Tue, Nov 25 2014, 11:25 AM
The maximum conforming loan limit will
remain at $417,000 for most of the U.S. in 2015. FHFA announced the limits, which define the
size of loans...
Tue, Nov 25 2014, 11:00 AM
Is the party officially over?
S&P Dow Jones Indices said today that
the increase in home prices, which has shown diminishing energy for months,
...
Mon, Nov 24 2014, 2:23 PM
The Federal Reserve has completed its
latest round of Quantitative Easing, the government sponsored enterprises
(GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae ar...
Fri, Nov 21 2014, 2:38 PM
Growing
numbers of severe weather events throughout the U.S. may be giving new meaning
to "location, location, location" in the housing world. Co...
Fri, Nov 21 2014, 2:22 PM
Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac have nailed down the promised details the life-of-loan
exclusions related to their representation and warranty framewor...
Fri, Nov 21 2014, 2:20 PM
A report from the Federal Housing Finance
Agency (FHFA) says that while the average fee charged by the government
sponsored enterprises (GSEs) for p...
Fri, Nov 21 2014, 1:45 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed
some new measures affecting the way servicers handle mortgages in various
stages of def...
Thu, Nov 20 2014, 1:08 PM
Melvin L. Watt, Director of the Federal Housing Finance
Agency (FHFA) told the Senate Banking Committee today that Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae (the G...
Thu, Nov 20 2014, 1:02 PM
If October sales of existing homes are an indication
2014 may come to a better conclusion than has been expected. The National Association of Realto...
Wed, Nov 19 2014, 11:53 AM
October was a mixed month for new
residential construction data. More
permits were issued than in September but housing starts and completions w...
Wed, Nov 19 2014, 9:37 AM
The week ended November 14 was a lackluster one for
mortgage activity. Mortgage applications
during the week, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers A...
Tue, Nov 18 2014, 10:48 AM
New home builders regained some of the confidence in
the market they had displayed in September after wavering significantly in
October. The Na...
Mon, Nov 17 2014, 3:37 PM
Despite dire predictions from many quarters the
Federal Housing Administration's (FHA's) Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMIF)
has returned to solve...
Mon, Nov 17 2014, 2:38 PM
The prognosticators are already gearing up
for the New Year and at least one foresees a strong economy in 2015. Freddie Mac's chief economist Frank ...
Fri, Nov 14 2014, 12:44 PM
Although cash sales ticked up slightly in August, a
pattern that has been maintained for 14 of the last 15 years, that share of all
home sales conti...
Fri, Nov 14 2014, 12:39 PM
Even through housing prices gained ground in the third
quarter of 2014 the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said today
that affordabilit...
Thu, Nov 13 2014, 10:06 AM
A surge in scheduled auctions sent the
overall rate of foreclosure activity surging in October. In its U.S.
Foreclosure Market Report released on ...
Thu, Nov 13 2014, 9:56 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) noted a significant
increase in new home sales in October.
MBA's estimate is based on responses to its Bui...
Wed, Nov 12 2014, 10:16 AM
Mortgage application volume declined slightly in all but
one category during the week ended November 7.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said tha...
Wed, Nov 12 2014, 3:34 PM
Seven years after the financial crisis the
private label securities (PLS) market is "barely clinging to life" , a Treasury
official said on Wednesd...
Mon, Nov 10 2014, 2:11 PM
Consumer attitudes toward housing and the
economy in general continued the slow improvement that has become the norm according
to results from the...
Mon, Nov 10 2014, 1:43 PM
Senior loan officers who responded to the Federal
Reserve's quarterly survey of bank lending practices in October reported that
changes to bank len...
Fri, Nov 7 2014, 2:54 PM
Equity got some close scrutiny in the
current edition of Mortgage Monitor, a
monthly publication of Black Knight Financial Services. The company ...
Fri, Nov 7 2014, 2:09 PM
Earlier this year, after solid price increases nationally (11 percent in
2013 alone) and near meteoric gains in some markets, speculation began about...
Fri, Nov 7 2014, 1:25 PM
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Melvin H.
Watt told an audience of Realtors® today that after some difficult years in
housing a much ...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 10:57 AM
The National Association of Home
Builders/First American Title Leading Market Index (LMI) had a year-over-year net
gain of seven metropolitan area...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 2:07 PM
Institutional
investor participation in the single family residential market fell another
notch in the third quarter of 2014. RealtyTrac
said to...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 2:02 PM
Is the foreclosure storm almost over or
as RealtyTrac suggests in its most recent HousingNewsReport , merely
gathering strength to come roaring ba...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 1:43 PM
Both Freddie Mac
and Fannie Mae released third quarter financial results on Thursday. The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs)
each reported tha...
Wed, Nov 5 2014, 9:30 AM
The resurgence enjoyed by refinancing over the last few weeks subsided a
bit in the face of rising interest rates during the week ended October 31. ...
Tue, Nov 4 2014, 12:33 PM
Home prices fell slightly in September
compared to the previous month CoreLogic said on Tuesday, but continued to
increase on a year-over-year basi...
Tue, Nov 4 2014, 12:26 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on
Tuesday that an anomaly was likely responsible for the slight downward shift in
mortgage credit ava...
Mon, Nov 3 2014, 12:20 PM
The
downward-drifting participation of first-time homebuyers over the last few
years has brought their share of the home buying market to its lowes...
Mon, Nov 3 2014, 1:50 PM
U.S. construction spending eased back
slightly in September, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $950.92 billion. The U.S. Census Bureau repor...
Fri, Oct 31 2014, 11:07 AM
A recent motion filed by a mortgage
company to dismiss portions of a class action suit against it shows, according
to an attorney familiar with the ...
Fri, Oct 31 2014, 3:26 PM
A survey of attitudes toward housing
released on Thursday by The Demand Institute indicates that the Baby Boom
generation still has no intention of...
Thu, Oct 30 2014, 12:30 PM
"A real estate market that should be flying high is
instead a real estate market that is faltering ," according to Brian Mushaney,
Executive Vice...
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 9:54 AM
Mortgage application numbers during the week ended
October 24 backed off a bit from the numbers posted during the week ended
October 17 but were s...
Wed, Oct 29 2014, 1:59 PM
Completed foreclosures rose slightly in
September CoreLogic said today, but the long-term trend continues to be a
relatively precipitous drop from t...
Tue, Oct 28 2014, 10:59 AM
August data released this morning by S&P Dow Jones Indices reveals that, while home prices throughout the U.S. continue to increase, the rapid pace ...
Mon, Oct 27 2014, 10:40 AM
Pending home sales, while increasing
only slightly in September, exceeded those of a year earlier, the first time in
11 months this has occurred. ...
Mon, Oct 27 2014, 2:15 PM
Home
price increases wound down further in August.
The Home Price Index released by Black Knight Financial Services today
rose a negligibl e 0.1 p...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 12:33 PM
New home sales increased only slightly in September,
up 0.2 percent over August, bringing the annual rate of those sales to
467,000. Sales were up ...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 10:59 AM
Fannie Mae said on Thursday that real economic
growth in the last two quarters of 2014 appear poised to exceed 3.0 percent ,
providing a solid basi...
Fri, Oct 24 2014, 10:57 AM
September appears to have been another
month in which loan performance improved and the states continued to slog
through the overhang of delinquen...
Thu, Oct 23 2014, 2:09 PM
Builders who engage in home remodeling continue to
display confidence in their market the National Association of Home Builders
(NAHB) said today. ...
Thu, Oct 23 2014, 2:06 PM
The percentage
of American homeowners a mortgage that was seriously underwater fell to 15
percent in the third quarter of 2014 RealtyTrac said on ...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 8:52 AM
Falling interest rate precipitated a
major refinancing rally during the week ended October 17 even though Columbus
Day shortened the business weeks ...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 3:26 PM
Frank
E. Nothaft and Leonard Kiefer, Freddie Mac's chief and deputy chief economists
have come up with a formula for lifting the economy from its ...
Tue, Oct 21 2014, 11:44 AM
Existing home sales, which ended four
straight months of gains with a 1.8 percent decline in August, bounced back in
September the National Associat...
