Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Housing Industry Gets Wake Up Call After Purchase Apps Fall To 13 Year Low

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The industry's worst fears might be coming true. Regardless of record levels of affordability (reset home prices and mortgage rates below 5.00%), purchase... - MND NewsWire
Jay Brinkmann, Chief Economist for MBA says, "The issue this quarter is that the seasonally adjusted delinquency rates went up while the unadjusted... - MND NewsWire
Our Management Advisory Program (MAP) results for the first quarter 2010 are starting to come in. We measure top line revenues, gain-on-sale, compensation... - The Garrett Watts Report
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Adam Quinones
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NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - The world's biggest bond fund increased its holdings of safe haven, dollar-denominated U.S. government bonds and pared its exposure to European debt last month as the euro...
Gus Floropoulos
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Very interesting situation we are in. Trillions of dollars to help the housing market still cant help momentum moving. Without a doubt looser underwriting would help transactions pick up, but the risk...
mdeery
on 5/19/2010 - read this comment
Great time to be doing loans, only problem I see now is a bottle neck in underwriting..underwriters are dealing with 2-3 times as many loans last few weeks and turn times gone to hell for most of them...
Edgar
on 5/19/2010 - read this comment
All clear on the motivation...good post, thanks. I don't think we see a new tax credit come back, but that was a massive decline. April and May have been VERY slow....however it started to pick up...

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