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Mortgage Rates Highest in Over a Month

Mortgage rates were slightly higher today, depending on the lender.  Many lenders ended up raising rates last Friday afternoon as underlying bond markets weakened.  The remaining lenders had more distance to cover in terms of getting caught up with market movements.  The … Continue reading

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Treasury Weighs in With Mortgage Industry Recommendations

The Treasury Department has recommended some sweeping changes for consumer financial services including some directly impacting the mortgage industry. A new report recognizes the growing importance of non-depository institutions in the mortgage system, attributing it in part to various factors that have raised … Continue reading

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Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – By almost every measure, the U.S. economy is booming. But a look behind the headlines of roaring job growth and consumer spending reveals how the boom continues in large part by the poorer half of Americans fleecing … Continue reading

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Existing Home Sales Below Expectations for Second Month

Analysts were expecting existing home sales to rebound in May after they fell behind year-ago levels in April.  However, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) reported a second straight monthly loss, with the Northeast the only region where sales improved. Sales … Continue reading

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The Ever-Changing World of Private Mortgage Insurance; Capital Markets

Residential lenders aren’t the only ones having a tough time out there. Builder Hovnanian reported a Q2 loss of $9.8 million. The Social Security program’s costs will exceed its income this year for the first time since 1982, forcing the … Continue reading

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After Long Search, MBA Finds New Leadership

A nine-month search for a replacement for David H. Stevens as president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) ended today with the selection of Robert D. Broeksmit.  Broeksmit is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB)  and current president and chief … Continue reading

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Residential and Private Construction Numbers Solid in April

April turned out to be a solid month for construction.  The Census Bureau said that dollar value of new construction activity on residential, non-residential, and public projects was at a seasonally adjusted and annual total of $1.31 trillion.  This represented a … Continue reading

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Non-QM and Digital Products; Global Events Driving our Capital Markets

Plenty of people I know agree with the this Forbes article titled, “We Have Learned Nothing From The Mortgage Market Meltdown.” Builders are reducing labor costs by using premanufactured products that also require low maintenance. And what’s not to like about taking … Continue reading

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How Homeownership Affects Household Wealth

It is conventional wisdom that homeownership is key to household wealth, and the National Association of Home Builders makes a convincing argument for that theory in its Eye on Housing blog.  Jing Fu used data from the Federal Reserve’s 2016 Survey of Consumer … Continue reading

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Move Over Millennials, Gen Z is Already Buying Homes

Who’s afraid of growing up?  Apparently not Generation Z.  The post-Millennial crop of kids, those born in 1995 and later, are already moving into homeownership. Maria Lamagna, writing for MarketWatch says just shy of 100,000 members of Gen Z, whose ages … Continue reading

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