Monday, December 05, 2016

Tuesday: Trade Deficit

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From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Begin Week Higher Mortgage rates were slightly higher today relative to last Fr...

A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

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CR Note: This is a repeat of a previous post with updated graphs. A few key points: 1) There is a clear seasonal pattern for house prices...

2017 Housing Forecasts

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Towards the end of each year I collect some housing forecasts for the following year.  It looks like analysts are optimistic on New Home sal...

ISM Non-Manufacturing Index increased to 57.2% in November

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The November ISM Non-manufacturing index was at 57.2%, up from 54.8% in October. The employment index increased in November to 58.1%, from 5...

Black Knight October Mortgage Monitor

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Black Knight Financial Services (BKFS) released their Mortgage Monitor report for October today. According to BKFS, 4.35% of mortgages wer...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

Sunday Night Futures

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Weekend: • Schedule for Week of Dec 4, 2016 Monday: • At 10:00 AM ET, The Fed will release the monthly Labor Market Conditions Index (...

Poor Gretchen on Fannie and Freddie

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My former co-blogger Tanta wrote several posts pointing out questionable reporting in articles by "poor Gretchen" Morgenson of...
Saturday, December 03, 2016

Schedule for Week of Dec 4, 2016

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This will be a light week for economic data. The key reports are the ISM non-manufacturing index, Job Openings, and the October trade defi...
Friday, December 02, 2016

Brad Hunter: The 2017 Housing Market Forecast

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From Brad Hunter (formerly of MetroStudy) at HomeAdvisor: The 2017 Housing Market Forecast The 2017 housing outlook is one of diverging tr...

Zillow Forecast: Expect Case-Shiller Index to "continue to accelerate" in October

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The Case-Shiller house price indexes for September were released Tuesday. Zillow forecasts Case-Shiller a month early, and I like to chec...