Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Since the onset of COVID-19, the Twittersphere has been ripe with rumor and speculation that the financial requirements to qualify for a mortgage have become increasingly more rigorous since the crisis and this would put a damper on the housing market. Case in point — the week of March 9 and the mortgage market meltdown.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the unsung heroes of the most prolonged economic and job expansion ever recorded in history was the passing of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act and the 2010 qualified mortgage rule under Dodd-Frank. Both these laws paved the way for more responsible lending and a more responsible consumer. Today, we are at 1.25

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

The housing market is red hot. The Federal Housing Finance Agency house-price index rose 12% last year due to low inventories and high demand. And the National Association of Realtors reported that, for the first time in a generation, housing prices rose in each of the 181 metro areas it tracks at the end of last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

With the banking crisis spurring more talk of a recession, the question now is: What would housing credit look like in a recession? housing market would crash during the pandemic. One of the main reasons for that fear was that housing credit was about to get tight, meaning fewer people could buy homes with mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

The online reaction was immediate — housing must be about to crash. That’s not to say that the data points the Fed used are incorrect — in fact, we are in a savagely unhealthy housing market , but it’s not a bubble. First, because there is no speculative debt demand going on today, there can’t be a housing bubble.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Well, it isn’t 2008, but this type of loan does have risk — and it’s the risk that is traditional among all late economic cycle lending in America when the loan requires low or no downpayment. We have a much better housing ecosystem now for sure. The entire system has to be designed to inflate the price over time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

As 2022 proves to be a challenging year for the housing market, lenders are looking to take advantage of potential downtime by improving their internal processes. But when rates began to soar starting in 2005, increased foreclosure rates led to a housing market crash in 2008.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 15, 2024

UAD originated in 2010 and since then we appraisers are accustomed to using codes like “C4,” “N;Res,” and “1200sf0sfin” in our mortgage appraisal reports to communicate the results of our analysis. Appraisers will want to make sure that their software vendors can accommodate non-lending work in their new platforms.

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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. Nor can we ever have a credit sales boom again with lending standards back to normal. Case in point, purchase application data is already below 2008 levels today.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

million, the existing home sales forecast represents the slowest annual pace since 2010, according to the ESR Group. New home construction is expected to pull back later in 2023 – consistent with Fannie Mae’s forecasted recession – which is due, at least in part, to tighter credit availability for construction lending.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. A few months ago, I was asked to go on CNBC and talk about why I call this a housing recession and why this year reminds me a lot of 2018, but much worse on the four items above.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In August, Zillow ‘s 2023 Consumer Housing Trends Report proclaimed that half of all homebuyers are purchasing their first home, the highest share that Zillow has ever recorded. One of the primary reasons for this surge is the strong presence of millennials in the housing market, particularly those at the peak, around ages 33 and 34.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Racial Equity Accelerator for Homeownership, a collaboration between Urban Institute and Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of San Francisco , on Monday released a report that examines how the adoption of alternative data can benefit Black households within the mortgage lending landscape.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Seattle area housing market right now reads like a mystery novel with half the pages missing. Existing home sales fell 18% between October and November for all homes on the market and are off 11% Year-on-Year (YoY). 13 to update America when the central bank will likely hold firm on short-term lending rates.

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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 1, 2022

The years 2020-2024 were going to be different not only for the housing market but also for the labor market. Just whistle, folks — that is a hot labor market. So, in essence, every American and Russian troll that has been talking about an impending recession since 2010 based on economic data has been wrong.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

But this year, as rates have crested 6%, about 70% of Neat’s originations are adjustable-rate mortgages, a product that until recently had fallen out of favor due to the role they played in the housing crash of 2008 and a decade-plus of fixed-rate mortgages under 5%. . Not a one-size fits all”.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. We are nowhere near that!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. As you can see below, the new home sales market from 2018-2022 doesn’t look like the housing market we had from 2002-2005.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Seattle/King County housing market appears to have come through the worst of times with a slightly stronger showing in January than in previous months. Annual sales across King County totaled 21,515 homes – down an incredible 24% from the year before and the fewest since 2010 (20,761). higher than January 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

According to the Federal Housing Administration, their share of lending to Black borrowers is around 17%, compared to 6% for the rest of the mortgage market. If the program does break right, the benefits for the housing market are clear. In 2010, the Treasury launched the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF) program.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are starting to see all of those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Unfortunately for buyers, a combination of the typical seasonal trend and higher borrowing costs has slowed housing market activity to an excruciatingly slow pace – and there are concerning signs ahead.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Prospective buyers and sellers watched this one out from the sidelines, leading to King County sales activity hitting lows not seen since 2010 at the heart of the housing crises. Any one of those risks could cascade into other parts of the market and tip the economy into recession.” homes – yes, still a seller’s market.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

The Inevitable Cyclicality of Mortgage Lending. 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 purchase market has been a different story.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There is a feeling of Halloween in the real estate world because this housing market is a bit scary these days. The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. Scary, indeed, but are these signs of a pending housing recession? Unlikely. “I There are 7.4%

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Worsening affordability issues and lower-than-usual inventory have prompted many consumers to watch this housing market from the sidelines – without the picket lines. when rounded up) on an annual basis – is the lowest since October 2010. Beyond labor strife, America’s home buyers and sellers appear to be on strike as well.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

DID SOMEBODY SAY, ‘HOUSING BUBBLE?’. Are we in a housing bubble? The housing market has become bubbly,” said economist Enrique Martinez-Garcia of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He was one of the authors of a recent report that found signs of a housing bubble in the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With over 40 years of mortgage experience, Hale has held C-suite positions for some of the top housing companies in the industry, including ClosingMark Financial Group , Stearns Lending , MetLife Home Loans , MetLife Bank , Countrywide , Wells Fargo and Fleet Mortgage. Brian Hale: Purchase volume will be key.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Campbell is now something of a JV guru, having completed over 80 joint ventures with real estate or lending firms. That, combined with the housing market slowdown, created a perfect storm for some questionable business practices to arise, piquing the interest of regulators. Why not create one entity to ensure a smoother process?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

I have always been good with numbers, and I enjoy looking at houses,” he said. But DeZarn was an independent contractor business of one, and he lost his clients in 2008 when the housing market imploded. The value add is compliance, more than anything else,” said Shashank Shekhar, CEO of Arcus Lending.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In my opinion, an extension of the forbearance plans would have happened regardless of who won the White House. The housing market has been a critical sector during this recovery from the COVID-19 lows, which, by the way, we won’t get back to — sorry those of you who believe in a W-shaped housing recovery.

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