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Today’s release of home price trends
Steep declines in home prices continued in April 2008 accroding to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
June 24, 2008 | Read More
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New Vista to Sell Freddie Mac REOs, Countrywide Sets Vote on Its Sale, Not So Sunny in California, CFC Still Top Lender in Nation NMN Survey Finds, Almost $200 Million of Mixed Residential Loans are Sold - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 30, 2008 | Read More
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New Homes Sales Inch Up, March Home-Price Declines Set Mark, S&P: Dallas home prices drop 3.3% as U.S. values tumble, Bill Would Make It Harder to Foreclose in CA - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 28, 2008 | Read More
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It's War: Servicer Enlists 'Combat' Loss Mitigators, ResCap Bond Swap Gets OKs, California Luxury-Home Prices Off, UBS Sees More Modifications, Big-Bank MBS Portfolios Up, Rise in Housing Starts Unlikely to Begin a New Trend - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 20, 2008 | Read More
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Taking Refi Pitch to Mortgage Investors, Net Branches Boost FHA Programs, First Horizon Mortgage Unit to Either Be Sold or Closed, 30-Year Rate Drifts Down, ISGN Rebrands All Subsidiaries, Securities Vet Launches CRE Advisory Firm, FSA Takes $422M Mortgage-Related Loss- and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 16, 2008 | Read More
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Baby Boomer Home Sales Re-Emerge as Wild Card, Fitch: 80% of Subprime Losses Reported, Freddie Lost $151 Million In First Quarter, Wachovia To Cut 1/3 of Fixed Income, BoA Expecting Higher Losses on 2nds - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 15, 2008 | Read More
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Triad Says Start-Up Deal Was Best Available Option, April Foreclosure Filings Hit New High — RealtyTrac, Analyst Says IndyMac Needs $500M, Many Fraud Filings Said Broker-Related, Best Cities for Relocating Families - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 14, 2008 | Read More
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Private-Sector Twist on Loan Haircut Idea, Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear, New FHA Premiums Slated for Summer, Warehouse Lender Cuts Jobs - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 13, 2008 | Read More
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House Passes FHA Bill, ResCap Will Sell Assets to Raise Cash, Thornburg Turns Focus to Regrowth, House Passes Frank's Foreclosure Bill - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 9, 2008 | Read More
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Home Resales Fall Again on Tighter Credit Standards, Dow Decline Drags Down Mortgage Stocks, FHA Action to Resume Despite Veto Threat, Schumer Blasts 'Vulture Mentality' of Servicers - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 8, 2008 | Read More
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Soft Existing-Home Sales Expected Near-Term But to Rise Midsummer, Fannie Takes $2.2B 1Q Loss, FHA to Try Again on Risk-Based Pricing, Fannie to Buy Jumbo Loans at Conforming-Loan Pricing - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 7, 2008 | Read More
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Triad in Talks on Start-Up with Plan for Runoff, Junk Rating on Countrywide, Mortgage Jobs Resume Decline - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 5, 2008 | Read More
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Corus Cuts Back on Condo Lending and Halts Payout, Bair's New Idea: U.S. as Direct Lender, Ex-Lender Sentenced to Jail, Clemente Forms Distressed RE Fund, Ross Closes on Option One Purchase - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
May 1, 2008 | Read More
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Bad Loans Dwarf Gains in Production at Countrywide, GMAC Loss Almost Doubles in Quarter, RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Filings Jump, Home Price Index Posts Largest-Ever Drop - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 30, 2008 | Read More
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RealtyTrac: Foreclosures Jump 23% in 1Q, A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm, HUD Waives Action on GSE AH Goals, Census Reports 1Q Rise in Vacant Homes - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 29, 2008 | Read More
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Countrywide Announces REO Plan, Paulson to Lenders: Fix Has to Come from You, Republicans Fail to Kill Frank's Foreclosure Bill, Appraisal Standards for GSEs Draw Fire, March New-Home Sales Well Down, New-Home Sales Hit 16-Year Low - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 25, 2008 | Read More
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Bear Mortgage Chief Departs for ResCap, Bond Insurer Takes $1B Mortgage Hit, $2.5B for Morgan Stanley Fund - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 24, 2008 | Read More
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Bank of America: Exotic Loans to Stay Part of Countrywide's Past, CoreLogic Says Price Decline Accelerates, OFHEO Pegs Home Price Decline at 2.4% - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 23, 2008 | Read More
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Fannie Gets Tougher on Walk-Aways, Speculators, GSEs Eyed on Buys of Mortgage Bonds, February Prime Jumbo Mortgage Defaults Rose - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 22, 2008 | Read More
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B of A's Results, The New Guy at HUD, Former Fannie Execs Settle, Wells Simulcast Asks Agentss to Tout FHA Loans, Foreclosure Moves Open Gray Area in Preemption, Weighing the 'Great American Debt Bubble', Suit Against Two Units of Lehman Brothers, MGIC Foresees Less Business in 2008, Mortgage Market Watch, World Among Hardest Hit CA Lenders, Weak 1st Quarter at BoA, Q1 2008 Mortgage Litigation Report, Best, Worst Foreclosure Prevention States, GSE Report Card: Improvement Needed, Citi ...
April 21, 2008 | Read More
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MGIC 'Hunkering' as Loss Narrows; Thoughts on FHA, First Horizon Sheds Servicing, Freddie Guarantees Jumbo Pricing for Four Big Lenders - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 18, 2008 | Read More
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Countrywide Revises Appraisal Standards, Fed: Some Mortgage Markets Stabilizing, March Home Starts Off 12% - and other interesting articles that apply to the industry today.
April 17, 2008 | Read More