Data and information management

Industry experts expect annual home value appreciation rates to end 2013 on a strong note before slowing down considerably over the following three years.

A LendingTree.com survey finds obstacles can impede casual searchers from becoming serious buyers.

The National Council of State Housing Agencies is asking the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to include guidance on tax-exempt bond and low-income housing tax credit issues in their 2013-2014 priority list.

The Trulia Price Monitor for July was down 0.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis compared with June, the first decline in seller asking prices on a month-to-month basis since last November.

People who purposely default on their mortgage have gotten a lot of attention in the past few years, but only a tiny percentage of North Texans think such action is ever justified.

Including distressed sales,—short sales and real estate owned properties—the CoreLogic Home Price Index report jumped 1.9% from May to June.

The speed of homes entering the market being sold is slowing as inventory starts to creep up, Redfin’s June Fastest Markets report claims.

Banks reported strong demand for purchase mortgages but very little in the way of easing their tight credit standards.

There was a 2.2% increase in the availability to consumers of mortgage product offerings from June to July.

Rising interest rates had no effect on the delinquency rate spiking 9.9% from May to June.

We're hearing there's a general expectation that purchase mortgage lending will pick up as refinancings continue to decline over the next four quarters.

Mortgage companies added 2,700 full-time employees to their payrolls in June despite rising mortgage rates.

The number of Americans who prefer to rent a home has declined as Americans would rather own now than in past years, according to the National Association of Realtors.

According to DataQuick, 4,739 new and resale houses and condominiums closed escrow in Las Vegas during June.

There was $12.3 billion of primary new insurance written in June, making five months in a row where there has been an increase.

Veros has updated its appraisal risk scoring tool, VeroSCORE, to focus on the complexity of appraisal assignment.

Confidence among U.S. consumers declined more than forecast in July after reaching a five-year high a month earlier as Americans grew more pessimistic about the outlook for the economy and employment.

Foreclosure activity plummeted significantly in the month of June, in part because foreclosure starts hit a new record low.

The U.S. homeownership rate, which soared to a record high 69.2% in 2004, is back where it was two decades ago, before the housing bubble inflated and ripped more than 7 million Americans from their homes.

The national foreclosure inventory continues to fall as fewer foreclosures were completed in the month of June.