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Pending home sales up slightly in September: NAR

Housing Wire

Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement. They dropped below 4 million for the first time since October 2010, she added. Year over year, all four regions saw declining transactions.

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Robert Toll, co-founder of Toll Brothers, dies at 81

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After starting with two model colonial-style homes in suburban Philadelphia, Toll Brothers (TOL) would expand across the country under Robert Toll, who served as the company’s chairman and CEO until 2010. The company went public in 1986. billion in sales and more than $1 billion in net income. “By far the worst.

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Pending home sales fell 7.1% in August

Housing Wire

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Pending home sales, like new home sales, are based on contract signings. Existing home sales also fell in August, down 15.3% below the August 2022 level. The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell to a reading of 71.8

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Existing-home sales have nowhere to go but up in 2024? 

Housing Wire

Elevated mortgage rates and high home prices pushed sales of existing homes down again in October to the lowest monthly pace since August 2010. Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September.

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Housing market outlook for 2021…and beyond

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average during the 2010 to 2019 time period. Using CoreLogic TrueStandings data, we estimate that there will be about 20 million home mortgages outstanding at the start of 2021, with a contract interest rate of 4% or higher. This would be a percentage point lower than the 4.1%

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CoreLogic projects low mortgage rates and high prices into 2023

Housing Wire

over the next three years – nearly a percentage point lower than the average of the 2010-2019 decade. However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon.

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Wells Fargo pays $12M for wrongly denying mortgage modifications

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The lawsuit alleges that, between 2010 and 2018, Wells Fargo failed to detect errors in its automated system to determine whether consumers in default would be eligible for loan modifications with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac , or under the U.S. The benefit distribute date is currently scheduled to occur on March 15.

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