Tue, Dec 18 2012, 11:39 AM
Low mortgage rates will continue to aid the housing and mortgage
markets in the New Year as the Federal Reserve continues to purchase $40
billion...
Mon, Dec 17 2012, 9:28 AM
Say what you want about Trulia, it just issued the results of a survey that has
Realtors and LO's cheering: 93% of renters between the ages of 18 a...
Fri, Dec 14 2012, 10:39 AM
Yesterday I journeyed to San Jose to visit with the Silicon Valley Chapter of
CAMP. Casey Fleming, the president, reminded the capacity crowd how imp...
Fri, Dec 7 2012, 3:29 PM
The November edition of the Obama
Administration's Housing Scorecard notes that home values are continuing to
rise and home sales remained strong du...
Thu, Dec 6 2012, 9:26 AM
"The shift toward earlier disposition of distressed
properties continued in the third quarter as both lenders and at-risk
homeowners are realizing...
Thu, Nov 29 2012, 10:44 AM
Pending home sales rose sharply in
October according to the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) released Thursday by
the National Association of Real...
Thu, Nov 29 2012, 10:19 AM
Better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. And a lot of
neighborhoods are trying new things in real estate - thanks to Tony B. for this.
...
Wed, Nov 28 2012, 11:09 AM
Sales of new homes dipped slightly in
October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 368,000 units according to
information released this morning ...
Wed, Nov 28 2012, 10:19 AM
In ancient days, when mortgage rates were different for various areas
around the country and people relied on carbon paper and Fannie gold book
am...
Mon, Nov 26 2012, 10:26 AM
Even if you had to have the borrower come back to resign a document, or
you had to eat a one day extension, or locked a loan under the wrong program,...
Tue, Nov 20 2012, 11:43 AM
Well, if you can't fix your brakes,
make your horn louder . Odd logic is somewhat humorous. But as any LO or
servicer knows, just because you modi...
Mon, Nov 19 2012, 12:29 PM
Existing
home sales increased 2.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in October
according to data released today by the National Association of...
Mon, Nov 19 2012, 10:41 AM
"Be good to your neighbor - they know where you live!" The Pilgrims did
not have many neighbors, but in the in the fall of 1621 they held a three-day...
Fri, Nov 16 2012, 9:54 AM
The HOPE Financial Dignity Center held its grand
opening yesterday and hosted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke as its
speaker. The Center, ...
Wed, Nov 14 2012, 5:06 PM
Freddie Mac's economists today used the analogy of a patient with a high fever to talk about the recent course of the housing market. In the Novembe...
Tue, Nov 13 2012, 9:59 AM
TransUnion, a big three national
consumer credit reporting agency, says that mortgage delinquencies of 60 days or
more duration declined in the ...
Fri, Nov 9 2012, 4:24 PM
The Departments of Treasury and Housing
and Urban Development released their October edition of the Obama
Administration's Housing Scorecard on Fr...
Wed, Nov 7 2012, 11:29 AM
Lawrence
Yun , NAR chief economist, said the growth in home prices gets down to supply
and demand. "Housing inventories have been gradually trendin...
Tue, Nov 6 2012, 10:55 AM
Home prices increased 5 percent on an
annual basis in September according to data released this morning by
CoreLogic. The CoreLogic Home Price
Ind...
Thu, Nov 1 2012, 3:55 PM
A sellers' market appears to be emerging
in some areas in California. The
California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) said Thursday that favorab...
Thu, Oct 25 2012, 10:21 AM
Pending home sales were flat in
September, inching up 0.3 percent on the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)
maintained by the National Association of ...
Thu, Oct 25 2012, 9:46 AM
This short video isn't funny in the least, but should not be missed
for anyone in the financial services sector, IT, or anyone else for that matter...
Thu, Oct 25 2012, 4:36 PM
Current housing recovery chatter centers around two main themes...
Wed, Oct 24 2012, 11:52 AM
Sales of new single-family houses were
up 5.7 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 389,000
units, but in announcing the inc...
Wed, Oct 24 2012, 10:54 AM
Occasionally I am asked about the flow of taxes into and out of
various states . (Okay, I just made that up, but when you're in Kansas one
has to m...
Tue, Oct 23 2012, 5:26 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association's ( MBA )
chief economist echoed much of what Freddie Mac's economists said this afternoon
as he hiked MBAs esti...
Tue, Oct 23 2012, 4:36 PM
Freddie Mac is revisiting its economic projections
for the remainder of 2012 and 2013 due to the announcement by the Federal
Reserve of its Maturi...
Mon, Oct 22 2012, 10:29 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau tells us that in many of the largest cities of the
most-populous metro areas, downtown is becoming a place not only to work b...
Mon, Oct 22 2012, 3:38 PM
RealtyTrac, the Irvine California
company that tracks foreclosure filings, just issued a pre-election "exclusive
report on the health of local housi...
Fri, Oct 19 2012, 11:27 AM
Existing home sales declined slightly in September,
but the national median home price rose as inventories tightened. The National Association of R...
Thu, Oct 18 2012, 9:38 AM
Pay no attention to those stories about "Shadow Inventory"!
Apparently that has all been soaked up. Or, at least, builders and the NAR
would like to...
Mon, Oct 15 2012, 10:35 AM
Will Basel III be delayed? Maybe! Here is the latest: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/eu-said-to-weigh-delaying-basel-bank-rules-for-up-to-a-...
Mon, Oct 15 2012, 5:10 PM
For the last few months the National
Association of Realtors® (NAR) has been making some general statements that tight
inventories of existing home...
Thu, Oct 11 2012, 9:30 AM
Welcome to 10/11/12...how many times do us adults get a chance at a date
like that here in the U.S.? I guess once a year up until 2014.
On the j...
Wed, Oct 10 2012, 12:48 PM
A "sizable share of
real estate appraisals are holding back home sales" the National Association of
Realtors® (NAR) said Wednesday as it released re...
Wed, Oct 10 2012, 5:00 PM
The Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District or the so-called Beige Book was released on Wednesday. The doc...
Fri, Oct 5 2012, 4:52 PM
The Departments
of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development released the August version of their
monthly Housing Scorecard this afternoon. The S...
Fri, Oct 5 2012, 3:11 PM
Bill Dudley, president and CEO of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and vice chair of the Federal Open Market
Committee (FOMC) told a conference ...
Thu, Oct 4 2012, 1:14 PM
The number of metropolitan areas on the
list of improving housing markets increased to 103 in September, an increase of
four from the August tally...
Tue, Oct 2 2012, 10:21 AM
Home prices in August posted the largest annual increase in
over six years according to data released this morning by CoreLogic . The company's Au...
Mon, Oct 1 2012, 9:43 AM
This one from an AE in a "red state": Q: Do you know what the
difference is between conservatives and progressives? A: About $16
trillion! Trillion...
Thu, Sep 27 2012, 11:34 AM
The report this morning from the
National Association of Realtors® ( NAR ) on pending home sales shows continued
volatility in the housing marke...
Thu, Sep 27 2012, 9:51 AM
Even though last Saturday was the equinox, here's the weird thing: five
days after the equinox today is the "longest" day of the year! If
you're thi...
Wed, Sep 26 2012, 11:58 AM
Here in Denver the city is preparing for next Wednesday's presidential
debate. And what would an election be without a Chia Pet in the shape of
yo...
Wed, Sep 26 2012, 11:01 AM
New home sales were down slightly in
August compared to July, slipping 0.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 373,000 units and were 2...
Tue, Sep 25 2012, 11:07 AM
Home prices as measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller
Home Price Indices rose across the board in July with both the 10- and 20-City
Composites and all...
Mon, Sep 24 2012, 11:31 AM
Welcome to the first business day since the autumn equinox. This is the
day when the tilt of the earth's rotational axis is perfectly perpendicular t...
Thu, Sep 20 2012, 10:22 AM
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Here's a loan officer in
Washington facing 10-14 years for falsifying documents .
Will those in the ...
Wed, Sep 19 2012, 12:05 PM
Existing home sales and home prices both
improved in August, with sales rising 7.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted
annual basis. According to in...
Wed, Sep 19 2012, 11:27 AM
"Rob , how the heck are we supposed to know what any financial asset is
worth? For many years the government has given farm subsidies, sugar cane
s...
