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Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009

Housing Wire

Home prices are now posting the biggest monthly declines since January 2009, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report from Black Knight. The post Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009 appeared first on HousingWire. Las Vegas, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C.,

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

Today, however, the purchase application data is actually down to levels we saw in 2009 ! How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? The post Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory? If you connect the lines, you can see where we are on a historical basis.

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Loan mod scheme from 2009 finally gets settled at $4.6M

Housing Wire

According to the DOJ, from 2009 through 2015, Lindeman and his wife targeted Hispanic homeowners through Spanish-language advertising that promised to cut mortgage payments in half. The post Loan mod scheme from 2009 finally gets settled at $4.6M The DOJ said some of the homeowners targeted had limited English proficiency.

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Credit data shows: There’s no housing crash coming

Housing Wire

Look at the difference between this week in 2024 versus the same weeks in 2009-2011. New listings data this week: 2024: 48,863 2009: 274,614 2010: 359,534 2011: 315,915 These credit-stressed sellers did not turn around and buy another home, so they created years of elevated distress supply in the marketplace.

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Homeowners Have Gained Nearly $300B in Home Equity

Appraisal Buzz

Negative equity peaked at 26% of mortgaged residential properties in Q4 2009 based on CoreLogic equity data analysis, which began in Q3 2009. Underwater mortgages apply to borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are currently worth. billion or 4% from $326 billion in Q3 2023.

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Fairway, accused of redlining in Alabama, agrees to settle for $1.9M

Housing Wire

Fairway operates in the Birmingham area under the trade name MortgageBanc , which it acquired in 2009. The company ranked No. 12 among the largest U.S. mortgage lenders in the first half of 2024, with $11.8 billion in home loan production. That was down 18% year over year, per Inside Mortgage Finance estimates. This compared to 12.2%

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Existing-home sales fall to slowest pace since 2009 amid rising costs

Inman

Existing-home sales decreased by 5.9 percent from February and by 2.4 percent from March 2024 as homebuyers continued to deal with affordability challenges, said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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