Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The CBO found that the GSEs “met or exceeded” nearly all goals over a four-year period from 2018 to 2022. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week published a report assessing the performance of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in reaching their single-family housing goals.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Between January 2018 and October 2021, Experian reportedly failed to forward more than 2 million disputes to furnishers within the required five-business-day window, the lawsuit states. In addition, the consumer watchdog claims Experian withheld consumer-submitted documentation from furnishers that could support dispute claims.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, the company raised $3.5 In February 2024, the company closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. This followed a $57 million Series C round in February 2022. An acquisition spree followed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2025

in the fourth quarter of 2024, it marked the smallest number of flips recorded in any quarter since 2018. A total of 67,394 single-family homes and condominiums were flipped between January and March, representing 8.3% of all home sales. While that share was up from 7.4%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

metropolitan areas from 2018 through 2021. Fair Lending Act. According to the document, HSBC allegedly engaged in discriminatory lending practices in majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in six U.S. It included New York (NY), Seattle (WA), Orange County (CA), Los Angeles (CA), Oakland (CA), and the Bay Area (CA).

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, the average national property tax delinquency rate — meaning that homeowners were at least one month behind on payments — was at its highest point since 2018. More than half of the states with the highest rates of property tax delinquency also had unemployment rates above the national average.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

She has served as Zillow’s president since 2018. Since joining Zillow Group she has served as senior vice president and general manager of StreetEasy , and senior vice president over the Premier Agent program. Daimler’s husband, Matt Daimler, who served as Zillow’s senior vice president of product, is also stepping down from his role.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 27, 2025

In addition, their analysis found that, between 2018 and 2023, sales prices of new mobile homes actually rose faster than those of new site-built, single-family homes. Key Findings of the Report The average sales price of new mobile homes rose by 58.34% between 2018 and 2023 in the U.S, easily tops $100,000. The report used the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

increase 2018: $453,100 — 6.8% Importantly, even if home prices fall, the ceiling doesn’t decrease; however, it rises whenever home prices increase year-over-year. Here are the increases in FHFA’s conforming loan limit for one-unit loans for the lower 48 states since 2016. 2016: $417,000 2017: $424,100 — 1.7% increase 2019: $484,350 — 6.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Years later, in 2018, the newly unveiled Wayfinder platform automated credit optimization for loan officers. The first arrived on scene in March 2003, giving mortgage professionals the power to evaluate the weight of trade-line adjustments on borrower credit scores.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

My] third back surgery was in 2018. Losing benefits When it came time for Kemp to file paperwork for the redetermination of his HUD benefits, which he said allowed him to become a homeowner in 2018, he disclosed the incident since he was unwilling to lie and risk a loss of benefits along with the imposition of fines.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

The report is based on a sample of mortgage applications from 2018 to 2022, and it examines flood risk in the southeast and central southwest census regions of the United States, according to flood risk data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the First Street Foundation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

While repeat buyer activity has softened markedly from pre-pandemic levels with originations among this group down 31% compared to 2018 and 2019 first-time homebuyer volume has seen less compression, declining only 19%. Gen Z was responsible for one in four loans issued to first-time homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Meanwhile, the count of active agents continues a modest decline but has not yet reached levels seen back in 2018. Active agent count slips again: The pool of agents closing at least one transaction in the past year fell to 790,111, marking another month of decline though still well above the more constrained numbers of 2018.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The team will transition from its affiliation with Compass , where Caldwell founded The Apollo Group in 2018. He and his 30-agent team pulled in $200 million in sales revenue over an unspecified time period. Kris Caldwell According to a statement, eXp Realty attracted Caldwell’s because he wanted to put his team first.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For-sale inventory is now about 26% below the norms of 2018 and 2019, the smallest shortfall since September 2020. Notably, while the flow of new listings to the market is still nearly 14% lower than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, its much improved to compared to the deficit of 25% in March 2024.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2025

NAR said the typical down payment for first-time buyers has remained between 6% and 9% since 2018. One of the most persistent misconceptions among aspiring homeowners is that a 20% down payment is required to buy a home. For repeat buyers, the figure was significantly higher last year at 23% — a reflection of rising home equity over time.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

In 2025, we expect unsold inventory of homes on the market to get very close to the 2018 levels. Life events take time to materialize. But each year with higher rates means more willing home sellers. What happens when we have all these homes on the market?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In 2018, the company raised $3.5 As recently as a year ago, the New York-based firm closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. This followed a $57 million Series C round in February 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Georgetown University graduate joined Compass in 2018 as regional public relations leader on the corporate communications team. With a proven track record of leading Compass’ marketing operations in Washington, D.C., Sheridan brings valuable experience to the Southeast region.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2025

Since its founding in 2018, the team has recorded more than $500 million in total production. In 2024, RealTrends listed Mile High Lifestyles as the No. 10 large team in Colorado and included it among the top 500 large teams in the U.S. for a sixth straight year. They are truly invested in our growth and success.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

between November and December, with the 51% share representing the lowest level since Optimal Blue began tracking the metric in 2018. .” The conforming loan share dropped by 1.5% This reflects a shift away from conforming loan products eligible for purchase by government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ive also highlighted 2018 when there were 775,000 single family homes on the market that February. Assuming mortgage rates stay higher for this year, well probably see that 2018 level again by next spring. Ive highlighted last year when there were only 500,000 single family homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Rabe, who founded Platinum Realty Group in 2018, has worked in real estate for two decades and built a career in the mountain community of Bear Valley Springs, California. She said the affiliation will help her agents access professional development resources and expand their reach in the local market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

Rick Roque , vice president of growth at NFM Lending and a consultant at Menlo , who worked at MiMutual from 2016-2018 to help expand its retail platform, said while the company has always struggled with growing this part of the business, it has remained to be a strong mid-market boutique wholesale lender.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Tenant advocates have been fighting Costa-Hawkins for years, as they tried to overturn it with ballot measures in 2018 and 2020. The Public Policy Institute of California reports that nearly 30% of California renters spend more than half their income on rent—a share higher than any other state except Florida and Louisiana.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Recent history HomeSafe Second was first introduced in 2018, marking the industry’s first-ever second-lien reverse mortgage option. In the product announcement, FOA said that it aims to roll out HomeSafe Second to more states in 2025.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2025

“I think you should use maybe 2018 or 2019 as a realistic baseline. .” Christine Blasses, an agent with Century 21 Selling Paradise , said that Cape Coral continues to maintain solid market growth. “(2020-2022) is not a realistic baseline,” she said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

In late 2018, when mortgage rates spiked and sellers briefly outnumbered buyers, home-price growth slowed to a six-year low. “Sellers are already gaining more data points on this front, and will likely face another reality check in the summer, when demand typically starts to slow,” the report stated. Past trends support this trajectory.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The product was first introduced in 2018, marking the industry’s first-ever second-lien reverse mortgage option. ‘Digital innovation’ team being built HomeSafe Second, a proprietary second-lien reverse mortgage product, has been a major focus for FOA and its partners this year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

In 2018, the average borrower paid $1,081 per year for a single-family, owner-occupied home with a conventional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. per $1,000 in 2018. per $1,000 in 2018. Between 2018 and 2023, homeowners insurance premiums increased from 1.49% to 1.64% of a borrower’s monthly income, on average. per $1,000.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 16, 2024

Updating a survey that was previously conducted in 2015, 2018, and 2023, Fannie Mae released the results of a consumer survey that uncovered opportunities to close knowledge gaps around mortgage qualifications and underscored the need to continue to improve education around the mortgage buying process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Atlantic Trust entered into a wholesale broker agreement with UWM in 2018. In Atlantic Trust’s latest motion to dismiss UWM’s suit in March, the amendment to the 2018 wholesale broker agreement is “undisputedly not signed” by either party and UWM doesn’t allege that the amendment was ever signed. district court in Michigan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Smith was an employee at the California-based retail lender LendUS , which she joined in November 2018 before transitioning to CCM when it acquired the firm in 2022. Penny Smith, a former regional operations manager, accuses the company of age discrimination and wrongful termination for her refusal to participate in illegal activities.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

From 2018 to 2019, she served as president of the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association. McGrath is vice president of Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA), aWashington, D.C., advocacy group representing smaller mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The next highest figure was in 2018 when more than 861,000 homes were purchased entirely with cash. . “We are unlikely to see the share of all-cash purchases fall much lower in 2025, unless mortgage rates drop enough to drive a significant increase in sales.” That was the highest volume dating back to 2014. in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

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