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After reaching or hovering near all-time lows last week, fixed-rate mortgages edged up slightly during the week, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey. The 5-year adjustable-rate mortgage, however, hit a new all-time low of 2.78 percent this week. Here’s a closer look at average mortgage rates from Freddie Mac for the week ending April 19: 30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.90 percent, with an average 0.8 point, up slightly from last week’s 3.88 percent average. A year ago at this time, 30-year rates averaged 4.80 percent. 15-year fixed-rate […]

A gay-friendly affordable housing development is scheduled to break ground in the fall in Philadelphia, noted as one of the first of its kind to be financed completely with public money, according to media reports. “The housing development … calls attention to an increasing demand from members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community for affordable housing that will allow them to live as seniors free from fear of discrimination,” AOL Real Estate reports. “Affordable housing that dictates eligibility based on sexual preference is illegal, but developments like the […]

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The nationwide inventory of residential homes for-sale dropped 21 percent in March compared to a year ago, according to newly released housing data from Realtor.com, tracking 146 metro markets. In fact, all 146 markets posted a drop in their inventory, except for two — Hartford, Conn., and Philadelphia. The nationwide median list price in March also saw improvement, increasing more than 5 percent last month compared to last year at this time. The housing picture is much different than last year at this time, when inventory was up 26 percent […]

Home prices in Houston broke records in March as the city’s real estate market experienced a 10th straight month of rising sales, according to data from the Houston Association of Realtors. Single-family home median prices climbed 7.8% over March 2011 to $161,750, a record high for a March in Houston. Average prices increased 5.7% year-over-year to $227,270, also the city’s highest level for the month and only $70 below the all-time high reached in June 2008. Declining sales of homes priced below $80,000 and increased activity in the luxury-housing segment […]

Fitch Ratings believes single-family housing starts will increase 10% in 2012, while new home sales will rise 8%, according to the firm’s latest U.S. homebuilding update. Still, the ratings giant sees an erratic homebuilding market after witnessing disappointing results for 2011. “Single-family housing finished well below expectations at the beginning of the year,” Fitch said in its update. “Single-family starts fell 8.5%, while new home sales declined 5.9%. Existing home sales, meanwhile, improved 1.7%.” Despite challenges in the housing market and the expectation that home prices will remain soft, Fitch […]

Wells Fargo CFO Timothy Sloan said the health of the housing market won’t be clear until “we look in the rearview mirror a few months from now,” but did say he felt it was getting a little better, in a televised interview on CNBC. Credit quality for consumers is improving, which Sloan said indicates that “the consumer overall is doing a little bit better.” Though the hardest hit are still  unemployed, the rest of consumers are “doing OK.” The mortgage business is up for the bank, which held a third […]

Ginnie Mae issued $29.2 billion in mortgage bonds in March, up roughly 21% from the same month last year. Ginnie packages Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Affairs home loans into securities and guarantees timely payment of principal and interest to investors. The Ginnie Mae II single-family pools increased to $21.5 billion in March from $15.8 billion last year. Single-family Ginnie Mae I securities dipped to $5.3 billion from slightly more than $6 billion in March 2011. “Ginnie Mae has been a key component of the country’s economic recovery,” said Ginnie […]

The nation’s largest mortgage lenders Wells Fargo ($33.00 -0.12%) and JPMorgan Chase ($42.72 -0.5%) originated more mortgages in the first quarter as each inch toward a cleaner portfolio. Both banks beat earnings estimates during the quarter. Wells’ mortgage originations totaled $129 billion in those three months, up from $84 billion last year. Chase’s originations grew 6% over the same period to $38.4 billion in the first quarter. Wells CEO John Stumpf said in a conference call with investors Friday the bank was seeing improvements in the housing market, specifically parts […]