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Fannie Mae Chief Economist on Factors Driving the Housing Market
- Friday, 05 February 2021

According to a study done by Eyul Tekin, “after adjusting for inflation over time the future of the American Dream seems rather gloomy. Median home prices increased 121% nationwide since 1960, but median household income only increased 29%." This is rather disturbing.
Read more...Nearly 7.4M Homes at Risk of Storm Surge Ahead of Hurricane Season
- Thursday, 28 May 2020

CoreLogic® released its 2020 CoreLogic Storm Surge report, revealing nearly 7.4 million single- and multifamily homes with more than $1.8 trillion in combined reconstruction cost value are at risk of storm surge and possible mandatory evacuation in the midst of a global pandemic.
Capital Levels Are An Issue with Some, Not With Others
- Wednesday, 20 May 2020

At MBALive, a remote event put on by the Mortgage Bankers Association, FHFA Director Mark Calabria underscored a point he has made numerous times over the last year. “We need to reform our mortgage finance system for the fundamental reason that we didn’t reform it after the last crisis. The root causes of the crisis, impudent credit risk backed by insufficient capital, were never fixed.
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