Thu, Oct 17 2013, 6:25 PM
Home sales in California were down over
5 percent in September as buyers, according to the California Association of
Realtors® (C.A.R.) reacted to...
Thu, Oct 17 2013, 1:27 PM
LIRA, a forward looking indicator of
remodeling activity, continues to project a double digit annual increase in
home improvement spending through t...
Thu, Oct 17 2013, 1:20 PM
Some of the gist of Fannie Mae's October Economic
Forecast, released Thursday but written late last week, was made obsolete when
the government shut...
Wed, Oct 16 2013, 3:39 PM
Like other housing indicators covering
the summer's end, the one released today by DataQuick showed a gradually
slowing market. The San Diego bas...
Wed, Oct 16 2013, 1:59 PM
With the FNC Residential Price Index TM (RPI) levels for August home prices have climbed back
to December 2009 levels. But the index,
while it r...
Fri, Oct 11 2013, 11:44 AM
Entities like title companies, real estate agencies, home inspection
services, etc. don't mind this statistic, but lenders sure do: the
National A...
Fri, Oct 11 2013, 2:25 PM
The life or death of the mortgage interest deduction (MID) is a perennial
Washington, DC soap opera. The prospect
of eliminating it is always on ...
Thu, Oct 10 2013, 10:51 AM
While applications for mortgages to
finance newly constructed homes fell slightly in September they continued to
increase in three large Sunbelt sta...
Tue, Oct 8 2013, 5:46 PM
Home ownership is expected to be key to the California real estate market
over the next year. The 2014 California Housing
Market Forecast" released...
Wed, Oct 2 2013, 9:57 AM
Anthony Bird, owner of Michigan's Riverbank Finance , writes, "I have done some research regarding the shutdown and how it will affect government age...
Thu, Sep 26 2013, 11:02 AM
As the National Association of Realtors®
(NAR) said it had anticipated, pending home sales eased in August falling what
may have been accelerated ac...
Thu, Sep 26 2013, 10:42 AM
Does anyone really retire anymore? Most seem to adapt to re-careers,
heading off to other pursuits. But still plenty of U.S. citizens retire,
and ...
Thu, Sep 26 2013, 1:04 AM
Distressed homes accounted for 25
percent of residential home sales in August, up 2 percentage points from
July. RealtyTrac, in its August U.S. ...
Wed, Sep 25 2013, 11:28 AM
New home sales turned upward in August after an especially
poor showing in July, though remain well off levels from the first half of the year. Th...
Wed, Sep 25 2013, 10:29 AM
I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.
Speaking of five years, WAMU 's failure - the largest
commercial bank failur...
Tue, Sep 24 2013, 11:03 AM
Indices released
by two of the leading sources of home price information this morning confirm
the continued growth of home values in the U.S., at...
Mon, Sep 23 2013, 10:22 AM
Phew! It turns out that the acronym for the Mortgage Bankers Association (of America) remains "MBA." MBa is just its logo .
Here is an interesting...
Mon, Sep 23 2013, 5:03 PM
Like
closed sales which were reported last week, pending real estate sales in
California dropped in August while distressed home sales were down...
Fri, Sep 20 2013, 10:18 AM
Whereas the National Association of Realtors has managed to have
everyone capitalize the job of their members (Realtor), the MBA (which
years ago ...
Thu, Sep 19 2013, 12:22 PM
Existing home sales reached a six-and-a
half year peak in August, increasing 1.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted
annual rate of 5.48 million unit...
Thu, Sep 19 2013, 11:01 AM
Welcome to "Talk Like a Pirate Day" , even held in Minnesota where I am heading today. Of course, 3.14159...% of sailors are Pi Rates .
Let's face...
Wed, Sep 18 2013, 10:07 AM
The industry is moving toward more acceptance of non-QM loans .
The CFPB will be the first to admit that just because a loan is not QM
doesn't me...
Tue, Sep 17 2013, 12:54 PM
Fannie Mae's senior economists said
today that anticipated declines in refinance
originations suggest that mortgage industry employment, which has...
Tue, Sep 17 2013, 12:19 PM
Builder confidence in the market for newly built
single family homes held steady in September after four consecutive months of
improvements the Na...
Mon, Sep 16 2013, 10:24 AM
On Friday the 13th the CFPB released the final amendments
to the Loan Officer Compensation, Servicing, QM and HOEPA Rules. The
official release ...
Mon, Sep 16 2013, 2:45 PM
Monthly sales figures from the California
Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) confirm indications from DataQuick data
posted earlier today that the re...
Fri, Sep 13 2013, 12:14 PM
Darrin Benhart, Deputy
Comptroller for Credit
and Market Risk, Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said in
a speech on Wednesday that the...
Thu, Sep 12 2013, 2:38 PM
The Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) said that applications for mortgages to purchase new homes
dropped 14 percent in August to a seasonally adj...
Tue, Sep 3 2013, 9:49 AM
August was not a pleasant month for many lenders, and September may
not be much better. Sure, volumes are down, and staffing is down in most
shops...
Thu, Aug 29 2013, 5:44 PM
When Michael Harnett talks about long term strategy, markets listen. Why? He is Mr. " Great Rotation ,"
the strategy that--In
October 2012--predi...
Wed, Aug 28 2013, 11:26 AM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR)
blamed higher interest rates for the slipping home sales numbers reflected in its
pending home sales r...
Wed, Aug 28 2013, 10:53 AM
There are lots of training videos out there. But there aren't many 0%
down payment programs from the government - the USDA is about it. Here
is on...
Wed, Aug 28 2013, 7:11 AM
The mid-point of the week is acceptably plagued by
uncertainty. We can't really be sure which of the events on tap will
have the largest impact...
Tue, Aug 27 2013, 12:52 PM
The growth in home prices nationally
accelerated in the second quarter. The
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, which covers all nine U.S. census di...
Mon, Aug 26 2013, 9:42 AM
Here is an e-mail from Gary B. up in Washington: "Rob, I work for a mortgage bank, and we'd heard that that LOs have to be fingerprinted every three ...
Fri, Aug 23 2013, 11:00 AM
New home sales in July were at the lowest level in nine
months the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development said
this morning...
Fri, Aug 23 2013, 10:42 AM
When S&P downgraded the United States (remember that?), it did
absolutely nothing to Treasury rates, and certainly didn't seem to
motivate Congres...
Fri, Aug 23 2013, 5:25 PM
Mortgage rates shot significantly lower today
after the New Home Sales report showed far fewer executed purchases
contracts than expected for ...
Fri, Aug 23 2013, 4:52 PM
Weaker-than-expected New Home Sales data threw bond markets for a
loop today. There was essentially no data on tap this whole week, with
the exce...
Thu, Aug 22 2013, 12:59 PM
Home prices continued their strong two year-long national trajectory
by increasing 2.1 percent in the second quarter and 0.7 percent from May to
Jun...
Thu, Aug 22 2013, 11:01 AM
Many parents of young adults grapple with the, "Do we help little Sage buy a home, or let him rent?" question. The Wall Street Journal reports 37% ...
Thu, Aug 22 2013, 4:12 PM
Distressed sales have plunged in
the last year, the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) said today, and
are now at only about half of the l...
Wed, Aug 21 2013, 11:29 AM
The overnight session was shockingly docile for Treasuries, with 10yr
yields staying super-glued to the 2.81-2.84 range before entering
domestic s...
Wed, Aug 21 2013, 11:19 AM
Sales of existing home increased
strongly in July and median home prices are now nearing their pre-crash peak National
Association of Realtors® (N...
Wed, Aug 21 2013, 11:05 AM
There is a lot of continued controversy and focus over the various
compensation plans for loan officers and regulatory audits. Obviously,
these c...
Wed, Aug 21 2013, 7:00 AM
After The first two days of the week offered a fairly large sell-off and
an equally large rally for bond markets--all against the backdrop of NO da...
Wed, Aug 21 2013, 1:47 PM
Fannie Mae economists Doug Duncan, Orawin T. Velz, and Brian Hughes-Cromwick said today that despite two downside risk factors
they see the economy ...
Mon, Aug 19 2013, 10:07 AM
I am heading off to Indiana this morning, but still had time to catch
this OCC release about a company to cheat consumers who are trying to
rebuil...
Fri, Aug 16 2013, 2:09 PM
Home sales in California surged by 17.3
percent in July DataQuick said today, rising from 41,027 sales of new
and existing houses in June to 48,11...
Thu, Aug 15 2013, 1:28 PM
In its August Economic and Housing
Market Outlook Freddie Mac celebrates, sort of, a birthday. It was
four years, at the end of June, since the rec...
