Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

From 1998 to 2006, according to Freddie Mac , the median annual mortgage rate was 6.45%. Mortgage rates today are not much higher than they were then. One challenging historical fact is that while mortgage rates fell from 13.24% in 1983 to 7.81% in 1996, it took that long for housing sales to reach the levels they did in 1978 to 1979.

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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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? However, mortgage rates have fallen more than 1% since the recent highs, so it’s time to look at the data to explain how to interpret it.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2023

9, when mortgage rates started to fall from 7.37% to 5.99%. In 2022, it was all about affordability as mortgage rates had a historical rise. Even though mortgage rates were falling in November and December, positive purchase application data takes 30-90 days to hit the sales data. Year-over-year, sales fell 22.6% (down from 5.92

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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. We can see a slow and steady positive downtrend in stressed financial data, unlike in the 2005-2008 period where people filed for bankruptcies and foreclosures without a job loss recession.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The housing sector — especially real estate and mortgage — has seen significant layoffs , while the general economy will create more than 4 million jobs in 2022. Then we had the biggest mortgage rate shock in recent history and yet even with that, we will have over 5 million total home sales this year. Production falls. Home sales.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

The fact is that the FHFA is applying a form of risk-based pricing to the exercise based on their expectations of long-term performance of mortgages going forward. 80% LTVs (no mortgage insurance required) and 80.01-85% 85% LTVs (with mortgage insurance) by credit score. Therein lies some of the confusion.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2021

Banks moved to ease lending standards for most mortgage loan products during the second quarter, according to a loan officer opinion survey published this week by the Federal Reserve Board. Banks also reported stronger demand for residential real estate loans over the second quarter, with significant demand for QM and non-QM jumbo mortgages.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

housing credit looks very different than in 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008. Bankruptcies and foreclosures After 2010, the qualified mortgage laws came into play and all the exotic loan debt structures in the system, especially in the run-up in demand from 2002 to 2005, disappeared. The truth is, U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Guaranteed Rate made two significant executive appointments, the Chicago -based mortgage lender announced on Monday. CJ Rose was promoted to the role of executive vice president of growth and acquisition, while Chris Hutchens was hired as producing area manager for North Carolina and senior vice president of mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2023

Regina Lowrie, the first female chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association , died suddenly on Jan. With nearly 40 years of experience in the real estate finance industry, Lowrie is widely known for making history in 2005 as the first female elected chair of the MBA. She was 68. billion with revenues of more than $100 million.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

However, the demand curve of what we have in housing too doesn’t resemble the speculation demand curve of what we saw from 2002-to 2005. So the type of boom and bust we would need to see to reflect bubble speculation demand isn’t in this market like we saw from 2002-to 2005. Have more questions for Logan?

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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 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

MARCH 30, 2023

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. It means certain mortgage products might not be offered, FICO score requirements might be raised, and it can mean pricing for certain loans goes up to account for the risk.

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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. Overall, homebuyer demand slipped from 25% above pre-COVID levels at the start of the year, when mortgage rates hit record lows, to 8% above pre-COVID levels recently. “We

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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 9, 2021

announced the acquisition of LoanLogics , a digital mortgage solutions provider and fellow Jacksonville-based company. The LoanLogics platform provides technology automation for mortgage document processing and data-driven audit software that improves efficiency, enhances transparency, streamlines commerce, and reduces risk.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

What is the best news for mortgage rates long-term? More supply of apartments coming on line will be good news for mortgage rates going forward. As you can see in the chart below, this looks nothing like the housing peak in 2005 and the crash toward 2008. This is key for mortgage rates looking out for years to come.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Ginnie Mae , the government-owned corporation that securitizes loans backed by the Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administration , said it won’t accept adjustable-rate mortgages benchmarked to the London Interbank Offer Rate, or LIBOR, starting in January. For regular ARMs, the cut-off date is Jan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

We had some good news this week for the housing market : purchase application data is up , the builder’s confidence index rose to beat estimates, and the 10-year yield and mortgage rates have fallen. This is bullish for America and for mortgage rates to head lower. There are 943,000 apartments currently under construction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

How is today’s housing starts data , which beat expectations, good for mortgage rates ? Regarding mortgage rates and bonds, since the banking crisis started with a run on Silicon Valley bank last week , bond yields have been heading lower and are now testing my Gandalf line in the sand of 3.42%. That isn’t happening right now.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As you can see below, during the housing bubble years, housing starts, permits, sales, credit, prices and housing completions moved together in 2005 to form the peak of the housing bubble. The new home sales market gets hit harder by higher mortgage rates than the existing home market. Traditionally, mortgage rates have to head lower.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The answer is no, and for that, we must thank the 2010 qualified mortgage (QM) rule, which has high standards for borrower credit scores and the ability to repay the loan. And I’m not even talking about the over 40% of homes that don’t have a mortgage; I am just talking about homeowners who are paying a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Special purpose acquisition companies’ appetite for real estate and mortgage businesses apparently isn’t dead yet , despite recent problems involving Better.com that pushed a merger with Aurora Acquisitions Corp. trillion and mortgage originations to $3.8 to next year, if at all. trillion in 2020 in the United States.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Quite the opposite: In that cycle we had the weakest housing recovery ever, even with the lowest mortgage rates during the longest economic expansion ever. There are several important reasons why the market today is materially different then the bubble-forming market of 2005. Speculation demand.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

However, the sting of higher mortgage rates is hitting the single-family construction data, and the real story is that the housing completion data, which has been bad for a long time, is still terrible. We simply cannot finish homes in America promptly, and now that mortgage rates are over 5%, some buyers won’t be able to purchase a home.

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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 2, 2020

The data, from Black Knight’s “Mortgage Monitor” report , shows that rate lock activity in the first half of October was up 4% from September, with purchase locks up 6% and refinance locks up 3%. million home owners still meet broad-based underwriting criteria to shave about 75 bps off their mortgage through a refinancing.

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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. In the summer of 2020, I talked about how the housing market would change, but it needed the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%, which roughly means 4% plus mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

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. As a result, mortgage rates, which climbed as high as 7.05% last week, fell to a low of 6.76% on Friday.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 28, 2022

The mortgage appraisal forms we use today were designed in 2005 using technology and mortgage processes in place at the time. Consider all the technological advances since 2005: Apple released the iPhone, the first touchscreen smartphone Social networking. What exactly does this mean?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

And the peak in existing home sales was 2005 when you had around 7 million transactions.” If this came to pass as Whitney predicts, then some seniors may not have as much of a need for a product like a traditional reverse mortgage through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

“With Elite Financing Group’s current book of business and their local relationships, we have the potential of nearly doubling our mortgage closings,” across the country over the next year,” Joshua Harley, CEO of Fathom said in a statement. Encompass Lending Group, with 11 active branches in seven states and Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

Tuesday’s new home sales report missed expectations and had negative revisions, which isn’t surprising given this sector of our economy simply can’t handle higher mortgage rates. can’t have a credit sales boom like we saw from 2002-2005. Over the years, I have tried to emphasize that the housing market in the U.S.

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