Daily Dose

By most accounts, in the last year, the demand for housing has been outpacing supply. According to one analysis, that may be changing in the nation's largest metros.

Home price appreciation is nothing new, having experienced robust growth since bottoming out four years ago. But a couple of recent home price indices indicate that things might be changing.

Fewer and fewer residential mortgage borrowers are in negative equity these days.

The UPB of Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio has steadily contracted since falling below its 2016 peak early in the year.

Non-conventional forms of financing have been gaining traction in the single-family housing market.

When it comes to comparing market share of PMI vs. FHA, it is beginning to look a lot like 2014.

The housing advocacy group whose lawsuit sparked a controversial decision by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing disparate impact cases to be brought under the Fair Housing Act has now seen that lawsuit dismissed.

Having increased year-over-year every month for more than four years now, home prices are getting close to a new all-time high.

Tight inventory, affordability constraints, and uneven regional numbers had an adverse effect on pending home sales in June. The industry will find out how pending home sales fared in July when NAR publishes its report on Wednesday, August 31.

Speculation is widespread in the industry that the Fed will raise short-term interest rates in September, and Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech in Wyoming on Friday fanned those flames of speculation.