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Author Archives: Phil Hall

Phil Hall is a former United Nations-based reporter for Fairchild Broadcast News, the author of nine books, the host of the award-winning SoundCloud podcast "The Online Movie Show," co-host of the award-winning WAPJ-FM talk show "Nutmeg Chatter" and a writer with credits in The New York Times, New York Daily News, Hartford Courant, Wired, The Hill's Congress Blog and Profit Confidential. His real estate finance writing has been published in the ABA Banking Journal, Secondary Marketing Executive, Servicing Management, MortgageOrb, Progress in Lending, National Mortgage Professional, Mortgage Professional America, Canadian Mortgage Professional, Mortgage Professional News, Mortgage Broker News and HousingWire.

FHFA Updates Collection of Mortgage-Acquisition Data

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has revised the datasets for the Public Use Databases​ (PUDBs) of single-family and multifamily mortgage acquisitions by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The revisions include newly available 2019 data and final versions of data ...

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Study: How the Pandemic Is Impacting Mortgage Delinquencies

Nearly 11 million households fell behind on their mortgage and rent payments during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report published to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Research Institute for Housing America (RIHA). The ...

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House Flips Down But Profits Rebound

The second quarter experienced the flipping of 53,621 single-family homes and condominiums, or 6.7% of all home sales, according to new statistics from ATTOM Data Solutions. This represented one in 15 transactions. The second quarter’s flipping total was down from ...

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Forbearance Update: How the Trends Are Changing

The total number of loans now in forbearance reached 7.16% of servicers' portfolio volume for the week ending August 30, down slightly from the 7.20% level recorded one week earlier, according to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Forbearance and ...

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Nationwide Housing Shortage Intensifies

Forty of the nation’s top 50 metro areas have reported a decline in housing supply since February, according to new data released by Redfin.  Among the most dramatic examples of metros witnessing an evaporating housing inventory are San Antonio, which ...

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Fannie Mae Updates on Single-Family Delinquency Rate

Fannie Mae Conventional Single-Family Serious Delinquency Rate increased 59 basis points to 3.24% in July. One year earlier, this serious delinquency rate was 0.67%. In weighing serious delinquency rates based on vintage, the highest level of problematic loans was in ...

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