Ginnie Mae, the wholly owned government corporation that attracts global capital into the housing finance system announced on Tuesday that its issuance of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) over ...
Read More »The Unexpected Markets Leading Housing Demand
Move over Denver and San Francisco, there are new hot markets breaking records and seeing an influx of migrations.
Read More »Keeping PACE with Clean Energy Finance Laws
By T. Robert Finlay, Founding Partner, Wright, Finlay & Zak and Sonia Edwards, Senior Associate, Wright, Finlay & Zak, California With global warming and other environmental issues at the ...
Read More »Rising Median Sale Prices Impact Florida’s Housing Market
The housing market across the country is experiencing an ongoing shortage of available housing inventory and it’s no different in Florida, where the latest data provided by Florida ...
Read More »How will Fed Rate Hikes Affect Housing?
The meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)—the policy-making arm of the Federal Reserve begins today. This is also the first time that the meeting is being ...
Read More »Housing Professionals Focus on Single-Family Rental Market
This week an array of housing and mortgage professionals are assembling at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, as the 2018 Five Star Single-Family Rental Summit kicks ...
Read More »Fannie Mae: Housing Market Headwinds are Temporary
The housing market might have had a rough start to the year, but according to Fannie Mae’s Economic and Housing Outlook released on Monday, this quarter seems to ...
Read More »Homes for Sale: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
If there’s a home on the market stuffed with to-die-for features, it’s probably not going to last long, according to the latest Nationwide Health of Housing Markets (HoHM) ...
Read More »Are Nonbanks Susceptible to Liquidity Vulnerabilities?
Nonbanks originated about half of all mortgages in 2016 and 75 percent of mortgages insured by the FHA or VA. However, a recent study by the Brookings Institution ...
Read More »The Ups and Downs of Housing Values
Home prices in February hit a four-year high, capping a 72-month run in which median home values rose nationally, according to a report by Redfin. But just because ...
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