Mortgage News Archive - January 2013
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Mortgage Rates Turn Sharply Up
January 31, 2013Mortgage rates are up sharply this week, with the most popular loan types up a full tenth of a...
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Fannie, Freddie to Let Borrowers Walk
January 30, 2013Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will reportedly let some underwater homeowners walk away from their...
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Home Price Gains Pick Up Speed
January 30, 2013U.S. home prices are rising at a quickening pace, with November home values showing their biggest...
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Tight Supply Limits Pending Home Sales
January 28, 2013Pending home sales slowed in December, as limited inventories of low-priced homes limited choices for...
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Mortgage Rates Increase
January 24, 2013Mortgage rates headed upward this week, with the averages on both 30- and 15-year home loans showing...
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Home Prices Continue to Rise
January 23, 2013U.S. home prices continue to rise, increasing a seasonally adjusted 0.6 percent in November,...
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New Rules Discourage Risky Loans
January 23, 2013New rules intended to discourage lenders from steering borrowers into riskier and more expensive...
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Mortgage Credit Scores Average 748
January 17, 2013The average mortgage borrower in 2012 paid an interest rate of 3.90 percent on a 30-year loan and put...
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New Year Brings Jump in Mortgage Aps
January 16, 2013Mortgage demand jumped last week, with applications for both refinancing and home purchases showing...
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Mortgage Defaults On the Rise Again
January 15, 2013Mortgage defaults turned upward in the last quarter of 2012, a disturbing trend amid what has been a...
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Strong Gains for Home Sales, Prices
January 15, 2013For the first time in seven years, annual U.S. home sales have improved from one year to the next,...
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New Qualified Mortgage Rules Released
January 10, 2013Long-awaited “qualified mortgage” rules were issued today by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
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Quicken Rises to #3 Mortgage Lender
January 09, 2013Quicken Loans more than doubled its mortgage volume in 2012, originating $70 billion in home loans to...
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Slower Home Price Gains Expected
January 08, 2013U.S. home prices are predicted to keep rising in 2013, though at a considerably slower pace than the...
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Borrowers to Get $8.5B Settlement
January 07, 2013Some 3.8 million homeowners will share in an $8.5 billion settlement over improper foreclosure and...
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Foreclosure Rate Keeps Dropping
January 03, 2013Foreclosures fell markedly during 2012, with the number of homes repossessed by lenders in November...
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PMI Deduction Revived, Extended
January 02, 2013Two tax protections for mortgage borrowers were extended for at least another year as part of the...
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