The Mortgage Corner With all the bad news coming from the stock market, it’s good to know that this hasn’t affected the housing market. In...

The Mortgage Corner--II As if to confirm U.S. housing starts and building permits’ jump to their highest levels in nearly 7-1/2 years, the...

The Mortgage Corner New U.S. homes sold at an annual rate of 539,000 in February to mark the best month of sales in seven years, the gover...

Financial FAQs We have talked before about the upcoming Millennial, or Gen Y generation that will number more than 80 million eventually, ...

The Mortgage Corner The Pending Home Sales Index , a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, declined 1.1 percent to 102.7 i...

The Mortgage Corner Why aren’t there more home buyers? It seems that housing can’t really recover until household incomes recover, and hou...

The Mortgage Corner Housing sizes are ballooning, after a slight pause due to the Great Recession, reports the U.S. Census Bureau and Mark...

Financial FAQs How much salary do you need in order to afford the principal and interest payments on a median-priced home in your metro ar...

The Mortgage Corner Data through February 2014, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indice...

Popular Economics Weekly Consumers seem to finally be consuming their normal share of economic growth—which is currently 68.2 percent of G...

Financial FAQs The Polar Vortexes haven’t stopped everything.  It looks like new-home sales are picking up in midwinter, a sign that exist...

The Mortgage Corner The National Association of Realtors (NAR) just reported that for all of 2013, there were 5.09 million sales, which i...

The Mortgage Corner The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies has just come out with their rental market report, and it shows very litt...

Financial FAQs According to the second quarter Zillow Negative Equity Report , the national negative equity rate continued to fall in the ...

The Mortgage Corner Housing prices continue to climb, but not as fast in the hardest hit areas of Las Vegas and some Florida cities. This ...

The Mortgage Corner The National Association of Home Builders just announced that home builder confidence soared to the highest level sinc...

Financial FAQs The shadow inventory of troubled homes fell to about 2 million in April, down 18 percent from the same period in the prior ...

The Mortgage Corner In spite of warnings from such as Robert Shiller of Irrational Exuberance fame that housing values could remain stagna...

The Mortgage Corner CoreLogic just reported home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 10.2 percent on a year-over-yea...