December 16, 2016
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
Yesterday the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its final “Duty to Serve” rule, which requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to support certain segments of the mortgage market that are traditionally underserved by private investors. U.S. homebuilders’ confidence soared … Continue reading
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December 15, 2016
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
A report titled, Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population, discusses how by 2035, more than one in five people in the US will be aged 65 and older and one in three households will be headed by someone … Continue reading
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December 14, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
This paper, titled The Effects of the Fed’s Quantitative Easing Announcements on the US Mortgage Market: An Event-Study Analysis, uses regression based event-study analysis to examine the response of the 30-year mortgage rate to the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing (QE) … Continue reading
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December 13, 2016
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
According to an announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the government is granting more than $132 million total to neighborhoods in Boston, Denver, St. Louis, Louisville, and Camden as part of HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. Mark Lamster, … Continue reading
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December 9, 2016
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac successfully made changes to their mortgage back securities claims the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Furthermore, the agency iterates that this first step is imperative to the long term plan “of a common securitization platform and … Continue reading
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December 8, 2016
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) needed funding support the economic needs of individuals in low income communities. As a result, JP Morgan Chase began establishing grants for CDFIs to assist in mobile home ownership, redevelopment in specific low income communities, … Continue reading
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December 7, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
The Informational Role of Housing Market Liquidity, Badarinza Cooking up a Crisis: The Capital-Valuation Connection in U.S. Real Estate Markets, Boyack Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York’s Housing Market, Ortega & … Continue reading
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