Lender Processing Services released its latest Home Price Index (HPI) late last week, reporting that home values increased for just the third time in five years. Covering the month of February, the HIP rose by 0.2 percent from January,

Mortgage servicers have one warning for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – keep your hands off our compensation methods, you regulatory agency! As part of a wide-ranging effort by the the FHFA and the Department of Housing and

A new study out by Standard & Poor’s is estimating it will take 46 months to clear out the nation’s supply of shadow inventory, one month less than predictions from 2011. Liquidation rates for the residential mortgage markets appeared

Builder confidence in the 55+ market posted big year-over-year gains in the first quarter, another sign of 2012 optimism in the construction industry. Overall, the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) 55+ Housing Market Index (HMI) increased 10 points to

Median home values, improving sales and stronger inventories were all features of the 2012 first quarter report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Median existing single-family home prices rose year-over-year in 74 out of the 146 metro areas tracked

After a brief lull in activity, serious mortgage delinquencies picked up in the second half of 2011, according to new report from Foreclosure-Response.org, and along the way, they highlighted some of the most interesting nuances of the judicial handeling of

Thousands of Realtors from across the country are planning a May 17 rally in Washington, D.C. in an effort to ensure that homeownership, housing and real estate issues are still public policy priority as the presidential election season

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is launching the eCon Planning Suite, a set of 21st Century data and technology tools to help communities ensure that scarce federal dollars are targeted to where they are needed most

A new chart of analysis has reinvigorated the homeownership vs renting debate, with another nod of economic approval heading for the homeowners’ corner. Assembled by analyst Ben Walsh for Felix Salmon of Reuters, the chart uses the most recent data from

The wave of foreclosures that many analysts had anticipated has, thus far, failed to materialize (knock on wood), and its absence is making some reconsider the housing market. As the Wall Street Journal explained in a recent story, the biggest

Fannie Mae, the much-beleaguered GSE, is reporting a financial scenario for 2012’s first quarter that stands in stark contrast to past reports – it’s positive. After quarterly losses of $6.5 billion in the first quarter of 2011 and $2.4 billion

Greater stability and sales activity were the big takeaways from the Obama White House’s latest Housing Scorecard, a detailed report on the nation’s housing market. Released in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and

Home values increased 0.6 percent from February to March in CoreLogic’s Home Price Index (HPI) for the first time since July 2011. Though prices did decline by 0.6 percent from March 2011 to March 2012, they also rose by

The NAHB’s Improving Markets Index (IMI) held steady at 100 in May, the second month in a row of triple-digit totals for the index. First released last summer, the IMI has grown by wide margins in the months since,

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is putting the final finishing touches on its closely watched REO conversion program, according to FHFA official Meg Burns. A plan to sell distressed Fannie Mae properties to investors, who will then rent

The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, a relatively small amount that nonetheless reduced the unemployment rate, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but homeowner interest remains high in Fannie Mae’s latest National