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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But deposit-taking banks have pulled back. Lovingly known as “shadow banks,” nonbanks have come to dominate the mortgage market. And they originate the riskiest mortgages. The … Read more
By Robert Ross “Housing prices in the US never go down.” Just about everyone in America believed that in the mid-2000s. A limited amount of buildable land and a growing population … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The hope in early January has been unwound. A month ago, mortgages reappeared in the housing-hype circus, when it was widely reported that mortgage applications “soared” … Read more
by confoundedinterest MarketWatch has the tantalizing headline of “The Average Adjustable-rate Mortgage Is Nearly $700,000.” True, the average loan size for ARMs (adjustable-rate mortgages) is substantially higher than for FRMs (fixed-rate mortgages). … Read more
Beginning for tax year 2018, taxpayers are limited to deducting mortgage interest on the first $750,000 of debt related to acquiring, building or substantially improving the primary or designated secondary … Read more
by klsklsk The best advice is to run the numbers and look at mortgage amortization calculator/tables. The difference in interest rate is really what will tip this one way or the … Read more
via outline: Remember the subprime mortgage mess? $1.2 trillion in risky corporate debt is flashing similar warning signs Indebted borrowers increasingly take out high-interest, adjustable-rate loans that are packaged into securities … Read more
via businessinsider: The US housing market took a dark turn in 2018 as homebuying fell off a cliff and mortgage lenders saw a steep decline in applications, originations, and profits. Interest … Read more
By Harry Dent Look at this insanity… I would never have thought this many major cities would have 11%-plus mortgages underwater… especially not at the top of a second real estate bubble. … Read more
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan In 2008, when the United States was flung into recession, the culprit was the sub-prime mortgages. People without the ability to repay the money, borrowed to buy houses … Read more
via MarketWatch: How low can they go? With earnings from three of the four biggest banks in, one metric stands in sharp relief. Mortgage lending just keeps plunging. In the … Read more
Shutdown Crisis: Unpaid Government Workers Owe $400M in Mortgage and Rent This Month For many federal workers, keeping a roof over their heads got a lot harder in January thanks … Read more
by visualcapitalist Over the last five years, markets have pushed concerns about debt under the rug. While economic growth and record-low interest rates have made it easy to service existing government … Read more
via CNBC: Even with mortgage rates at the lowest level in three months, homebuyers are pulling away from the housing market. Mortgage application volume fell 5.8 percent last week from … Read more
by Tom McClellan Housing sector stocks have been among the worst performers in 2018, and analysts are pointing to lots of different reasons including the newly imposed U.S. tariffs on Canadian … Read more
via yahoo: Rising mortgage rates are crushing much of the refinancing market. But Americans are still using refis to pull cash out of their homes. More than 80% of borrowers who … Read more