Fri, May 19 2006, 7:00 AM
It does appear that the housing bubble is, if not
bursting, at least no longer expanding. For the second month in a row data
from the U.S. Census Bu...
Wed, May 17 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates were mixed for the weeks ending May 11
and May 12 according to data released in the last few days by Freddie Mac
and the Mortgage Bank...
Tue, May 16 2006, 7:00 AM
Thu, May 11 2006, 7:00 AM
Freddie Mac has joined with 14 other major financial organizations
including some of the nation's largest mortgage originating and servicing
companies...
Wed, May 10 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates barely moved during the past week
according to Freddie Mac reporting for the period ending May 4 and the
Mortgage Bankers Association ...
Tue, May 9 2006, 7:00 AM
Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the other major players in the search industry
have certainly taken notice of the arrival of vertical search and have made
it ...
Wed, May 3 2006, 7:00 AM
Fixed mortgage rates increased for the fifth straight
week according to Freddie Mac's Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey for
the week ended April...
Fri, Apr 28 2006, 7:00 AM
Information on March figures for both existing and new house sales were
released this week and figures show a moderate slowing from similar data
one y...
Wed, Apr 26 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates were mixed for the weeks ending April 20
(Freddie Mac) and April 21 (The Mortgage Bankers Association.) Freddie
reported all rates up ...
Tue, Apr 25 2006, 7:00 AM
Just our opinion, but spiraling gas prices may present an abundance of
unintended consequences when it comes to the housing market. Some of these
repe...
Mon, Apr 24 2006, 7:00 AM
While the stock market at least temporarily felt that Freddie
Mac had closed the doors on some serious legal issues last week,
it cost the giant mor...
Thu, Apr 20 2006, 7:00 AM
Two reports on new residential construction came out on
Tuesday - one of which showed a slowing in new home construction and the
other revealing a g...
Wed, Apr 19 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage interest rates hit another recent high water
mark during the week ended April 13 and 14 according to both Freddie Mac
and the Mortgage Banke...
Tue, Apr 18 2006, 7:00 AM
Fri, Apr 14 2006, 7:00 AM
The news last month was full of awful pictures of the tornado damage
that occurred throughout Missouri and Illinois. Along with the continuing
debacle...
Wed, Apr 12 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates were up for the week ended April 6th and
7th according to the weekly surveys released by Freddie Mac and the
Mortgage Bankers Associat...
Tue, Apr 11 2006, 7:00 AM
The central issue addressed by the April 2006 Economic
Outlook issued by Freddie Mac on Monday is the conflict created
between the strength of the e...
Mon, Apr 10 2006, 7:00 AM
Although we do not have the time to respond to all of the hundreds of
remarks left in the comments section of this site, we do read each and
every com...
Wed, Apr 5 2006, 7:00 AM
Seems strange that a vacuum, a refrigerator, bicycle, even a 4 inch
house plant from Home Depot, comes with a manual or at least a set of
instructions...
Wed, Apr 5 2006, 7:00 AM
Mortgage rates for the weeks ended March 30 and March
31 were up slightly for fixed rate mortgages, with adjustable rates
increasing a bit more aggre...
Mon, Apr 3 2006, 7:00 AM
There is so much conflicting information out there about " The
Bubble. " Does it exist? Will it leak? Will it burst? The money men
are busy analyzing ...
Thu, Mar 30 2006, 7:00 AM
Fannie Mae's Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended
March 23 indicated that the average rates for mortgages closed that week
were as...
Mon, Mar 27 2006, 7:00 AM
The housing market threw the world another curve on Thursday. After five
straight months of declining sales of existing homes, a sixth dreary month
wa...
Fri, Mar 24 2006, 7:00 AM
The National Association of Realtors recently released an interesting
report about the sale of second homes in the United
States. While the survey i...
Wed, Mar 22 2006, 7:00 AM
Most interest rates continued their recent pattern of two steps up -one
step back during the week ending March 16 (Freddie Mac) and March 17
(Mortgage...
Mon, Mar 20 2006, 7:00 AM
It is hard to be sympathetic to someone who cannot, as the saying goes,
get out of their own way. But Fannie Mae is beginning to seem like the
hapless...
Thu, Mar 16 2006, 7:00 AM
...So, now that we are comfortable with what constitutes a score, what
our own scores are, and how that indicates that we stack up, it is all
going to...
Wed, Mar 15 2006, 7:00 AM
After months of apparent indecisiveness, mortgages
rates seem to have decided on a direction and are heading toward
it.
Unfortunately that direct...
Mon, Mar 13 2006, 7:00 AM
When the Supreme Court, in June 2005, upheld a lower court's decision
allowing the City of New London, Connecticut to proceed in seizing property
from...
Fri, Mar 10 2006, 8:00 AM
The long awaited independent accounting report on Fannie
Mae was released late last month, and while it sort of absolves
Franklin Raines, former Cha...
Wed, Mar 8 2006, 8:00 AM
According to Freddie Mac, mortgage rates moved only
slightly during the week ended March 2 and what little movement there was
served only to narrow ...
Fri, Mar 3 2006, 8:00 AM
Last week was a big week for news about the housing
bubble and the quarterly House Price Index (HPI) report of the
Office of Federal Housing Enterpr...
Fri, Mar 3 2006, 8:00 AM
Following hard on the heels of the January new home sales report issued
jointly by The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census
Bure...
Wed, Mar 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Americans have been straining to hear the sound of the housing
bubble bursting for many months, and according to the media on
Monday, they might not...
Wed, Mar 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Most mortgage rates retreated ever-so-slightly during
the week ended February 23, 2006 according to the Weekly Primary Mortgage
Market Survey conduc...
Fri, Feb 24 2006, 8:00 AM
We have had a lot of feedback from readers about our first article about
the Zillow.com website which was published here during the
week of February...
Fri, Feb 24 2006, 8:00 AM
Zillow is the website with all the hype, but there is another which, in
its so-far modest press notices, has been widely hailed as the new way of
buyi...
Wed, Feb 22 2006, 8:00 AM
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended February
16 reported mortgage interest rates at their highest levels of the New
Year. ...
Tue, Feb 21 2006, 8:00 AM
After hearing all of the hype about the new website, www.zillow.com, of
course we had to challenge it. We gave Zillow a lot
of leeway, deferring t...
Wed, Feb 15 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending February 9, 2006
Wed, Feb 15 2006, 8:00 AM
Zillow may soon be a great website but, as even they admit, they are not there yet.
Mon, Feb 13 2006, 8:00 AM
Reducing the impervious materials used to accommodate vehicles and recycling the water that washes off of our roofs can pay big dividends to the envir...
Fri, Feb 10 2006, 8:00 AM
While refinancing as a share of overall mortgage activity continues to
decrease as rates rise, Americans who do refinance continue to liberate
home e...
Thu, Feb 9 2006, 8:00 AM
If the air is leaving the housing bubble, The National Association of Realtors still sees it leaving home sales at sustainable levels.
Wed, Feb 8 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending February 2, 2006
Mon, Feb 6 2006, 8:00 AM
Finally Fannie Mae has some good news to announce - a gift from NYSE, a portfolio increase, and Greenspan off of its back.
Thu, Feb 2 2006, 8:00 AM
Prior planning can prevent a lot of damage done to the land by construction.
Wed, Feb 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending January 27, 2006
Wed, Feb 1 2006, 8:00 AM
Home sales are obviously beginning to slow, but records were still set during 2005 in both volume and value .
