We obviously track the mortgage activity and understand that overall share, but we don't focus on how many homes are being purchased by investors without a mortgage. That could be a more interesting part of the housing picture.
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Related Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activi... HOWARD ARCHER While the February mortgage lending and approval data are relatively healthy, there are hints that h... HOWARD ARCHER I think what we have in store is a slow deflating of the housing bubble, not a bursting of the bubbl... MARK ZANDI It's pretty clear that housing is slowing. Rising mortgage rates and the very fast rising homes pric... CELIA CHEN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Their volume growth has been explosive. Obviously they benefited from the tremendous refinance wave ... FRED CANNON More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant. MARCIA FUDGE We're glad to see the agencies address this issue because the switch to higher risk mortgage lending... ALLEN FISHBEIN We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvat... PETER AKINOLA We are going to focus even more attention on the high-growth markets where we can gain additional le... TONY MEOLA Although many mortgage decisions are determined by rate, we find that customers still prefer to work... DON BISHOP If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from ... MARK ZANDI It was no great surprise that housing starts rose for the second time in three months since mortgage... FRANK NOTHAFT Housing wealth - the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus the... JANET YELLEN Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a... JOSHUA SHAPIRO Credit losses are very low now, but mortgage lenders need to be prepared for higher losses, ... Home... DONALD POWELL The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is de... JEFFREY LUBELL Compared to the 30-year fixed mortgage, the 40-year fixed mortgage offers monthly loan payments that... THERESA PARKER We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in t... DAVID JORDAN Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br... FRANK NOTHAFT Higher interest rates are beginning to take a toll on how people view their finances. Mortgage rates... VINCENT BOBERSKI The overall picture we have now is that glutamine expansion causes some aspects of the pathology of ... HUDA Y. ZOGHBI We are working on a wide variety of ways to bring to the mortgage finance system cost savings for co... FRANKLIN RAINES [The Coopers bit. They purchased flood insurance and a DMP policy. Their mortgage payment is $1,500 ... BILL COOPER [The Coopers bit. They purchased flood insurance and a DMP policy. Their mortgage payment is $1,500 ... BILL COOPER That could affect your rating anywhere from 20 to 60 points. And that in turn, could affect if you g... JAMES LUCAS There's no better way to build a sizable client base, create recurring revenue streams, and promote ... LEON MORRIS A continued focus on margins and little change in activity in database demand will likely keep many ... CHRISTOPHER SHILAKES Prudently underwritten alternative mortgage products have also allowed some borrowers who might othe... DAVID SCHNEIDER Today's numbers threw some (inflation) fears. We could see some nervousness on the mortgage side. BRIAN BRENNAN British Airways is going to have to focus more and more of its activity on the long-haul markets. An... CHRIS PARTRIDGE The Commerce Department report on housing starts showed a considerable drop in starts in November. H... FRANK NOTHAFT The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The onset of 2005 bodes well for the housing industry. Long-term mortgage rates are currently below ... AMY CUTTS The onset of 2005 bodes well for the housing industry. Long-term mortgage rates are currently below ... AMY CREWS CUTTS A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON All forecasts are for interest rates and mortgage rates to go up a little bit again this year. It co... KATHY DECK We are on a good track to reach the market share that we need. HERMANN EUL The most serious risk to medium-term inflation is the continuing strength of household spending, sup... ALAN BOLLARD People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL I do not buy the premise of the question at all. I am sure the member would want to be more clear wi... JOE FONTANA It's just that other areas are more attractive, such as the mortgage market, BILL GROSS Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort... FRANK NOTHAFT Our main job once we get down there will be to help with the repair work on homes that can be salvag... JANET CALLISON The fact that the main proposals to emerge are limits on health insurance and mortgage interest dedu... LEO LINBECK Housing is as strong as ever, and the mortgage business is as good as ever. CHRISTOPHER LOW Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) were more strongly affected by the latest Federal Reserve rate hike... FRANK NOTHAFT While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to unde... SUZE ORMAN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... MARK ZANDI So many Americans are consuming by using their home equity. If you can't afford a standard mortgage,... ALAN SKRAINKA Mortgage rates have crept up a bit, but not enough to dampen the enthusiasm for home-buying activity... DAVE OTTO She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more sim... MINORU YAMASAKI Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction. JOSHUA A. TUCKER The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi... MARTIN EDWARDS Mortgage revenues were down for the quarter but at the same time (Wells) aggressively attacked the c... JOE MORFORD If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it... MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're... GARY AKRIGHT That is, their combined mortgage debts exceeded their home values by more than 10 percent. CHRISTOPHER CAGAN Mortgage lending is an opportunistic business and when business declines, the instinct is to consoli... CELIA CHEN When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage ... RALPH W. SOCKMAN Any way you slice it, the report suggests homebuilding is holding up quite well, and it will continu... DEAN MAKI Yesterday's announcement by the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation that the government would provide a t... HOWARD GORGES Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ... AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ... AMY CREWS CUTTS The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won... KIT JUCKES We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If a consumer chooses to rely on the 'free' advice of a salesperson, then they should expect to be s... LEON MORRIS People may qualify for the mortgage and interest, but the taxes and insurance turn into an obstacle.... ANITA JENKINS Hotel owners see foreign investors as offering unfair competition if they don't pay any tax. We tell... BARBARA WOOD no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD Singapore Property Price Index has hit a high of 140+ but economic fundamentals are entirely differe... ZENG HAN JUN The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and... PATRICK LAWLER Corporate profits are what drive the stock market. On the economic front, we have been seeing a slow... BERNADETTE MURPHY The acquisition of Rock Financial advances Intuit's Web strategy by giving us the mortgage expertise... BILL CAMPBELL [The homes swallowed by floodwaters posed a question the couple had never pondered:] What are they [... BILL COOPER Getting the mortgage sorted is the top priority. His options are to change to a repayment mortgage o... BEN YEARSLEY All of us in Seattle that are football fans and sports fans, I think we like getting some more focus... PAUL ALLEN As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi... FRANK NOTHAFT A lot of borrowers don't understand the risks. There's a danger in treating a mortgage like a credit... ALLEN FISHBEIN
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