Mon, Apr 28 2014, 10:37 AM
Contracts for home purchases ended a dismal
nine-month downturn in March marked by the first improvement in the Pending
Home Sales Index (PSHSI) p...
Fri, Apr 25 2014, 12:59 PM
While the Gallup survey released on
Thursday shows that Americans are regaining their faith in home ownership, at
least as a worthwhile investme...
Fri, Apr 25 2014, 10:41 AM
David Crowe, Chief Economist of the National
Association of Home Builders (NAHB) told members attending the Association's
2014 Spring Construction...
Thu, Apr 24 2014, 12:28 PM
A new Gallup survey seems to indicate that Americans
are falling in love with real estate again .
The poll, conducted among over a thousand respon...
Thu, Apr 24 2014, 10:54 AM
Sales of residential properties were
marginally higher in March than in February and the median price of both
distressed and non-distressed proper...
Thu, Apr 24 2014, 10:20 AM
The mortgage
closing table is the site of considerable pain and confusion for homebuyers, Richard
Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Prot...
Wed, Apr 23 2014, 12:15 PM
New homes sales in March were down 14.5
percent from sales in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000.
The New Residential Sale...
Wed, Apr 23 2014, 9:24 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
the average size of a purchase mortgage loan reported by respondents to its most
recent Weekly Mortgag...
Wed, Apr 23 2014, 1:26 PM
California appears to be gearing up for
a strong spring market according to pending home sales figures released today
by the California Association ...
Wed, Apr 23 2014, 1:14 PM
The February edition of the new
Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) introduced by Freddie Mac last month indicates
that the U.S. housing market ov...
Tue, Apr 22 2014, 11:31 AM
Sales of existing homes were
essentially unchanged in March compared to February the National Association of
Realtors® (NAR) said today. Home price...
Tue, Apr 22 2014, 10:30 AM
Black Knight Financial Services said
today that the mortgage delinquency rate in March was the lowest in the U.S.
since October 2007 and the forec...
Tue, Apr 22 2014, 1:57 PM
Recent postings on CoreLogic's Insights Blog have a couple of
different views of some of the housing numbers generally taken at face value by
...
Mon, Apr 21 2014, 9:36 AM
Home remodeling remains strong
throughout the country although it has begun to experience some of the
moderation that has been predicted since lat...
Thu, Apr 17 2014, 10:38 AM
Homes with serious negative equity
numbers have now declined to the lowest point in at least two years RealtyTrac
said today. The company, which ...
Thu, Apr 17 2014, 9:53 AM
Ellie Mae's Origination Insight Report said today that 40 percent of mortgage
loans closed in March were originated for refinancing and 60 percen...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 12:10 PM
Two of the three measures of residential
construction activity used by the Census Bureau fell slightly in March. Fewer permits were issued and few...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 9:20 AM
Use of secured loans or advances from the 12 Federal Home
Loan Banks (FHLBanks) by their four largest members has surged over the last
two years. ...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 7:00 AM
Mortgage applications reversed a five week slide during the week ended
April 11 as applications for both purchasing and refinancing increased from ...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 11:45 AM
The National Association of Home
Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) rose to 47 this month,
indicating a slight improvement in th...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 10:49 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
estimated today that there was a 15 percent increase in applications for new
home purchases in March compar...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 10:45 AM
Another survey has found a slight
overall improvement in consumer attitudes toward the economy. The New York Federal Reserve Bank said that
its mo...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 12:42 PM
Health care costs aren't rising fast enough for the Fed's liking, and
that may help keep interest rates lower for longer. But is the problem
one ...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 11:26 AM
Two of the nation's largest banks
released their first quarter earnings on Thursday. The results of one outpaced analysts'
expectations while the o...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 1:58 PM
HOPE Now, founded in 2007 as an early
response to the growing threat of foreclosures, continues to negotiate loan
modifications in double-digit numb...
Thu, Apr 10 2014, 1:26 PM
RealtyTrac reported today that an
uptick in foreclosure starts last month drove an overall increase in the nation's
foreclosure activity. There w...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 10:41 AM
Friday
we can look forward to Chase and Wells' earnings . Although their market
share has been slipping, given their collective place in the indu...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 9:15 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's Market
Composite Index, a measure of mortgage application activity, inched down again during the week ended April ...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 1:45 PM
Although the second home mortgage market
experienced a severe decline during the housing downturn, Americans still
aspire to buy second homes and ha...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 12:30 PM
In a recent blog post written by Molly Boesel CoreLogic
questions the true role of the recent severe weather in a lag in single family
housing sta...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 10:17 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) noted this morning that mortgage
credit was slightly more available in March than it was in February. The Ass...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 3:25 PM
Mortgages for multifamily properties outpaced other
commercial and multifamily mortgage originations in 2013 the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 12:22 PM
Black
Knight Financial Services said that mortgage originations at the end of
February were at the lowest levels in at least 14 years , as far back...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 11:00 AM
The Obama Administration's February
Housing Scorecard, just released, harkens back to those not so thrilling days
of yesteryear, using data from sev...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 2:21 PM
The National Association of Home
Builders' (NAHB)/First American Leading Market Index (LMI) was unchanged from
March to April , remaining at 59 met...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 1:30 PM
Fannie Mae sees results from its most recent National
Housing Survey (NHS) as possibly portending a pickup in home buying and selling
activity this ...
Fri, Apr 4 2014, 2:20 PM
More potential buyers are out trolling the nation's neighborhoods
for their dream homes. Unfortunately, they are finding little to look at
and, ev...
Thu, Apr 3 2014, 12:46 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) was assailed by Republican members of the House Financial Services
Committee and by two witnesses fo...
Thu, Apr 3 2014, 9:25 AM
There were a total of 43,000 completed foreclosure in February, CoreLogic
said today. This was 15 percent fewer
than in February 2013 when forecl...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 10:55 AM
Vacation home purchases recovered
strongly in 2013, helping to offset some of the inevitable flagging interest in
investment purchases the Nationa...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 8:56 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that mortgage applications decreased
again during the week ended March 28, The seasonally adjusted M...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 1:51 PM
The government sponsored enterprises
(GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued active foreclosure prevention
activities in the fourth quarter of 2...
Tue, Apr 1 2014, 10:31 AM
Home
prices continue to increase by double digit percentages on a year-over-year
basis CoreLogic said today. The
company's Home Price Index (HPI...
Tue, Apr 1 2014, 1:08 PM
Beginning yesterday morning, the most widely-used Loan Origination Software (LOS) has been offline. Ellie Mae estimates their Encompass platform
...
Mon, Mar 31 2014, 3:48 PM
Dr. Kenneth Rosen, Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate
and Urban Economics and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkley emerges
as ...
Fri, Mar 28 2014, 2:34 PM
CoreLogic Chief Economist Mark
Fleming suggests that an examination of housing's one-percenters might be as valuable
an analysis as a glance at th...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 10:43 AM
The National Association of Realtors®
(NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) for February added more confirmation of a
slowing home housing market. ...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 10:23 AM
The former top executive of Bank of
America (the Bank) was a named party in a settlement between the bank and the
State of New York announced on W...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 10:19 AM
Home
sales continue to cool , dipping to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.08
million in February RealtyTrac said today.
This was a -0.2 per...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 4:53 PM
Strong response to an earlier limited incentive offer for home buyers has prompted the Fannie Mae HomePath® Program to briefly extend the offer's de...
