December 18, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Construction spending in October by the nation’s home builders kept pace with September as residential construction spending remained more than twenty percent above last year’s levels according to the U.S. Census Bureau. […]
December 17, 2012 (Chris Moore) Sales of existing homes over the last thirty day period fell below the 200,000 mark for the first time since the middle of June while home prices continued to hold firm according to the weekly National Home Sales Snapshot released by DataQuick. […]
December 14, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Mortgage rates remained near their record lows this week as fixed rate mortgages declined slightly while adjustable rate mortgages were mixed according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS) for the week ending December 13th. […]
December 13, 2012 (Chris Moore) Mortgage applications increased for the second consecutive week as three out of the five mortgage rate categories fell to record lows according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 6th, 2012. […]
December 12, 2012 (Jeff Alan) Fannie Mae’s loan modification efforts remained strong in October as the number of modifications under the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) fell only slightly from the previous month according to its Monthly Summary for October 2012. […]
December 11, 2012 (Jeff Alan) The number of loan modifications completed by Freddie Mac increased by over eleven percent during October while loan volume was at its highest level for the year according to the recently released Monthly Volume Summary. […]
December 10, 2012 (Chris Moore) Sales of existing homes increased for the first time in five weeks, while home prices saw their first increase in three weeks according to the weekly National Home Sales Snapshot released by DataQuick. […]
December 7, 2012 (Shirley Allen) Interest rates for fixed rate mortgages increased slightly this week but still remained near their record lows according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS) for the week ending December 6th. […]
December 5, 2012 (Jeff Alan) Wells Fargo reports that 8,563 active trial or completed loan modifications were started in September bringing the total amount of trial and completed modifications to 812,019 since its mortgage relief efforts began in April 2009. […]
