Wed, Jan 8 2014, 1:56 PM
With new rules defining Qualified Mortgages (QM) slated
to kick in on Friday at least two lenders have indicated they will make room
for loans that ...
Wed, Jan 8 2014, 1:51 PM
With the January 10 effective date
closing in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is reminding
consumers and lenders of the numerous mat...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 12:52 PM
Fannie Mae said today that results of
its December National Housing Survey show that the housing recovery is on firm
footing and consumer housing se...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 12:25 PM
CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI)
posted its 21 st consecutive annual gain in November. The company said U.S. home prices, including
distressed s...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 11:01 AM
Standard and Poor's Ratings Direct
Service has made some projections for the coming year. In addition to numerical forecasts for the
economy as a w...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 10:37 AM
The availability of mortgage credit
bounced back a bit in December the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
today. Its Mortgage Credit Availab...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 1:55 PM
Smaller markets and those with a strong
energy sector are recovering faster than the nation as a whole the National
Association of Home Builders (NA...
Mon, Jan 6 2014, 2:38 PM
The New York
Times is reporting that, weather permitting, the Senate may vote Monday
night on the nomination of Janet L. Yellen to lead the Federa...
Mon, Jan 6 2014, 1:59 PM
After a long and contentious delay Melvin L. Watt
was sworn in today to a five year term as Director of the Federal Housing Finance
Agency (FHFA)....
Mon, Jan 6 2014, 1:31 PM
Mel Watt has now officially
taken the reins of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),
replacing Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco. He was sworn...
Fri, Jan 3 2014, 12:12 PM
As the next step in its "Know Before You Owe"
initiative the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) plans to look at
what goes on at the home p...
Fri, Jan 3 2014, 3:54 PM
As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac eliminated their 100% and 97% purchase loans
following the housing meltdown, FHA financing once again became a
pre...
Fri, Jan 3 2014, 3:13 PM
The days when people grew up, got married, got a job they would stay with
for life, had 2.5 children and bought a house are gone according to Mortgag...
Thu, Jan 2 2014, 12:39 PM
A recent study by Fannie Mae found some distinct differences in the ways
higher income earners look for a mortgage compared to lower income
earne...
Thu, Jan 2 2014, 12:29 PM
In 2011, The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced lawsuits
against 18 financial institutions for securities violations and/or
fraud rel...
Thu, Jan 2 2014, 11:07 AM
Spending on residential construction increased by
1.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from October to November
while
overall construction...
Thu, Jan 2 2014, 2:48 PM
While investors placing their money and
hopes on single family houses is not a new phenomenon, CoreLogic in its current
issue of MarketPulse , says...
Tue, Dec 31 2013, 11:04 AM
One of the government sponsored
enterprises (GSEs) has reached what it says will be the last settlement of a repurchase
request related to loans i...
Tue, Dec 31 2013, 10:32 AM
The S&P/Case Shiller Home Price
Index scored its greatest year over year gain in over seven years in October
the company said today. Both the 10-Ci...
Tue, Dec 31 2013, 1:30 PM
In its monthly e-magazine
Foreclosure Report RealtyTrac takes a
look at the current and potential impact of legislation designed to rescue the
na...
Mon, Dec 30 2013, 11:46 AM
Lender Processing Services (LPS) said today that its Home Price Index (HPI) was up a slight 0.1 percent in October. The index for the month was $23...
Mon, Dec 30 2013, 10:22 AM
Pending home sales technically rose slightly in November, but only after a negative downward revision to October's Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) ...
Mon, Dec 30 2013, 2:03 PM
In the most recent issue of CoreLogic's MarketPulse on-line magazine Sam Khater
suggests that low-end home prices can be useful in predicting the...
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 12:51 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) is celebrating the completion of more than 3 million foreclosure
prevention actions by Freddie Mac and F...
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 12:49 PM
While competition has moderated, Redfin reports that there is still
plenty of data, real and anecdotal, to show homebuyers are still highly
motivat...
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 12:42 PM
The
mortgage interest deduction (MID) is never left alone for very long . In
Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction: Who Benefits and by How...
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 12:36 PM
Since
the housing market collapse the focus of policy makers has shifted from putting
borrowers into owner occupied housing to keeping them there....
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 10:20 AM
New Single Family Home Sales stood at a seasonally adjust annual rate of 464,000 in November
according to estimates released today by The U.S. Cens...
Tue, Dec 24 2013, 9:57 AM
After falling to it's lowest level in more than 12 years last week,
the Mortgage
Bankers Association's (MBA) Market Composite Index fell another 6....
Mon, Dec 23 2013, 1:43 PM
Pending home sales in California experienced
the first double digit drop in over a year in November, falling 13.6 percent
from October to a Pendin...
Fri, Dec 20 2013, 2:30 PM
Freddie Mac's December U.S. Economic & Housing Market Outlook looks at what the company's chief economist
Frank Nothaft and deputy chief Leonard K...
Fri, Dec 20 2013, 2:06 PM
One settlement and one enforcement
action have been announced in the last 24 hours and they are going to cost two
financial institutions a lot of m...
Thu, Dec 19 2013, 10:54 AM
Existing home sales in November failed to outdo those in the same month a
year earlier for the first time in 29 months .
The National Association ...
Thu, Dec 19 2013, 2:04 PM
With new mortgage regulations due to
be implemented in less than a month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
has released a set of mat...
Thu, Dec 19 2013, 1:52 PM
Fannie
Mae said today that the third quarter economy was better than expected with
inventory buildups that doubled from the second quarter, the fa...
Wed, Dec 18 2013, 12:43 PM
The
percentage of loans originated for refinancing increased in November for the
first time in 10 months Jonathan Corr, president and chief operat...
Wed, Dec 18 2013, 11:19 AM
Housing starts and housing completions for
September, October and November were released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the
Department of Housing and...
Wed, Dec 18 2013, 8:29 AM
It was another down week for mortgage
application activity. The Mortgage
Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of
a...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 12:50 PM
Negative equity amounts continued to
shrink during the third quarter of 2013 CoreLogic said today. An estimated 791,000 properties regained an equ...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 5:41 PM
Ginnie Mae has
taken the first steps toward a planned modernization of its securitization
platform . The company on Tuesday
released four new sys...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 3:23 PM
Home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area like those in the
state at large fell in November DataQuick said today. While state-wide sales, as report...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 2:43 PM
Home sales declined in California in
November, suffering from diminishing housing affordability in the face of
rising home prices and interest rates...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 2:16 AM
As loan officers and borrowers
prepare for the Federal Open Market Committee's ("the Fed")
potential tapering announcement Wednesday, Fannie Mae a...
Tue, Dec 17 2013, 1:30 PM
Increasing
mortgage rates eroded refinancing overall in the third quarter and refinancing
through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) was n...
Mon, Dec 16 2013, 10:39 AM
A Freddie Mac senior vice president is using
the company's blog to debunk a few myths she says may be keeping homeowners
from refinancing through ...
Mon, Dec 16 2013, 3:52 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) is inviting public comments on a new proposal to "gradually reduce" loan
limits for mortgages purchased ...
Mon, Dec 16 2013, 1:26 PM
In the second in a series of white
papers exploring the "Foundation for a Sound Housing Market" CoreLogic looks at
the Ability-to-Repay (ATR) and Qu...
Fri, Dec 13 2013, 12:19 PM
After asking for taxpayer assistance for
the first time in its 79 year history last September, a new actuarial report
says the Federal Housing Admin...
Fri, Dec 13 2013, 11:01 AM
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
has issued new guidelines for lenders who manually underwrite FHA-backed
mortgage loans. The new underwr...
Fri, Dec 13 2013, 5:12 PM
A new study from the Harvard Joint
Center on Housing Studies in conjunction with the McArthur Foundation looks at
the growing importance of rental h...
