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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. He will focus on product development and building the company’s retail lending network.

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Employment gains could help housing inventory

Housing Wire

Sectors that were hit hardest by the pandemic led job growth last month, with jumps in leisure, hospitality, public and private education and construction – good signs for the housing industry. Despite increased rate of tech adoption, the mortgage industry still has room for continued development and processes. Labor Department.

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HUD, USDA reach accord on energy-efficiency standard for new construction

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have settled on new energy-efficiency standards for the construction of new single-family and multifamily homes. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, signed into law by President George W.

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Economists cautiously optimistic as unemployment rate falls to 6.9%

Housing Wire

Residential construction employment (including specialty trade contractors) posted another large increase this month, with job gains of 24,000, which Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae , said is a welcome sign for a sector dealing with supply constraints. But despite residential construction employment climbing back to only 0.8%

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Low housing inventory a win for homebuilders

Housing Wire

Back in 2007 — after existing home sales got as low as we have seen in the recent data as the chart below shows — total active listings were above 4 million. This is a massive difference in inventory data and a plus for the homebuilders, which they didn’t enjoy in 2007. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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New home sales make it clear: Housing is in a recession

Housing Wire

This data line confirms what we all know to be the case: The housing market, at least as it relates to construction, is in a recession. We talked about this in March , and even last year, when I wrote about the problem with the housing construction boom premise. “I don’t expect a boom in housing construction.

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Fannie Mae Changes 2018

Robinson Appraisal Group

This form has been a requirement since 2009 as a tool to establish the increase, decrease or stabilization of markets in the aftermath of the housing crisis occurring between 2007 – 2010 due to sub prime lending practices. So what is the 1004MC form? To perform true trend analysis you need to compare apples to apples.

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