Pending home sales have improved for 18 straight months, but is the news all good?
Read More »Digging Deeper Into the Declining Homeownership Rate
Why has the homeownership rate remained low while housing fundamentals continue to improve?
Read More »Just How Far Has REO Fallen?
As more jobs are added each month and the unemployment rate has dipped to pre-recession levels, the number of foreclosed homes has seen a corresponding substantial decline.
Read More »Crisis No Longer Haunts Bank of America
The bank is scheduled to release its Q1 2016 earnings statement on April 14.
Read More »Economy Receives a Slight Boost—Or Does It?
Residential fixed investment was at its highest level in eight years. How did that figure into the GDP?
Read More »The Best Markets for Investors Are. . .
Healthy housing markets are emerging in the midst of overall improvements to the real estate market.
Read More »Is the CFPB Meting Out Justice or Inflicting Abuse?
The controversial Bureau, now almost five years old, has handed out more than $5 billion in penalties.
Read More »Housing Advocates’ Applause of Trust Fund Contribution Comes With Caution
The recently announced contribution by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the National Housing Trust Fund drew guarded praise from housing advocates and civil rights groups.
Read More »It’s Still All About the Inventory
Many housing experts and industry analysts have been talking about it for months, and it remains a problem.
Read More »Non-Profit Gets in on Freddie Mac’s Delinquent Loan Sale
Democratic lawmakers and housing advocates have been calling for the GSEs to sell non-performing loans (NPLs) to non-profits and Community Development Financial Institutions, and on Wednesday, they partially got their wish.
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