Here are a few national real estate-related stories that came across my screen this week…
- from FreddieMac: Fixed Mortgage Rates Dip Just Below Four Percent
- from The Wall Street Journal: Is 2015 the Turnaround Year for First-Time Home Buyers?
- from the Federal Housing Finance Agency: FHFA Announces 2015 Conforming Loan Limits: Unchanged in Most of the U.S. — Limited Number of Counties to see Increase
- from CNBC: Big investors pull back on housing
- from the National Association of Homebuilders: Townhouse Market Growing
- from the Los Angeles Times: Regulator OKs some Fannie, Freddie foreclosure buybacks at fair value
- from MarketWatch: Apartment rent to outpace inflation next year: NAR
- from CNBC: Mortgage volume drops back again after recent gains
