Home Personalized Newsletters (for use as your personal or company marketing tool) for Title & Escrow Special Subscription Offers Glossary of Terms Used Testimonials Archives About Us Rave Reviews Subscribe Now Privacy Policy E-Mail Us Are you familiar with Home Price Protection for Property Equity Preservation? Click on the QR Code or scan it with a barcode reader on your smartphone:	Howard Blum and The Financial News & Information Service 800-273-9995 The delivery rate (the basis for most fixed rate loans in this country) for the past month - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There are no changes for 2013 conforming loan limits. You can download a complete listing of all counties in the USA for their high-balance conforming loan limits by clicking here. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mortgage Bankers Association weekly new home loan applications indices for the week ending 5/10/13 -Overall Index ~637.7: Down 7.3% versus W/E 5/3 & Up 11.09% versus the same week a year ago. -Purchase index: Down "about"4% versus prior week. -Refinance index :Down "about" 8% versus prior week. (release date Wed. 5-15-13) We must say "about" because the Mortgage Bankers Assn has chosen to shield the actual numbers from everyone for some obscure and likely ridiculous reason. They began to obfuscate the hard data for Purchase and Refinance activity beginning in May 2012. LATEST PRE-OWNED HOME SALES: March’s Annualized Sales Pace 4.92 million homes sold (Down 0.6% from Feb's 4.95 MM pace & Up 10.3% versus Mar 2012 pace of 4.46 MM) NE Region 630,000 unit pace (Unchanged from Feb's 630,000 pace & Up 6.8% from Mar 2012’s pace) Midwest Region 1.16 MM unit pace (Up 1.8% from Feb's 1.14 MM & Up 14.9% from Mar 2012’s pace) South Region 1.95 MM unit pace (Down 1.5% from Feb's 1.98 MM & Up 12.7% from Mar 2012’s pace) West Region 1.18 MM unit pace (Down 1.7% from Feb's pace of 1.20 MM & Up 4.4% from Mar 2012’s pace) Release Date 4-22-13 LATEST NEW HOME SALES: March’s Annualized Sales Pace 417,000 homes in contract (not closed) (Up 1.5% from Feb revised 411,000 pace & Up 18.5% from March 2012’s 366,000 pace) NE Region 41,000 unit pace (Up 20.6% from Feb 34,000 pace & Up 32.3% from March 2012’s pace) Midwest Region 51,000 unit pace (Down 12.1% from Feb 51,000 & Up 21.4% from March 2012’s pace) South Region 215,000 unit pace (Up 19.4% from Feb 206,000 & Up 8.0% from March 2012’s pace) West Region 110,000 unit pace (Down 20.9% from Feb 86,000 & Up 37.5% from March 2012’s pace) (release date 4-23-13) LATEST NEW HOUSING STARTS April’s Annualized Starts: 853,000 units (Down 16.5% from the revised 1,021,000 for March and Up 13.1% from the 610,000 for April 2012) Release date 5/16/13 NEW BUILDING PERMITS for April were 1,017,000 Up 14.3% from the revised 890,000 for March and Up 35.8% from the 749,000 for April 2012 Release date 5/16/13 Latest National Assn. of HOME BUILDERS' INDEX: May 2013 Overall index = 44 (Up from 41 in Apr) - Present Sales = 48 (Up from 44 in Apr) - Plans to Buy in 6 Mos = 53 (Up from 52 in Apr) - Buyer Traffic = 33 (Up from 30 in Apr) Release date 5/15/13 Home Loan Interest Rates WEEKLY CLOSING LEVEL: (as defined by the Freddie Mac delivery rate, the largest buyer and owner of fixed rate home loans in the United States.) Week Ending 5/17/13 = 3.20%; Up 14 BP from 3.06% for the week ending 5/10/13 Good day title and escrow partners. Are you interested in increasing your referral business? Are you still chasing those refinance transactions more than you should be? Imagine doing newsletters as a marketing tool with the best industry specific newsletters that will keep your clients, potential clients, geographic or other farm and primary referral sources aware of what is happening to the national and regional housing housing markets and to home loan interest rates? Consider clicking below to see the most cost effective referral generators available today. If you are looking for dog training tips or cookie recipies these may not be the newsletters for you, but you won't know until you look. Ask us about our area exclusivity for the newsletters to limit distribution and maximize effectiveness. Would you like to see samples of our 'personalized' newsletters for Title & Escrow companies? To see our marketing tools to help you increase your referral business… Click Here
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