Tue, Oct 7 2014, 10:34 AM
Nine states established new price peaks
in August CoreLogic said today. The
company's August Home Price Index which includes distressed sales was...
Tue, Oct 7 2014, 2:47 PM
A recent audit of the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB) found that it was doing a good job in general in its role of
regulatory rule-mak...
Tue, Oct 7 2014, 2:20 PM
Fannie Mae said its September National
Housing Survey noted a rebound in consumer housing optimism after a dip was
recorded in August. Most indic...
Mon, Oct 6 2014, 3:45 PM
The average age of a mortgage loan outstanding in
2014 is the highest in history Black Knight Financial Services said today. While the age of mort...
Fri, Oct 3 2014, 1:33 PM
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of
the Federal Reserve System released a report on Thursday critical of the way in
which the Board (and by ext...
Fri, Oct 3 2014, 1:29 PM
Business media are having a lot of fun
today over a throw-away remark Ben Bernanke made yesterday. In a question and answer session with Moody
An...
Thu, Oct 2 2014, 10:59 AM
Along with its monthly report on mortgage credit
availability (MCAI) the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has introduced two
new measures, a conv...
Thu, Oct 2 2014, 1:30 PM
CoreLogic said this morning that over
the last 10 years the number of completed foreclosures in the U.S. has been the
equivalent of 15 percent of a...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 10:58 AM
A lawsuit challenging the manner in
which profits from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) have been allocated to
the U.S. Treasury was dismisse...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 10:19 AM
Last week was another down week for
mortgage applications according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Its Weekly Mortgage Applications Surv...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 1:04 PM
Total construction spending in the U.S.
in August was estimated by the Census Bureau today to be at the seasonally
adjusted annual rate of $961.0 bi...
Tue, Sep 30 2014, 10:48 AM
There was what the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
called "a significant slowdown in price increases in July S&P Dow
Jones Indices said today....
Tue, Sep 30 2014, 4:10 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) filed a Consent Order on Tuesday against Lighthouse Title, a title
insurer based in Holland, Michiga...
Tue, Sep 30 2014, 1:32 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) came down hard on Michigan-based Flagstar Bank both legally and verbally
as it issued the first ...
Mon, Sep 29 2014, 10:52 AM
Pending home sales declined slightly in
August, mirroring a similar pull-back in existing home sales announced last
week. The National Association ...
Fri, Sep 26 2014, 3:41 PM
Study after study has shown that
Millennials - that generation of Americans currently between the ages of 18 and
34 - are becoming homeowners at rat...
Fri, Sep 26 2014, 3:34 PM
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch says its official outlook
for the economy is neither that of a Bull forecasting a cyclical surge or a
Bear's view of s...
Thu, Sep 25 2014, 3:14 PM
U.S. homeowners gained or regained more
than $1 trillion in equity over the year that ended on June 30, 2014. According to Core-Logic's 2nd quarte...
Thu, Sep 25 2014, 2:56 PM
Mortgage delinquencies jumped in August , a 5 percent
increase which sent the rate to its highest level since February. At the same time, foreclos...
Thu, Sep 25 2014, 2:54 PM
At
its second annual summit for stakeholders on Monday the Government National Mortgage
Association (Ginnie Mae) issued a policy paper detailing how...
Thu, Sep 25 2014, 2:35 PM
RealtyTrac estimated on Thursday that
sales of residential property including single family homes, condominiums, and
townhomes set an annual pace of...
Wed, Sep 24 2014, 10:40 AM
There was a significant jump in new home sales in
August as the seasonally adjusted rate broke through the half million mark for
the first time sin...
Wed, Sep 24 2014, 9:19 AM
Last week's rally in
mortgage application activity was just that, last week's. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBS) said
today that the number of...
Tue, Sep 23 2014, 12:58 PM
Fannie
Mae's economists are painting a much improved picture for the economy in the
coming months with encouraging news in the area of business in...
Tue, Sep 23 2014, 12:43 PM
Home prices as measured by the Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) eked out another small increase in July, but monthly
figures show a definite s...
Mon, Sep 22 2014, 11:35 AM
The investors who kept the real estate market living and breathing through
the worst days of the housing crash continue to drift out of the market th...
Mon, Sep 22 2014, 1:23 PM
The second annual Ginnie Mae Summit
opened today in Washington with a keynote speech from the new Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development Julia...
Fri, Sep 19 2014, 2:25 PM
In its latest Mortgage
Lender Sentiment Survey Fannie Mae detected an interesting switch in attitudes
and opinions in two areas. The
third-quarter...
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 3:19 PM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
has released an audit critical of the FHFA for decision making l...
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 3:03 PM
Housing
starts 'plummeted' in August the Census Bureau said today, falling 14.4 percent
from the revised seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,117,00...
Wed, Sep 17 2014, 11:33 AM
A four point jump in September has taken the
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index
(HMI) to its highest re...
Wed, Sep 17 2014, 9:17 AM
The week ended September 12 saw the losses in application volume which occurred
during the previous week which was shortened by the Labor Day holiday...
Tue, Sep 16 2014, 4:08 PM
As the U.S. economy improves and adds jobs, younger Americans-millennials-are slowly starting to move out from their parents' basements , where a rec...
Mon, Sep 15 2014, 12:15 PM
Lack of knowledge and misinformation may be discouraging
Americans from buying a home according to a recent survey sponsored by Wells
Fargo &Company...
Mon, Sep 15 2014, 2:19 PM
Much has been made lately over the
propensity of so-called millennials, the demographic cohort which is now
between 18 and 34 years of age, to forgo...
Fri, Sep 12 2014, 1:33 PM
There are five key issues confronting
the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) its director told a banking audience
on Monday. The five, taken t...
Thu, Sep 11 2014, 1:43 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA's)
measure of new home sales reflected a significant drop in the volume of applications
for mortgages to p...
Thu, Sep 11 2014, 1:42 PM
Foreclosure activity increased significantly in August according to the
U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released Thursday by RealtyTrac. The increa...
Wed, Sep 10 2014, 9:10 AM
Mortgage applications displayed their worst
volumes in months during the week ended September 5. That the week was shortened by the Labor Day
holid...
Tue, Sep 9 2014, 2:38 PM
The market share of all-cash home sales
continues to fall and in June made up the lowest share since the beginning of
the financial crisis . Cor...
Tue, Sep 9 2014, 1:30 PM
Freddie Mac's HomeStep program, the
vehicle through which the company sells its foreclosed property or REO, is
experiencing increased numbers of m...
Mon, Sep 8 2014, 12:52 PM
Consumer sentiment toward housing
appeared to turn a bit negative in August.
Fewer participants in Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey thought i...
Fri, Sep 5 2014, 3:08 PM
Housing America's Older Adults, a new study conducted by Harvard's
Joint Center for Housing Studies for the AARP Foundation points to the
problems...
Thu, Sep 4 2014, 10:44 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on
Thursday that overall access to mortgage credit tightened very slightly in
August. The Association...
Wed, Sep 3 2014, 9:16 AM
Mortgage applications were virtually
unchanged during the week ended August 29.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said that its Market Composite I...
Tue, Sep 2 2014, 10:34 AM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is seeking public comment on a set of
preliminary affordable housing goals for the two government spon...
Tue, Sep 2 2014, 2:00 PM
Home Equity Lines of Credit or HELOCs are one area
of focus of the July Mortgage Monitor
issued by Black Knight Financial Services on Tuesday. Th...
Tue, Sep 2 2014, 1:38 PM
Home
prices increased continued in July and those increases continue to be
broad-based CoreLogic said on Tuesday.
The company's Home Price Index...
Tue, Sep 2 2014, 1:31 PM
Construction spending in July was at a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of $981.3 billion the Census Bureau said today--the highest since December 200...
Fri, Aug 29 2014, 12:48 PM
FICO, the company that develops proprietary scoring models for credit bureaus and lenders, announced August 7 that a new model (FICO Score 9) would ...
