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The mortgage rate lock-in didn’t start in 2022

Housing Wire

This is an excerpt of a HousingWire Research report titled: What Everyone Needs to Know about Mortgage Rate Lock-in, by Altos President Mike Simonsen. housing market saw dramatic changes in affordability as mortgage rates skyrocketed 500 basis points. million in January 2021 (when mortgage rates were 2.7%) fell to 3.9

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Employment gains could help housing inventory

Housing Wire

The Mortgage Bankers Association expects this heightened pace to drop unemployment numbers to below 5% by the end of the year. . Despite increased rate of tech adoption, the mortgage industry still has room for continued development and processes. Total construction employment remains 182,000 below its February 2020 level.

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FinLocker raises $17M in Series B funding round

Housing Wire

Louis-based developer of a leading white-label financial fitness and homeownership platform, announced the closure of a $17 million Series B funding round on Tuesday. In addition to product development, FinLocker (a former HousingWire Tech 100 winner) plans to expand its strategic partnerships and collaborations within the mortgage ecosystem.

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3 mortgage industry trends that will define the rest of 2021

Housing Wire

For better or worse, trends in the mortgage industry tend to mirror corresponding trends in the overall real estate market. Inventory issues. Emerging out of the pandemic, the first half of 2021 showed that there is a historically low housing inventory across multiple markets in the U.S. All about the rates. Push for tech.

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Union Home Mortgage the latest to trim workforce

Housing Wire

Ohio-based Union Home Mortgage is the latest in a string of lenders this week to institute workforce reductions. The multichannel lender, which originated roughly $13 billion in residential mortgage last year, declined to provide any details about the layoffs. from 2020 to 2021, to $13 billion. billion, up 65.5%

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. How will the Federal Reserve respond to economic developments in 2022, and what will be the impact on mortgage rates?

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How home-price growth has damaged the housing market

Housing Wire

Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about how to cool down home sales: we need the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%. Imagine if mortgage rates didn’t rise this year. million total housing inventory data as that is the level of inventory that would change my thesis that this is a savagely unhealthy market.