Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Fannie Mae has a rosy outlook for mortgage rates. The government sponsored enterprise is projecting that rates will drop below 6% by the end of 2024, which in turn will boost refi volumes and help thaw the existing home sales market. million units by the fourth quarter of 2024, up from 3.8 trillion in 2024 and $2.44

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. at the end of April, according to HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center. They crested near 7.6%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The defining characteristic of the 2023 housing market has been dramatically fewer home sellers than any recent year. In this week’s Altos Research video, I look at how home sellers and sales are up, but that doesn’t mean prices will climb in 2024. Housing inventory climbed late in the year as mortgage rates rose.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Based on the trends we can see after the start of the year, I’ll project 2024 will see about 15% home sales growth over 2023. 2023 started with recovery, but slowed down in Q3 as mortgage rates hit 8%. But, 2024 is starting stronger than last year. But, 2024 is starting stronger than last year. That’s certainly possible.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Opportunity in the current mortgage market may be challenging to find — and that could arguably be truer for those who offer reverse mortgage products for clients. Still, reverse mortgage professionals are always keeping their eyes peeled, and a group of them shared what they’re looking out for in 2024 for their businesses.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Cooper Group unveiled strong financial results during the first quarter of 2024, buoyed in part by a strong servicing and subservicing business. in Q1 2024, up from 12.5% Bray also reintroduced Pyro , Mr. Cooper’s patented mortgage-centric AI platform that the company has been developing since 2019 in partnership with Google.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“We are excited about how we are set up for 2024 and beyond,” CEO Carrie Wheeler told investors and analysts listening to the firm’s Q4 2023 earnings call on Thursday evening. Last year, we reduced our marketing spend by over 60% versus the prior year, as elevated spreads made our marketing spend less efficient,” Wheeler said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Watch the weekly housing market recap video above to get the latest housing market data download from Altos Research. Here are some key housing market data takeaways: Inventory peaks for the year There are 567,000 single-family homes on the market, which is unchanged from last week. is just under $430,000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Mortgage rates remained unchanged last week despite the release of the stronger-than-expected jobs report. HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans at 7.16% on Tuesday, unchanged from one week earlier. Nevertheless, all markets posted gains compared to a year ago.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

held up in 2023, sales volume in the housing market cratered. Consumers care about home prices and mortgage rates; the industry cares about transaction volume. If we get lucky with mortgage rates, though, we might just be at the bottom of the housing market recession right now. While home prices in the U.S. Plus, 39.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2024

Mortgage rates headed higher last week after the CPI inflation report , but now, with news of a wider war in the Middle East, should we expect even higher rates? Some argue that money will go into the safety of the bond market, while others say a wider war can lead to higher inflation and higher rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

For comparison, the index is benchmarked at a reading of 100 based on 2001 contract activity. The housing market is off to a good start this year, as consumers benefit from falling mortgage rates and stable home prices,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. increase between 2024 and 2025 to a pace of 5.35

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The forecast for the housing market is expected to get gloomier next year before rebounding to 2022 levels in 2024. million in 2024. The latest forecast also projects that total mortgage origination activity is slightly increased at $2.34 The mortgage market is projected to slip further, however, to $1.74

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Elevated mortgage rates and high home prices pushed sales of existing homes down again in October to the lowest monthly pace since August 2010. Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September. from September, with 1.15

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mortgage rates are back over 7%. The housing market data has been changing very rapidly this year. The economy has continued to be strong, so mortgage rates have defied expectations and remained very high. New listings rise New listings continue to show us that more sellers are interested in this market this year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates have risen recently but they could be much worse than they are today. Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for housing in 2024. In my 2024 forecast , I put the 10-year yield range between 3.21%-4.25% , with a critical line in the sand at 3.37%. That hasn’t happened.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

We saw a big jump in mortgage rates last week. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage, according to the HousingWire Mortgage Rates Center , is now over 7.2% — that’s 50 basis points above where we were at the start of the year. At that time, most of the voices in the media assumed that mortgage rates had peaked and would fall by now.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The same trends in the housing market in recent weeks are still dominant this week. Mortgage rates continue to climb. It’s not uncommon to hear rates quoted over 8% for a 30-year fixed mortgage. To find out more of my weekly housing market insights backed by Altos Research data, watch the video above. Don’t have time?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

As mortgage rates rose starting in 2022, payment affordability got dramatically worse and homebuyer demand dried up. But now sellers are coming back into the market. All of these signals point to rising home sales in 2024. Pending sales Last week saw 69,000 new contracts for single-family home purchases across the country.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

hits peak homebuying season, the signals across the country are mixed at best as some markets are accelerating while others are slowing quickly. Home sales continue to run just a little ahead of last year’s pace, but with mortgage rates in the 7s, there are a ton of potential homebuyers sitting on the sidelines. As the U.S.

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Walitt Solutions

MAY 24, 2024

My market value conclusion came in below the purchase contract price. Now, a few weeks later, the parties have signed an addendum to the contract to match my value conclusion; the client has sent me that addendum. The client wants me to change my report to show the new amended contract price! What should I do?

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Ocwen Financial Corp , the parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and its reverse mortgage subsidiary Liberty Reverse Mortgage , announced on Tuesday that its shareholders have approved the company’s planned rebranding initiative to Onity Group. Shareholders do not need to take any action, the company said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“ Recovery year ” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales. A little more than two months into the year, however, mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been as the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Looking ahead, price growth will cool down in the second half of 2024 because of increased inventory and more homes taking a price cut before selling. The chart below shows that the inventory growth rate picked up more in 2024 after March. We have had two times recently when mortgage rates dropped more than 1%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2024

The moves haven’t been significant and our weekly pending contracts data picked up this week. However, we came close to our target with inventory growth of 9,726 and there’s a silver lining: mortgage rates have recently fallen. When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

With the Easter holiday last week, data for housing inventory , new listings and the pace of new contracts started all took a breather from their growth pace. Here’s how 2024 is shaping up: There are now more listings, more active inventory and more sales than a year ago. We’re slowly emerging from a supply-constrained market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you’re struggling to market your business on social media, or worse, haven’t even started yet, you might be in for a rude awakening in 2024. Prioritize reputation over reach The key to successful social media marketing is to build meaningful connections with people in your farm area who want to buy or sell real estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Inventory increases aren’t occurring at a super fast pace, but the number of homes on the market across the country keeps expanding. That can change if mortgage rates fall dramatically, but the current trends show weakening home prices, not strengthening. housing market as we roll into May 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

After a couple weeks of big jumps for mortgage rates , we’re still seeing relatively surprising strength in the housing market. We’re watching a few key factors to see if homebuyers are backing off in the face of increased mortgage rates. housing market for the week of April 22.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. Looking even further ahead, we expect the economy to regain its expansionary footing in 2024 and resume positive annual growth of 2.2 We expect housing to continue to slow in 2023 despite the recent decline in mortgage rates. million and 4.57

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s quite clear that homebuyers have hit the brakes waiting to see if mortgage rates recede from these multi-decade highs. Here are some of the takeaways: There are now 546,000 single-family homes on the market — 3.5% There are only 326,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. fewer than last year. Some 38.2%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Last fall when people were still expecting mortgage rates to be falling this year, it was common to assume rates would be in the low 6s or 5s this year and people asked me if lower rates would bring a flood of inventory. The only way inventory would grow in 2024 is if mortgage rates climbed. But the evidence is the opposite.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

“In order to achieve a soft landing, economic growth will have to slow to a rate that is below trend for some time in order for the unemployment rate to rise sufficiently to cause wage growth to slow consistent with a 2% inflation target over the long term, but not so slow that the economy falls into a contraction,” the ESR group said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We may be nearing the bottom in home sales even if mortgage rates don’t decline. As a result, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel in this crazy market cycle. To get the weekly picture of the housing market, watch the video above. Inventory creeps up There are now 562,000 single-family homes on the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

They obviously picked up in December when mortgage rates did a recent dip. We shared that sales growth data back in December as it was happening in the housing market. However, December’s momentum slowed very quickly in January as mortgage rates jumped back up and as a deep freeze gripped the country. But it is not guaranteed.

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