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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%. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. The 20-City Composite posted a 21.2%

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3 mortgage industry trends that will define the rest of 2021

Housing Wire

But there are definitely a few main things to looks out for — many of which are carrying over from a turbulent 2020 and early 2021 — when it comes to the upcoming landscape for the rest of 2021: Lack of inventory Fluctuating interest rates Increased adoption of technology. Inventory issues. All about the rates.

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Caliber Home Loans plans $2B-plus IPO

Housing Wire

Caliber, headed by CEO Sanjiv Das, has retail, wholesale and correspondent lending channels, and has developed a large book of business in the purchase space. Caliber is also among the 10 biggest GSE sellers, at nearly $34 billion in mortgages through August 2020.

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Millions will enter housing market in 2021: Zillow

Housing Wire

Inversely, data from Zillow showed for-sale inventory climb the highest in four major real estate markets – Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. markets; by December 2020, prices were already up 23.6% While moving itself can be stressful, changing zip codes in 2020 and 2021 seems to be eliciting mostly happiness.

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Amid expansion, Opendoor lost $270M in Q1

Housing Wire

The San Francisco-based instant homebuyer announced a net income loss of $270 million on Tuesday, a 421 percent jump compared to the first quarter of 2020’s $62 million deficit. The Q1 2021 loss approached Opendoor’s $280 million net income loss for all of 2020. And by some secondary measurements, Opendoor is growing.

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How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market

Housing Wire

The severe lack of inventory in today’s housing market has been a source of stress for home buyers and real estate agents alike. David Doctorow : We feel for home buyers and sellers. For buyers in today’s market, the severe lack of inventory adds another layer of frustration, FOMO (fear of missing out) and a sense of urgency.

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As vacant foreclosures increase, so does buyer interest

Housing Wire

A Q3 2020 rise in vacant foreclosures signals a possible re-escalation in a hard-fought battle against neighborhood blight in which many cities have just recently gained the upper hand. “We When we began a decade ago there was much more blight. There were more than 5,000 vacant properties. nationwide in the second quarter.

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