Market Watch

What are key components regarding the obtaining of specific home loans?

A residential mortgage default rate forecast, authored by Dr. Michael Sklarz, Dr. Norman Miller and Anthony Pennington-Cross, outlines what drives mortgage loan effectiveness.

Read on to learn more from this report.

Millennials were not deterred from purchasing homes in October, as the market continued to tighten with rising interest rates and average loan amounts decreasing, according to the latest Ellie Mae Millennial Tracker. Read on to learn more from Ellie’s monthly report.

Freddie Mac announced CHOICEHomeSM, a conventional financing program for manufactured housing to help increase the availability of manufactured homes. Read on to learn more about what manufactured home can deliver today.

Growing affordability concerns resulted in builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes falling eight points to 60 in November on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Read on to learn more from this report.

Sales of newly built, single-family homes fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 544,000 units in October after an upwardly revised September report, according to the latest data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. Read on to learn more from this report and the challenges that lie ahead for the consumer.

Are opinions matching at the end of the year?

The difference between owners’ estimates of home values and appraisal values increased in November, although it was still an extremely narrow spread, at a national level.

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According to Freddie Mac’s November Forecast, the biggest unknown about the housing market in 2019 is whether or not current negative trends, such as a lack of housing supply, will persist or if the market will adjust to the shock of higher mortgage rates and resume modest growth. Read on to learn more from this report.

Gateway Mortgage Group announced the launch of an innovative program providing homebuyers with protection of their downpayment in the event they sell their home under less than ideal market conditions. Read on to learn more.

Millennial homebuyers continued to close purchase loans in September, despite interest rates rising to the highest point in the year, according to the latest Ellie Mae Millennial Tracker. Read on to learn more from the report.

Mortgage Network Inc. announced Aaron Benton has joined the company's Hilton Head, S.C., and branch as a loan officer. Read on to learn more about this new company acquisition.