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...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 8:55 AM
There were
continued indications during the week ended March 21 of the anticipated 2014
decrease in mortgage volume and the market's gradual shift t...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 4:49 PM
Profits pocketed by independent banks
and banks' mortgage subsidiaries plunged in the fourth quarter of 2013 the
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 3:01 PM
Freddie Mac and its economists would
like to answer the old question "are we there yet?" with "there" in this case
meaning anywhere close to a norma...
Tue, Mar 25 2014, 10:56 AM
After rising by a revised 3.2 percent January, New Home Sales
fell 3.3 percent in February according to data released today by The
Census Bureau...
Tue, Mar 25 2014, 9:46 AM
The current plan to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would result in lower housing prices for everyone. It would harm the United Stat...
Mon, Mar 24 2014, 10:26 AM
Parse Janet Yellen's comments any way you want, but know one thing: This is likely to be an interesting year for bond investors.
Financial market...
Mon, Mar 24 2014, 1:03 PM
Black
Knight Financial Services (formerly Lender Processing Services) reports that
home values in the U.S. as of December remained within 14 percen...
Thu, Mar 20 2014, 11:56 AM
Existing Home Sales, which are completed transactions for
single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, continued
trending lower in Feb...
Wed, Mar 19 2014, 8:11 AM
Mortgage applications fell slightly percent during the week ended March 14. According to MBA's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey the
Market Compos...
Wed, Mar 19 2014, 1:59 PM
Among closed loans in February, the share of refinances fell to 43 percent
from 47 percent in January, and from 68 percent in February 2013,
acc...
Wed, Mar 19 2014, 1:52 PM
Consumers planning to jump into the real estate market this spring will need to reassess pricing, whether they are looking to buy or sell.
The s...
Tue, Mar 18 2014, 3:07 PM
Three non-profit homeowner counseling
organizations have sued California Governor Jerry Brown, charging that the
state had diverted 369 million dol...
Mon, Mar 17 2014, 12:26 PM
As
promised last week, the leadership of the Senate Banking Committee has
released draft legislation to revamp the nation's housing finance system. ...
Mon, Mar 17 2014, 12:14 PM
Builder
confidence as measured by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells
Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) remained flat in March, ...
Mon, Mar 17 2014, 3:43 PM
Closed sales of existing single-family homes slipped
again in February, marking the seventh straight month of declining activity. The
California A...
Fri, Mar 14 2014, 1:21 PM
Two Federal Reserve economists have developed
a home price index which they claim operates in a more real time environment
than those indices curr...
Thu, Mar 13 2014, 12:51 PM
New home sales were up slightly in
February the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said today, but the increase
was based on a substantially downgr...
Thu, Mar 13 2014, 11:50 AM
After
spiking 8 percent in January, foreclosures filings have resumed their downward
spiral RealtyTrac said today. Its U.S.
Foreclosure Market R...
Wed, Mar 12 2014, 12:58 PM
2013 was a "strong year"
for both commercial and multi-family debt holdings the Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) said today and the fourth quarter...
Wed, Mar 12 2014, 8:53 AM
The strong uptick in mortgage applications during the week ended February
28 faded quickly and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said today th...
Wed, Mar 12 2014, 1:23 PM
In an article that appeared recently
in CoreLogic's blog, Popping the Housing
Bubbly Theory, CoreLogic's Chief Economist Dr. Mark Fleming presents...
Tue, Mar 11 2014, 10:57 AM
Reuters and Bloomberg are reporting that the Chair
and the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee have agreed on the
outline of a plan to w...
Tue, Mar 11 2014, 10:10 AM
Investors slightly expanded their loan offerings
and switched to longer-term products in response to new mortgage regulations
the Mortgage Bankers A...
Tue, Mar 11 2014, 1:21 PM
Relatively speaking, one might say that the distressed housing market in
California has virtually evaporated . The
California Association of Realt...
Mon, Mar 10 2014, 11:24 AM
Americans
expectations regarding home prices ticked up decisively in February, both in
terms of anticipating continued price increases and in the si...
Mon, Mar 10 2014, 11:07 AM
The February edition of the Obama
Administrations Housing Scorecard was released late Friday by the Departments
of Treasury and Housing and Urban De...
Fri, Mar 7 2014, 10:07 AM
This morning's Employment Situation Report was stronger than
expected. By historical standards, the "beat" isn't especially large
(175k vs 149k...
Thu, Mar 6 2014, 12:27 PM
An additional 4 million homes regained positive equity in 2013
CoreLogic said today, leaving 6.5 million homes still underwater; about half
the numb...
Thu, Mar 6 2014, 11:01 AM
The venerable Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey
(PMMS™) is a cornerstone of mortgage rate data. It is both
longstanding and highly acc...
Thu, Mar 6 2014, 1:54 PM
Metropolitan areas considered leading
markets on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/First American index
of that name increased to 5...
Wed, Mar 5 2014, 12:12 PM
Even though they stated in a news
release two weeks ago that institutional investment was waning, RealtyTrac has
released a report on its impact on ...
Wed, Mar 5 2014, 8:45 AM
The volume of
mortgage applications increased during the week ended February 28 for the first
time since late January. This good news was
muted ...
