Wed, Sep 28 2016, 10:29 AM
To understand the top-line story in the Urban Institute's (UI's) latest Chartbook released on Monday one has to go back to another UI paper published ...
Mon, Sep 26 2016, 11:00 AM
After a spectacular run for new home sales in July, it was anticipated that August activity would be considerably more modest. While sales did retrenc...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 11:09 AM
Sales of existing homes slowed for the second consecutive month in August according to data released on Thursday by the National Association of Realto...
Thu, Sep 22 2016, 9:54 AM
Home price increases appear to have accelerated in most of the country in July as compared to June according to data released on Thursday by the Feder...
Wed, Sep 21 2016, 5:04 PM
If nothing else, the headline of this months' Outlook from Freddie Mac was a grabber. "Mortgage Originations Poised to Surge," it read, and what follo...
Tue, Sep 20 2016, 10:15 AM
Fannie Mae says that early bets on third quarter economic growth are around 3.0 percent which has the Federal Reserve talking again about raising the ...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 10:50 AM
After half a year of barely budging the Housing Market Index (HMI ) surged by six points in September. The index, jointly sponsored by the National As...
Mon, Sep 19 2016, 10:19 AM
You’ve made it to “Talk like a Pirate” day. Many lenders are saying, “Arrggghh” when it comes to appraisals. Mike Simmons with Axis AMC put some thing...
Thu, Sep 15 2016, 12:25 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) estimates that sales of newly constructed homes increased by 5.0 percent in August compared to July. The estima...
Fri, Sep 9 2016, 3:00 PM
The U.S. housing market continues to move ahead, but a generation of homebuyers is being left behind . That's the conclusion of an analysis of homeown...
Wed, Sep 7 2016, 1:36 PM
So what is going on with residential construction? We hear constantly that inventories are too tight , especially at the lower price levels, new home ...
Wed, Aug 31 2016, 10:47 AM
Despite some predictions that pending home sales would fall in July, they actually rose modestly to reach their second highest level in over a decade....
Tue, Aug 30 2016, 12:40 PM
The share of total home sales made up by distressed properties is now one-quarter the level it was in January 2009. CoreLogic reports that in May the ...
Thu, Aug 25 2016, 1:06 PM
While the both the investor share of home sales and the share represented by distressed properties are setting post-crash lows, the share of cash sale...
Wed, Aug 24 2016, 11:15 AM
" Frustratingly low inventory levels in many parts of the country" take the blame from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) for a drop in July ...
Tue, Aug 23 2016, 11:21 AM
Rather than the month-over-month decline expected, July new home sales soared above 600,000 units for the first time since late 2007. The U.S. Census ...
Fri, Aug 19 2016, 11:22 AM
Fannie Mae said it is maintaining its forecast for 2016's GDP at the same 1.8 percent it forecasted in July despite the fact second quarter growth cam...
Wed, Aug 17 2016, 11:42 AM
Touting its record of on-target estimate, CoreLogic has again anticipated the official conclusions about 2015 mortgage originations in advance of the ...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 10:32 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) improved slightly in August, but remained within the narrow ra...
Mon, Aug 15 2016, 4:15 PM
Strong home sales, near-historic low interest rates, a burst of refinancing, and continued home price growth are moving Freddie Mac's economic team to...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 11:25 AM
As
the housing boom ended rents for single-family homes also crashed, going from
annual growth of better than 2 percent in late 2007 to -3 percent b...
Thu, Aug 4 2016, 9:23 AM
Are those Americans who lost their homes to
foreclosure permanently turned off of home ownership? CoreLogic's Senior Economist Kristine Yao
looke...
Wed, Aug 3 2016, 9:27 AM
Huh? There is now a
robot that can build a house in two days ?
Sounds pretty good to me... It is certainly a step toward lessening the labor
const...
Thu, Jul 28 2016, 4:59 PM
Cash sales continued to account for a significant
portion of all home sales in April.
CoreLogic said on Wednesday that 31.6 percent of home sales t...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 10:39 AM
Pending home sales eked out, although only barely, an
increase in June after a falling by an unexpectedly large percentage in
May. The National Ass...
Wed, Jul 27 2016, 8:51 AM
One of the biggest challenges faced by business owners today is attracting and retaining great people. Millennials and those with diverse ethnic backg...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 10:37 AM
Sales of newly constructed homes posted a gain in June, rising 3.5 percent from the May estimate. The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and...
Tue, Jul 26 2016, 9:13 AM
The capital markets are always changing, and the latest news to turn some heads is that JPMorgan Chase is streamlining its operations and will no lon...
Mon, Jul 25 2016, 9:47 AM
Every day we have news coming out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Some of the news is attempts at changing the structure of the two – being under gover...
Fri, Jul 22 2016, 11:24 AM
Fannie Mae's economists have upgraded projections for economic growth in the second quarter to by 0.3 percent to 2.4 percent because of unexpectedly s...
Fri, Jul 22 2016, 11:03 AM
All the housing statistics this week made my head spin. How good would you be at building your own house? Here’s a short 10 question quiz that will ...
Thu, Jul 21 2016, 11:03 AM
Sales of existing homes increased in June for the fourth consecutive month . The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said it was encouraged to s...
Thu, Jul 21 2016, 10:39 AM
Happy 6th year-old-birthday to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Or is it the CFPB’s 5th “birthday”? For those new to the...
Wed, Jul 20 2016, 3:04 PM
CoreLogic, in a recent article on its blog, celebrated, if that's the word, the 10 th anniversary of the housing bubble. Principal Economists David ...
Tue, Jul 19 2016, 2:43 PM
CoreLogic has cut back the timeline under which it expects to see distressed properties return to the share of sales that prevailed prior to the housi...
Mon, Jul 18 2016, 10:45 AM
Rates have crept back up to pre-Brexit levels. Will the rates borrowers locked in during the last week of June be the stuff of cocktail party bragging...
Mon, Jul 18 2016, 10:26 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its Housing Market Index (HMI), which it produces in cooperation with Wells Fargo, barely budge...
Thu, Jul 14 2016, 12:46 PM
New home sales are predicted to have dipped by a
fraction in June in a report Thursday from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Based on informa...
Wed, Jul 13 2016, 10:28 AM
“Cuz they ain’t makin’ any more of it” is the traditional response to the question about why should anyone buy real estate. But builders, straining to...
Thu, Jul 7 2016, 2:46 PM
Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), an outgrowth of its National Housing Survey, pulled back a bit in June, largely due to weakened o...
Fri, Jul 1 2016, 11:24 AM
The Fourth of July is Monday...the date of the Declaration of Independence (quibble all you want about late signers); the next commentary will be Tues...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 12:06 PM
Pending home sales hit the skids in May, following three
straight months of increases. The
National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said that its ...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 9:58 AM
Huh? People burned while walking across fire at a Tony Robbins event in Texas? Imagine that! Speaking of incendiary activities, an amendment passe...
Wed, Jun 29 2016, 2:04 PM
Freddie Mac says that the housing market as a whole in the U.S. is on the outer range of its historic benchmark level of housing activity. The spri...
Tue, Jun 28 2016, 10:21 AM
How could it have been 30 years since everyone was watching “Top Gun” in the theaters? Yes, time flies, and before you know it, well, you’re old. Wher...
Mon, Jun 27 2016, 10:12 AM
Everyone is talking about the future of the European Union. Tad Dahlke sends, “Brexit to be followed by Grexit, Departugal, Italeave, Fruckoff, Czech...
Fri, Jun 24 2016, 11:17 AM
At Happy Hour tonight, besides talking about refis, you can throw this one out: the number of homes worth $1 million has doubled in the last 4 years ...
Thu, Jun 23 2016, 11:00 AM
New home sales dropped back in May after a reported 16.6
percent surge the previous month, an increase that was revised down from what
was first r...
Thu, Jun 23 2016, 10:04 AM
Jobs and housing make up the lion’s share of our economy, and the two intersect when a house is being built. But what is the exact impact? For any LO ...
Thu, Jun 23 2016, 3:39 PM
A third of home sales in March were all-cash
transactions according to CoreLogic.
This was a decrease of 2.8 percentages points, the company termed...
