A total of 79,540 single-family homes and condominiums were flipped in the second quarter, according to new data from ATTOM. This represented 7.5%, or one of every 13 home sales. The second quarter’s total is down by 8.7% in the first quarter and down by 7.9% in...
A growing number of people were taking out mortgages last week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, was up by 14.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis on a...
Single-family housing starts in August were at a rate of 992,000, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 15.8% above the revised July figure of 857,000. Privately-owned housing starts in August...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Last Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first one-on-one interview since being installed as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee – not with a hard-hitting nationally prominent journalist, but with a sympathetic anchorman for ABC...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes inched up this month in the latest the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). The September HMI reading was 41, up from 39 in August. This month’s HMI...
UWM Gives Underwriters Bigger Role in New Underwriting+ Program
