
S&P Dow Jones called February increases as measured by its
Case-Shiller Home Price Indices "widespread." The National Home Price Index
which covers ...
Tue, Apr 28 2015, 4:58 PM
Homeownership rates continued to fall during the first
quarter of 2015 while vacancy rates were stable in the short term. The Census Bureau said tod...
Mon, Apr 27 2015, 10:59 AM
Although a press release last week about a Gallup
survey showed Americans view real estate as a better long term investment
than stocks, gold, s...
Mon, Apr 27 2015, 3:15 PM
U.S. home
prices were up 0.7 percent from January to February according to the Home Price
Index (HPI) report released by Black Knight Financial Se...
Sat, Apr 25 2015, 5:01 PM
Many lenders are watching this battle of industry frustration from the sidelines: Quicken vs. the DOJ, and vice versa . Prior to the government suing...
Fri, Apr 24 2015, 12:27 PM
Lenders appear at least moderately encouraged by new efforts
on the part of Fannie Mae and FHA to lower the costs and increase the
availability of...
Fri, Apr 24 2015, 10:57 AM
Apparently all is forgiven and forgotten and Americans are
again embracing real estate as more than just shelter. For the second year in a row a G...
Fri, Apr 24 2015, 5:09 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is
tweaking its bulk loan sales program to give distressed borrowers a better shot
at staying ...
Thu, Apr 23 2015, 10:20 AM
Freddie Mac's Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) for
February shows that the U.S. housing market continues to stabilize and has
recovered from a ...
Thu, Apr 23 2015, 10:17 AM
Home prices nationally are now within 3 percent of the peak
they reached in March 2007. The Federal
Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its pu...
Thu, Apr 23 2015, 9:59 AM
Seeing opportunity from the inevitable
flood of aging baby boomers, Wells Fargo has announced formation of a new
specialty business group focused on...
Thu, Apr 23 2015, 2:32 PM
A
second company has now reported a recent increase in the number of underwater residential
properties in the U.S. Last month
Corelogic said tha...
Thu, Apr 23 2015, 2:25 PM
New home sales settled down a bit in March after a dramatic
surge in the Northeast in February that drove national sales figures up nearly
8 perce...
Wed, Apr 22 2015, 11:40 AM
The spring housing market blasted in across the county last
month and existing home sales jumped 6.1 percent from the February level to the
highes...
