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Home Loan Applications Increase 5.7 Percent Last Week – second consecutive week of increased home buyer activity
Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending March 5, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 5.7 [...] Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its report on the performance of commercial and multifamily mortgages in the fourth quarter of 2009. Their last report from a year ago showed that commercial and multifamily mortgages were among the best performing loans held by banks and thrifts. Now, a year later, the [...] Home Loan Applications Jump 11.7 Percent Last Week after decreasing two prior weeks
Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 26, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 11.7 percent [...] Home Loan Applications Drop 7.3 Percent Last Week after decreasing 4.0 percent the week before.
Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 19, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 7.3 percent [...] Seventy Percent of all mortgaged properties in Nevada are underwater
Dennis Norman According to a report released today by First American CoreLogic more than 11.3 million U.S. mortgages, or 24 percent of all mortgaged properties, are in a negative equity position meaning the borrowers owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth as of December 31, [...] Home Loan Applications Drop 4.0 Percent Last Week.
Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 12, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 4.0 percent from the week before and the [...] Dennis Norman Deceleration in Rise of Mortgage Delinquencies Short Lived Back in July, 2009 when speaking in North Carolina President Barack Obama announced “we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession“. My thoughts then were that was very optimistic and I didn’t agree (for whatever that is worth). Since then some economists have announced [...]
Dennis Norman Last week a friend emailed me a link to a video titled “The Indymac Slap in Our Face” that was created by Think Big Work Small. I watched the video which gave a recap of the failure of Indymac bank back resulting in it’s seizure by the FDIC in July, 2008, and the [...] Dennis Norman Big Losses Are Forecast For Commercial Real Estate and Expected to Crush Some Community Banks-Can the Housing Market Avoid the Fallout? This morning the Congressional Oversight Panel issued a report, “Commercial Real Estate Losses and the Risk to Financial Stability” which expressed concerns about coming losses in Commercial Real Estate and also described how these [...] Home Loan Applications Drop 7.0 Percent Last Week.
Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending February 5, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 7.0 percent from the week before and the four-week [...]
Dennis Norman Fannie Mae is offering 3.5 percent in closing cost assistance or an equivalaent amount in appliances for people purchasing a Fannie Mae-owned HomePath® property. Fannie Mae is trying to entice buyers to buy one of their HomePath® homes by offering to pay up to 3.5 percent in closing cost assistance or an equal amount [...]
Dennis Norman Bank of America announced that it is the first mortgage servicer to sign an agreement formally committing to participation in the pending second-lien component of the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Bank of America has systems in place to begin implementing the Second Lien Modification Program (2MP) with the release of final [...] Home Loan Applications Jump 21.0 Percent Last Week. Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 29, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 21.0 percent from the week before and [...]
Dennis Norman This week the Treasury Department issed a report which included stats on the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) which is part of the Obama administrations’ Making Home Affordable Program and “is a loan modification program designed to reduce delinquent and at-risk borrowers’ monthly mortgage payments”. The HAMP program got underway around March of [...] Fewer Home-buyers applying for loans in past week Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 22, 2010. The report showed the
Dennis Norman This week FHA announced policy changes that are going to help them shore up their finances but will make it more difficult and/or costly for a borrower. The FHA policy changes include:
Home-buyers mortgage activity increases from week before…down from a month ago though Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 8, 2010. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) increased 14.3 percent from the [...] Dennis Norman Depending on which estimate you believe, somewhere between one-third and one-half of the homeowners with a mortgage in the U.S. owe more on their homes than their homes are currently worth. This has lead to an unprecedented amount of short-sales and in many cases, a lender “forgiving” you of the short-fall (the amount [...] According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, borrowers with FHA loans that are experiencing problems associated with drywall (ie; chinese drywall) may be eligible for assistance to help them rehabilitate their properties. FHA is reminding its approved lenders that they are to offer special forbearance for borrowers confronted with [...]
Dennis Norman There were many housing-related records broken in 2009..unfortunately all of them I am aware of are negative; foreclosure rates, mortgage delinquencies and bank failutes to name a few. Well, according to MortgageDaily.Com there was also a record set by the number of mortgage related firms that ended operations or failed last year. MortgageDaily.com [...] According to NAR 51 percent of recent homebuyers are first-time buyers and 39 percent of recent home sales have relied on an FHA loan Dennis Norman The National Association of REALTORS just released a report showing that 51 percent of the homes sold recently have been to first-time home buyers and that 39 percent of all recent buyers have turned to an [...] Dennis Norman Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and CitiMortgage give borrowers a break over the holidays… Within the past day Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have both announced that they are suspending evictions from December 19, 2009 through January 3, 2010 on foreclosed homes, two families and four families, that they hold. CitiMortgage and CitiFinancial announced yesterday a [...] Home-buyers mortgage activity dropping…refinances make up 3/4 of all new mortgages. Dennis Norman The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending December 11, 2009. The report showed the MBA Purchase Index (a measure of the volume of loan applications related to a home purchase) decreased 3.6 percent from the [...] Dennis Norman Last week I did a post about the Obama Administrations’ Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and showed how it really has not been effective in helping keep families in their homes and avoid foreclosure as was the intention by the administration. When my kids tell me they don’t like the way I want them to [...] Dennis Norman This week the Treasury Department issed a report which included stats on the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) which is part of the Obama administrations’ Making Home Affordable Program and “is a loan modification program designed to reduce delinquent and at-risk borrowers’ monthly mortgage payments”. The HAMP program got underway around March of this [...] Mortgage Delinquencies are expected to decrease in many states in 2010; Florida, Arizona, California, New York and Virginia expected to see increases. Dennis Norman According to the Annual Consumer Credit Forecasts issued by TransUnion, Florida is expected to have the highest mortgage delinquency rate by the end of next year at 16.86 percent (up from 13.34 [...] Dennis Norman Laurie Goodman, the Senior Managing Director at Amherst Securities, testified yesterday before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on “The Private Sector and Government Response to the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis“. Amherst Securities specializes in the trading of residential mortgage backed securities and charges Goodman with keeping them and their customers abreast of trends in the [...] Dennis Norman For the first year or so of the real estate slump, it appeared to just be concentrated in the residential market, specifically homes and condos. However, over the past few months the attention has shifted more and more to the commerical and multi-family markets as well as the economy remains weak. The Mortgage Bankers [...] Dennis Norman Last week the Treasury Department announced the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program (HAFA), the latest program under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), designed to offer alternatives to homeowners facing foreclosure. THE HAFA PROGRAM: The Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program provides financial incentives to loan servicers as well as borrowers who do a short-sale or a [...] Ted Gayer, co-director of Economic Studies, Brookings Institute According to this article, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has scored a Senate homebuyer tax credit at $16.7 billion. How does the JCT $16.7 billion cost estimate square with my previous back-of-the-envelope calculation of the cost of the tax credit of $73.9 billion? |
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