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US All-Cash Home Sales: February 2015
According to CoreLogic Wednesday, cash sales of US homes made up 37.9 per cent of total sales nationally in February 2015, down from 40.6 per cent in February 2014. February is the 26th consecutive month of declines. Home Sales, US Month over month, the share of all-cash home sales fell by 1 percentage point, said…
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US REO Inventory
Frannie Mae’s statement Friday on 1Q 2015 US REO inventory, “We continue to experience disproportionately higher credit losses and serious delinquency rates from single-family loans originated in 2005 through 2008 than from loans originated in other years. Single-family loans originated in 2005 through 2008 constituted 12 per cent of our single-family book of business as…
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US Construction Spending, House Prices
National Association of Home Builders analysis of US Census construction spending data found Friday that over the last year, the pace of private single-family construction spending increased 7.8 per cent and multifamily construction spending increased 23.4 per cdent, despite monthly declines for March. For the month, the seasonally adjusted annual rate of single-family construction spending…
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US House Prices
The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values increased 5 per cent from February 2014, the biggest year-to-year gain since August, after rising 4.5 per cent in the year ended in January, the group said Tuesday in New York. As well, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Aprill 22 released the House Price Index data for February,…
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Home Sales, US
Sales of previously owned US homes rose to the highest level in 18 months in March. Existing-home sales increased 6.1 per cent last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.19 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. That was the highest level since September 2013. At the current sales pace,…
