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...The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose to a reading of 37, up from 34 in October, marking the first increase in four months....
...Already, there has been an uptick in new mortgage applications and pending home sales....
...A law firm consultant said a managing partner of a top firm once called his Newport, Rhode Island, holiday home, “the house that Citi built”, because of the deal he got on his mortgage....
...Over the past two years, big banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo charged more for loans in lockstep with the Fed lifting interest rates, without passing on the increase...
...Home improvement store Home Depot also reports earnings as well as energy groups Diamondback Energy and Chesapeake Energy and homebuilder Toll Brothers....
...The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index fell from 56 to 50 this month, signalling a slowdown in business for companies that build single-family homes....
...Real estate financing has traditionally been dominated by banks such as Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest in the UK, and investment banks including JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo in the US, according...
...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...Wells Fargo is a case in point....
...This month, US homebuilder confidence slipped for the first time this year according to an index compiled by the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo....
...In December, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Wells Fargo $1.7bn and ordered it to pay $2bn in redress to customers for mismanagement of mortgages, car loans and bank accounts....
...occurred under Wells Fargo’s current leadership....
...Wells denied mortgage modifications that should have been allowed, leading some borrowers to lose their homes....
...This year, rising mortgage rates have resulted in falling sales across France....
...By contrast, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo — the nation’s first and third-largest banks, respectively — each had about $40bn in unrealised bond market losses, while fourth-largest Citigroup’s paper losses...
...Deutsche Bank originated the loan for the Westfield mall in 2016, while Park Hotels’ mortgage is serviced by Wells Fargo and was originally underwritten by JPMorgan....
...“The home counties will be particularly difficult, especially given electoral pacts — Lib Dems and independents will do well there,” one senior Tory official said....
...“Mortgage rates remain elevated, but home builders have found success with rate buy-downs, price discounts and other incentives,” Wells Fargo analysts wrote....
...Despite that, money still came into bond funds and bonds did reasonably well. What happens now?...
...Wells Fargo chief executive Charlie Scharf last week told analysts and investors that the bank, which has $142bn in commercial real estate loans outstanding, is managing its exposure to the area....
...Last week Wells Fargo reported that its non-performing commercial real estate loans had jumped nearly 50 per cent since December to $1.5bn....
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