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Is Housing Recovering as Much as Everyone Thinks?
The news is finally good: Consumer sentiment in housing is at the highest level since the recovery began. Realtors say not only are buyers coming back, but much-needed sellers are too. Inventories of distressed properties are shrinking, and mortgage rates … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuality, Chief Economist, Consumer Sentiment, Distressed Properties, Doug Duncan, Fall And Winter, Fannie Mae, Halloween Time, Housing Market, Inventories, Mortgage Rates, National Surveys, Price Changes, Price Declines, Price Increases, Record Lows, Seasonal Factors, Senior Vice President, Spring And Summer, Winter Chill
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How Does the Fed Help My House, My Mortgage?
For those of you who expected to wake up to a 30-year fixed rate mortgage below 3 percent, you may as well go back to sleep. Yes, rates moved down, 0.125 percent, according to several sources, but that was not … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Year Fixed Rate, 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage, Cnbc, Consumer Sentiment, Diane Swonk, Dollar Commitment, Fixed Rate Mortgage, Home Loans, Home Values, Housing Market, Lower Mortgage, Maximum Purchase Price, Mesirow Financial, Mortgage Applications, Mortgage Payment, Mortgage Rates, Purchasing Power, Shaky Ground, Threes, Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
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Home Sales Disappoint Twice
Sales of newly built homes fell hard in June, despite newfound optimism in the housing recovery, especially among the home builders themselves. Signed contracts to buy new homes fell 8.4 percent from the previous month, according to the U.S. Commerce … Continue reading
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Tagged Commerce Department, Consumer Sentiment, Deutsche Bank, Downside, Economic Growth, Existing Home, Foreclosed Homes, Home Builder, Home Builders, Inventories, Long Bridge, Lows, Macro Data, Miller Tabak, Muddle, New Home Construction, New Homes, Optimism, Robust Recovery, S Commerce
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Homebuilders Most Confident in More Than 5 Years
Homebuilders today are feeling more confident than they have in more than five years. Recent earnings reports from the big public builders have shown spikes in new orders for single family homes, and competition from foreclosures has eased as banks … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledgement, Chief Economist, Consumer Sentiment, Consumer Spending, David Crowe, Delinquent Borrowers, Earnings Reports, Homebuilders, Investor Demand, More Than Five Years, Nahb, National Association Of Home Builders, Negative Sentiment, Precarious Position, Principal Reduction, Recession, Six Points, Softness, Spikes, Upward Movement
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Jobs Report Signals More Trouble for Housing
weaker-than expected jobs report for May doesn’t bode well for the overall economy, but for housing it is far more foreboding. From construction, to local economies, even to age segments, the numbers are going in the wrong direction. “The May … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Segments, Building Permits, Chief Economist, Construction Sector, Consumer Sentiment, Department Of Commerce, Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae, Foreboding, Homebuilding, Jed Kolko, Outlays, Price Declines, Setback, Slowdown, Three Months, Trulia, U S Department, Vacancy Rates, Wrong Direction
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Homebuilders Say Market Positives Trump High Gas Prices
Sales of newly built homes are still stumbling along at historically low levels, but builders claim they are beginning to see the light at the end of a very long tunnel. Sales may not be surging back, but in some … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordability, Beginning To See The Light, Buyer Demand, Buyer Interest, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Sentiment, Exurbs, Gas Prices, Gasoline Prices, Homebuilders, Kettler Forlines Homes, Low Mortgage, Miller Tabak, Mortgage Rates, New Homes Guide, New Jobs, Open Houses, Square Foot Range, Substantial Increase, Unique Visitors
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As Home Buying Returns, Do Apartments Face a Bubble?
A huge surge in rental demand and comparatively little apartment supply created a boom in multi-family construction in the last year, but with the single family housing market slowly beginning to show signs of life, the concern among banks and … Continue reading
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Tagged Apartment Reits, Apartment Vacancies, Case In Point, Consumer Sentiment, Family Construction, Good Year, Housing Affordability, Housing Market, Improved Sales, Loan Origination, Market Expectations, Mortgage Applications, Mortgage Bankers Association, Nahb, Origination Volume, Rental Increases, Sandler O Neill, Sentiment Index, Signs Of Life, Supply Response
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Beware of the Big Bad Home Sales Revisions
We already know the housing crash was bad, perhaps the worst in history; tomorrow we will learn that it’s worse than we thought. The National Association of Realtors, for a number of reasons I won’t get into because they’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged Association Of Realtors, Chief Economist, Consumer Sentiment, Department Of Housing, Department Of Housing And Urban Development, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac, Federal Housing Administration, Freddie Mac, History Tomorrow, Home Builders, Homebuilders, Housing And Urban Development, Inventories, Last Decade, Mortgage Bankers, Mortgage Payments, National Association Of Realtors, Percentage Changes, Processing Services
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