Wed, Feb 25 2015, 10:49 AM
Sales of newly constructed single-family homes dipped only slightly
in January from December levels. The U.S.
Census Bureau and Department of Hou...
Wed, Feb 25 2015, 8:59 AM
Mortgage applications
declined again during the week ended February 20. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
that its Market Composite Ind...
Wed, Feb 25 2015, 2:43 PM
Freddie
Mac said on Wednesday that its Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) still shows that,
at the national level, housing is continuing to stabil...
Wed, Feb 25 2015, 2:40 PM
Black Knight Financial Services has released a "first look"
at its month-end January mortgage performance statistics. The company regularly previe...
Wed, Feb 25 2015, 2:40 PM
The
Home Price Index (HPI) report issued this week by Black Knight Financial
Services shows the December national index at $241,000, a -0.1 percent...
Tue, Feb 24 2015, 11:24 AM
Despite increases in 2014 that
were twice that of inflation, house prices are "faltering." The S&P/Case-Shiller composite city indices
for Decemb...
Mon, Feb 23 2015, 10:57 AM
Existing home sales in January were disappointing
to start the New Year, declining to their lowest rate in nine months. The sales, which include com...
Mon, Feb 23 2015, 3:45 PM
There appears to be a battle in the making between
Realtor.com, which has provided on-line nationwide residential listing
information since the In...
Fri, Feb 20 2015, 4:18 PM
Loans for home refinance made up 51 percent o f all loan
originations in January, an 8 percent jump compared to December. Ellie
Mae's Originat...
Fri, Feb 20 2015, 1:33 PM
Like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae has
also reported a profitable fourth quarter of 2014 and a profitable year. The company had both net and comprehensive...
Fri, Feb 20 2015, 1:20 PM
Freddie Mac said today that full-year net income and
comprehensive income, $7.7 billion and 9.4 billion respectively, made 2014 the
company's third ...
Thu, Feb 19 2015, 10:56 AM
Just as the government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac are launching new 97 percent conventional loans, RealtyTrac is
announcing th...
Thu, Feb 19 2015, 4:05 PM
Housing affordability grew slightly in the fourth quarter of
2014 according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo
Housing ...
Thu, Feb 19 2015, 4:02 PM
Freddie Mac's economists have revised many of their earlier
estimates for the 2015 U.S. economy. In
terms of overall economic growth the revisions ...
Wed, Feb 18 2015, 10:08 AM
The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban
Development's New Residential Construction summary for January 2015 showed
mixed and mostl...
Wed, Feb 18 2015, 9:42 AM
Mortgage application
volume fell across the board for the second straight time during the week ended
February 13, 2015. The Mortgage Bankers
Assoc...
Tue, Feb 17 2015, 10:59 AM
Bad weather appears
to be taking a toll on otherwise solid builder confidence. The
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing ...
Fri, Feb 13 2015, 4:45 PM
Current regulatory policy is not addressing the primary
cause of foreclosures . CoreLogic's deputy
chief economists Sam Khater says, in an article...
Fri, Feb 13 2015, 4:38 PM
Three mortgage lenders are facing civil action for false and misleading
advertising. The three were identified
in a joint Consumer Financial Prote...
Thu, Feb 12 2015, 10:56 AM
While all-cash sales continue to decline as a percentage of
all home sales, in several states they still account for more than half of all
residen...
Thu, Feb 12 2015, 10:54 AM
As the housing industry continues to recover we see
occasional troublesome spikes in one statistic or another. RealtyTrac reported a couple of such ...
Thu, Feb 12 2015, 10:44 AM
Applications for mortgages to purchase newly construction
homes increased by 29 percent in January.
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said t...
Wed, Feb 11 2015, 8:36 AM
The on and off refinancing boomlet that has sporadically driven mortgage
application volume since the first of the year went missing again during t...
Wed, Feb 11 2015, 6:03 PM
Julian Castro told the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday
that the Federal Housing Administrations (FHA) historically high premiums limi...
Tue, Feb 10 2015, 10:49 AM
Foreclosures during the 12 months ended on December 31 were
the lowest recorded in the U.S. over that time period since November 2007
CoreLogic sa...
Tue, Feb 10 2015, 3:36 PM
In a paper on the issue, the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says that "Many older consumers and their
families are confused and frustr...
Mon, Feb 9 2015, 3:08 PM
Fannie Mae said today that its monthly National Housing
Survey (NHS) portrayed increasing optimism as both employment and overall
economic figures...
Fri, Feb 6 2015, 2:16 PM
The National Association of Home Builders ( NAHB ) said today
that nationwide metropolitan area markets are improving at a constant pace and are
n...
Fri, Feb 6 2015, 2:02 PM
As
might be expected, as the number of foreclosures has dwindled , so has the number
of so-called zombies . However RealtyTrac
said on Friday th...
Thu, Feb 5 2015, 2:43 PM
New initiatives aimed at increasing access to credit and making it more
affordable began to pay off in January according to Mike Fratantoni, the
Mor...
Thu, Feb 5 2015, 2:41 PM
Even though his predecessor as head of the Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) was adamant in his refusal to consider it, Melvin L. Watt
seems r...
Wed, Feb 4 2015, 8:59 AM
Mortgage activity showed no signs of settling down from its rather wild
and wooly behavio r since the first of the year. Data from the Mortgage Ban...
Tue, Feb 3 2015, 10:03 AM
The uninterrupted streak
of annual nationwide price increases was extended to 34 months in December
CoreLogic said today. The company's Home
P...
Mon, Feb 2 2015, 12:48 PM
December expenditures for construction posted a small gain
in December, rising a scant 0.4 percent over November figures. The Census Bureau said tod...
Mon, Feb 2 2015, 3:09 PM
Rising home prices have been a boon to many homeowners but may
not bode as well for those who are facing foreclosure. Black Knight Financial Service...
Fri, Jan 30 2015, 3:32 PM
When Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin L. Watts
testified before the House Financial Services Committee early this week he said
that FH...
Fri, Jan 30 2015, 3:27 PM
As it said it would, the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB) has taken steps to assist small lenders , particularly those in
rural areas, c...
Fri, Jan 30 2015, 3:26 PM
The topic of income inequality is, as they
say, trending, and this has moved CoreLogic to look at the nature of incomes and
homeowners. In a rece...
Thu, Jan 29 2015, 10:54 AM
The rate at which contracts were signed to purchase homes was down slightly
in December the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today. Ev...
Thu, Jan 29 2015, 3:49 PM
Fifty-six percent of loans closed in
December were for home purchase, somewhat lower than the average for 2014 as a whole
according to the Originat...
Wed, Jan 28 2015, 9:03 AM
The law of physics prevailed last week and mortgage applications, riding
high for the previous two weeks, returned to earth. The Mortgage Bankers As...
Wed, Jan 28 2015, 5:19 PM
Freddie Mac's Multi-Indicator Market
Index (MiMi) rose nationally this month for the third consecutive time. This,
along with improving three month...
Tue, Jan 27 2015, 11:19 AM
As has been the case for some months the latest report from
S&P/Case Shiller shows a continued slowing of home price increases. November results for...
Tue, Jan 27 2015, 10:38 AM
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Tue, Jan 27 2015, 2:51 PM
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Fri, Jan 23 2015, 11:47 AM
Fannie
Mae's economists expect the economy to strengthen in 2015 and that will "drag"
housing into a better cycle this year.
The company's forec...
Fri, Jan 23 2015, 11:32 AM
There
is certainly no dearth of economic and housing forecasts afoot in the land. Freddie Mac starts out its current U.S.
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