Tue, Dec 23 2014, 10:34 AM
Let's talk about the $26 billion in equity gain
in Colorado in 2014 - Rocky Mountain High! What are not gaining are the
stock prices of non-ban...
Wed, Dec 17 2014, 10:53 AM
For
folks who like paper and documentation, in 2015 nearby Iowa (I am in
Kansas for a few days) will become the first state to offer an official
...
Fri, Nov 21 2014, 10:44 AM
In New York, the New York Mortgage Bankers Association's website
is now live. The group is functioning and has already had meetings with
DFS, so...
Wed, Nov 19 2014, 10:56 AM
Seattle's Zillow has published good news for the real estate industry . Its report
regarding hidden households and future housing activity indica...
Thu, Nov 6 2014, 1:43 PM
Both Freddie Mac
and Fannie Mae released third quarter financial results on Thursday. The government sponsored enterprises (GSEs)
each reported tha...
Fri, Oct 31 2014, 11:03 AM
Gaps of all kinds are widening out, and they are impacting business. In a story about " New Homes' Problem: Price " the
gap between the more exp...
Wed, Oct 22 2014, 3:26 PM
Frank
E. Nothaft and Leonard Kiefer, Freddie Mac's chief and deputy chief economists
have come up with a formula for lifting the economy from its ...
Wed, Oct 1 2014, 10:58 AM
A lawsuit challenging the manner in
which profits from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) have been allocated to
the U.S. Treasury was dismisse...
Fri, Sep 12 2014, 10:30 AM
The
Community Reinvestment Act is certainly full of policies and
procedures, and you might have a new set of them to contemplate. Using
the Fe...
Tue, Aug 12 2014, 4:44 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) moved another step closer on Tuesday to its strategic goal of issuing a
single mortgage-backed security...
Mon, Aug 4 2014, 10:44 AM
Are you an appraiser ? Maybe you should be honored: there are fewer and fewer of you every year, and your ranks are down to 80,500 nationwide . Ther...
Wed, Jul 30 2014, 10:18 AM
There
are plenty of ways to divvy up people (those who like soggy cereal,
those that don't, those that can form their tongue into an "o", and
th...
Thu, Jul 24 2014, 3:23 PM
Freddie Mac said today that its Multi-Indicator Market Index or MiMi for May is sending out mixed signals to
the housing market. While more marke...
Mon, Jun 23 2014, 9:41 AM
"On
Thursday, June 19, issues of latency and connectivity were reported by
the public across multiple Internet Service Providers. The public can
...
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...
Wed, May 28 2014, 12:02 PM
Freddie Mac's new Multi-Indicator Market
Index (MiMi) continues to show a weak housing market overall. The national MiMi value is flat compared to...
Mon, May 19 2014, 1:24 PM
Freddie
Mac's economists used this month's Economic and Housing Market Outlook to look
at three areas of supply and demand.
Analyzing each, they s...
Tue, May 13 2014, 1:00 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency
(FHFA) will not use its conservatorship authority to reduce current conforming
loan limits. FHFA Director Melv...
Thu, Apr 24 2014, 10:18 AM
It
is "bring your kid to work" day. Some kids are fascinated with how much
others make. They grow up to be underwriters . Others are fascinated
...
Fri, Apr 18 2014, 9:52 AM
Tommy
LaSorda supposedly said, "I found out that it's not good to talk about
my troubles: 80% of the people who hear them don't care and the other...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 9:50 AM
Bank of America bought Countrywide and Merrill Lynch in 2008 and 2009 respectively. How is that investment paying off? Well, it just cost BofA anoth...
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...
Tue, Mar 18 2014, 10:27 AM
What
is the MBA applications number going to tell us tomorrow? My bet, given
stories from lock desks around the nation, is that we'll see an
imp...
Wed, Mar 12 2014, 10:37 AM
Problems can be created by differences in education,
nationality, or age. For example, the ICBA reports 90% of community
bankers say their averag...
Mon, Mar 10 2014, 10:21 AM
Every lender & servicer, and therefore borrower, is influenced by the price of servicing .
And in recent months we have all seen large blocks of se...
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...
Mon, Mar 3 2014, 9:16 AM
Zelman & Associates
invites readers to join them for an informative conference call to
discuss their outlook on the housing market and mortgage ...
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...
Fri, Feb 21 2014, 10:44 AM
Tongues are wagging
about Wells Fargo' s extending credit to borrowers with lower credit
scores (600 FICOs) and thus, on the surface, perceive hi...
Tue, Jan 28 2014, 6:48 PM
Adjustable
rate mortgages remain at historic lows Freddie Mac said today as the company
released results of its 30 th Annual
Adjustable-Rate Mort...
Wed, Jan 22 2014, 5:21 PM
A Treasury Department official said
today that despite arguments that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) are
financially flush and that, with the...
Fri, Jan 17 2014, 10:42 AM
"The
check's in the mail!" Hah! The Fed reports the number of checks paid
has declined from close to $50B in the 1990s to about $20B. With tax...
Thu, Jan 16 2014, 3:14 PM
The housing market turned the corner in 2012 Freddie
Mac's economists said today, and the recovery was fully underway in 2013. But despite the posit...
Tue, Jan 7 2014, 9:43 AM
"Teach your children about taxes: eat 30% of their ice cream."
They'll also learn something about percentages. If 30% of cities have
rebounded to ...
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 ...
Fri, Dec 13 2013, 10:11 AM
The
old saying goes, "If there is only one attorney in a town, he'll starve to
death. If there are two attorneys in a town, they'll both get rich." ...
Mon, Dec 2 2013, 12:42 PM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have
completed a major overhaul of their master policy requirements for private
mortgage insurance the Federal Housin...
Mon, Dec 2 2013, 9:41 AM
Bank of America has settled another
claim for loans it either originated during the housing boom or acquired
through its purchase of another lender....
Mon, Dec 2 2013, 9:25 AM
Planning
on giving out a few things for the holidays to special clients? Think
twice about it! Ken Perry writes, “Hey Rob, as we get closer to the...
Mon, Nov 25 2013, 1:45 PM
The Office of Inspector General
(OIG) of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has
released its sixth Semiannual Report to the Congress. The re...
Thu, Nov 21 2013, 3:34 PM
Mortgage rates may have managed to hold steady to slightly lower ,
but it's important to understand that today's rates are still
significantly ...
Wed, Nov 20 2013, 9:51 AM
The coming year should bring an
emergence of the first purchase-dominated market the U.S. has seen since 2000
Freddie Mac has predicted. The
s...
Tue, Nov 12 2013, 10:21 AM
Generally speaking, home values are going up, and we receive plenty
of statistics every month slicing and dicing sales and values. The
latest is f...
Tue, Nov 12 2013, 1:01 PM
Freddie Mac has signed a risk sharing
agreement with Arch Reinsurance Ltd. Which will cover up to $77.4 million in
possible credit losses from a...
Thu, Nov 7 2013, 1:44 PM
Freddie Mac has priced its second
Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR) offering.
The debt notes are priced at $630 million and follow its initial ...
Thu, Nov 7 2013, 1:29 PM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae each
reported strong third quarter financial results today. For Freddie it was the eighth consecutive
profitable quarte...
Tue, Oct 22 2013, 4:05 PM
In a move some borrowers and
originators might consider "too little, too late" both Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac announced today they are expanding t...
Tue, Oct 15 2013, 3:08 PM
There may be life in those old GSE bones yet. At least that is one
conclusion that can be drawn from an article in Bloomberg on Tuesday.
Writers...
Tue, Oct 8 2013, 11:27 AM
Freddie Mac has issued guidance to its
lenders and servicers in an effort to keep the mortgage market flowing during
the lengthening government shu...
Wed, Oct 2 2013, 10:18 AM
Freddie Mac has tentatively settled
three more claims with financial institutions over representations and
warranties related to single family loa...
