Builder sentiment inched up for a second consecutive month despite a housing market that is still saddled with affordability challenges, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). Builder confidence in the...
Homeowners earned a 55.6% profit margin on typical single-family home and condo sales during the third quarter, according to new data from ATTOM. This represented a one percentage point dip from the second quarter and a two point-drop from the third quarter of last...
Priscilla Almodovar, the CEO of Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA) has looked at the housing market and said she never saw anything like it. In an interview with MarketWatch, pointed to home prices that are still at historic highs. “It’s a highly unaffordable market right now,”...
Mortgage application activity slowed down for the week ending Oct. 11, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 17% on both a seasonally adjusted and...
The number of homes for sale climbed for the seventh consecutive month, according to the latest national housing report from RE/MAX LLC, a subsidiary of RE/MAX Holdings (NYSE: RMAX). The new data from the 52 metro areas surveyed by RE/MAX found housing inventory...
UWM Gives Underwriters Bigger Role in New Underwriting+ Program
