Rate Update

Good afternoon, MBS is under the 50 day moving average (1st level of support) and down 22 bps.

Rates will get bumped up a little bit this afternoon.

Morning Market Update – Lock Your Loans

Currently up 25 bps on the day.

Recommend locking all and any transactions with these gains. The Treasury Auction is coming out later today, but I would not suggest risking your purchase/refinance on those results.

Morning Market Update

Good morning all…

MBS is currently up 16bp on the morning and hovering around the 1st level of support.

As for today, there are no economic reports set to come out, so looks like what will be a quiet Monday. (Kind of like what Tim Tebow’s experiencing today…)

2 important days this week are Thursday (Jobless Claims) and [...]

Buying A Home on a Deadline

By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — House shopping usually slows down in the winter, as people put their home searches on hold to trim the tree, buy presents to put under it and avoid the chilly weather.

This winter, however, might be different, thanks to the extended — and expanded — first-time home-buyer tax credit.

“We’re going [...]

New FHA Mortgagee Letter, & HUD Housing Counseling

October 9, 2009

Mortgagee Letter 2009-39

TO:                             ALL APPROVED MORTGAGEES

ATTENTION:          Single Family Servicing Managers

SUBJECT:                Updated Claim Filing and Delinquency/Default Reporting Requirements

For FHA’s Making Home Affordable Modification Program (FHA-HAMP)

The purpose of this Mortgagee Letter is to provide updated claim filing and delinquency/default reporting requirements for the FHA Home Affordable Modification Program [...]

When Will YOUR Housing Market Recover?

When will YOUR housing market recover?
By Marcie Geffner

Pundits love to make predictions as to when home prices will stabilize in U.S. housing markets. But even well-respected forecasters and analysts may disagree, and even if a forecast proves true nationally, your local market may behave in a wildly different way. This disconnect between broad-stroke forecasts and [...]

3 Tips for Updating Your Credit History

A neat Q & A that I came across today…

By Steve Bucci

Dear Debt Adviser,
A recent credit score report from TransUnion states that I “have no real estate accounts that can be used in determining a credit score.” Yet I do have a mortgage in good standing with a credit union that does not show up [...]

***Update to a Previous Post***

In a previous post of mine, I outlined a problem that FHA has been currently dealing with, and today, on the front page of Yahoo, I found an article from the New York Times that gives a nice little update.

I wanted to repost it so please take a moment to read this, as its VERY [...]

Vacating a Jointly Owned Property- Quick FHA Fact

If you are vacating a residence that will remain occupied by the co-borrower, he/she is required to obtain a NEW FHA mortgage loan.

Acceptable situations are:

1.) Instances of divorce, after which the vacating spouse will buy a new home, or
2.) One of the co-borrowers  will vacate the existing property

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Don’t Cheat Home-Buyer’s Tax Credit

By Kenneth R. Harney

The IRS has an urgent message for would-be home purchasers: Make the most of the $8,000 first-time-buyer tax credit before it disappears Dec. 1 — if you qualify.

But if you don’t truly qualify, don’t try to play games with the credit. The IRS already has 24 criminal investigations of suspected fraud underway [...]