Wed, Jun 29 2011, 9:26 AM
Bonds got beat up yesterday as a combination of overbought technicals, quarter-end debt auction supply, and a rally in the stock market all pressured ...
Wed, Jun 29 2011, 2:14 PM
There's some positive news on the future of home
sales.
The Pending Home Sales Index rose sharply in May, indicating an upbeat
outlook for the ...
Mon, Jun 27 2011, 11:05 AM
[I am away from the computer and my access to e-mail is sporadic and not timely. In my place are daily commentaries from a series of very knowledgeabl...
Fri, Jun 24 2011, 4:25 PM
We're back to and maybe even setting new year-to-date mortgage rate lows right now.
These positive developments follow a short period of stagnation...
Thu, Jun 23 2011, 8:26 AM
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield briefly moved above 3% after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's press conference on Wednesday, but it's now is four ...
Thu, Jun 23 2011, 2:11 PM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have
released New
Residential Sales data for May 2011.
New Residential Sal...
Wed, Jun 22 2011, 11:16 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association
(MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey* for the week
ending June 17, 2011.
Although mortga...
Tue, Jun 21 2011, 8:54 AM
Rates rose yesterday in a quiet trading environment largely thanks to gains in the stock market. The S&P closed +0.54% at 1278.36. The 10yr note fini...
Tue, Jun 21 2011, 1:32 PM
The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales
data for May 2011.
Existing Home Sales declined by 3.8 percent to a se...
Mon, Jun 20 2011, 12:13 PM
How hard is it to
create a new currency in a digital age? DigitalMoney = DigitalThieves
Reader feedback on current industry trends, borrower...
Mon, Jun 20 2011, 4:02 PM
At the second anniversary of the current
economic expansion, housing remains stuck in a rut according to Fannie Mae's
Economic Outlook for June ...
Mon, Jun 20 2011, 3:31 PM
Home loan borrowing costs are hovering near the best levels we've seen all year. Volatility has however picked up in the bond market. Just last T...
Thu, Jun 16 2011, 12:10 PM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development
have released New Residential Construction statistics for May 2011.
...
Wed, Jun 15 2011, 1:57 PM
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) today reported
that its Housing Market Index (HMI) fell
to 13 after standing at 16 for six out ...
Wed, Jun 8 2011, 10:14 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey* for the week ending June 3, 2011.
The Refinance inde...
Wed, Jun 1 2011, 9:57 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 27, 2011. The MBA's loan applic...
Tue, May 31 2011, 12:17 PM
Anyone lending in
"higher loan amount areas" should read the latest from HUD on the
probable/possible changes that will take place on October 1. "Ba...
Fri, May 27 2011, 1:13 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its April Pending
Home Sales Index (PHSI ) today. The index is said to be a leading indicato...
Thu, May 26 2011, 3:11 PM
Foreclosed properties continued to impact the
home sales market during the first quarter of 2011
according to a report released Thursday by Real...
Wed, May 25 2011, 10:13 AM
Pssst... Goldman Sachs is in buying jumbo
mortgages . "Goldman has been stockpiling jumbo mortgages at a rate
that far exceeds the buying activity ...
Wed, May 25 2011, 9:41 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week
ending May 20, 2011.
The MBA's lo...
Tue, May 24 2011, 11:45 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have
released New
Residential Sales data for April 2011.
New Residential S...
Tue, May 24 2011, 8:47 AM
Loan pricing is set to weaken this morning as "rate sheet influential" MBS coupons are following benchmark Treasury prices lower after once again fail...
Mon, May 23 2011, 11:29 AM
I don't know if this
quite falls under the "No good deed goes unpunished" category, but
the proposed simplified combined version of the GFE and TI...
Fri, May 20 2011, 12:18 PM
It is easy for originators to focus on daily
rate sheets, mostly determined by what the MBS market is doing. But sometimes
it helps to be reminded t...
Thu, May 19 2011, 11:22 AM
The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales data for April 2011 Existing Home Sales report on the number of completed...
Tue, May 17 2011, 9:30 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have released New Residential Construction statistics for April 2011. ...
Mon, May 16 2011, 9:05 AM
Both fixed income and equity markets are worse off to start the week.
The cause of uncertainty is a strange one - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kah...
Mon, May 16 2011, 2:08 PM
The National Association of Homebuilders
(NAHB) reported on Monday that its Housing Market Index (HMI) came in at 16 for the sixth time in seven ...
Wed, May 11 2011, 3:54 PM
Realtors® attending the National
Association of Realtors (NAR) mid-year legislative meetings and trade expo in
Washington heard a panel of housing e...
Wed, May 4 2011, 9:26 AM
Senior loan officers responding to the April 2011 Federal
Reserve Bank survey on bank lending practices indicated that, on net, bank
lending sta...
Fri, Apr 29 2011, 11:18 AM
Do boom
and bust cycles in real estate only happen in the United States? Of course not: Boom&Bust
Here's a campaign hitting the public: Zillo...
Thu, Apr 28 2011, 12:10 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its March Pending
Home Sales Index (PHSI ) . The index is said to be a leading indicator for...
Wed, Apr 27 2011, 3:34 PM
The U.S
Census Bureau has released Residential Vacancies and Homeownership data for
the first quarter of 2011.
The data is derived from th...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 9:53 AM
The trivia
for the day is, "Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is
attached at only one end." I bring this up because there will be ple...
Tue, Apr 26 2011, 2:43 PM
Standard and Poor's has released February Case- Shiller Home Price data...
S&P/Case- Shiller provides two monthly indices which track the...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 11:42 AM
The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development have
released New
Residential Sales data for March 2011.
New Residential ...
Mon, Apr 25 2011, 10:14 AM
In terms
of powerful world figures, how does the FDIC's Sheila Bair stack up against
Lady Gaga or Katie Couric? ForbesList
For the 1st quarte...
Thu, Apr 21 2011, 11:28 AM
The economy
has hit an "air pocket" according to Fannie
Mae's latest economic projections . If your plane has
ever hit one you're familiar with...
Wed, Apr 20 2011, 3:27 PM
The National Association of Realtors today released Existing Home Sales data for March 2011
Existing Home Sales report on the number of comple...
Tue, Apr 19 2011, 12:53 PM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development
have released New Residential Construction statistics for March 2011. ...
Mon, Apr 18 2011, 1:24 PM
There
are a lot of reasons why the nation's homebuilders continue to feel skittish about
the housing market according to both the Chairman and Chief...
Wed, Apr 13 2011, 12:09 PM
Freddie Mac has released its April 2011 Economic Outlook .
Below is a copy of the text. We have taken the liberty of calling attention to a few...
Tue, Apr 5 2011, 2:00 PM
The March edition of the Obama Administration's
Housing Scorecard again remarks on the fragility of the U.S. housing market and
the need to cont...
Mon, Apr 4 2011, 9:55 AM
Buffalo
Springfield wrote, "There's something happening here, what it is ain't
exactly clear..." But there is one movement that appears to be cleare...
Thu, Mar 31 2011, 3:00 PM
For the second time in less than a week economists have
attempted to quantify the amount of shadow inventory currently lurking in the background of ...
Tue, Mar 29 2011, 9:53 AM
How much house is too much house in Michigan? 50 cent is only half of a dollar.
Today the FDIC Board will vote on a credit risk-retention prop...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 10:54 AM
The National
Association of Realtors'® (NAR) have taken a stab at estimating just how wide and deep the much
discussed " shadow inventory " of hou...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 10:30 AM
Did
anyone from your county move in 2008? It is not my job to keep track of them -
but someone does. Privacy issues aside, Realtors may find this in...
Mon, Mar 28 2011, 2:41 PM
The
National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released its February Pending Home
Sales Index (PHSI) Monday. The index is a leading indicator for the...
