Real Estate Daily Market Update: March 7, 2017

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CoreLogic’s Home Price Insights for January 2017:

Home prices went up 6.9 percent between January 2016 and January 2017.
From December 2016 to January 2017, home prices rose 0.7 percent.
CoreLogic forecasts a 0.1 percent month-over-month change and 4.8 percent year-over-year change from January 2017.

Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) for February 2017:

The HPSI increased in February to 88.3.
This is 5.6 percentage points higher than January 2017.
The HPSI is also up 5.6 percentage points compared with February 2016.

Mortgage rates:

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Home equity rates:

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Most recent market news:

Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Rate:

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.10 percent with an average 0.5 point for the week ending March 2, 2017.
This is down from last week when it averaged 4.16 percent.
A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 3.64 percent.

Ellie Mae’s Millennial Tracker data for January 2017:

Millennial borrowers for new home purchases accounted for 84 percent of closed loans according in January 2017.
In December, 82 percent of closed mortgages were for new home purchases, up from 77 percent from August through November.
It took millennials an average 49 days to close on their loans in January, a day longer than in November and December

Attom Data Solutions Q4 2016 Loan Origination Report:

More than 1.7 million (1,748,177) loans were originated on U.S. residential properties (1 to 4 units) in Q4 2016, down 15 percent from the previous quarter but up 2 percent from 2015.
More than 7.3 million loans were originated in 2016, up 2 percent from 2015 to the highest total since 2013.
Total dollar volume of loan originations in the fourth quarter increased 8 percent from a year ago to more than $461 billion ($461,291,961,501).