Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. Housing inventory issue with no booming demand. Nor can we ever have a credit sales boom again with lending standards back to normal. million listings.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Some early warning signs of housing market correction are: A) Listing inventory in MLS starts to climb steadily. Increasing inventory is generally a sign that buyers have stopped buying (due to prices being too high or a lack of consumer confidence), or there are just fewer ready, willing, and able buyers in the marketplace.

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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. Housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Home prices are skyrocketing, housing inventory is at all-time lows and homebuyers have to contend with multiple bids. One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JULY 6, 2022

The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.48% Thursday, an increase of 7 basis points over the past week, according to Bankrate.com. Still, most economists are not predicting the catastrophic housing crash of 2007-2009 when there was a surplus of homes nationwide and a market saturated with bad mortgages.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

After two record-setting years of mortgage origination volume, the mortgage industry is contracting, sharply. Based on our read of 2021 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, we estimate that total originations volume last year was $4.4 Source: Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

My comments : The big push to cut down on appraisal turn times because of the appraisal shortage is Very Old News since mortgage volume has plummeted. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Find out why not.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

In its most recent annual report to Congress, November 2020, the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) published its “capital ratio,” a measure of capital reserves to insurance-in-force held within the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). The same report revealed FHA had amassed capital reserves in the amount of $78.9

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

Despite the continued appreciation, both real estate economists and the general public are starting to worry about the shadow of a second recession (the dramatic downturn of 2007 still on their minds). After estimating in late 2018 that 30-year mortgage rates could reach 5.1% for 2019, Freddie Mac revised this estimate down to 4.3%

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

Despite the continued appreciation, both real estate economists and the general public are starting to worry about the shadow of a second recession (the dramatic downturn of 2007 still on their minds). After estimating in late 2018 that 30-year mortgage rates could reach 5.1% The Housing Market Is Going Strong… for Now.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B Varies widely around the country. == Mortgage applications decreased 4.6 billion tax fraud scheme.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, VA, flood and fires no insurance, retirement, few lender appraisals, unusual homes, mortgage origination $22M Modern Mansion on 130 Acres in Napa Has Its Own Cabernet Vineyard Excerpts: 6 bedrooms, 6.5+ The GSEs started keeping track in 71.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The combination of rising mortgage rates through the year and increasing home prices this spring and summer helped to push the typical portion of average wages nationwide required for major homeownership expenses up to 35%, according to a Q3 report. The increase in homes on the market also tells us overall inventory is rising.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

“This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.” That’s where buyers are paying about 42% more in their monthly mortgage payments for the same house today than they did a year ago. home prices, up 14% year over year (YoY) by one measure, and escalating mortgage rates, which have risen about 2.1

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At what point will mortgage interest rates peak? While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. When you raise [mortgage] rates to the point they’re at today, it breaks the back of housing.”.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s the most since 2007. There are no signs of a real estate crisis, particularly in the Puget Sound region, where prices keep rising – up about 20% the past year and 68% in Seattle alone since 2016, by one measure – amid a dearth of inventory and surge of buyers. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past.

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