Tue, Mar 4 2014, 12:04 PM
Home
prices, including sales of distressed homes, increased nationally by 12 percent
in the 12 months ended in January CoreLogic said today. This w...
Tue, Mar 4 2014, 11:42 AM
Mortgage
originations in January were at the lowest level in 6 years 2008 Black Knight
Financial Services said today and data on prepayment speeds a...
Tue, Mar 4 2014, 4:14 PM
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund will have a positive capital reserve balance at
the end of Fiscal 2014 estim...
Mon, Mar 3 2014, 1:16 PM
The Census Bureau said today that
construction put in place in January was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate
of $943.1 billion, up 0.1 percent f...
Fri, Feb 28 2014, 10:02 AM
Pending
sales changed little from December to January the National Association of
Realtors® (NAR) said today. That is not
surprising as the bad w...
Thu, Feb 27 2014, 12:59 PM
Freddie
Mac posted its ninth consecutive quarter of positive net and comprehensive
income on Thursday as well as a substantial profit for Fiscal 2...
Thu, Feb 27 2014, 12:37 PM
Foreclosure statistics continue to
improve in the "first look" at January data provided Thursday by Black Knight
Financial Services. While the time...
Thu, Feb 27 2014, 10:40 AM
Foreclosure completions accelerated in
January, rising 11.8 percent to 48,000 compared to 43,000 in December. CoreLogic's January National Forecl...
Thu, Feb 27 2014, 10:13 AM
Institutional investors appear to be
losing interest in purchasing foreclosed properties for rentals in the face of
rising property prices and int...
Thu, Feb 27 2014, 2:33 PM
Builders and developers engaged in the
multi-family market grew a little less confident in that market during the
fourth quarter of last year. Th...
Wed, Feb 26 2014, 11:29 AM
Buyers seem to have ignored the unusually
stormy weather that affected a lot of the country in January, trooping through
snow and ice to boost new...
Wed, Feb 26 2014, 8:58 AM
Applications
for mortgage refinancing made up only 58 percent of all mortgage applications
during the week ended February 21, down 3 percentage po...
Wed, Feb 26 2014, 1:47 PM
The index tracking pending home sales in California jumped
22.9 percent in January to 84.8 from 68.9 in December. This was the first increase in t...
Wed, Feb 26 2014, 1:38 PM
Commercial banks and savings institutions
have increased quarterly earnings year over year for the 17 out of the last 18
quarters the Federal Depo...
Tue, Feb 25 2014, 11:40 AM
The S&P Case-Shiller National home
price index and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Home Price Index (HPI),
both issued on Tuesday, diverged sh...
Tue, Feb 25 2014, 10:27 AM
Black
Knight Financial Services (formerly Lender Processing Services) reports that
home values in the U.S. as of December had recovered to within 1...
Tue, Feb 25 2014, 4:22 PM
The House Financial Services Committee (FSC)
has released advanced information regarding an investigation conducted by the
Office of Inspector Gener...
Tue, Feb 25 2014, 1:18 PM
The growth in the average size of a new
home paused briefly at the beginning of the recession as Americans retrenched
in a lot of ways, but times ha...
Mon, Feb 24 2014, 4:52 PM
A Connecticut lender has been fined
$83,000 by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for violating Real Estate
Settlement Procedures Act (...
Fri, Feb 21 2014, 10:52 AM
The fourth
quarter of 2013 was its eighth consecutive profitable quarter Fannie Mae said
today and the company posted net income for the entire year...
Thu, Feb 20 2014, 12:32 PM
About two-thirds of the homes sold
during the fourth quarter of 2013 are considered " affordable " according to the National
Association of Home B...
Thu, Feb 20 2014, 12:25 PM
In the latest edition of CoreLogic's Market Pulse the company's senior
economist Mark Fleming provides a different take on housing affordability ...
Thu, Feb 20 2014, 2:13 PM
Both mortgage delinquency rates and the foreclosure
inventory rate hit their lowest points in five years at the end of the fourth
quarter of 2013....
Wed, Feb 19 2014, 10:47 AM
Numbers for both housing permits and
housing starts were much lower in January than in December while housing completions
were up. The Northeast ...
Wed, Feb 19 2014, 8:31 AM
Interest rates increased definitively
last week and mortgage application volumes fell according to data released
today by the Mortgage Bankers Assoc...
Wed, Feb 19 2014, 3:33 PM
Sales of existing homes in California
were essentially flat in January the California Association of Realtors®
(C.A.R.) said on Wednesday. While
...
Wed, Feb 19 2014, 3:19 PM
Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) President David H. Stevens
congratulated mortgage servicers attending MBA's National Mortgage Servicing
Conferenc...
Tue, Feb 18 2014, 10:52 AM
BuildFax said that residential
remodeling increased by 1 percent from November to December and was up 9
percent from a year earlier. Permits for
...
Tue, Feb 18 2014, 10:50 AM
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)
provided a number of explanations for a record drop in the NAHB/Wells Fargo
Housing Market Index (...
Tue, Feb 18 2014, 2:49 PM
Using
an Olympic theme of " Will Housing Take Gold ", Freddie Mac's economists said
today that, while they had expected housing 'to come out of the ...
Tue, Feb 18 2014, 1:20 PM
Freddie Mac has joined Fannie Mae in
offering limited time and location inducements to move sales on its owned real
estate (REO). The company today...
Thu, Feb 13 2014, 10:56 AM
Foreclosure activity increased in
January with filings up 8 percent from December on a nationwide basis. RealtyTrac reported today there was a tot...
Thu, Feb 13 2014, 10:26 AM
The January spurt in applications for
new home purchases does not surprise Mike Fratantoni, chief economists for the
Mortgage Bankers Association....
Thu, Feb 13 2014, 1:48 PM
Starting tomorrow Fannie Mae will offer some homebuyers
a special incentive to purchase through its HomePath program which the company
uses to mar...
Wed, Feb 12 2014, 9:10 AM
Mortgage
application volume continued to drift during the week ended February 7. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
that its Market Compos...
Wed, Feb 12 2014, 3:18 PM
For the first time in six years the mortgage
delinquency rate has dropped below 4 percent TransUnion said on Wednesday. Nationally, 3.85 percent of...
Wed, Feb 12 2014, 2:40 PM
What passes as a measure of home affordability in
California may stagger some who live in other parts of the country and only about
a third of the...
Tue, Feb 11 2014, 10:52 AM
Home
price movement was mixed across metropolitan areas (MSAs) in the fourth quarter
of 2013 the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today....
Tue, Feb 11 2014, 10:29 AM
Fannie Mae said today that an
improvement in American's attitudes about the ease of getting a mortgage may
offset a declining perception about home ...
Tue, Feb 11 2014, 9:50 AM
There are competing forces at work in
the mortgage market the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA said today. First, lenders are still adjusting to th...
Mon, Feb 10 2014, 12:03 PM
The Obama Administration's January Housing
Scorecard, issued jointly by the Departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) notes th...
Mon, Feb 10 2014, 1:34 PM
The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP)
has scored a significant milestone according to the Federal Housing Finance
Agency, hitting the 3 milli...
Fri, Feb 7 2014, 12:21 PM
Two
Federal Reserve System economists have looked at the recent quantitative easing
programs of the Federal Reserve to determine whether a central...
Fri, Feb 7 2014, 11:54 AM
Nearly half of the homeowners who could refinance
their homes have not done so despite the prolonged availability of record low
mortgage interest ra...
Fri, Feb 7 2014, 1:18 PM
The
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced it will take the
initial step to improve data collected under the Home Mortgage Disc...
Thu, Feb 6 2014, 11:38 AM
FHFA's Office of Inspector General recently
completed an evaluation of how well FHFA is overseeing the GSEs' use of
appraisal data before they buy...
Thu, Feb 6 2014, 1:04 PM
"Housing markets across the nation
are continuing their slow and steady climb back to normal levels," National
Association of Home Builders (NAHB)...
Wed, Feb 5 2014, 8:46 AM
The
volume of mortgage applications remained largely unchanged during the week
ended January 31. The Mortgage Bankers
Association's (MBA) Market C...
Tue, Feb 4 2014, 10:59 AM
One would have to go back to the heart
of the housing boom to find a period when home prices increased at a more rapid
pace than they did in 2013 Co...
Tue, Feb 4 2014, 4:29 PM
The recession apparently hit those
builders experienced in green construction with less severity than other home
builders according to a new study...
