ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a decrease of 4.7% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index following a rise of 14.8% for the previous…
ThinkstockReal estate information service Trulia Inc. (NYSE: TRLA) today filed an amended Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 5.25 million shares in a secondary offering. The company plans to offer…
ThinkstockMGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG) recovered handily this week, but profit taking and a dilutive $1.1 billion capital raise have put the brakes on in this troubled turnaround. So it is rather interesting to…
ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting an increase of 14.8% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index, following a drop of 3.8% for the previous…
ThinkstockRadian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) has been on fire and shares are ticking up yet again on Tuesday. It has risen for eight consecutive trading days, and if Tuesday’s preliminary gains can hold then it…
ThinkstockHome prices rose 9.7% in January, compared with the same month a year ago. That was the largest monthly increase since April 2006, according to research firm CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX). The firm had previously…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau reported this morning that construction spending in January fell by 2.1% to an estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate of $883.3 billion from a revised estimate of $902.6 billion in December.…
ThinkstockIt is amazing that we are getting initial public offerings from companies tied to the housing market again. Many market pundits and economists are conveying the message that the housing recovery is going to…
ThinkstockIn the month of January, 61,000 U.S. homes were foreclosed, more than a revised total of 56,000 in December and down from 75,000 in January 2012, according to research firm CoreLogic Inc. (NYSE: CLGX).…
ThinkstockThe rate of home foreclosures improved considerably in 2012. Enough, in fact, that the data confirms that the housing markets have begun a sharp recovery. However, taken in the context of which states have…
ThinkstockA company called American Homes 4 Rent has issued a press release signaling that it intends to come public via an initial public offering. The company said that it plans to submit a registration…
ThinkstockThe National Association of Realtors (NAR) this morning released its data on pending home sales in January. The index rose 4.5% from a downwardly revised 101.3 in December to 105.9, and it is 9.5%…
ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a decrease of 3.8% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index, following a drop of 1.7% for the previous…
ThinkstockNearly every important set of data from the government and private sector analysts shows that the housing market has begun to recover. The housing recovery picked up steam in recent months. Home sales jumped…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau this morning released data on new single-family home sales for January. Sales rose 15.6% month-over-month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 437,000, from a revised December sales figure of…