Mortgage Market Share Report – June 2012

July 27, 2012 Surprising and not-so surprising revelations from the Bloomington mortgage finance and real estate markets after the first six months of 2012. Despite mortgage interest rates being about two percent lower in 2012 than in 2009, mortgage volume was actually higher back then. (see charts pages 8, 9, 12 & 13) Second quarter …

Mortgage Market Share – April 2012

Mortgage Market Share Report ? February 2012

2011 Pay In 2012 Real Estate Tax Amounts Availability The 2011 pay in 2012 Real Estate Tax amounts are now available in Green, Owen, and Lawrence Counties. Accordingly tax escrows established at closing for properties in these counties can now be based upon actual tax liabilities. The Monroe County tax amounts are expected to be …

Mortgage Market Share Report – January 2012

Please Note: John Bethell Title Company, Inc. will be closed on Monday February 20 for our Annual Employee Training Day. We will resume normal business operations and hours on Tuesday February 21.

Mortgage Market Share Report – 2011 Year In Review

Hidden and not so hidden trends, conclusions and questions from the 2011 full year mortgage and deed recording data: Lenders with a local presence and local employees continue to dominate our market. Take that dot com lender! Page 4. Indiana University Credit Union and German American were the most active residential and business lenders, respectively. …

Mortgage Market Share Report – November 2011

?All objects lose by too familiar a view.? ~ John Dryden Sometimes you?re so close to something that you forget that not everything is obvious. Recently I was asked some questions about the data in our report, what it means and where it comes from. So I thought that I?d start the New Year with …

Mortgage Market Share Report – October 2011

“Mommy! Make Them Stop!” Many things to be keeping an eye on these days . . . The new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) is testing forms. We?ve seen a number of versions of a combined Good Faith Estimate and Truth in Lending disclosure. In November, we saw a combined Settlement Statement (f/k/a HUD-1) and …