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...
Wed, Jun 25 2014, 12:11 PM
The
Office of Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (OIG-FHFA)
has completed an evaluation of how well FHFA oversees Freddie Mac ...
Wed, Jun 25 2014, 9:14 AM
Mortgage Applications slowed for the second straight time last week but
the loss was modest compared to the 9.2 percent plunge during the week that...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 12:56 PM
The U.S.
foreclosure inventory rate dropped below 2 percent in May for the first time
since the summer of 2008 . The rate,
which reflects the p...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 11:25 AM
New home sales rose at the fastest pace in more than 20 years last month, hitting levels not seen since 2008. The Census
Bureau and the Department...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 10:36 AM
Depending on which report you read this morning - that from
Case-Shiller or from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), home
prices in
April ...
Tue, Jun 24 2014, 1:25 PM
RealtyTrac reports a very large increase
in the median price of a home sold in the U.S. in May compared to the median
price in April. There was a...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 11:20 AM
There were some healthy signals from the
existing home market in May, as sales rose strongly and price growth
moderated. The National Association...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 3:24 PM
Almost one year ago Mark Palim, Fannie
Mae's Vice President of Applied Economic and Housing Research, analyzed what impact rising
rates might hav...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 1:50 PM
Home price are again approaching the high point they
reached in 2006, before the bottom fell out of the housing market. Black Knight in its Home P...
Fri, Jun 20 2014, 12:35 PM
The balance
between loans originated for purchase and for refinancing shifted further
toward the purchase side in May according to the Ellie Mae ...
Fri, Jun 20 2014, 11:31 AM
As we noted last week the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Reserve have scheduled a series
of web seminars on implementat...
Fri, Jun 20 2014, 5:19 PM
Look up into any window of the closest apartment building and odds
are you'll see someone living there. National apartment occupancy in May
soared...
Thu, Jun 19 2014, 11:51 AM
As
a rule, it isn't good when economists use words like "sluggish" and "lackluster,"
the very terms that crept into the opening paragraph of Fredd...
Thu, Jun 19 2014, 2:37 PM
A housing industry that remains
focused on originating safe primary mortgages may be overlooking a new purchase
money niche "ready for the tapping...
Wed, Jun 18 2014, 12:29 PM
Information
from the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) on Tuesday echoing the
trend if not the absolute numbers of data released last we...
Wed, Jun 18 2014, 12:16 PM
SunTrust Mortgage, has agreed to pay a total of nearly $1 billion to settle
various complaints alleging abuses in mortgage origination, servicing, ...
Wed, Jun 18 2014, 9:00 AM
There was a significant drop in mortgage applications, especially for
refinancing, during the week ended June 13 the Mortgage Bankers Association
...
Tue, Jun 17 2014, 11:19 AM
Building permits were issued in May at a
rate that was 6.4 percent lower than that of April and housing starts also fell. Housing completions were u...
Tue, Jun 17 2014, 5:12 PM
The Department of Housing and Urban
Developments Office of Inspector General (HUD-OIG) has submitted its semi-annual
report of its activities to Con...
Mon, Jun 16 2014, 10:36 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells
Fargo Housing Market Index narrowed the gap with positive territory this month
with a jump o...
Mon, Jun 16 2014, 9:50 AM
Do mortgage lenders and real estate
agents need to form a "truth squad" to combat misconceptions about
homeownership? Freddie Mac's vice presiden...
Mon, Jun 16 2014, 2:24 PM
The House Financial Services Committee
(FSC) Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee appears to be picking up the
pace in its investigation of all...
Fri, Jun 13 2014, 12:42 PM
Sales of new and existing homes in the
previously superheated California market slid again in May. Sales totaled 37,734 houses and condos
statewi...
Fri, Jun 13 2014, 11:25 AM
New homes sales posted a loss in May, erasing the 5 percent gain made in
April. The Mortgage Bankers Association
(MBA) estimated that new single-fa...
Fri, Jun 13 2014, 3:10 PM
A whole generation of young Americans seem to have
adopted a set of priorities quite different from those of their elders. Millennials or Generati...
Thu, Jun 12 2014, 10:57 AM
Lenders, settlement agents, and others who are
affected by the new TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures Rule may wish to note the
first in a series of...
Thu, Jun 12 2014, 2:00 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association is
reporting a net per-loan loss was suffered by those independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of
ch...
Wed, Jun 11 2014, 9:58 AM
Mortgage
applications surged by 10.3 percent during the week ended June 6. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
its Market Composite Index...
Wed, Jun 11 2014, 3:38 PM
The first quarter 2014 report of the National
Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) released today states there were 15,246
entities that held a total of...
Tue, Jun 10 2014, 1:32 PM
Foreclosure activity dipped
significantly in May RealtyTrac reported on Tuesday with a decrease of 5
percent in foreclosure filings compared to th...
Tue, Jun 10 2014, 1:12 PM
A bill modifying the definition of
points and fees under the Truth in Lending Act passed the House of
Representatives yesterday on a voice vote.
...
Mon, Jun 9 2014, 12:28 PM
No
matter how the results of Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey for May are
interpreted, it is hard to see them as good short terms news for the...
