October 19, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Confidence among the nation’s new single-family home builders was on the rise in October according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) as buyer’s interest improved this month due to more favorable buying conditions. […]
October 18, 2011 (Jeff Alan) New and existing home sales and prices followed traditional seasonal patterns in the Bay Area by declining as expected in September, but remaining above year ago levels according to real estate information provider DataQuick. […]
October 18, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Despite recent marginally positive economic trends, Fannie Mae’s Economics & Mortgage Market Analysis Group continues to gauge the odds of a recession by the end of next year at close to fifty-fifty. […]
October 18, 2011 (Chris Moore) Weekly home sales volume and prices fell back into the loss column this last week following a brief respite the previous week according to the National Home Sales Snapshot released by DataQuick. […]
October 14, 2011 (Chris Moore) The inventory of available homes for sale in the United States is 20 percent lower than a year ago but it’s still taking longer to sell them according to the latest data housing of 146 metro areas released by Realtor.com […]
October 14, 2011 (Chris Moore) New and existing home sales in Southern California declined as expected in September, marking the beginning of the transition from the summer to the fall selling season. Home sales were still higher than last year, but just barely according to real estate information provider DataQuick. […]
October 14, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Closed transactions of home purchases plummeted 14.6 percent in September but were still 7.6 percent higher than in September 2010 according to RE/MAX’s National Housing Report (NHR). […]
October 13, 2011 (Shirley Allen) The effects of the Federal Reserve’s latest economic maneuver were overshadowed by a stronger than expected jobs report last week pushing Treasury yields and mortgage rates higher according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS). […]
October 13, 2011 (Jeff Alan) A federal loan assistance program modeled after a successful program in Pennsylvania targeting homeowners who had experienced a reduction in income or were at risk of foreclosure due to involuntary unemployment or underemployment will likely only meet half its goals on a national level because so few people could meet [...]
