Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“The new home market has been extraordinary in 2023, and I think heading into 2024, we’re going to have the golden age of new home construction,” David O’Reilly, CEO of Howard Hughes , said in a recent CNBC interview. million housing units due to a severe lack of supply produced between 2012 and 2019.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Amid the uncertain current environment, here are six key indicators we should look to for an accurate assessment of market conditions: Federal funds rate : While the current fed funds rate of 3.25% seems high, it also stood at more than 2% from October 2018 to September 2019. S&P/Case-Shiller U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

The Dallas Fed on Thursday published an article titled: Real-Time Market Monitoring Finds Signs Of a Brewing U.S. Housing Bubble. The online reaction was immediate — housing must be about to crash. For the housing bubble 2.0 crew, this would mean home prices would have to get back to 2012 in a short amount of time.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

A decline of the index, benchmarked to 100 in March 2012, indicates that lending standards are tightening while an increase suggests loosening credit. The jumbo index had its first contraction in three months, as some depositories assess the impact of recent deposit outflows and reduce their appetite for jumbo loans, Kan said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market. HousingWire: In today’s tight market, margin compression is impacting countless mortgage companies. You also have a mortgage market shrinking from $4.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

Lending standards tightened in July with the mortgage credit availability index (MCAI) dropping 9%, the largest monthly drop since April 2020, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). A decline of the index, benchmarked to 100 in March 2012, indicates lending standards are tightening while an increase suggests loosening credit.

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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. crash, especially from 2012-2019. million listings.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Despite what they promised, we sit here today with the United States housing market outperforming all other economic sectors in the world during the pandemic. In order for the housing market to crash due to too many loans going into default when forbearance programs end, the number of loans in these programs needs to grow.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

If there’s a bet to be made on the future of the non-agency lending space, it’s that the adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market pivoting to an up-rate environment. He described today’s non-QM market as a “very large bucket.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

Let’s just say this is the final nail in the coffin for the housing bear troll camps that were so sure that this time, housing would finally crash. COVID didn’t get the housing market, but it did pull a fast one on those pesky bears. We saw hints of a flourishing housing market prior to the COVID crisis.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s decision to raise the federal funds rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday signaled that officials are still focused on bringing down inflation to 2% while monitoring how much recent bank failures slow lending in the economy and cool demand. In addition, U.S. The national median existing-home sale price fell 0.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

According to SimpleNexus president Cathleen Schreiner , the company’s most recent funding will assist in its mission to overturn mortgage processes that have been historically archaic, attributing the record-setting numbers the housing market saw in the pandemic to its recent revenue push. billion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

In light of this, HousingWire recently caught up with Teraverde Chief Technology & Innovation Officer Rob Peterson to learn more about the key to lender profitability in today’s lending environment. In the overall process of residential lending, our industry has not used automation. The blue bar is compensation cost since 2012.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

billion hit the market in the first two weeks of 2022, HousingWire reported last week , but that’s already old news. And it’s likely that even more deals will come to market prior to month’s end. Morgan, which accounted for some 18% of the market by volume in 2021. A total of 10 private-label deals valued at nearly $5.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Earlier in his career when working on data projects for large banks, Ghamsari realized how data and technology could be used to improve the process and affect positive change across mortgages and consumer lending more broadly. Taking those lessons with him, Ghamsari decided to start Blend in 2012 along with his co-founders.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

A decline of the index, benchmarked to 100 in March 2012, indicates lending standards are tightening while an increase suggests loosening credit. MBAs Market Composite Index dropped 6.5%, marking the lowest level in 22 years. to 120 in May, the lowest level since July 2021, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

The lack of affordable housing in the United States is well-documented in the nation’s urban markets, where it is contributing to the swelling ranks of the homeless. That same dire need for affordable housing for the least prosperous among us, however, also is a serious problem in rural America — home to nearly 70 million Americans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

One significant factor behind the lack of evolution in the appraisal industry is that the American housing market has grown at a much higher rate than the pool of licensed professionals that are legally certified to appraise residential real estate. Navigating appraisal challenges in today’s housing market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Everywhere you look there seems to be bad news for the existing-home market — interest rates remain north of 7% and the median home price nears record levels at more than $410,000 as of June. below 4%) and today’s current market rates has created a so-called “lock-in effect.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with David Peskin, president of Reverse Mortgage Funding, who said entering the reverse mortgage business could allow originators to break into a growing market with significant demand that is largely untapped. David Peskin: As we all know, the housing market is booming right now.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

“I am confident that she will bring a depth of expertise and perspective to FHA at a critical time for our country’s housing market.”. Housing industry stakeholders have a lengthy list of changes they hope Gordon will implement. Toomey, in a statement published in May 2022, also criticized Gordon’s career in housing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

While the position of the Fund has strengthened in recent years and continues to do so largely as the result of a robust housing market driven by low inventory, low interest rates, and solid home-price appreciation, there are many reasons to proceed cautiously and to continue to prepare for the unexpected. billion draw on the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 14, 2023

The opening months of the Seattle/King County housing market can best be expressed as sparks of activity within a mostly tentative purchasing environment. Sellers who priced their homes appropriately enjoyed busy open houses in their first weekend on the market followed by multiple offers. February prices included a 9.4%

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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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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