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Planet Home Lending adds new regional sales manager

Housing Wire

Kingsborough has more than 20 years of experience in mortgage lending and will be responsible for driving the company’s expansion plans in the western U.S. I’m here to build on our presence in the West by fostering an environment where mortgage loan originators and branch managers can truly thrive.” increase.

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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. The Mortgage Bankers Association expects this heightened pace to drop unemployment numbers to below 5% by the end of the year.

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How LOs are dealing with a mortgage rate lockdown

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. With mortgage rates nearly doubling from the start of 2022, the LO, who has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, says it’s painful to see deals simply disappear. “I higher than last year.

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MBA forecast for 2021: Prepare for rising mortgage interest rates

Housing Wire

At its Annual event Wednesday, Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni forecast that interest rates could rise in the year to come, but that they will remain near all-time lows. The chart below shows interest rates for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will end this year at about 3% and could hit around 3.3%

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Private-label RMBS deals continue their hot streak

Housing Wire

Since then, another nine private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings valued at $4.6 That brings the number of private-label transactions over the first three weeks of January to a total of 19 — backed by mortgage pools valued in aggregate at some $10 billion. billion have unfolded.

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Economists cautiously optimistic as unemployment rate falls to 6.9%

Housing Wire

Government employment, however, fell by 216,000 – a stat that Mike Fratantoni, senior vice president and chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association , chocks up to the conclusion of the decennial U.S. But despite residential construction employment climbing back to only 0.8%

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

Housing Wire

Department of Agriculture (USDA) have settled on new energy-efficiency standards for the construction of new single-family and multifamily homes. This fulfills a requirement laid out in a 2007 law that directs the departments to adopt the most recently published energy-efficiency standards following reviews by the U.S.