Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. The market is a bit calmer now than when Silicon Valley Bank failed , evident in how the stock and bond markets traded this last week. While the labor market is getting less tight, it’s not broken yet.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2023

It was a wild ride for the housing market last week! Now if the economy gets weaker, meaning the labor market sees a noticeable rise in jobless claims, then the 10-year yield should break under 3.21% , going all the way to 2.72%. The market will pay more attention to that than economic data this week. From the St.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2023

2021: 66,836 2022: 67,567 2023: 49,045 Compare our current new listing data to weekly new listing data in previous years when we had a more normal housing market: 2015: 94,470 2016: 86,608 2017: 78,886 The NAR data going back decades shows how difficult it’s been to get back to anything normal on the active listing side.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. This week’s trading in the bond market will be exciting with the upcoming inflation data.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

2017 99,880 2016 88,105 2015 94,101 As you can see in the chart below, new listing data is very seasonal; we don’t have much time to get some more growth here. Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. didn’t go into recession until 2008.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

The housing market faced some serious obstacles last week as the 10-year yield broke over 4%, mortgage rates rose to over 7%, purchase apps fell again and we are still trying to find the elusive seasonal bottom for housing inventory. Last week we had a lot of action on the bond market just to end up exactly where we were the previous Friday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

” Incenter has businesses focused on capital markets, loan diligence, student lending, insurance, property tax, accounting and marketing. According to Parrish, some of Incenter’s clients, such as IMBs, face pressures from the market downturn. Founder Tom Piercy took over the chief growth officer role.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Last week was relatively calm for the housing market after the fiasco of the banking crisis. The banking crisis has stressed the mortgage backed securities market , pushing rates higher than usual. Last week had the potential for fireworks, but it was pretty tame, this week we have four labor market reports to deal with.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the spotlight again over the role some housing-industry experts say they could play in reducing mortgage rates if they resumed a more active investor role in the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market. In a market in which supply exceeds demand, investors have the advantage in pricing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The most recent RMBS Credit Indices report from the Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) shows that loan pools supporting outstanding private-label residential mortgage-backed securities issuances overall are performing relatively well to date in both the prime and nonprime markets. billion and 134 nonprime transactions valued at $22.9

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

The housing market functions differently than other markets because it can be characterized as a heterogeneous, thinly traded, illiquid market. In other words, it’s a diverse market with a wide variety of different homes of varying ages and levels of repair, and sales happen very rarely. The result is fewer sales.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The housing market experienced more volatility last week, with housing inventory dropping as mortgage rates moved higher. The one benefit of the housing market now is that days on the market are no longer teenagers, which means we are getting closer to a more balanced marketplace.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. On these crazy days in the financial markets, I stress to people, it’s not how the trading day goes that matters; it’s the final closing number.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. When you consider that a home seller is a natural homebuyer as well, you can see why the housing market broke after mortgage rates went on a roller coaster last year. Can you imagine the housing market at that point?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Since March of this year, housing demand has been falling more and more, but inventory is still below the 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 levels, which is a nightmare. I have stressed that housing doesn’t move like the stock market. Additional bad news from the report is the data for days on the market. Unsold inventory sits at a 2.6-month

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A new LendingTree study found that mobile homes are cheaper and their values appreciated almost as quickly as single-family homes over five years, from 2016 to 2021. The states with the highest increase in the median value for mobile homes from 2016 to 2021 are Rhode Island, Nebraska and Idaho.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. In a typical marketplace, the days on market are more than 30 days.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Relief from the rate-driven volume reduction afflicting both the primary and secondary mortgage markets is expected to be elusive for some time to come, at least in terms of any renewed refinancing boost. Consequently, the collateral available to support securitizations in both the agency and nonagency secondary markets has also fallen.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

from 2016-2019. The post Strong Housing Market Boosts Overall Household Wealth appeared first on theMReport.com. The post Strong Housing Market Boosts Overall Household Wealth appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. New study finds the median net worth of U.S. households rose 17.6%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The idea that it’s a seller’s market also picked up steam last month with the percentage of respondents who said it was a good time to sell a home gaining 3% to 59% in October. While the state of the market shines brightly for prospective buyers and sellers, the economy overall is showing some slight hesitation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. This assumes the spreads are wide as the mortgage-back securities market is still very stressed. This bond market is screaming at the Fed to cut rates. So, the market is wild and the Fed might not care what short-term rates are doing now. The economic data was OK last week.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Lenders and mortgage tech companies have been cutting costs in the down market , but some firms have hired new executives who they hope will provide better strategies to navigate the shrinking loan origination market. for Planet Home Lending, will focus on increasing market share by adding branches and loan originators.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. These are market-based decisions.” Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2021

That information is still critical this year, that’s why we’ve invited Doug Duncan , senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae , to speak at HousingWire’s virtual Engage Marketing event on June 17. At Fannie Mae, Duncan is responsible for forecasts and analyses of the economy and the housing and mortgage markets.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Transactions in the fix and flip market have been booming in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, up 14% over 2021 and up 58% over 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. housing market.” How long that can continue is hard to say.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The index shows the relative degree of movement between brokerages by experienced agents and is indexed to the level of mobility in January 2016. Efforts are made to exclude out of market agents and those which are MLS system artifacts. The most recent trailing 12-month value shows a new low of 89.4,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. This assumes the spreads are wide as the mortgage back securities market is still very stressed. Do they even want to risk more stress in the markets? Mortgage rates fell even though the jobs report was stronger than anticipated. Already, the future pricing of a.50%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On HousingWire branding calls earlier this year, someone asked us what our tagline, “Moving Markets Forward,” means to me. At its core, it means providing you with what you need to win the market. 2020 and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic brought a housing market and nation under crisis that we’ve never seen before.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Bluffton, South Carolina. Greenwich, Connecticut. Gillette, Wyoming.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With market uncertainty, real estate agents had been sticking with their current brokerage., As confidence in the 2024 housing market grows, so does agent’s confidence in their ability to make a move to a new broker. Efforts are made to exclude out of market agents and those which are MLS system artifacts.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

Educate your outreach by keying into shopping behavior and you can empower your mortgage marketing in the new year. Market outlook. The refinance boom of 2021 has given way to the purchase market of 2022. Not only is the market pendulum swinging from refinance to purchase, but we are also seeing a marked shift in who is buying.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The current market downturn for mortgage lenders may be shorter than the previous cycles, mainly due to the recent rounds of workforce layoffs imposed by nonbanks. Nonbanks have more than 60% market share of mortgage industry production — and they are more likely than banks to move quickly to reduce capacity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Michael Heid, a board member since 2016 and before that an executive at Wells Fargo for 20 years, is presently board chairperson. The post Fannie Mae income drops amid mortgage market troubles appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2023

The below-median family income homeownership rate increased to 53% from 48% since 2016, Freddie Mac said, citing data from the Census Bureau ’s Housing Vacancy survey. Since the second quarter of 2016, the below-median family income homeownership rate has increased 5.4 percentage points, according to the Census Bureau’s data.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

In the last decade, community lenders—those credit unions, community banks, and independent mortgage banks who serve their local markets—have grown to own the market. Now, with 2021 leaning back to purchase-driven volume, they are positioned to accelerate that market dominance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The latest findings from Relitix’s Agent Movement Index (AMI) for March 2024 reveal a nuanced landscape in the real estate sector, with shifts in agent activities suggesting stabilizing and evolving market conditions. This stabilization is possibly linked to a resurgence in property sales, hinting at a more buoyant housing market ahead.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Since launching in 2016, Maxwell has used technology to streamline and accelerate the mortgage process for more than 300 banks, credit unions and other lenders on its platform. With the deal, Maxwell expanded its secondary market platform to add more than 180 clients.

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