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• Love Me or I Will Destroy You

  Love Me or I Will Destroy You

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• Home Prices are on the Upswing Again

  Both the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price indices and the Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI) for December provide more evidence that low interest rates have reignited the fire under home price appreciation. Case-Shiller's National Home Price Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.8 percent annual gain in December, up from 3.5 percent in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 2.4 percent, up from 2.0 percent in in November, and the 20-City Composite jumped from a 2.5 percent gain the prior month to 2.9 percent.

   

• Mortgage Applications Calm Before The Storm?

  There was a new round of interest rate cuts during the week ended February 21, but consumers largely ignored the additional potential for refinancing. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage volume, increased by 1.5 percent from the previous week on an unadjusted basis, but was down 7 percent on an unadjusted basis. The increase in the adjusted index may have, in part, been because of an adjustment to account for the Presidents' Day Holiday which shortened the week.