The Mortgage Corner Existing-home sales were at a 5.52 million seasonally adjusted annual rate in June, the National Association of R...

The Mortgage Corner We can thank the Great Recession for most of it. Banks have become much more conservative, and builders are buildin...

Mortgage rates continued to tumble over the past week as investors fled to the safety of government bonds, pushing Treasury yields dow...

The Mortgage Corner The strength of the economy right now is in the housing and construction sectors, again areas insulated from global fa...

The Mortgage Corner The mellennial generation, now aged 18 to 36 years, are beginning to drive higher birth rates. And that means more hou...

The Mortgage Corner It had to happen.  Why did June existing-home sales jump to an 8-year high? Fewer foreclosures is the short answer, he...

The Mortgage Corner Privately-owned housing starts in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,174,000 . This is 9.8 percent ab...

The Mortgage Corner The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index is the bell weather for real estate and home prices these days. It not only ...

The Mortgage Corner Pending home sales continued to rise in May and are now at their highest level in over nine years , according to the ...

The Mortgage Corner Housing construction is taking off, as I predicted two weeks ago. The numbers show actual construction starts acceler...

Financial FAQs As if further confirmation was needed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not even a minor cause of the housing bubble an...

"Sales of new single-family houses in March 2015 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000, according to estimates releas...

The Mortgage Corner Calculated Risk reports Black Knight Financial Services (BKFS) released their Mortgage Monitor report for February on...

The Mortgage Corner February Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 3.1 percent to 106.9 i...