December 4, 2012 (Jeff Alan) The average interest rates for conventional 30-year fixed rate single-family, fully amortized, purchase-money mortgages decreased from 3.76 percent in September to 3.62 percent in October according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) Monthly Interest Rate Survey. […]
December 4, 2012 (Chris Moore) The shrinking inventory of existing homes continued to be good news for the nation’s new home builders as sales in October held fairly steady from the previous month and remained well above last year’s levels according to the latest housing data released by the Census Bureau. […]
December 3, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Mortgage delinquencies fell by 4.91 percent in October after spiking by 7.72 percent in September and are 7.19 percent below last year’s pace according to the latest “First Look” Mortgage Report released by Lender Processing Services (LPS). […]
December 3, 2012 (Chris Moore) Sales of existing homes slid for a fourth consecutive week, but by only 898 sales from the previous week, while home prices fell back to the same level they were at two weeks ago according to the weekly National Home Sales Snapshot released by DataQuick. […]
November 30, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Mortgage rates showed little inclination to move this week, with rates barely moving off of last weeks levels according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS) for the week ending November 29th. […]
November 30, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Monthly sales of new and resale homes in the Seattle area fell by double-digits in September but still exceeded the previous year’s tally for the twelfth consecutive month according to real estate information provider DataQuick. […]
November 29, 2012 (Jeff Alan) The list of improving metropolitan areas expanded by 22 markets in November, its highest level ever, according to the NAHB/First American Improving Market Index (IMI) as the number of metropolitan areas increased from 103 in October to125 in November . […]
November 29, 2012 (Chris Moore) Applications for home mortgages fell for the sixth time in the last seven weeks as an increase in applications for home purchases was offset by a decline in applications for refinances according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending November 23, 2012. [...]
November 28, 2012 (Chris Moore) Despite an ever shrinking pool of homes for sale, more Americans bought homes in October than did in September with the help of three additional selling days according to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), but monthly home values continued to shrink . […]
