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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

Since 2014, we’ve not seen the credit housing boom that we saw from 2002-2005. 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. Also, certain investors felt no fear post-2020.

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Mark Willis steps back into CEO role at Keller Williams

Housing Wire

Mark Willis, who served as CEO of Keller Williams from 2005 to 2014, has stepped back into the role effective immediately. In 2002, he joined the firm’s executive team, serving as president, before a nine-year stint as CEO from 2005 to 2014. Marc King will continue to serve as President of Keller Williams. He left the company in 2016.

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What will housing credit look like in next recession?

Housing Wire

Because of the qualified mortgage laws of 2010, we are lending to the capacity to own the debt, which means speculative credit cycles from primary resident homebuyers or even investors can’t occur in the same fashion as from 2002-2005. We don’t have a rise in foreclosures as we did from 2005-2008 before the job-loss recession.

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

However, we haven’t had a credit sales boom like the one we saw from 2002-2005. Total Inventory had been growing from 2001-2005; total listings data in 2005 was at the higher historical range of 2.5 I am not talking about investors; I am talking about primary resident homeowners. million listings.

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Loan buybacks haven’t disappeared, but they are trending down

Housing Wire

The Urban Institute report, published in November 2023, shows that the average number of months from origination to repurchase between 2005 to 2008 (prior to and during the early stages of the global financial crisis ) was 46 months for Freddie Mac and 52 months for Fannie Mae. Non-QM loans are those that cannot be purchased by the GSEs.

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Old Republic CEO to retire at the end of January

Housing Wire

Just seven years later, Bilbrey and other investors purchased the firm, which was eventually sold to First American in 2003. In addition to serving as Old Republic’s CEO, the industry veteran was ALTA’s president in 2005. A decade later, Billbrey was named company president. in 2010. “We

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What I Learned From National Retailers to Decide What and Where to Invest—And How You Can Do It Too

BiggerPockets

In 2005, I decided to start an investor services business. I reviewed all the popular investing literature. What I found were self-professed experts offering opinions and no processes. As an […]