Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Full-service mortgage lender Nations Lending and local Indiana real estate firm Carpenter Realtors launched a joint venture, Commitment Mortgage , in order to offer an end-to-end experience — from finding a home to closing a loan in a cooled-down housing market. “We Nations Lending originated $3.43

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Fed issued a statement on Wednesday after the end of a two-day meeting that said it would likely keep its benchmark overnight lending rate near zero through 2023, and would continue purchasing mortgage-backed securities “at least at its current pace” for as long as necessary. trillion , boosted by $2.4

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Well, it isn’t 2008, but this type of loan does have risk — and it’s the risk that is traditional among all late economic cycle lending in America when the loan requires low or no downpayment. So when you add move-up buyers, move-down buyers, first-time homebuyers, cash buyers and investors together, this can get out of hand.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

VA’s Tidewater Initiative written in 2021 by McKissock (Similar idea as current ROV changes), effective in 2003. My comments: I find this post’s appraiser comments most interesting, especially those from VA appraisers who have been required to use the VA’s Tidewater Initiative, which started in 2003.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

The housing market is cooling-off. Excerpts: Lending was not very prudent prior to the crash of 2008 as suggested by the trend in the median credit score (FICO), a measure for credit worthiness; for newly originated first-time purchase mortgages the median FICO score was 686 in Q1 2006 versus 740 in Q4 2020. Find out why not.

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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.

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