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Even as Housing Revives, Apartment Growth to Boom

“Despite overtures of the headwinds from new supply, our April survey results showed positive gains in both occupancy and rents ahead of expected seasonal trends,” she wrote in a report to clients. (Read More: Apartment Building Bubbles as Single-Family Homes … Continue reading

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Why Rising Rates Are Rattling the Mortgage Market

“Underlying interest rates are moving higher, dragging mortgage rates along with them,” said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH.com, a data and analytics site. “This has come as the result of somewhat better conditions in the labor market, helping investors … Continue reading

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Why Rising Rates are Rattling the Mortgage Market

“Underlying interest rates are moving higher, dragging mortgage rates along with them,” said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH.com, a data and analytics site. “This has come as the result of somewhat better conditions in the labor market, helping investors … Continue reading

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No Money? No Worries. Home Lenders Ease Rules

The only low down payment loan left was through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)—the government’s loan insurer. The FHA took on a huge share of the market, far more than it was ever meant to, and while that helped prop … Continue reading

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Bay Area Housing Market Continues Off—Bottom Bounce

La Jolla, CA. – February 14, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Turnaround trends continued apace in the Bay Area housing market last month with the strongest January sales in six years and the tenth straight year-over-year increase in the median sale … Continue reading

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New Housing Fears: Home Prices Are Rising Too Fast

As a result, home prices are now rising more and faster than most analysts predicted due to this short supply, up 7.4 percent year-over-year in November, according to CoreLogic. They are especially surging in some of the hardest hit markets … Continue reading

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Banks to Pay $8.5 Million in Robo-Signing Settlement

“We support the new approach because it expands the number of borrowers who will receive payment, speeds the delivery of those payments, and will provide support for homeowners still struggling to make payments and encourages continued community stabilization efforts and … Continue reading

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Housing’s Recovery Means Fewer Can Afford Homes

Rising home prices are not the only factors hitting home affordability. Fees charged to lenders by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (known as “guarantee fees” for bundling and selling mortgages) began rising dramatically in the past month and are now … Continue reading

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Attention Mortgage Shoppers, Could Walmart Be Next?

They also want better service and transparency. Although most respondents to the survey showed satisfaction with primary banks (81 percent), many expressed frustration that could push them to find a lending alternative. Top on the list of gripes: “slow execution.” … Continue reading

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How Rising Home Prices May Actually Stall the Recovery

Home prices have been rising steadily for the past several months, but some fear the rapid increase could actually start hurting the housing recovery. The reason is that the rise in prices is mainly due to investors, mostly large hedge … Continue reading

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