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Employment gains could help housing inventory

Housing Wire

Despite increased rate of tech adoption, the mortgage industry still has room for continued development and processes. There is a desperate lack of inventory in the housing market right now, which is driving up home prices at an unsustainably rapid pace, MBA’s senior vice president and chief economist Mike Fratantoni noted.

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The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022

Housing Wire

Researchers developed a framework for estimating the number of home sales in 2024 based on the current levels for mortgage rates. Available inventory of homes to buy follows a reliable seasonal trend with the low in Q1 and the high in Q3 of each year (except for the 2020 pandemic year). This was a supply-constrained market.

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FinLocker raises $17M in Series B funding round

Housing Wire

Louis-based developer of a leading white-label financial fitness and homeownership platform, announced the closure of a $17 million Series B funding round on Tuesday. In addition to product development, FinLocker (a former HousingWire Tech 100 winner) plans to expand its strategic partnerships and collaborations within the mortgage ecosystem.

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about how to cool down home sales: we need the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. The 20-City Composite posted a 21.2%

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3 mortgage industry trends that will define the rest of 2021

Housing Wire

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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Existing home sales dip downwards for fourth month

Housing Wire

from May 2020 ($283,500). “Lack of inventory continues to be the overwhelming factor holding back home sales, but falling affordability is simply squeezing some first-time buyers out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. Total housing inventory at the end of May grew to 1.23 months in May 2020.

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New home sales hot but not bubbly

Housing Wire

This growth in demand is consistent with what I have been saying for many years – that if interest rates stayed low, good housing demographics in the years 2020 to 2024 would substantially drive up demand for housing, including new home sales, which will be the only period where we would start a year at 1.5 million a year. It is legit.

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