MBA: Shutdown impacting Purchase Mortgage Application Activity
Mortgage applications increased 0.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week...
Author : Calculated Risk
Zillow: 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates increase slightly to 4.16%
The Freddie Mac Weekly Primary...tgage Market Survey® will be released on Thursday (the series I usually follow), but here is a release from Zillow today:...
FNC: House prices increased 5.3% year-over-year in August
In addition to Case-Shiller, CoreLogic, FHFA and LPS, I'm also watching the FNC, Zillow and several other house... indexes. From FNC: FNC Index: Home Prices...
Update: Real Estate Agent Boom and Bust
Way back in 2005, I posted a graph of the Real Estate Agent Boom. Here is another update to the graph. Below is another update...
Sunday Night Futures: The Shutdown and the Damage Done
From MarketWatch: Shutdown puts health of economy on ice Some economists figure the dispute will only shave a few ticks off growth in the fourth...
Report: Office Vacancy Rate Falling
Office vacancy in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties was 17.5% at the end of the third quarter, Cushman & Wakefield said, down...
Schedule for Week of October 13th
Special Note: With the government shutdown, some economic data has been delayed. The last section below is a list of delayed reports so far. If the...
Shutdown End Guess: Congress doesn’t want to miss Recess!
My Guess: Since Monday, October 14th is Columbus Day (A Federal holiday), and...e week of October 14th...rough October 18th is a "Constituent Work Week" (aka...
WSJ: Shutdown starting to Hit Private Businesses
From the WSJ: Prospect of Longer Federal Shutdown Worries Workers, Firms Many workers...d businesses, including thousands with no direct government funding, are now bracing for...
Friday: Consumer Sentiment, DELAYED: Retail Sales, PPI
The House Republicans' insistence on keeping the government closed means that it is likely that we will be conducting macroeconomic policymaking with increasingly sparse or...