October 11, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Housing prices fell for the third consecutive month and are continuing to trend downward according to Altos Research’s October Real-Time National Housing Market Update, meanwhile, the mass liquidation of foreclosures that never occurred, leaves housing inventories declining. […]
October 10, 2011 (Jeff Alan) U.S. home prices in the current rolling quarter ending in September increased by 3.5 percent, down from 4.0 percent last month, indicating a softening of prices which is expected to continue through next spring according to Clear Capital’s Home Data Index (HDI). […]
October 7, 2011 (Chris Moore) Monthly national home prices fell for the first time in four months in August, declining 0.4 percent according to CoreLogic’s August Home Price Index (HPI), signaling the end of the traditional summer selling season. […]
October 7, 2011 (Shirley Allen) The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced they will speed disaster relief assistance to the state of Maryland, providing support to homeowners and low-income renters who have been forced from their homes due to the recent severe weather and flooding caused by Tropical Storm Lee. […]
October 7, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Wells Fargo is holding another Home Preservation Workshop in Kansas City, Kansas, on October 11th, 2011. The event is being held at the Overland Park Convention Center and will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. The last day to register for this event is today, October 7th, 2011!!! [...]
October 7, 2011 (Jeff Alan) The list of improving metropolitan areas expanded this month to 23 according to the NAHB/First American Improving Market Index (IMI), nearly double the 12 areas that made the list last month. […]
October 6, 2011 (Shirley Allen) Average interest rates for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage dropped under four percent for the first time ever while the 15-year fixed rate mortgage set a new record low for the sixth consecutive week according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS) […]
October 6, 2011 (Jeff Alan) Wells Fargo reports that 12,076 active trial or completed loan mortgage modifications were posted in August, up from 8,784 in July. As of August 31, 2011, Wells Fargo says it has completed or has in active trial 716,945 mortgage loan modifications since January 2009, up from 704,869 at the end [...]
October 6, 2011 (Chris Moore) The housing market in August continued to show improvement brought on by seasonal selling trends and overall loan performance, which had stumbled in July, improved again in August according to the latest release of the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard. […]
