Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, Today is a memorable day. If I had a day planner, I would make a note of it. Because today, I didn't find any house price indices in the news. Honestly, between RealtyTrac, Zillow, S&P/Case-Shiller, CoreLogic, Freddie Mac, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for BlackBerry, NAHB, Fannie Mae, RE/MAX, NAR, DataQuick, not to mention all the local realty indices and my own collection of open house flyers, I have grown numb to whatever price direction housing is going. Prices are measured by part of the nation, state, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, county, by similar properties that sold last year, versus last quarter, within the same city - my head spins just thinking about it. And the press latches on to whatever report just came out, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD. I need a roof over my head, I will need one until I die (except for when I'm camping), and does it really matter to me if prices are up 2% or down 2% versus a month ago or a year ago. Okay, I'm done with the ranting.... especially after I realized that later this morning we have New Home Sales coming out.

For recent housing news (since we all know that jobs and housing prices are going to be the forces that nudge the economy higher or keep things slow) we learned that Existing Home Sales were up 7.6% in August, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, much better than July but still near 11 year low. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, There is still almost a one-year supply of existing homes on the market at the current sales pace, but at least the median sales price is up by a slight 0.8% from one year ago. We also learned that the Conference Board's Leading Indicators rose 0.3% in August, adding to July's unrevised increase. The housing news this week has been good and bad. Housing Starts and Existing Home Sales were stronger than expected, while homebuilder sentiment is still low and home prices as measured by the FHFA HPI declined more than expected.

Anyone on the servicing side of the business, which not only means collecting checks every month but also potentially foreclosing on borrowers, may want to read these three articles from the Washington Post:  WP1    WP2    WP3

There has been some recent news about the commercial mortgage market, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! DVD, more specifically converting those loans into bonds. J.P, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD. Morgan Chase has taken an early lead in the race among big banks to revive the business, moving ahead of Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley. But according to the WSJ, they are all ramping up or rebuilding their commercial-mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) operations. Wall Street is expected to sell about $10 billion of CMBS this year, versus $230 billion at the peak in 2007 but "way up" from virtually $0 over the last two years. Current deals have fewer loans and tranches, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! AVI, and are more "investor-friendly" by being less confusing. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, The pickup in the market is good news for owners and developers, along with the banks that collect the fees for securitizing the loans.

Are there parallels between mortgage securities and junk bonds? In a story from the Wall Street Journal, bond markets are growing riskier as investors seeking steady returns bid up prices and ignore some early warning signs similar to those that flashed during the credit bubble. Last week, prices on high-yield, or junk, bonds hit their highest level since 2007, nearly double their lows of the credit crisis, and companies are selling record amounts. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for PDA, We're seeing a declining rate of corporate defaults lately and a belief that, as long as the economy doesn't relapse into recession, default rates will continue to decline. "The financial crisis purged many weak borrowers from the system, and corporate balance sheets are generally stronger today than before the crisis."  Interest rates paid by companies with strong credit ratings have tumbled this year, falling to 1.8 percentage points above the yields on comparable U.S. Treasury bonds, which themselves are among the lowest yields in decades, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD.

Most folks in the business come across loans that don't quite fit into a standard box. A good tool to use is at Mortgage News Daily.  On the right side, under "Site Tools", click on "Loan Scenarios". You can see other scenarios with suggestions, Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Movie Online, or enter your own and see suggestions for strategies & investors.

The recent gas line explosion in Northern California, floods, and another hurricane hitting the US (Alex, in Texas) remind us that mortgage companies and investors have policies and procedures for disasters. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, No investor wants to buy a lien or mortgage against a house that is no longer there, or unlivable (like my son's dorm room at UT Austin). Smaller lenders will typically emulate investor's policies. Bank of America clients, for example, are reminded to review them in the company's on-line guides. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Movie, "Correspondent Lending will suspend any loan during the purchase process that does not adhere to the requirements detailed within this section until satisfactory documentation is received. To ensure the property value has not been impacted by the disaster,Correspondent Lending requires property re-inspections before the loan can be purchased. Also, once a disaster has occurred, additional restrictions apply for the use of non-standard appraisal reports."

As a reminder, FHA and VA require that all properties be free from adverse conditions that affect the health and safety of the occupants, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD. Areas such as Toms River, NJ or the Acreage/Loxahatchee area of Palm beach, FL are often mentioned as possible high-risk health areas. (Remember the Love Canal?) Flagstar and other lenders remind originators that appraisers are required to comment on any adverse condition that poses a potential threat to the safety of the occupants. This includes, but is not limited to, cancer cluster areas. In fact, "Flagstar will not permit FHA or VA financing in any cancer cluster area or other health hazard area unless both of the following are obtained: written certification from the local health authority that the property is not affected by the health hazard and written certification from the borrower acknowledging the health hazard and its resolution, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1080p. Due to elevated rates of pediatric brain cancer and the inability to obtain local health authority certification, Flagstar does not provide FHA or VA financing for any properties located in the Acreage/Loxahatchee area of Palm Beach County, Florida."

Despite all of the economic news and statistics, what kind of shape is the economy in. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, Bill Simon, the head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations, answered this question when asked about their efforts to serve customers whose spending around payday has been volatile. "And you need not go further than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it's real interesting to watch, about 11PM., Movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Online, customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items, baby formula, milk, bread, eggs, and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight, when government electronic benefits cards get activated and then the checkout starts and occurs. And our sales for those first few hours on the first of the month are substantially and significantly higher. And if you really think about it, the only reason somebody gets out in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and they've been waiting for it, Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD. Otherwise, we are open 24 hours - come at 5 a.m., Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for iPod, come at 7 a.m., come at 10 a.m. But if you are there at midnight, you are there for a reason."

Thursday mortgage prices lagged the initial strong improvement in Treasuries as the yield on the 10-yr neared 2.50%. Not only do we not have the Fed buying MBS's, but buyers seem a little reluctant at these price levels for fear of refinancing, and $2.8 billion seemed a little too much in MBS's for the market. Current rate sheet mortgage prices ended the day worse by about .125 and the 10-yr at 2.56% after the better-than-expected Existing Home numbers. Download How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HD, This morning, besides New Home Sales, we already had Durable Goods, and most economists believe that the manufacturing recovery that fueled economic growth a little more than a year ago is losing steam as global demand slows and the inventory cycle continues to wind down. Advance orders for durable goods rose only 0.3 percent in July, Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Online, which was less than expected. Sure enough, Durable Goods were -1.3%, worse than expected, although ex-transportation it was up for the month, and there were also some back-month revisions. Right after the number we find the 10-yr yield up to 2.57% and mortgage prices are worse .125-.250.

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