Data and information management

Mortgage data is more valuable when delivered through the cloud because several people can use the data at the same time.

CoreLogic reported in its first-quarter results that it had acquired Case-Shiller from Fiserv on March 20 for $6 million cash.

A slowdown has started to take place for home values through the first quarter of 2013.

First-quarter cumulative defaults for fixed-rate commercial mortgage-backed securities were up 18 basis points from the end of 2012 at 13.6%.

As housing markets continue to stabilize across the country with rising home prices and inventories shrinking in these cities, this ultimately leads to the possibility for a higher potential of mortgage fraud.

CoreLogic reported in its first-quarter results that it had acquired Case-Shiller from Fiserv back on March 20 for $6 million.

Mortgage insurer MGIC ended Wednesday with the largest percentage gain among stocks in this publication’s Mortgage Industry Equity Composite.

There was virtually no change in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted Market Composite Index, Refinance Index or seasonally adjusted Purchase Index for the week ended April 19.

Late additions and data gathering issues have added a few names to our list.

New home sales rose 1.5% in March after a 7.6% decline in the prior month.

House prices rose in February by 0.7% from the prior month, according to a house price index based on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgage transactions.

The California Association of Realtors reported that the share of REO and short sales fell to 29% of sales in March from 33% in February.

Single-family home sales in Florida increased 9% in March over the same month last year while pending sales increased 23%.

Moody's Investors Service, Kroll and Fitch have assigned their respective top expected/preliminary ratings to four classes of residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2013-6.

Sales of previously owned homes slipped 0.6% in March from February as the supply of homes on the market edged up for the second month in the row.

Home sales in Illinois increased almost 14% in March compared with the same month in 2012, while median prices increased nearly 4%.

An estimated 37,764 new and resale houses and condominiums sold throughout California in March.

The next 12 months are likely to see only half the price gains experienced in the previous 12 months.

As the upcoming spring and summer seasons approach where home buying is known to ramp up, Realtors are curious whether they will have success selling distressed properties this year.

Single-family starts fell to a 619,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate in March from a 650,000 rate in February.