Thu, Dec 19 2019, 11:46 AM
Fannie Mae substantially revised its housing forecast this month, especially as regards new home construction. The company's Economic and Strategic Re...
Thu, Dec 19 2019, 11:32 AM
Existing home sales fell back again in November, erasing most of October's 1.9 percent gain. Sales have now declined in two of the last three months ....
Wed, Dec 18 2019, 8:08 AM
The volume of mortgage applications retreated this past week, giving back most of the gains scored during the week ended December 6 following the Than...
Tue, Dec 17 2019, 10:37 AM
The numbers for November residential construction permits and housing starts came in higher than expected , marking the second straight month of incre...
Mon, Dec 16 2019, 10:41 AM
Home builders ended the year with an apparent outbreak of euphoria. Responding to higher trending sales and low interest rates they sent the National ...
Thu, Dec 12 2019, 10:06 AM
While the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is predicting newly constructed homes sold at a much higher rate in November than they did a year earlier...
Mon, Dec 9 2019, 9:49 AM
Black Knight continues to review, in its new Mortgage Monitor , how the effects of nearly a year of lower interest rates have ricocheted throughout th...
Mon, Dec 2 2019, 10:07 AM
We started this piece by noting that Freddie Mac's economists wrapped up November in an unusually brief summary. Then we realized we had said almost e...
Wed, Nov 27 2019, 10:13 AM
Pending home sales slipped in October after two months of solid gains. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said its Pending Home Sale Index (P...
Tue, Nov 26 2019, 10:56 AM
The headline for the new home sales report for October was the year-over-year increase in sales. While sales of newly constructed homes were actually ...
Thu, Nov 21 2019, 11:24 AM
Existing-home sales got back on track in October, partially recovering from a 2.2 percent slip in September that ended a two-month winning streak. The...
Wed, Nov 20 2019, 9:58 AM
Applications for mortgages to purchase newly constructed homes surged in October and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is expecting that sales wi...
Wed, Nov 20 2019, 8:09 AM
Despite the Veterans' Day holiday which shortened the work week of November 15, purchase mortgage applications gained momentum. The Mortgage Bankers A...
Tue, Nov 19 2019, 1:31 PM
Fannie Mae's economists are predicting that economic growth will slow significantly in the fourth quarter to 1.6 percent. This downward revision howev...
Mon, Nov 18 2019, 2:03 PM
Home builder confidence fell back slightly this month, declining by 1 point to 70 in the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Hous...
Tue, Nov 12 2019, 11:10 AM
A securities expert told an audience at the National Association of Realtors' (NAR's) annual conference that cybercrimes against real estate agents an...
Thu, Nov 7 2019, 11:29 AM
Are home price increases cranking up again? The quarterly report from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) on existing home sales and metropoli...
Mon, Nov 4 2019, 8:23 AM
While mortgage performance continues to be the best in many years , with the national delinquency rate down to 3.53 percent and record low foreclosure...
Fri, Nov 1 2019, 8:25 AM
Freddie Mac's end-of-the-month forecast for October was exceptionally brief, perhaps in recognition that it has all been said before. The economy is s...
Tue, Oct 29 2019, 10:30 AM
Pending home sales posted a solid increase for the second straight month in September, more than doubling analysts' expectations. The National Associa...
Thu, Oct 24 2019, 11:00 AM
Homeowners continued to reduce and/or retire their mortgage debt at an accelerated clip in September according to Black Knight's "first look" at the m...
Thu, Oct 24 2019, 10:58 AM
New home sales came in at a respectable seasonally adjusted annual rate of 701,000 in September, down only 0.7 percent from the revised rate of 706,00...
Tue, Oct 22 2019, 11:00 AM
Sales of existing homes, which had posted advances in both July and August, fell back in September. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said s...
Fri, Oct 18 2019, 11:11 AM
Even though the pace of home building remains below where the industry would like it to be, Fannie Mae says it helped drive residential fixed investme...
Fri, Oct 18 2019, 8:22 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) says it expects that new home sales declined in September relative to August based on a drop in mortgage applic...
Wed, Oct 16 2019, 10:30 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), which has held in the mid-to-upper 60 range since May, finall...
Tue, Oct 1 2019, 10:56 AM
Despite expecting an economic slowdown as reflected in the gross domestic product (GDP), Freddie Mac published a pretty upbeat September forecast as t...
Thu, Sep 26 2019, 10:16 AM
Pending home sales resumed their upward trajectory in August after declining 2.5 percent in July, making for positive results in three of the last fou...
Wed, Sep 25 2019, 10:37 AM
New home sales in August reclaimed part of July's sharp loss. The Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development said sales nationwide ...
Wed, Sep 25 2019, 8:06 AM
Although changes in mortgage rates were gradual and mixed during the week ended September 20, mortgage volume moved sharply lower. Refinancing was esp...
Tue, Sep 24 2019, 10:18 AM
Both the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI) were released on Tuesday. The Ca...
Thu, Sep 19 2019, 11:17 AM
While the increase wasn't as strong as in July, last month's existing home sales posted a second straight month of gains and, as previously, the Natio...
Thu, Sep 19 2019, 8:38 AM
Fannie Mae says consumer spending will continue to support the economy. The company's Economic Summary for September cites increases in auto and retai...
Tue, Sep 17 2019, 11:20 AM
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is anticipating an increase in new home sales in August. The organization's Builder Application Survey found th...
Tue, Sep 17 2019, 10:41 AM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) increased 1 point in September. Along with an upward revision ...
Mon, Sep 9 2019, 9:38 AM
Low interest rates continue to expand the pool of refinancible mortgages and bolster mortgage prepayment rates according to Black Knight's Mortgage Mo...
Thu, Aug 29 2019, 10:26 AM
Pending home sales moved lower in July, declining by 2.5 percent. After two consecutive months of gains the National Association of Realtors'® (NAR's)...
Fri, Aug 23 2019, 10:56 AM
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development said sales of newly constructed homes fell 12.8 percent in July to a season...
Wed, Aug 21 2019, 11:19 AM
Existing home sales returned to an upward track in July after dipping 1.7 percent in June. The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said pre-owned ...
Mon, Aug 19 2019, 12:09 PM
Fannie Mae used a fair number of trade-offs in while coming up with its revised outlook for the real gross domestic product (GDP) this year. The compa...
Fri, Aug 16 2019, 7:17 PM
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) moved one point higher this month. However, at 66, NAHB's meas...
Fri, Aug 16 2019, 7:15 PM
New home purchases are expected to be significantly higher in July according to data released by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Its monthly B...
Wed, Aug 7 2019, 10:24 AM
CoreLogic has been running a series of articles in its Insights blog attempting to quantify the potential impact of the expiration of the so-called GS...
Wed, Aug 7 2019, 8:15 AM
CoreLogic said on Tuesday that its Home Price Index (HPI) for June increased by 3.4 percent on an annual basis. Rather than the steady decline in appr...
Mon, Aug 5 2019, 9:01 AM
Black Knight has good news for potential homebuyers , especially those in the market for their first home. The new edition of the company's Mortgage M...
Wed, Jul 31 2019, 10:55 AM
The housing market has been looking slightly better over the last few month and Freddie Mac July economic report reflects that fact. They also maintai...
Tue, Jul 30 2019, 10:50 AM
Pending home sales put in an especially strong performance in June , the second consecutive positive report as well as the fourth in five months. The ...
Wed, Jul 24 2019, 11:29 AM
New home sales bounced back in June from two prior reports of very weak sales . The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Develop...
Tue, Jul 23 2019, 11:17 AM
Existing home sales are persistent in their inability to maintain a steady course from month to month. Despite low interest rates and hopes for a stro...
Tue, Jul 23 2019, 10:01 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI) fell in line with most other indices in May, showing a slowdown in housing price...