The annual State of the Nation's Housing report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University is the latest vehicle for sounding the alarm about the country's diminishing housing stock and the resulting decline in affordability...
Mortgage prepayment rates have continued to rise as interest rates move lower. Black Knight says prepayments increased by 24.31 percent in May compared to April and 32.17 percent on an annual basis. The company, in its "first look" at loan performance ...
If the rumors about housing in Silicon Valley are true, it is probably hard to recruit new employees if they fear they will have to live in an RV in WalMart's parking lot. Such a situation may have prompted Google to announce a $1 billion commitment to...
Freddie Mac's forecast for June sees more dark clouds than usual, but few of those are on the housing front. The company's Economic and Housing Research Group notes that some of those gathering clouds, concerns about global growth and the lingeri...
Attendees at the Ginnie Mae Summit commemorating the agencies 50th anniversary on Thursday heard from both Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Dr. Mark A. Calabria, newly confirmed director of the Fede...
Lenders are singing a happier tune when it comes to their profit margin outlook with those hopes driven by rising confidence in mortgage demand. The net share of lenders' perceptions about both recent and upcoming demand has turned positive for t...
The increase in homeowner equity has slightly exceeded the pace of housing appreciation. CoreLogic says that the 63 percent of homeowners nationally who have a mortgage on their property saw their equity grow by 5.6 percent between the first quar...
Spending on construction was almost flat in April. The Census Bureau said total expenditures of both public and private money was essentially unchanged from the seasonally adjusted estimate in March of $1.30 trillion. The March number was r...
Toll Brothers is embarking on a new business model that may, depending on your outlook, increase the rental stock, provide new opportunities for home builders, or further diminish new home sale inventories. The company has committed to invest $60...
