Five Minute Maturity – 09/20/2021

Good morning and happy Monday! How long does it seem like since we’ve had any real substantive housing news? Let’s see if we can put a stop to that this week beginning today with the builders and the NAHB Housing market Index. First things first, today at 9:00 central...

Five Minute Maturity – 09/17/2021

Good morning and happy Friday, we made it to the weekend! I don’t have any scheduled housing data to release until next week, but today we have something special. Our lone story today is one that comes around about every 5 years: How to handle insider trading by...

Five Minute Maturity – 09/15/2021

Good morning and happy hump day! We finally had the scheduled housing news published with Mortgage Applications for the week ending Sept. 10th. We’re coming off two down-weeks in a row that printed -1.9% and -2.4%, and three of the past four have likewise been down....

Five Minute Maturity – 09/13/2021

Good morning and happy Monday, I hope you had a great weekend! It seems like once every quarter we have a week devoid of scheduled housing or mortgage news and this would be that week except the Mortgage Applications on Wednesday. I’ll look for interesting snippets...

Five Minute Maturity – 09/10/2021

Good morning and happy Friday! Once again, we’re not going to get any scheduled housing news today. One subject we do have to cover deals with homeowner equity from a different angle. In general, do the borrowers who are still in forbearance programs have low or high...