Wed, Jul 30 2014, 9:16 AM
It
was a mixed and largely directionless week for mortgage applications as the
volume of applications for home purchases inched up fractionally wh...
Wed, Jul 30 2014, 3:41 PM
A short sale program for properties
serviced by Nationstar, which bills itself as one of the nation's largest
independent loan servicers, is the sub...
Wed, Jul 30 2014, 3:37 PM
The rate of homeownership in the U.S.
continued to slide in the second quarter of 2014, reaching a 19 year
low . The Commerce Department said tha...
Tue, Jul 29 2014, 11:47 AM
Home price gains continued to slow in May, posting smaller
annual increases than In April the S&P Dow Jones Indices said today. The Indices' Case-Sh...
Mon, Jul 28 2014, 12:06 PM
The Home Price Index (HPI) released
on Monday by Black Knight Financial Services showed another strong
month-over-month gain for housing values in M...
Mon, Jul 28 2014, 11:13 AM
Zillow, the Seattle based company which started out in
the mid-2000s as a website where one could check on one's own and one's
neighbor's property v...
Mon, Jul 28 2014, 10:40 AM
Pending home sales declined modestly in
June after three months of what the National Association of Realtors®
(NAR) called "solid gains." NAR's P...
Mon, Jul 28 2014, 2:54 PM
Public comments are being requested a a
new proposed rule for collecting data under the Home Mortgage
Disclosure Act (HMDA). The Consumer Financial...
Fri, Jul 25 2014, 1:30 PM
It was a bad day on Wall Street
Thursday for housing stocks. In no particular order Census Bureau
data was released showing that new home sales had...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 11:24 AM
New homes sales retreated in June from
the very strong performance reported for May; a performance that
turns out to have been less strong. A join...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 3:23 PM
Freddie Mac said today that its Multi-Indicator Market Index or MiMi for May is sending out mixed signals to
the housing market. While more marke...
Wed, Jul 23 2014, 12:58 PM
The theme for the economy and the
housing market's in 2014 has been set for months; the economy will
continue to slowly strengthen; the modest reco...
Wed, Jul 23 2014, 12:55 PM
Black Knight Financial Services said
today that both delinquencies and foreclosure starts were up slightly
in June. The information was part of t...
Wed, Jul 23 2014, 9:07 AM
The Market Composite Index, a measure of loan application volume had its
first positive week since June 6 last week, increasing 2.4 percent on a
s...
Tue, Jul 22 2014, 11:27 AM
The pace of existing home sales
reached a nine month high in June, topping 5 million units for the first time
since last October while there were ...
Mon, Jul 21 2014, 2:24 PM
Two Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) analysts are defending
what they call their big high conviction views for what should happen in the
housing...
Fri, Jul 18 2014, 11:06 AM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency's Office of Inspector General (FHFA OIG) has
released an evaluation of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's (the GSEs) ...
Fri, Jul 18 2014, 2:40 PM
While he has written about some of the elements in
the past, Mark Fleming neatly summed up the current state of housing's supply
and demand constra...
Thu, Jul 17 2014, 10:57 AM
It has been a long eight years, but
foreclosure activity appears to have returned to levels last seen before the
housing downturn was born in 2006. ...
Thu, Jul 17 2014, 10:48 AM
All three residential construction indicators fell
in June according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and
Urban Development. ...
Wed, Jul 16 2014, 11:41 AM
JP Morgan Chase appears to be questioning
the wisdom of remaining an FHA lender. The company's Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, made
critical comme...
Wed, Jul 16 2014, 11:38 AM
Homebuilder confidence in the market for
new homes crossed into positive territory in July, the first time the measure
has been above the crucial 50...
Wed, Jul 16 2014, 8:48 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Market Composite Index notched
another decline during the week ended July 11, the fifth straight down we...
Tue, Jul 15 2014, 4:52 PM
The rule of thumb for household budgeting is that no more than 30
percent of income should go toward housing; more constitutes a
cost-burdened hou...
Mon, Jul 14 2014, 12:15 PM
While the magnitude
isn't clear, that the growth of renter households has risen far above average
in recent years is. The Housing Vacancy Survey r...
Fri, Jul 11 2014, 12:41 PM
Growing equity and a
rebound in sales of new and existing homes were the highlight of the June edition
of the Obama Administration's Housing Scoreca...
Fri, Jul 11 2014, 12:16 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released new draft
requirements for private insurance companies that insure mortgages purchased by
the...
Fri, Jul 11 2014, 1:16 PM
MND's fourth
part of its summary of the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies' State of the Nation's Housing published
yesterday looked at the...
Thu, Jul 10 2014, 11:23 AM
Applications for new home purchase
mortgages declined in June for the second month in a row the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) said today. ...
Thu, Jul 10 2014, 3:58 PM
Part 4 of the
recent edition of the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies' report on the State of the Nation's Housing looks at
the declining r...
Wed, Jul 9 2014, 10:26 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association reported this morning that its Market Composite
Index, which measures the volume of mortgage applications, increas...
Wed, Jul 9 2014, 1:12 PM
A recent survey by Redfin, the
Seattle-based real estate company, found some substantial disconnects among
buyers, sellers, and market reality.
...
Tue, Jul 8 2014, 10:51 AM
Even as various
indicators of foreclosure activity continue to tumble from their year ago
levels, they still tend to bounce up and down from month t...
Tue, Jul 8 2014, 10:37 AM
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Mon, Jul 7 2014, 10:55 AM
Responses to Fannie Mae's National
Housing Survey for June showed more marked changes in several categories than
has been the case in recent month...
Thu, Jul 3 2014, 2:15 PM
In the second part
of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies' latest update on The State of the Nation's Housing, the
authors look at the na...
Thu, Jul 3 2014, 1:26 PM
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies' most recent edition of The State of the Nation's Housing deals first with the current status of the hous...
Thu, Jul 3 2014, 1:04 PM
Mortgage
prepayments have picked up over the last three months as interest rates pulled
back from recent highs. Black Knight
Financial Services ...
Wed, Jul 2 2014, 8:54 AM
Even as
mortgage interest rates retreated across the board last week Mortgage
application volume remained essentially unchanged . The Mortgage Ban...
Tue, Jul 1 2014, 10:57 AM
Home
prices enjoyed a 27 th straight month of year-over-year growth in May
CoreLogic said today, but noted that those gains are no longer in the ...
Tue, Jul 1 2014, 2:06 PM
Federal and state regulatory
agencies have issued final guidance to financial institutions under their
jurisdiction regarding home equity lines of c...
Tue, Jul 1 2014, 1:46 PM
Construction spending in the U.S. was
essentially flat in May although there were gains from one year earlier. A small gain in spending by the pub...
Mon, Jun 30 2014, 10:32 AM
There was encouraging home market news
from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) this morning. The association's Pending Home Sales Index
s...
Mon, Jun 30 2014, 3:40 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency said
on Friday that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae continue to complete thousands of
foreclosure prevention actions i...
Fri, Jun 27 2014, 2:39 PM
The U.S. housing recovery should regain its
footing, but also faces a number of challenges .
Tight credit, still elevated unemployment, and mounti...
Fri, Jun 27 2014, 2:16 PM
RealtyTrac
recently analyzed residential sales over the year that ended in March to
determine what drives discounts in the market value or premium...
Fri, Jun 27 2014, 1:52 PM
The
percentage of current and performing mortgages serviced by large national and
federal savings banks improved by more than a percentage point dur...
Thu, Jun 26 2014, 12:31 PM
The Office of Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) National Risk Committee (NRC) pronounced the financial position
of federally chartered institutions...
Wed, Jun 25 2014, 12:27 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is making
another attempt to reach homeowners who might benefit from its Home Affordable
Refinance Progr...
Wed, Jun 25 2014, 12:14 PM
Freddie Mac said today that the U.S.
housing market is sending mixed signals .
Most markets, according to the company's Multi-Indicator Market Ind...
