March 8, 2012 (Shirley Allen) The Phoenix housing market continued to show signs of a recovery in January as new and existing home sales posted their best numbers since 2009 and 2006, respectively, and home prices were up year-over-year for the second consecutive month according to the latest housing data released from DataQuick. […]
March 8, 2012 (Chris Moore) Monthly home prices fell for the sixth consecutive month in January, declining 1.0 percent from the previous month, according to CoreLogic’s January Home Price Index (HPI). […]
March 7, 2012 (Chris Moore) Last week’s mortgage application activity followed the same pattern as the previous week as overall volume edged downward slightly with a slight increase in purchase applications while loan refinance applications dipped again according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 2, 2012. [...]
March 7, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Monthly home prices in the United States increased by a seasonally adjusted 0.7 percent in December which follows a similarly revised 0.7 percent gain in November according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) monthly House Price Index (HPI). […]
March 7, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Monthly sales of existing single-family homes in the state of New York followed seasonal trends and fell from December to January but remained on par with last year’s tally according to the latest housing data from the New York State Association of Realtors® (NYSAR). […]
March 6, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Home sales in the Miami area fell on both a monthly and yearly basis in January but home prices increased year-over-year for the first time since September of 2007 according to the latest housing data released by DataQuick. […]
March 6, 2012 (Jeff Alan) Wells Fargo reports that 5,156 active trial or completed loan modifications were started in January bringing the total amount of trial and completed modifications to 733,180 since its mortgage relief efforts began in January 2009. […]
March 5, 2012 (Shirley Allen) You would think that with mortgage rates hovering near their all-time record lows for the last four months, more home buyers would be taking advantage of the low rates and finance their new home purchases instead of paying cash, but evidence points to the contrary. […]
March 5, 2012 (Chris Moore) The overall outlook for the housing market continues to be described as in a state of fragility in January, with housing inventories showing improvement and loan performance showing signs of stability, but with the fall in home prices showing no signs of ending according to the February release of the [...]
