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The Similarities Between 2007 and Today

Appraisal Buzz

The post The Similarities Between 2007 and Today appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. During the 2007-10 mortgage default meltdown, appraisals were a target of complaints and allegations by lenders, the GSEs, some state appraisal boards, and a few unscrupulous entrepreneurs.

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Single-family housing starts reach highest level since 2007

Housing Wire

Single-family housing starts continued their seven-month climb in November, coming in at the highest level since 2007, according to the Census Bureau. The post Single-family housing starts reach highest level since 2007 appeared first on HousingWire.

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September single-family housing starts reached highest level since 2007

Housing Wire

above the revised August figure of 1.021 million, and a level not seen since 2007, Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae , said. million annualized units, a level not seen since 2007. Single-family housing starts soared in September, a new report from the U.S.

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All-Cash New Home Sales Outnumber FHA-Backed for the First Time Since 2007

Eyes on Housing

of the total in Q3 2022–the smallest share since the fourth quarter of 2007. NAHB analysis of the most recent Quarterly Sales by Price and Financing published by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that new home sales financed through FHA numbered 11,000 and accounted for 7.5%

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Predicting housing price cycles isn’t so easy

Sacramento Appraisal Blog

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Market Share of FHA-Backed New Home Sales Smallest Since 2007

Eyes on Housing

NAHB analysis of the most recent Quarterly Sales by Price and Financing published by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that conventional loans financed 77.8% of new home sales in the fourth quarter of 2021—the largest share since Q1 2008. The share increased 2.9

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Guild CEO Mary Ann McGarry announces retirement

Housing Wire

McGarry joined Guild in 1984 as a supervisor in internal audit and held several leadership positions until promoted to president in 2005 and CEO in 2007. Guild’s executive vice president David Neylan, who joined the company in 2007, will replace Schmidt as president.

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Top 20 Markets for Single-Family and Multifamily Permits: 2011-2020

Eyes on Housing

Home construction slowed after 2007 as a result of the 2008 Great Recession, but home building staged a slow, modest recovery over the last decade, with a sharp acceleration in 2020.

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When Will The Fed Lower Rates Again? There Might Be An Answer

BiggerPockets

Still, the federal funds rate is at its highest since 2007. Last week, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, a slowdown from previous sprints. While […]. Real Estate News On the Market Articles

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Housing Affordability Hits 15-Year Low

Appraisal Buzz

Inflating mortgage costs, driven by skyrocketing prices and interest rates, have made mortgages less affordable than at any time since at least 2007.

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Mortgage Payments Outpace Rent in Majority of U.S. Metros

Appraisal Buzz

Inflating mortgage costs, driven by skyrocketing prices and interest rates, have made mortgages less affordable than at any time since at least 2007.

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ATTOM Finds Nearly All Analyzed Counties Less Affordable in Q2 than Historic Averages

Appraisal Buzz

That was up from 69% of counties that were historically less affordable in the second quarter of 2021, to the highest point since 2007, just before the housing market crashed during the Great Recession of. ATTOM ’s Q2 2022 U.S.

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Suzanne Mistretta Brought in to Direct Oakleaf Group’s Modeling and Analytics

Appraisal Buzz

Founded in 2007, Oakleaf is a data, modeling, capital markets, loan review and risk advisory firm for the mortgage and financial services industries. The Oakleaf Group has named Suzanne Mistretta as director of modeling and analytics.

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Numbers of New York Homes on the Market Drops 30% in One Year

Appraisal Buzz

This marks the lowest housing inventory since 2007. Inventory of homes for sale dropped to historically low rates in the beginning of 2022 while home prices continue to rise across New York State, according to the housing report released by the New York State Association of REALTORS.

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Why mortgage lending standards will ease in 2021

Housing Wire

If this happens, it would prove a dramatic contrast to that of the financial crisis, in which lenders tightened credit standards from 2007 through 2010, said Curt Long, National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions chief economist and vice president of research.

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Lincoln slog: Why home prices don’t rise in Springfield

Housing Wire

Barack Obama uttered those words on the footsteps of the Illinois state capitol in 2007 – a speech where the former Illinois state senator declared his candidacy for president.

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BiggerPockets Podcast 514: BiggerNews, October: How Small Landlords Can Beat the Hedge Funds

BiggerPockets

Once the housing market started to slide in 2007, smart investors began buying, and waiting, for rock-bottom prices to kick in. Investors were buying homes in some of the best […]. All BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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Market Hits Biggest Housing Affordability Challenge in 15 Years

Appraisal Buzz

Ballooning mortgage costs, driven by skyrocketing prices and interest rates, have made mortgages less affordable than at any time since at least 2007. Demand for homes has pulled back in response, easing price growth, slowing sales and boosting inventory, according to the latest market report from Zillow. Mortgage rates have shot up in early June, averaging 5.78% as of June 16, 2022. A new purchase of a typical U.S. home at that rate would.

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Proof that Building Codes Work? Punta Gorda

Empire Appraisal Group

Hurricane Ian slammed Punta Gorda, but a local contractor says, “Everything with a 2007 (building) code and beyond pretty much was fine.”. Ewan Photography, Getty Images. Source: Proof that Building Codes Work? Punta Gorda | Florida Realtors. Proof that Building Codes Work? Punta Gorda.

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ATG to merge with Guaranteed Rate??

Housing Wire

Attorney members who joined ATG between 1964 and 2007 and their successors have been asked to vote on the merger. For a variety of reasons, we stopped selling shares in 2007.

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ATG to merge with Guaranteed Rate

Housing Wire

Attorney members who joined ATG between 1964 and 2007 and their successors have been asked to vote on the merger. For a variety of reasons, we stopped selling shares in 2007.

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Existing home sales will drop to 4.78 million in 2023, NAR predicts

Housing Wire

He also stressed that the conditions present in 2007 during the foreclosure crisis look very different than today. Yun also noted the difference in inventory conditions today compared to 2007 and 2008 when there were about 4 million homes on the market.

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Opinion: Mortgage rates have a smaller impact on housing than you think; here’s proof

Housing Wire

from 2006 to 2007 and another 20.9% from 2007 to 2008. If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. From 1998 to 2006, according to Freddie Mac , the median annual mortgage rate was 6.45%. At the same time, the median, annual average of existing home sales was 5.63

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BiggerPockets Podcast 592: BiggerNews April: How to Counter the Biggest Risk of 2022’s Real Estate Cycle w/Doug Lodmell

BiggerPockets

We all saw this during the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis as overleveraged homeowners saw […]. The way the housing market moves largely depends on the real estate cycle we’re currently in. All BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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Real Estate Virtual Demo Day: Metro Brokers

Housing Wire

He grew the firm to 23 offices with 1,100 agent before selling the company at the end of 2007. Metro Brokers – Craig McClelland. McClelland was a top Realtor before starting a small independent firm in Atlanta after his first year in the business.

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Old Republic CEO to retire at the end of January

Housing Wire

Bilbrey joined Old Republic in 2007, was appointed executive vice president in 2008 and named president of Old Republic National Title Holding Co.

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Lone Peak Lending joins Panorama Mortgage Group

Housing Wire

Founded in 2007, Panorama originated from Alterra Home Loans , which carved out a niche by catering to first-time Hispanic homebuyers. Nonbank lender Panorama Mortgage Group has added Texas-based Lone Peak Lending to its growing stable of brands.

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Generation X is looking to move to these metros

Housing Wire

Not to mention, during the 2007 housing market crash, some had just bought their first homes and unfortunately, lost their homes during the crash. In the last few years, there’s been a lot of conversation surrounding 25 to 40-year-olds and their home purchasing habits.

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Comparing this housing market recession to 2008

Housing Wire

So, when housing peaked in 2005, we had a flood of inventory from home sellers who couldn’t buy a home, and that flood allowed the list to spike to over 4 million in 2007. The issue is that when housingw as in a recession in 2007, we had a massive spike in supply.

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Mortgage lenders are loosening standards on jumbos

Housing Wire

Banks reported that standards were the easiest pre-financial crisis (2005 to 2007) and tightest post-financial crisis (2008 to 2010) across all loan categories.

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Compliance in the fast lane: Surviving and thriving in a post-COVID regulatory environment

Housing Wire

Here is what we learned: For those who endured the 2007 crisis, market stability was the most immediate concern…and still continues to be. March 2020 is a month the real estate industry will never forget.

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The homebuilders got lucky this time

Housing Wire

However, the glaring difference today versus the recession of 2008, is that in 2007 the builders had to deal with over 4 million active listings as competition for their pricey new homes.

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Homebuilders still need lower mortgage rates

Housing Wire

The builders actually lucked out here because back in 2007, we had over 4 million active listings of existing home, which are usually cheaper than comparable new homes. What is happening with homebuilders and the new home sales sector as we head into the spring housing market ?

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Even with falling rates, the housing market is shaping up to be bad in Q4

Housing Wire

That’s the largest year over year existing home sales decrease since 2007. The housing recession was in full swing in October. Existing home sales last month declined 5.9% from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.43 million in October, and were down 28.4% year over year.

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Doug Duncan and the housing market’s supply conundrum

Housing Wire

In an economic outlook panel at HousingWire’s Engage.marketing event on Thursday, Duncan explained that in the 2007 to 2009 downturn, the industry went from building 2.2 The housing market is no stranger to supply constraints.

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Have we found the bottom in existing home sales?

Housing Wire

On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. The all-time lows were around 860,000 this year, and the all-time high was a tad over 4 million in 2007.

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Planet Financial Group partners with Farmlink Project

Housing Wire

Founded in 2007, Planet Home Lending originated $28 billion in 2021, up 45% year over year, becoming the 31st biggest lender in the country, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. Planet Financial Group will donate $100,000 to a project that distributes food surplus to food banks.

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Point Mortgage Corp. exits wholesale channel (for now)

Housing Wire

And I believe we went through a reset, the same way we did back in 2006 and 2007. California-based Point Mortgage Corporation has decided to shut down its wholesale business GoPointDirect and lay off employees to focus on retail lending, a top executive confirmed to HousingWire. .

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Supreme Court orders review of recession-era class action against Rocket

Housing Wire

The leading plaintiffs are two couples, Phillip and Sara Alig and Daniel and Roxanne Shea, who refinanced their mortgages in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Expert witnesses estimated the actual 2007 value of their home to be as much as $26,000 less than the appraised value.

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What happens after the Fed’s rate hike?

Housing Wire

However, total inventory levels today are below 2019, 2014, 2007, 2005, and 2000 levels because homeowners are in a good place financially. million in 2005 to over 4 million in 2007, with foreclosures and bankruptcies rising since then.

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