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NEW New And Existing Home Sales Continue To Languish

Tue, Jun 26 2007, 7:00 AM

The National Association of Realtors can always be depended upon to put the best face on housing news. The monthly report on the sales of existin...

NEW State Of The Nations Housing - Harvard Study

Fri, Jun 22 2007, 7:00 AM

The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies recently released its annual State of the Nation's Housing report for 2007. It is dismal reading. ...

NEW Housing Starts Slip and Builders Still Glum

Tue, Jun 19 2007, 7:00 AM

Two measures of the housing market were released this week and each shows that, at best, builders are remaining cautious; at worst they are showin...

NEW Will Subprime Problems Spill Over Into Conventional Markets?

Mon, Jun 11 2007, 7:00 AM

Two days, two economic forecasts; the first which we reported on earlier from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) showed a rapid deterioratio...

NEW NAR Forecast Reveals A Wee Bit Of Gloom

Fri, Jun 8 2007, 7:00 AM

The National Association of Realtors has backpedaled on previous housing forecasts with it U.S. Economic Outlook report for June released on Wedne...

NEW Real Estate Sales Information Not Public In All States

Thu, Jun 7 2007, 7:00 AM

In a recent article on the pros and cons of buying "flips" we made a flip statement and it is probably not the...

NEW Mortgage Rates Climb For Third Straight Week

Wed, Jun 6 2007, 7:00 AM

Longer term mortgage rates hit 2007 highs during last week according to the results of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. With the exce...

NEW Nothing Wrong With Buying A Flip As Long As It Is A Good One

Tue, Jun 5 2007, 7:00 AM

Flips are beginning to crowd the market as home sales slow. Investors who mistimed the market are finding that it is taking much longer than they ...

NEW Mortgage Rates Surge While Applications and Refinancing Weak

Wed, May 30 2007, 7:00 AM

Maybe it is just temporary, but it looks like the worm - that is the mortgage interest rate version of it - has finally turned. Freddie Mac's P...

NEW Existing Home Sales Were Down 2.6 Percent In April

Fri, May 25 2007, 7:00 AM

On Thursday the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development released figures for

NEW New Home Sales Jump In April

Thu, May 24 2007, 7:00 AM

According to figures released on Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau, new house sales in April ...

NEW Mortgage Rates Move Up On Inflation Worries

Thu, May 24 2007, 7:00 AM

According to Frank Nothaft , vice present and chief economist of Freddie Mac, "Mortgage rates inched up this week following the Federal Open Market...

NEW Home Builder Confidence Is Down And Permitting Appears To Reflect It

Tue, May 22 2007, 7:00 AM

NAHB's chief economist David Seiders said, "The pattern of building permits clearly shows that the dramatic downward correction in housing productio...

NEW Freddie Mac Housing Forecast Sees Slow Recovery

Thu, May 10 2007, 7:00 AM

With the growth of house price appreciation now stalled or even reversed, this has fueled fears that homeowners may face an inability to withdraw eq...

NEW Home Equity Still Being Pulled Despite Soft Housing Market

Tue, May 8 2007, 7:00 AM

Declining home sales and prices have not succeeded in discouraging homeowners from pulling equity out of their homes according to Freddie Mac's qu...

NEW Drop In Investment Purchases Offsets Vacation Property Sales Gains

Fri, May 4 2007, 7:00 AM

It seems impossible to get a clear look at the housing situation these days. Where there is hope there is despair, if good news there is bad, existi...

NEW Mortgage Rates Inch Downward

Wed, May 2 2007, 7:00 AM

To use the word "drift" in conjunction with the mortgage market the past week would be suggesting too much energy in mortgage rates and in the marke...

NEW GAO To Look At Foreclosure Incidence and Causes After Hearings

Tue, May 1 2007, 7:00 AM

Before we were sidetracked by new and existing home sales reports and falling interest rates we were

NEW Existing Home Sales Drop At Fastest Rate In 18 Years

Thu, Apr 26 2007, 7:00 AM

The two most closely watched monthly housing reports came out this week and served only to muddy the real estate waters even further. On Tuesday t...

NEW Housing Recovery May Be Held Back By Oversupply

Thu, Apr 12 2007, 7:00 AM

Will the economy return the favor? Spring usually provides the strongest home selling period of the year and with interest rates still relatively ...

NEW Mortgage Rates Remain Quiet

Wed, Apr 11 2007, 7:00 AM

In a statement accompanying the release of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended April 5, Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice ...

NEW NAR Chief Economist Upbeat But Points To A Few Possible Problems

Tue, Apr 10 2007, 7:00 AM

David Lereah, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has weighed in on the bankruptcies, foreclosures, and predicted A...

NEW Mortgage Rates Hold Steady While Applications Fall

Wed, Apr 4 2007, 7:00 AM

In its report of the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey for last week, Freddie Mac took some credit for the stability in mortgage rates ...

NEW February New and Existing Home Sales Take Different Tracks

Tue, Mar 27 2007, 7:00 AM

Reports on the sales of both new and existing homes were released on Friday, March 23 and Monday, March 26 and they pointed in distinctly opposite d...

NEW Housing Market Shaky Not Plummeting

Wed, Mar 21 2007, 7:00 AM

Two reports that contribute to the picture of the housing industry were released on Monday. After news from the

NEW Housing Weather Forecast For March Calls For Sun and Storms

Tue, Mar 13 2007, 7:00 AM

Freddie Mac seems to be seeking a little cover in its March 2007 Economic Outlook released late last week. These monthly forecasts always have a the...

NEW Mortgage Rates Drop, Some To Lowest Levels In Serveral Months

Wed, Mar 7 2007, 8:00 AM

Mortgage interest rates slipped for the second week in a row last week, with some rates reaching 2007 lows. The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MB...

NEW Existing Home Sales Rise But New Home Sales Take Sizable Hit

Fri, Mar 2 2007, 8:00 AM

Reports on January sales of both new and existing houses were released this week. Conclusions were, to say the least, mixed. The National Associat...

NEW Mortgage Rates Mostly Lower As Concerns Over Housing Rise

Wed, Feb 28 2007, 8:00 AM

Concern over the slowing housing market may be impacting mortgage rates according to Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist...

NEW Housing Permits and Starts Slide But Builder Confidence Rising

Tue, Feb 20 2007, 8:00 AM

Right on the heels of the National Association of Realtors rather glum report on the

NEW NAR Releases Year End Existing Home Data - Sunny Side Up

Mon, Feb 19 2007, 8:00 AM

Existing-home sales had a rough 2006 fourth quarter according to figures released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors. David Lereah, ...

NEW Negative Impact of Housing On Economy Lessens As Inventories Decline

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 8:00 AM

There were lots of little nuggets of information in the February Economic Outlook issued by Freddie Mac on February 8. It addition to the usual for...

NEW Mortgage Rates and Application Rates Both Mixed at the End of January

Wed, Feb 7 2007, 8:00 AM

Mortgage rates assumed a split personality again this past week with Freddie Mac showing moderate increases and the Mortgage Bankers Association repo...

NEW New And Existing Home Sales Continue Retreat From Record Highs

Fri, Jan 26 2007, 8:00 AM

First read the press release issued on Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors regarding data on the sale of existing homes in December an...

NEW Permits and Housing Starts Reflect Builder Optimism

Mon, Jan 22 2007, 8:00 AM

Home builders are growing increasingly more confident about the economy and the real estate market and that was reflected in the most recent report...

NEW Mortgage Rates Up and MBA Issues Long Term Forecast

Thu, Jan 18 2007, 8:00 AM

Both long and short term interest rates were up again during the week ended January 11 according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. ...

NEW Luxury Home Sales Hold Their Own In Down Housing Market

Wed, Jan 17 2007, 8:00 AM

The housing market is in a bit of a funk and home prices are not rising as fast as they did a year or so ago, but the outrageously expensive home ...

NEW Freddie Mac: Three Trends Will Impact Home Market and Financing

Tue, Jan 16 2007, 8:00 AM

The January 2007 Economic Outlook which is published last week by the Office of the Chief Economist at Freddie Mac was headlined " The Remodeled Hou...

NEW Mortgage Rates Move Higher On Consumer Spending and Calendar

Wed, Jan 3 2007, 8:00 AM

Inflation jitters caused mortgages rates to increase a bit during the last full week of 2006 according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey relea...

NEW Is The End Of The End Of The Housing Bubble Near?

Fri, Dec 29 2006, 8:00 AM

Is it the end of the end of the housing bubble ? The National Association of Realtors (NAR) seemed to think so as it issued its November report on ...

NEW Realogy Sale Not Necessarily A Done Deal

Thu, Dec 28 2006, 8:00 AM

The widely reported purchase of Realogy by Apollo Management LP last week may just be the opening move in a wild and wooly auction for the company...

NEW Housing Starts, Permits and Builder Confidence Stabilize In Recent Surveys

Tue, Dec 26 2006, 8:00 AM

Housing permits and starts in November were mixed when compared to October levels according to figures released this week by the U.S. Census Bure...

NEW New Home Sales Report Issued For October

Fri, Dec 1 2006, 8:00 AM

As usual, fresh on the heels of the National Association of Realtors monthly report on the status of

NEW Existing Home Sales Increase Slightly But Median Prices Decline

Wed, Nov 29 2006, 8:00 AM

Reports on the sales of existing homes for October were released on November 28 by the National Association of Realtors. On a slightly optimistic no...

NEW Home Prices and Volume Generally Down In Third Quarter

Wed, Nov 22 2006, 8:00 AM

Accentuate the positive. Gild the lily. Lots of cliches come to mind after reading the third quarter summary of existing home sales released on M...

NEW Housing Starts Dive But Builder and Buyer Confidence Are Up

Mon, Nov 20 2006, 8:00 AM

The Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have released October figures on building permits and housing starts and ...

NEW Housing Bubble Leak Showing Up In Other Parts Of Economy

Thu, Nov 9 2006, 8:00 AM

The slowdown in housing has begun to take a toll on the overall economy according to the November Economic Outlook issued by Freddie Mac on November 8...

NEW Mortgage Rates Mixed But Freddie Mac Sees Hope In Inventory Declines

Thu, Nov 2 2006, 7:00 AM

Interest rates were up slightly this week according to the Freddy Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended October 26. The 30-year fix...

NEW New Home Prices Take a Real Hit But Sales May Be Stabilizing

Fri, Oct 27 2006, 7:00 AM

New home prices took a heck of a hit in September according to information released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and U...

NEW Home Sellers Should Remember That They And Their Homes Are Not National Statistics

Mon, Oct 23 2006, 7:00 AM

If you follow network or cable news you probably believe that the real estate market has gone from unbridled insanity where buyers apparently losing...