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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 [...] Dennis Norman According to a report issued today by Zip Realty, sellers in Florida are slashing prices by more than 10 percent South Florida has deals on homes! According to Zip Realty, sellers in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale have reduced their list price by an average of nearly 15 percent, or $36,000 in February 2010. In [...] Dennis Norman Today the National Association of REALTORS released it’s January Pending Home Sales Index showing a decrease of 7.6 percent in the index from December, 2009 to January 2010 (seasonally adjusted) and a 12.3 percent increase from last year. Here are highlights from the report: January’’s pending home sales index (seasonally adjusted) was 90.4 (the index is based upon 100.0 being [...] 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 [...] Dennis Norman You may want to consider possible legal issues before deciding to “walk away” Homeowners who are considering “walking away” from their home to avoid making their mortgage payment need to know that their mortgage company may try to file a lawsuit to recover the amount owed on the home. In addition, homeowners who sell their [...] Dennis Norman The sunshine state’s real estate market is heating up according to the latest report from the Florida REALTORS(R). Existing home sales rose in January, marking 17 months that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparions. Existing home sales in Florida increased 24 percent in January with a total of 10,465 homes sold statewide [...] Dennis Norman The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently consdered an appeal by the plaintiffs of a class action lawsuit again D.R. Horton, Inc. and DHI Mortgage, Co brought by John R. Yeatman and Eleanor E. Yeatman on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated individuals. The lawsuit stems from the Yeatman’s [...]
Dennis Norman According to the latest report from the National Association of REALTORS(R), existing home sales in January decreased 7.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted-annual rate of 5.05 million units in January from a level of 5.44 million units in December, however this does represent an increase over a year ago when the rate was 4.53 million units (seasonally adjusted). Lawrence Yun, [...]
Dennis Norman The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000, an 11.2 percent decrease from the revised December rate of 348,000 and is 6.1 percent below a year ago. 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, [...] Dennis Norman American homeowners’ confidence in their own homes’ values falls to lowest level in almost two years According to the Zillow 4th quarter, 2009 Homeowner Confidence Survey, American’s aren’t feeling so good about the value of their homes, and, in fact, just one in five (20 percent) believe their own homes’ values increased during 2009. [...] Dennis Norman Home Prices Exhibit “Improving Declines” (sounds rather oxymoronic, huh?) In a report issued by First American CoreLogic national home prices continue to decline with their HPI (Loan Performance Home Price Index) declining by 3.7 percent in December 2009 compared with the year before. If you take the distressed sales out (foreclosures, short sales, etc) [...]
Dennis Norman Radarlogic Housing Market Report Shows First November-December Increase in Home Prices Since 2004- Also shows a 44 percent year-over-year increase in housing transactions in December Finally, some good news on the home front…literally. According to the Housing Market Report that was just released by Radarlogic, their RPX Composite Price, which tracks home prices in 25 [...] 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 [...] In January, Sellers Reduced List Prices by $21,925 on Average, According to ZipRealty According to a report released today by ZipRealty just over 40 percent of available homes for sale had reduced prices in January, down from 44 percent in December. “Sellers are taking a realistic look at current market conditions before listing their homes,” said ZipRealty [...]
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 [...] More Than 15,000 Additional Homes Were Listed for Sale in January Within 27 Major U.S. Housing Markets
Dennis Norman January marked the first time in 18 months that more homes were listed “for sale” compared to the previous month, with an additional 15,000 homes, or a 2.9 percent increase, listed for sale compared to December according [...] 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 Today the National Association of REALTORS released it’s December Pending Home Sales Index showing an increase of 1.0 percent in the index from November (seasonally adjusted) and a 10.9 percent increase from last year. Here are highlights from the report: December’’s pending home sales index (seasonally adjusted) was 96.6 (the index is based upon 100.0 being [...]
Dennis Norman The U.S. Department of Commerce released a report showing the sale of New Homes in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 342,000, a 7.6 percent decrease from the revised November rate of 370,000 and is 8.6 percent below a year ago. My Mantra As has been my long-running mantra, I don’t like “seasonally adjusted” numbers [...] Dennis Norman Top 20 Cities Are From California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona; Utah, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho Cities Indicate Foreclosure Problem Is Spreading. Today RealtyTrac® released its year-end 2009 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report which shows that cities in four Sun Belt states accounted for all top 20 foreclosure rates in 2009 among metro areas with a population 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 Zip Realty’s “Home Hunter” Report for 4th quarter 2009 shows some housing markets heating up. While some of the “hottest” real estate markets in the country — those where homes are selling most above their list prices — continue to be distressed areas dominated by heavily discounted prices, a report issued by ZipRealty revealed some [...]
Dennis Norman This morning the S&P/Case-Shiller Index report for November was released showing that home prices in their 10 city and 20 city composite indexes decreased 0.2 percent from October. The indexes include the major metropolition areas in the U.S. (details for metros included are in chart that follows). This marks the tenth month of improved [...] |
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