Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Rapidly expanding Cleveland, Ohio-based CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) has struck a deal to acquire the smaller retail mortgage lender AmCap Home Loans and bolster its operations in Texas. AmCap, founded in 2002, is a much smaller lender. In terms of volume, CCM claims it originated $31.6 billion in loans in 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The housing sector — especially real estate and mortgage — has seen significant layoffs , while the general economy will create more than 4 million jobs in 2022. Then we had the biggest mortgage rate shock in recent history and yet even with that, we will have over 5 million total home sales this year. Production falls. Home sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Tuesday’s housing starts report clearly shows that homebuilders are going to be done with single-family construction until mortgage rates fall. If it wasn’t for solid rental demand boosting multifamily construction this year — 18% year to date —this data line would have looked much worse.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. We talked about this in March , and even last year, when I wrote about the problem with the housing construction boom premise. “I don’t expect a boom in housing construction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Census Bureau released their new residential construction report for April, showing a miss on the estimate and a negative revisions data line, which I believe is lagging behind the current market reality. We simply cannot finish homes in America promptly, and now that mortgage rates are over 5%, some buyers won’t be able to purchase a home.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. That’s not the case now because we have’t had a credit boom post-2010 as we did from 2002 to 2005. We have more housing starts under construction now than in recent history! What is going on here?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It gives an idea of what to expect for housing construction. months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. The real question is how much higher mortgage rates will bite the most sensitive sector to rates: new homes. The builders will pull back on construction growth if new homes sales start to head lower.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

They can cut prices, pay down mortgage rates for their buyers, and do what they need to to make it work for them to move their products. As I have stressed time after time, we shouldn’t be using the housing economic models of 2002-2008 — that would have led everyone to believe we had a mass supply of housing coming online in 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

New home sales missed estimates today but had three months of positive revisions, which continues the story of the builders managing the higher mortgage rate environment. However, higher mortgage rates make it harder and harder to pull some of those deals off. months, the builders will pause construction. When supply is over 6.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

One of the realities of COVID-19 has been the lag to build homes in a business that requires stable mortgage rates because of the traditional time to complete a home. It didn’t help the builders that they had a global pandemic and we still have many new homes either in construction or that haven’t been started yet. When supply is 4.3

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

As you can see below, new home sales are still below the 2000 recession level, and we just had a significant spike in mortgage rates too. These monthly reports can be very wild, and I anticipate big swings in the reports until things calm down with mortgage rates. Five months of the supply are homes in construction.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A few months ago, I wrote that the new home sales sector is at risk because of rising mortgage rates. As you can see, sales levels were never elevated like what we saw from 2002-2005. This housing cycle is and will always be based on real demand, versus the credit boom we saw from 2002 to 2005. Slow and steady wins the race.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This is the reason construction workers still have jobs, and that backlog needs to be finished; this is a positive outcome. The bigger story here is that if we want to see mortgage rates fall, we need more rental units, and right now we have a massive backlog of 2-unit homes under construction — over 900,000. percent (±12.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. It is an embarrassment, but construction productivity — which has been terrible for decades — is now also dealing with shortages that delay finishing homes. When supply is 4.4 months, this is an OK market for the builders. When supply is 6.5 This is 11.9 percent (±20.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

The smart thing to do is go with the builder sentiment trend until it reverses, and most likely, we will need to see lower mortgage rates for that to happen. From the National Association of Home Builders : Looking at the housing starts report, the numbers came in slightly better than anticipated, driven by multifamily construction.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The new home sales market is doing well as it really benefits from lower mortgage rates. I have said for many years that we wouldn’t see total housing construction start a year at 1.5 I have said for many years that we wouldn’t see total housing construction start a year at 1.5 The median sales price is now 11.4%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Housing construction in the U.S. months of homes they have under construction or have not even started yet. Now that mortgage rates have spiked up so much, the housing construction growth we have seen in single-family construction is done. The builders will pull back on construction when the supply is 6.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

This problem is much different than the housing credit bubble of 2002-2005. Mortgage rates of 4%-5% weren’t doing the amount of demand destruction I thought they would. Mortgage rates closer to 6% for sure are driving bigger year-over-year decline data. From BLS : The downside of higher rates Housing construction will slow.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Horton has been the largest homebuilder by volume in the United States since 2002. The company also offers mortgage financing, title services , and insurance agency services through its subsidiaries. The company also offers mortgage financing, title services , and insurance agency services through its subsidiaries.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For this reason, the number of housing units “under construction” is the largest ever recorded in history because they were taking so long to finish. For the builders, they have a new problem: they had homes under contract and then mortgage rates jumped in the biggest fashion ever recorded in history.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

Tuesday’s new home sales report missed expectations and had negative revisions, which isn’t surprising given this sector of our economy simply can’t handle higher mortgage rates. can’t have a credit sales boom like we saw from 2002-2005. This time, we have less production of homes and more multifamily construction.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

That data shows how housing was still on pace to have another solid year before mortgage rates got over 5%. The housing world is much different at 5% plus mortgage rates versus the 3% mortgage world we had last year. They were simply doing what the marketplace allowed them to do with low inventory and low mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

You always want to be skeptical of any housing starts data that comes in too strong or too negative from the trend, and we had some specific factors in this report that boosted multifamily construction. Some of the demand that we saw from 2002-2005 was facilitated by credit that no longer exists in the marketplace today. This is 17.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Even in the extreme conditions of COVID-19, my general premise on housing economics predicted that the two variables with the most influence — demographics and mortgage rates — would hold up the housing market. The 10-year yield and mortgage rates. That range dictated that mortgage rates would roughly stay between 3.5%-4.75%.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

However, considering Wednesday’s builder confidence index and mortgage rates over 6%, it’s time to raise the fifth recession red flag, since the builders will have a tough time growing housing starts with rates this high. . While this data line isn’t crashing, the ability to grow from these levels is limited with rising mortgage rates.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amid rising land and construction costs, permits for single-family homes in King County slowed in the third quarter to 940, down 7.8% Lot availability is at multi-decade lows and the construction industry currently has more than 330,000 open positions.”. construction jobs in the U.S., year-on-year (YoY), according to U.S. “In

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At what point will mortgage interest rates peak? While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. When you raise [mortgage] rates to the point they’re at today, it breaks the back of housing.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2020

The initial public offering of Rocket Companies , parent of mortgage behemoth Quicken Loans , more than quadrupled the wealth of founder Dan Gilbert and made him the 28th richest person in the world, according to a Bloomberg ranking. mortgage lender, originated about $145 billion of home loans last year, according to regulatory filings.

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