Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

You can see why I have been on team higher mortgage rates for some time now because we don’t have any other way to get off this madness. To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month from one year ago.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. However, this year has seen one big game-changer: the 10-year yield finally cracked over 1.94%, which drove mortgage rates over 4%. As we can see below clearly, the market worsened before the job-loss recession happened.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. Imagine if mortgage rates didn’t rise this year. We are still showing double-digit home-price growth trends in the recent data as it takes time for higher mortgage rates to really increase supply back to normal levels. million or higher.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. What a year 2021 has been.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. Mortgage rates fell even though the jobs report was stronger than anticipated. They reversed their bearish take on bonds, and people started to buy the 10-year yield, causing mortgage rates to fall. Do they even want to risk more stress in the markets?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

of homes with mortgages were underwater, totaling just over 11 million homes. However, the situation has significantly improved since then, thanks to the Qualified Mortgage rule (QM) that was implemented in 2010. of homes that have a mortgage. of homes that have a mortgage. What a difference a cycle makes, right?

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

The March gain is also the largest since December 2005 and is one of the largest in the index’s 30-year history, said Craig Lazzara, managing director and global head of index investment strategy at S&P DJI. Alternatively, there may have been a secular change in preferences, leading to a permanent shift in the demand curve for housing.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I’m talking about housing market crash headlines. The housing data has been wild this year. These dramatic peaks and valleys in the data have fed the demons of greed and fear that infest the minds our extreme housing bulls and the fierce housing market bears – leading to equally wild speculations about the future of U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

However, since I had the possibility of the 10-year yield getting to 2.42% and 4% plus mortgage rates, I accounted for that in the range. Due to this reality, I have downgraded the housing market from unhealthy housing to a savagely unhealthy housing market. The days on the market to sell a home is too low.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

With the banking crisis spurring more talk of a recession, the question now is: What would housing credit look like in a recession? housing market would crash during the pandemic. One of the main reasons for that fear was that housing credit was about to get tight, meaning fewer people could buy homes with mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

After 2010, qualified mortgage laws were in place, meaning everyone getting a mortgage has to be able to repay the loan. You can see the drastic change this made in the Mortgage Bankers Association Credit Availability index , below, which skyrocketed in 2005 and 2006 before an epic collapse in 2008.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

UMortgage , a growing nationwide mortgage platform, announced last week the addition of MC Mortgage Group to its network. MC Mortgage Group, a mortgage brokerage based in Wilmington, North Carolina, serves homebuyers across North and South Carolina.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. rise in houses sold in the same timeframe – from 670 to 940. The post Why is the El Paso housing market so hot right now?

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell four basis points from the week prior to 2.98%, according to data released Thursday by Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. Within the past almost three months, mortgage rates have only peaked above 3% one time. More recently, however, mortgage applications dipped 6.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

One of the most unloved American economic success stories has been how spectacular American households with mortgage debt look today. This was very critical to not only the housing market but also the health of the U.S. The post Americans’ mortgage debt looks great again appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

As recession talk becomes more prevalent, some people are concerned that mortgage credit lending will get much tighter. One of the biggest reasons home sales crashed from their peak in 2005 was that the credit available to facilitate that boom in lending simply collapsed. The short (and long) answer is no, not a chance.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Mortgage Bankers Association on Tuesday released revised estimates for the third and fourth quarter of 2020 as well as predicting record purchase volume for 2021. The rebounding economy is also likely to mean higher mortgage rates , with the MBA forecasting 2.9% trillion in 2005 — but sees refinances decreasing to $971 billion.

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Empire Appraisal Group

MARCH 14, 2024

Redfin: Boomers aging in place is ‘the driving force’ behind median homeowner tenure doubling since 2005 Source: [link] Over the past two decades, the median homeowner tenure has jumped from 6.5 In 2005, the median U.S. After climbing every year between 2005 and 2020, U.S. years to 11.9 homeowner tenure was 6.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

To say that mortgage lenders are facing challenging times would be a considerable understatement. The last time that the rate reached 3.25% was in 2005 — and we all know how that story unfolded. The substantial increases this year present challenges in the mortgage sector, as the note rates produced can become illiquid if not hedged.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

headed for another housing bubble crash? With home prices at all-time highs and concern that the labor market will break going into a recessionary period, is another 2008-style crash a possibility? Foreclosures and bankruptcy data One of the most prominent credit stress data lines I have ever seen came during 2005-2008.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

mortgage rate remained essentially unchanged last week, rising by just one basis point to 3.18%, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. A broader recovery of the economy has almost returned rates back to market “normalcy” as the standard 30-year FRM averaged 3.33% this same time last year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But I need to explain why this level has more in common with 2014 housing data than the credit stress markets of 2005-2008, and why you should care. Understanding this data line and what it is trying to tell you will be more valuable than erroneously thinking the market is crashing and we’ll see a wave of foreclosures.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

The Dallas Fed on Thursday published an article titled: Real-Time Market Monitoring Finds Signs Of a Brewing U.S. Housing Bubble. The online reaction was immediate — housing must be about to crash. since the 2012 lows and that is the magnitude of decline we would need to see to justify using the term “housing bubble.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage declined slightly to 2.86% for the week ending in August 19, according to mortgage rates data released Thursday by Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. The week prior, mortgage rates rose to 2.87% , after six consecutive weeks of mortgage rate declines. Last week, mortgage applications decreased 3.9%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.” Confused by this?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. The days on market were too low.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

Mortgage applications decreased for the fourth straight week – this time down 2.2%, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Record-low inventory is pushing home-price growth at double the rate from a year ago, and even above the 10% growth rates seen in 2005,” Kan said. from the week prior.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

May’s 8% increase was the highest jump for that month since 2005, according to NAR. The “seesaw” nature of pending home sales could indicate a turning point for the housing market, according to Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist. ” Yun said he expects the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to increase to 3.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the unsung heroes of the most prolonged economic and job expansion ever recorded in history was the passing of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act and the 2010 qualified mortgage rule under Dodd-Frank. As we can see below, the bankruptcy levels were extremely high before the bankruptcy law was passed in 2005.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2020

Let’s just say this is the final nail in the coffin for the housing bear troll camps that were so sure that this time, housing would finally crash. COVID didn’t get the housing market, but it did pull a fast one on those pesky bears. We saw hints of a flourishing housing market prior to the COVID crisis.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

years in 2005, according to a Redfin analysis of median U.S. housing market for multiple reasons, Redfin said. Older Americans also have financial incentives attached to staying in their homes, since 54% of the baby boomer cohort own their homes free and clear without making monthly mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2021

While we may be ready to firmly plant our feet in 2021, we shouldn’t leave the past 12 months behind without taking a critical look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the housing market, and how it will pave the way for 2021 and beyond.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As we close out 2022, it’s time to reflect on a historic year for the housing market, which was even crazier than the COVID-19 year of 2020. Housing permits and starts are falling now, even with the backlog of homes in the system. With less transaction volume , general incomes in the housing sector are falling.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Annual house price growth hit a record high in 2021, over 17%, and growth remains in the double digits thus far in 2022.

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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.” The big thing is the carrying cost that a lot of [smaller] investors don’t realize. “If

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Buying a house was obtainable only for the haves in 2023 as home prices and mortgage rates soared. In a still-competitive housing market, more well-off home buyers were able to have their bids accepted by offering larger down payments and even by paying cash.” Meanwhile, in September, one-third of U.S.

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