Daily Newsletter: Sellers' Market Developing; Solid 2013 Housing Market; Appraisal Reform

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30 Year Fixed 3.62%   -0.02 15 Year Fixed 2.94%   -0.02 10YR Treasury 1.98%   -0.0347 FNMA 30YR 3.5 105.27   +0.06 FNMA 15YR 2.5 104.95   0.00 View Today's Rates

Thursday February 21, 2013 MND NewsWire - 2:16PM Sellers' Market Developing According to NAR The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) said today that a sellers' market is developing in real estate as home sales edge up and home prices continue to rise steadily compared ... MND NewsWire - 11:09AM Housing Fundamentals Suggest Solid 2013 Recovery Fannie Mae's economists said on Thursday that, despite the feeble note on which 2012 ended, the economy has the building blocks, including housing, for strong growth . Housing is now ... MND NewsWire - 4:11PM Record Drop in Foreclosure Starts, but 90 Day Delinquencies Increase -MBA Mortgage delinquency rates fell in the fourth quarter of 2012 to their lowest rates since 2008. According to data from the National Delinquency Survey (NDS) released by the Mortgage ... MND NewsWire - 4:31PM Mortgage Settlement Aids 550K Homeowners, Totaling $45 Billion The five mortgage servicers involved in last year's $25 billion settlement over servicer errors and abuses have now distributed an average of $82,000 in relief to each of 550,000 homeowners ... MND NewsWire - 10:22AM NAHB Calls for Broad Reform of Appraisal System Calling the current residential appraisal system " impaired ," the National Association of Homebuilders ( NAHB ) has issued a white paper recommending improvements to "produce more ... Mortgage Rates Bounce Back Moderately From Recent Highs MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Sideways At Week's Best Levels FHA Market Share Continues to Ease, Refinancing at Recent Highs Letter on CFPB Exams; Good Site for Bank Research; Bank M&A Continues; Purchase Loans Cost More than Refis?! Building Permits and Single Family Starts at 5 Year Highs Despite Multi-Family Slump Mortgage Application Volume Dips Again as Rates Move to Five Month Highs Latest Video Markets React to Fed & Economic Data Existing Home Sales Up 0.4% in January Santelli Contemplates FOMC Minutes More News from 'Around the Web' CNBC - 4:12PM The Mysterious Minutes of the Federal Reserve Bloomberg - 3:20PM Dealer Survey Sees Fed Asset Purchases Reduced by January 2014 Bloomberg - 3:20PM Banks Increasing Mortgage Forgiveness as Deadline Looms CNBC - 2:22PM Who's Afraid of QE Ending? Not the Bond Market Reuters - 12:20PM Fed's Fisher wants to taper off QE this year if economy improves Google News - 11:22AM January Existing-Home Sales Hold with Steady Price Gains, Seller's Market Developing NAHB - 11:21AM Nationwide Housing Affordability Increases at Year-End 2012 Business Week - 11:11AM 5 big US banks have cut mortgage debt by $19B freddiemac.mwnewsroom.com - 10:14AM Freddie Mac: Average 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage Up a Smidgen The Huffington Post - 9:45AM Justice Department's Latest Ploy of 'Getting Tough' on Wall Street 'Beyond Laughable' www.cfpbmonitor.com - 8:49AM Director Cordray targets payday and student lenders in remarks to Consumer Advisory Board www.aei.org - 8:49AM Pinto: Rebuilding the housing sector www.usnews.com - 12:09AM Florida's 'Fair Foreclosure Act' Is Anything But Fair Today's Comments MND NewsWire - 3:55PM "How about an system of accountability for appraisers? I have had appraisal come in $70K apart within 30 days, and an appraisor who had made over 2 1/2 pages of errors and refuse to correct them? A system of checks and balances needs to be put in place for some of these guy's who work markets they aren..." MBS Live Chat - 3:52PM "REPRICE : 3:52 PM - Flagstar Worse..." MBS Live Chat - 3:49PM "REPRICE : 3:49 PM - Sierra Pacific Worse..." MBS Live Chat - 2:03PM "I'm floating new stuff. NFP is the next chance I see for any good economic news...." MBS Live Chat - 1:29PM "Just happy to see 103 for more than 60 seconds...." Today's Rates Best Execution Rate Change 30 Yr FRM 3.62% -0.02 15 Yr FRM 2.94% -0.02 FHA 30 Year Fixed 3.34% -0.02 Jumbo 30 Year Fixed 3.81% -0.02 5/1 Yr ARM 3.02% -0.02 Current Mortgage Rates » What are best-execution rates? Average Mortgage Rates Rate Points Change FHFA * 15 Yr. Fixed 2.70% 1.16 -0.11 30 Yr. Fixed 3.47% 1.29 -0.07 MBA ** 30 Yr. Fixed 3.75% 0.43 +0.02 15 Yr. Fixed 3.01% 0.28 +0.01 30 Yr. Jumbo 3.98% 0.36 +0.02 30 Yr. FHA 3.53% 0.39 +0.00 5/1 ARM 2.66% 0.31 -0.06 Freddie Mac ** 30 Yr. Fixed 3.56% 0.80 +0.03 15 Yr. Fixed 2.77% 0.80 +0.00 1 Yr. ARM 2.65% 0.40 +0.04 5/1 Yr. ARM 2.64% 0.50 +0.00 Current Mortgage Rates » * FHFA averages are updated monthly. ** Mortgage Bankers Association (each Wednesday) and Freddie Mac (each Thursday) averages are updated weekly. Secondary Markets MBS Price Change 30YR FNMA 3.0 102.89 +0.08 30YR FNMA 3.5 105.27 +0.06 30YR GNMA 3.0 103.94 0.00 30YR GNMA 3.5 107.00 -0.08 15YR FNMA 3.0 104.95 0.00 15YR FNMA 2.5 103.48 +0.02 Treasuries Yield Change 2 YR 0.2540% -0.0081 5 YR 0.8378% -0.0242 10 YR 1.9757% -0.0347 30 YR 3.1639% -0.0352 Prices as of: 2/21/2013 4:30PM EST Current MBS / Treasury Prices » MBS and Treasury data provided by Thomson Reuters. Mortgage News Daily and MBS Live! are exclusive re-distributors of Real Time Thomson Reuters Mortgage Information. 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