Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The index, which pegs January 2000 at 100, reached a seasonally adjusted all-time high of 311.175 in September as tight inventory continues to keep prices elevated. Home prices Nationally, home prices continue to inch upward, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index published on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

homeownership rate was close to a record high in census data going back to 2000. Financing options While the proportion of Latino buyers who used Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) loans declined between 2018 and 2022, there may have been an uptick in 2023, according to NAHREP. of overall U.S. household formation growth.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

To that end, the White House has sought to facilitate more access to federal financing for builders, which has contributed to a recovery in construction activity. The president’s plan represents the largest increase in LIHTC resources since 2000, which will help to address the shortage of affordable housing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Guaranteed Rate, founded in 2000 and known for its robust retail operations, has been growing in stature in recent years. Guaranteed Rate ended the year as the 11th-largest lender in the country, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The Chicago-based lender had two loan originators eclipse $1 billion in originations in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

Musalem] brings significant finance, capital markets, economics, and public policy expertise to our Board,” said Sara Mathew, non-executive chair of Freddie Mac’s board of directors. “We Prior to that, he held various positions at Tudor Investment Corporation from 2000 to 2013, including managing director, partner and global head of research.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Mortgage financing and the prospect of economic weakness are therefore likely to remain a headwind for housing prices for at least the next several months,” Lazzara said. However, despite the recent uptick, the continued low inventory conditions are expected to keep home prices elevated nationally. yearly increase, down from 2.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Roughly 75% of adults ages 65 and older regularly use the internet, compared with only 19% of this age group surveyed on the same question in the year 2000. But older adults have also been embracing these technologies more rapidly.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

To build market-rate housing, project financing is relatively straightforward, typically requiring a mix of private equity and debt. Financing affordable housing projects requires developers to put together a mix of funding from local, state, and federal sources, private equity, and philanthropy, in the form of tax credits, loans, and grants.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Founded in 2000 and known for its robust retail operations, Guaranteed Rate has been growing in stature in recent years. increase compared to 2020, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. In acquiring Stearns, the company sought to boost retail loan originations, scale its JV platform, and develop new multichannel capabilities.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Federal Housing Finance Agency and the MSA-level “hotness” scores from Realtor.com. The S&P/Case-Shiller index also uses a repeat sales method, but is calculated monthly, seasonally adjusted and indexed to a base of January 2000. That is up 3.1% from the first quarter and up 4.5% from the year prior. That is up only 0.7%

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Eyes on Housing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The FRM rate has increased 40 basis points over the past month to its highest level since 2000. Per the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) survey through the week ending October 6th, total mortgage activity increased 0.6% from the previous week and the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) rate rose 14 basis points to 7.67%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased to 7.41%, the highest rate since December 2000, and the 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage rate increased to 7.34%, the highest rate in the history of the jumbo rate series dating back to 2011,” said Joel Kan, MBA ’s vice president and deputy chief economist.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We also hope that broad initiatives in the plan, such as down payment assistance, rehab and retrofit of existing homes, and the Federal Financing Bank will be focused on this market segment. First is financing. More than 22 million people have chosen manufactured housing because of its affordability and value. Presented by: Citi.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mortgage applications fell for the fifth consecutive week as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.31%, its highest level since December 2000. For the week that ended August 18, mortgage applications fell 4.2% from the prior week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. bond yields spike last week.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

According to the report, purchase credit scores in April were the highest on record, dating back to 2000, when Black Knight first started tracking the metric. This is compounding the challenges for potential home buyers and the origination market alike, Walden said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

TitleWave is a division of the Fidelity National Finance family of companies, the nation’s largest title insurance company through its five national title insurance underwriters – Fidelity National Title , Chicago Title , Commonwealth Land Title , Alamo Title and National Title of New York. Currently, TitleWave operates in 25 states.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This finding is in line with the financial crisis high and well above the 2000-2022 average of 3.4x. The median mortgage payment exceeds 30% of the median household annual income while home prices are 4.2 times the median annual income, Piper Sandler said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

However, the suit is seeking both national and Illinois class action status for all persons who purchased a home listed on a NAR MLS with a buyer’s agent and or seller-agent employed or affiliated with @properties or any of its franchises, subsidiaries, or agencies between March 17, 2000, and the present.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

HUD also announced that FHA’s first-time homebuyer rate is “the highest since at least 2000,” and that “FHA has supported nearly 1.8 “Through Q2 2023, the state, territorial, and Tribal recipients of HAF have expended over $5.5 billion to assist homeowners, a 32% increase from Q1 2023.” million homeowners with purchase mortgages, and 83.6

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Year Founded Description 98 OptiFunder 4,767% 2018 Finance company helping independent mortgage lenders choose among funding options and streamline the process. 678 TriusLending 869% 2003 A mid-Atlantic real estate investment firm and financing lender focused on short-term private lending and long-term rental loans. Source: Inc.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

mortgage rates have advanced to multi-decade highs recently peaking at over 8% in October, which is the highest level since November of 2000,” Mike Nolan, Fidelity’s CEO, said on the Wednesday morning call. “In “This is an outstanding result, especially given that U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Jay Garrett, a loan officer at Supreme Lending ’s McClellan Branch in Austin, said he is seeing 10 to 40 offers on houses no matter where they are in Austin, and cash offers are winning the day because sellers don’t want to have to worry about the house appraising too low for someone who needs financing. “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded in 2000, Scottsdale, Arizona-based HomeSmart is the seventh largest brokerage in the country by transaction sides, or how many times a HomeSmart agent represented the buyer or seller in a deal, according to RealTrends. A not insignificant component of HomeSmart’s finances is what is funneled to, and from, Widdows. million.

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Patch of Land

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It speaks to the increased rate of financed home flips in Q1 of this year and the rise of lenders expanding the fix-and-flip market. Flips purchased with financing rise to 9.5-year But, investors continue to find deals and set records while increasingly tapping the debt markets to finance their flips. A Look Toward the Future.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The nonagency share of the market has been rising slowly since then, reaching 4.32% in 2021, according to recent analysis by the Urban Institute ’s Housing Finance Policy Center. By 2012, in the wake of the global financial crisis, private-label MBS market share had shrunk to 1.83%. billion.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

One young woman who stands out in my mind worked on my team back in 2000. Dona Rushing is the director of transactional services, accounts payable at ServiceLink , a provider of digital mortgage services to the mortgage and finance industries. She was extremely bright but introverted and anxious.

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Patch of Land

APRIL 17, 2018

Home flipping rose in 2017 to its highest level since 2006 and the percentage of flips using financing also reached a nine-year high. of flips last year were completed with financing, a significant increase from 31.6% Over One-Third of All Flips Purchased with Financing. ATTOM Data reports that 207,088 U.S. billion, up from $12.7

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

After a long period of rate repression, the Federal Reserve began aggressive monetary tightening, which would ultimately send mortgage rates to their highest levels since 2000. This suggests that DR Horton was offering the greatest buydowns to the most income-constrained borrowers in order to qualify more of them for financing.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While their popularity is increasing, homebuyer assistance programs are still an afterthought for many who could have benefitted from this invaluable financing option. There are more than 2000 programs across the country delivering thousands of dollars – from $5,000 to $50,000 or more – in assistance to worthy buyers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

million single-family home mortgages were originated nationwide­ — the lowest mark since 2000. The MBS math A report released Thursday by real estate data firm ATTOM shows that in the first quarter of 2023, 1.25

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Portland Appraisal Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Data was pulled from the year 2000 to the present date. For instance, the 50th percentile, or median rank, shows that half of all sales since the year 2000 have been under $279,900. The data export was checked, validated, and scrubbed of obvious errors using custom tools developed by the author.

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Will Springer Realtor

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The government-backed initiative is designed to provide eligible veterans, active-duty service members and some members of the National Guard and Reserves with access to affordable home financing. Among the 2000+ home buyer and down payment assistance programs available across the U.S., Disabled veterans may be exempt from this fee.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

The last time it happened was in August 2000, according to Freddie Mac. “And even when they end their rate hike, they have no intention to cut rates anytime soon.” Mortgage rates can hit 8% What does it mean for mortgage rates? A group of economists believe the 30-year fixed rate can reach 8%.

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Portland Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Data was pulled from the year 2000 to the present date. For instance, the 50th percentile, or median rank, shows that half of all sales since the year 2000 have been under $340,350. The data export was checked, validated, and scrubbed of obvious errors using custom tools developed by the author.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 12, 2023

. >> There were 1.25M mortgages created in Q1 – conventional, refinanced and home-equity loans combined – marking the eighth consecutive quarterly decline and lowest reading since Q4 of 2000, according to ATTOM. according to an intensive report produced by WalletHub.

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Portland Appraisal Blog

JULY 27, 2019

Data was pulled from the year 2000 to the present date. For instance, the 50th percentile, or median rank, shows that half of all sales since the year 2000 have been under $359,000. The data export was checked, validated, and scrubbed of obvious errors using custom tools developed by the author.

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Lamacchia Realty

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Chaisson Vice President of Finance of Lamacchia Companies, INC., Sarah Chaisson, Vice President of Finance of Lamacchia Companies. He was a forming member of the Watertown Chamber of Commerce and the Watertown Rotary Club and was awarded the Watertown Rotary Club’s Service to Community Award in 2000.

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