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Planet Home Lending adds new regional sales manager

Housing Wire

Adding his leadership skills will be beneficial at a time when Planet is looking to differentiate itself with various purchase loan products, one-time-close construction loans and other niche programs, the company stated. By contract, the country’s top 50 lenders as a whole saw volumes fall by more than 50% during the same period.

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Top of the list: An interview with Ben Caballero

Housing Wire

There’s a management process we do where we touch each listing approximately 23 times, from changing the status and stage in construction process to changing the photographs. HousingWire : Now, at the point of contract where an agent or consumer sees a home entered by HomesUSA, what happens next? Ben Caballero : Not enough!

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Builders apply the brakes amid canceled contracts

Housing Wire

For this reason, the number of housing units “under construction” is the largest ever recorded in history because they were taking so long to finish. For the builders, they have a new problem: they had homes under contract and then mortgage rates jumped in the biggest fashion ever recorded in history. When supply is 4.3

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Only 70,000 new homes available for sale

Housing Wire

Last year, while the Census Bureau was reporting the new home sales numbers and the builders were having high cancellation rates, the monthly sales report didn’t account for the cancellations of contracts. months and above, the builders will pull back on construction. The Inventory for homes under construction is 263,000 = 4.6

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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. In an odd twist of fate, the delays due to COVID-19 are currently an infrastructure and jobs program for Americans in the construction industry.

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Some mortgage companies expanding despite challenges

Housing Wire

Geneva Financial, founded in 2007 by Aaron VanTrojen, has more than 130 branch locations in 46 states, according to the firm. increase year over year for properties under contract, indicating that demand in the city remains strong,” said Elizabeth Anne Stribling-Kivlan, Compass’ senior managing director. during the same time.

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How to Find Comps With Few Sales

Appraisal Today

acre lot, built in 2007 The chateau was listed in 2014 for $12.8 A local lender gave me an appraisal assignment on the proposed construction of 7 units in the city. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) increased to 7.06 Excerpts: 8 bedrooms, 7.5+