Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

Mortgage rates surged to 5.27% over the last week, the highest average since 2009, according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS. According to Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, while mortgage rates are rising, house price appreciation will decline later in the year. This week, mortgage application volume rose 2.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Homes that reach the market sell quickly, bidding wars are the new normal and the investor share of sales continues to rise.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. In fact, a veritable upheaval is headed for the housing market already. Yet staggeringly few are aware of its existence.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Today, however, the purchase application data is actually down to levels we saw in 2009 ! housing market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

I am going to do my best to try to make sense of what is happening with the housing market right now, since the years 2020-2024 have been a talking point of mine for years and my biggest concern since the fall of 2020 has been prices overheating — not having a deflationary collapse. . A short history of the housing crash narrative.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

“I started as an agent up here in 2009, and I’ve been saying since then the only thing that would slow down the market would be some sort of national or international event,” said Pullin, a managing broker at Skyline Properties. But the past three years — and 2020, specifically — have been something else.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market. Is this still the case, and what is the demand like from first-time buyers? Marquis: I would say half and half.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When this article was published, the unemployment rate is at 4.2%, inflation is above 6%, and both stock market and housing market values are elevated. Lenders should expect a much faster pace of hikes over the next few years than what was experienced following the 2009 recession. The encouraging news?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. million — once that happens, I can take the unhealthy label off the housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

The soaring federal deficit requires even more buyers of bonds, and some government bond sales may make it more difficult to issue MBS securities, unless with higher interest rates.”. It’s a market already under siege from a hawkish Fed policy that has sparked a sharp rise in interest rates, up 1.5 in 2009 to 1.9%

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Empire Appraisal Group

JULY 6, 2022

Unlikely to Feel Impact from Slowing Market. Wary buyers and rising interest rates may affect some U.S. markets, but Fla.’s Six of the nation’s top 25 most overvalued housing markets are in the Sunshine State, which can expect to see a “prolonged period of unaffordability” even as prices in other regions of the country cool.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the number of homes being built in age-restricted communities has grown significantly, since 2009, with about 6% of all new homes built for those either age 55 and older or 62 and older, as of 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

To help the most vulnerable population, Tara Roche, research manager for the Pew Charitable Trust , said that HAF will be available to those who are using alternative financing, such as land contracts (agreements directly between sellers and buyers) and loans secured by manufactured homes. The program prevented $8.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Institutional real estate investors — often mammoth operators with ties to Wall Street — gobbled up record amounts of inventory in almost every corner of the pandemic-induced fever dream that was the 2021 housing market, with one notable exception: distressed properties sold at foreclosure auction. Bulk Buyer Bonanza.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

Hot housing market not a bubble, economists say. Excerpts: As home prices continue to break growth records, a panel of housing experts and economists surveyed by Zillow® does not believe the market is in a bubble. The hangar was built in 2009, and the home was completed in 2014. Jun 7, 2022. 2,821 sq.ft.

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Realvals

JANUARY 4, 2017

For the most part, these charts represent the housing market in Orange County for 2016 quite well. Mystique Newport Coast $28,000,000 18650/AP 2009 0.848/36,933. Ocean WY Laguna Beach $16,000,000 5650/E 2009 0.23/10,019. Notice how some of the cities have wide ranges, while some have tight ranges.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

“Across the United States, homebuilders reliably broke ground on between 125,000 and 140,000 homes almost every month in 2021, and by one common measure, last year was the second-least volatile year for housing starts since 2005.”. Overall, an estimated 1,595,100 housing units were started in 2021, a 15.6% increase from 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

housing market. And now we are facing a tumultuous year of mortgage market normalization. Interest rates are rising, affordability is a challenge, and geopolitical conflicts impact global supply markets. After all, the media would be remiss not to be apprehensive in the current market environment.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Excerpts: The housing market sizzle has faded and we’ve entered a different season. We’ve basically said goodbye to the most aggressive housing market ever, and we’re in a new market now. Granted, the housing trend still feels elevated from normal, so it’s an error to call this market cold.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

“​​With an ongoing tight supply of existing homes for sale and the recent rise in the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate to around 7%, we expect home sales in 2023 to remain near the lowest annual level since 2009,” the group said. Total existing home sales fell 2.2% in July from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.07 down from 4.88

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

All year, the strength of homebuyer demand and the tight supply of homes for sale has meant that the market pretty rapidly found a floor on the home-price correction of 2022. The number of buyers has been surprising. This trend is why we’ve called it a soft landing for the housing market. It’s not a hot market.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 17, 2022

It is extremely important for appraisers now to closely track changes in your local markets at least once every day and tell your lender clients about it. When will it affect your market? The number of potential buyers will decrease as rates go up in many markets. We have never seen a pandemic real estate market before.

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Quicken Loans

APRIL 12, 2021

That’s why many home buyers turn to foreclosed homes in hopes of getting more space in a better area and with a much lower price tag. Foreclosure purchases thrived in 2009-2010 when a recession-battered housing market hit its peak foreclosure rate. Many banks won’t sell directly to home buyers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to be eligible for the full credit, potential buyers must not have owned or purchased a home within the past three years. The proposal differs from a different piece of legislation designed to give first-time, first-generation home buyers down payment assistance in the form of a grant at closing. Lawmakers, led by Rep.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

Under former President Barack Obama, the federal government offered first-time homebuyers a tax credit of $7,500 in 2008 and $8,000 in 2009 and 2010 via the Housing and Economic Recovery Act. Areas like California on the other hand, boast a smaller share of renters who could benefit – more likely in the thousands than millions.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 11, 2023

The Seattle/King County housing market inched forward – and a little sideways – as the number of new and unsold listings continued to expand in June while fresh signs of a slowdown approached. Home prices continued to confound buyers by climbing toward record highs as summer began. The number of Pending listings fell 3.9%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The question many in capital markets have been asking since the GSEs were put into conservatorship is this: Without Fannie , Freddie , or the Fed , who will buy the agency MBS? Today we are seeing this play out with a shortage of MBS buyers to the tune of about $2 billion in demand per day.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

A three-year renovation, ending in 2009, converted the upper floors into the 7,000-square-foot penthouse. In addition to reducing upfront costs, Rocket Mortgage says ONE+ completely eliminates the expensive monthly mortgage insurance fee for the client —which is traditionally required if the buyer places less than 20% down on their purchase.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2023

years, according to recent data, when it was only about five years just before the housing market crash of 2007. As commute times exacerbate successful tech workers, they may want to live closer to the office and consider purchasing a condo – a segment of the housing market that has lagged behind single-family and townhome sales.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 24, 2022

Two Trends Slowing Housing Market Normalization. Excerpts: You can’t buy what’s not for sale — and existing homeowners have little incentive to relieve the supply pressure, keeping a lid on housing market normalization. Have to be careful when typing them to avoid typos!Two June 20, 2022.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 9, 2021

Prices have soared in most areas – including a 30% jump in the past year for single-family homes in King County – amid a shortage of inventory and a sharp rise in the number of buyers. Is this the beginning of a housing bubble, 2021-style? “I Couple that with the return of international buyers – absent from the U.S.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 20, 2022

The housing market has shifted. Excerpt: How I’m describing the market: Overall, the market still feels elevated in that we are seeing a higher-than-normal amount of competition. It seems an inflection point occurred where we really noticed the effect of higher mortgage rates on buyers. Or, hit the reply button.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But homebuilders big and small continue to run into the same problems – building permits are on file, contracts with buyers are inked, but subcontractors often don’t show, and access to materials have led to longer build times and cost overruns. Housing starts are also looking up, rising 1.4% Currently, over 1.7 above the 2020 figure.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

has long been a major player in the private-label securitization market, and it sees a looming problem brewing in the housing industry. That issue is about boundaries — specifically, the line drawn between the roles of private industry and the government in the housing market.

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Lamacchia Realty

JANUARY 31, 2024

Learn More About the Southington Community 2024 Outlook Overall, the Southington,CT housing market performed as expected given that the market is adjusting from a frenzied state – home sales were down, and average prices were up. Southington proved to be no different, with homes listed down substantially year over year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2020

economy into a recession and killed more than 208,000 Americans, the plan from the frontrunner in the presidential election is well-aimed to assist the only weak link in an otherwise booming the housing market: First-time buyers trying to scrape together a down payment. Now that the pandemic has plunged the U.S.

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