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 ...
Fri, Aug 29 2014, 12:42 PM
RealtyTrac estimated that home
sales in July were at an annualized rate of 4.63 million units , a decrease of 3
percent from June and down 12 perce...
Thu, Aug 28 2014, 11:14 AM
What's this? The borrower receives a cat when their mortgage closes?
What would the CFPB say? Will fleas lead to a class action lawsuit a
year d...
Thu, Aug 28 2014, 11:09 AM
Favorable housing conditions were
credited for leading pending home sales higher in July to their best level
since August 2013 . Pending sales as...
Wed, Aug 27 2014, 12:40 PM
Distressed housing measures continued on
a somewhat jagged path toward normalcy in July according to preliminary numbers
released by Black Knight ...
Wed, Aug 27 2014, 9:52 AM
Applications for both home purchase and refinancing increased during the
week ended August 22. The Mortgage
Bankers Association said that its Marke...
Wed, Aug 27 2014, 1:16 PM
Freddie Mac said today that the housing
recovery continues to be a primarily local phenomenon . While markets with strong economies and
favorable ...
Wed, Aug 27 2014, 1:11 PM
Home prices have now increased on a quarterly
basis 12 consecutive times. The Federal
Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said yesterday that the 12 th ...
Tue, Aug 26 2014, 11:52 AM
The Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently revised its policy guidance to residential
mortgage servicers and subservicers regarding t...
Tue, Aug 26 2014, 11:45 AM
Mortgage banks substantially improved
their bottom line numbers in the second quarter after posting a loss on every
loan written during the first ...
Tue, Aug 26 2014, 11:39 AM
The S&P Dow Jones Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for June confirm
what reports from earlier months have indicated, that there is a sustained
slowd...
Mon, Aug 25 2014, 10:46 AM
New home sales were down again in July, declining by
2.4 percent from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 412,000
units. But the June rate...
Mon, Aug 25 2014, 2:20 PM
Home prices continued to increase in June but the
Home Price Index (HPI) released by Black Knight Financial Services showed
continued slowing in t...
Thu, Aug 21 2014, 11:46 AM
Existing home sales in July hit their
best pace so far this year the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said
today, reflecting a 2.4 percent in...
Thu, Aug 21 2014, 11:44 AM
Total refinances through completed
through Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) in the second quarter topped
344,000. The Federal Housing Finance
...
Thu, Aug 21 2014, 11:31 AM
It seems hard to imagine, but
CoreLogic said on Wednesday that once-upon-a time, before the housing crisis,
the sale of distressed homes made up on...
Wed, Aug 20 2014, 8:51 AM
As interest rates pulled back last week, refinancing drove mortgage
application activity slightly higher . The
Mortgage Bankers Association said t...
Wed, Aug 20 2014, 2:35 PM
Realtors responding to a recent survey
by the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) reported that investors and
investor sales are a shrinki...
Tue, Aug 19 2014, 10:45 AM
Two important measures of strength in
the housing and construction industries moved substantially higher in July the
U.S. Census Bureau and the De...
Mon, Aug 18 2014, 11:14 AM
Measures
of builder confidence in the new home market rose again this month. The third consecutive monthly increase in the
National Association o...
Mon, Aug 18 2014, 4:21 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB) has increased threshold amounts for loans governed by various trigger
limits under Qualified Mortgag...
Fri, Aug 15 2014, 2:46 PM
Home prices "firmed" in several markets
in the second quarter and, according to the National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing...
Fri, Aug 15 2014, 2:20 PM
Less than a half-year after the
Ability-to-Repay (ATR) and Qualified Mortgage (QM) rules took effect most
lenders report little impact on their busi...
Fri, Aug 15 2014, 1:34 PM
CoreLogic
recently awarded its Academic Research Council Excellence Award to a study
conducted by professors from three universities who looked at r...
Thu, Aug 14 2014, 10:37 AM
There was a significant uptick in
foreclosure filings in July according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Foreclosure Market
Report. The company said however ...
Thu, Aug 14 2014, 10:31 AM
Applications for the purchase of newly
constructed single-family homes rose 2 percent in July. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) based
this ...
