Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher, senior vice president of operations support and operational risk for VRM Mortgage Services , offers strategies for doing just that, showing how VRM is growing and changing during these unique times. Tiffany Fletcher, VRM Mortgage Services HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

Home prices have skyrocketed in the past year, and data from Redfin backs up what buyers, sellers, and agents have known for months. Mortgage rates have also jumped to north of 3% ; at its current pace, the Mortgage Bankers Association is forecasting rates will reach nearly 3.5% The national average of home prices rose 14.4%

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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. Housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $1.6 The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $1.3 The slowing effect on the housing market of the higher mortgage rate environment has been largely predictable, and home prices appear to have already begun trending downward.”. million in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Mortgage rates. Home price s.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Steep competition stirred in part by low mortgage rates, demographic factors and an improving economy is pushing home prices up at the strongest pace in decades, with sales happening at lightning speed and often for well above list price, noted Zillow Economist Matthew Speakman. . NAR also noted the role of inventory in existing home sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Total Inventory had been growing from 2001-2005; total listings data in 2005 was at the higher historical range of 2.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How the mortgage industry is working together to make housing more affordable. Seattle is currently a hot market – in October, there was less than a month’s worth of inventory and pending home sales outpaced supply. In the Bay Area, RedfinNow is now available to homeowners in the East Bay and South San Jose areas.

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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. I know some people don’t agree with me on this, but the price gains in both the existing home and new home sales sector show that homebuilders and sellers had too much pricing power and needed to be checked.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

below its 2006 peak. In addition, homebuyers are continuing to enjoy low mortgage rates , boosting the demand for homes even higher. For-sale inventory levels charted their fourth consecutive monthly increase in August, and sellers appear to be taking a less aggressive approach when putting their homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Housing demand weakened noticeably as growing concerns about affordability contributed to non-seasonal declines in sales, resulting in a slight increase in inventory and more moderate price appreciation,” states the Federal Reserve’s most recently released Beige Book report — based on data and reports current as of mid-July.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 is projected to have the most home sales since the 2006 housing bubble, with the U.S. Slowing down the pace, Miller said, is the average interest rate on a 30-year-fixed rate mortgage — 3.09% by late October, according to Freddie Mac , after it hovered below 3% for most of 2021. on pace for 6.29

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

May’s housing starts rate was actually the highest since April 2022, which was then the highest since 2006. In other words, the multifamily deliveries will likely relieve pressure in the form of rents and help with overall supply, but the inventory deliveries likely won’t do much for the sales market. million, 21.7%

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

It kept inventory down, which propped up prices, but sales are down nearly 22%, and buyers are hungry. With rates trying to reach equilibrium after their nosedive in 2020, everyone has had to accept that pandemic-era rates are a thing of the past and therefore higher monthly mortgage payments are here to stay. Sales Decline by 21.7%

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 30, 2024

This scarcity in inventory had the effect of keeping prices high, but there was a substantial decrease in sales, approximately 19%, leaving prospective buyers eager. This resilience is more attributable to the reduction in inventory rather than a decline in sales. Maine Sales Decreased by 18.9%

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 25, 2024

This scarcity in inventory exerted upward pressure on prices, although it coincided with a 19% decline in sales. Despite this decline, motivated buyers were out there trying to secure a home while also trying to navigate lower affordability and low inventory. Average prices for closed sales increased by 7.2% Sales Decline by 18.9%

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Cornerstone

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s an ideal time for sellers to take advantage. Sellers who may have been reluctant to list in the past few years are now considering it. The fact that housing inventory is at record lows has driven up prices – and potential profits — by 14.1 The Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) now sits at 125.4

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 26, 2023

ANTHONY LAMACCHIA'S 2024 REAL ESTATE MARKET PREDICTIONS Anthony is obsessed with tracking the data and in this article written at the end of 2023 he explains how the market is shaping up based on trends and what Buyers and Sellers can expect in 2024. Second, sellers can only hold off for so long. I see that happening for a few reasons.

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Lamacchia Realty

DECEMBER 28, 2022

You can infer from the subtitle “ 2023 Will be 1982 all over again” that I’m clearly expecting an early 1980’s scenario, when inflation ran up causing interest rates, including mortgage rates, to spike. At that time we had an extreme overabundance of sellers and not enough motivated buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

But with rising mortgage rates, still-rising home prices, and record-low levels of inventory, this might be easier said than done. Although this was not the strongest showing for new home sales due to supply chain issues, and material and labor shortages, 2021 was the best year for existing home sales since 2006.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

My comments : The big push to cut down on appraisal turn times because of the appraisal shortage is Very Old News since mortgage volume has plummeted. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Redfin, on the other hand, has had agents as employees since Glenn Kelman founded it in Seattle in 2006. Living on commissions often means getting paid more for convincing a buyer to increase their acceptable price range or coaxing a seller to hold out for a more lucrative deal. It was as boring as it sounds like.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Reviews and Revisions, AMC layoffs, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. ==. To read more, click here.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 12, 2021

Home prices are overheating, mortgage rates are inching up from the start of the year and the supply of homes is in an unseasonable valley – far from its Mt. Today, 37% of all buyers are Millennials and they comprise about 54% of all mortgage applications. of mortgages underwater); Multnomah County (Portland), Ore. points at 34.

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 9, 2021

The index showed a growing difficulty to afford a home even while household income and mortgage rates improved compared to last year. An owner’s mortgage servicer may receive the card; check with the servicer or contact the Assessors Office website for the assessed value.). Among single-family homes, county inventory increased to 0.6

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. home prices, up 14% year over year (YoY) by one measure, and escalating mortgage rates, which have risen about 2.1 The potent combo of rising U.S. home (about $400,000 vs. $880,000 in King County).

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