As summer turned to autumn, the Federal Reserve continued its practice of raising interest rates to stop and reverse the inflationary pressures on the U.S. economy that has become one of the foremost domestic issues of 2022....more
Recent housing industry reports have noted large increases in the number of refinancings of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) loans....more
On September 1, 2021 the White House released a visionary policy position paper that described in uncommon detail, its vision for housing programs in the Biden Administration. The strongest theme in the President’s message was the support and promotion of the involvement of non-profit organizations in many aspects of HUD’s programs. SP Group believes that...more
The U.S. Census Bureau recently published Community Resilience Estimates. SP Group analyzes and applies housing market assessment....more
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) released its August 2020 Credit Risk Report. Here are some observations on FHA’s SDQ portfolio of loans as of August 2020...more
SP Group provides the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with analytic support services for the American Housing Survey (AHS)....more
In previous blogs we followed the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) to examine some effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, This week a new dataset was released that encompasses data collected from September 2 to September 14, 2020....more
In our earlier blogs, we followed the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing market....more
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) released its July 2020 Credit Risk Report. Here are some observations on FHA’s SDQ portfolio of loans as of July 2020...more
From the start of this pandemic, the performance of the housing market has been counter-intuitive....more