Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In May, I wrote about the signs to watch for a real estate market slowdown. It’s now October, we’ve had the biggest spike in mortgage rates we’ve seen in decades, and all the signs of a slowdown are here: Inventory is rising. Home buyers got spooked when mortgage rates passed 5.5%. in September to 6.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

Real Estate Exchange (REX) filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday in federal court against Zillow , accusing the company of anticompetitive behavior related to showing certain homes on its platform. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour. Tune in March 16th to experience demos from the most innovative real estate technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

After eight months of consecutive gains, the consequences of low inventory finally caught up with the housing market in February. Gradually increasing mortgage rates, heightened home prices and inventory levels at historic lows finally coalesced in February to depress in-contract deals. and West (96.9) respectively.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

But the past three years — and 2020, specifically — have been something else. But when inventory dropped to a third of its normal amount, everything changed. Here’s what to expect in the mortgage application process. cities determined that Seattle is the top market for real estate agents to currently work in.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

Like new and existing sales, pending home sales felt the strain of exhausted home inventory in April ? The upper-end market is still moving sharply as inventory is more plentiful there.”. Factors that would increase inventory include homeowners feeling more comfortable listing their properties and the end of forbearance periods.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

the M&A-hungry parent of cloud-based real estate brokerage Fathom Realty , achieved supercharged growth in 2021. In 2020, flat-fee absolutist Fathom lost $1.3 We believe that this should allow us to capture market share from real estate with old, traditional commission models.”. Fathom Holdings Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

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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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2022

That marks the first month since July 2019 (pre-pandemic) that housing inventory increased year over year. The home-inventory bump dovetails with other data indicating the nation’s housing market lost some steam this past month, according to a June housing-market report from Seattle-based Redfin. percentage points from June 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

HW+ Member: What’s the number one question you are getting from the real estate agent community on the economy and housing market? I always try to focus people on the total inventory data until we get inventory back into a range of 1.52-1.93 The following Q&A has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Those advantages, coupled with cheap land, made the city a favorite for homebuilders like DR Horton and Lennar that brought plenty of new inventory to market. But high mortgage rates and high home prices proved too much for the listings boom in Jacksonville. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. Typically we have a natural set of new listings each year; inventory rises in the spring and summer and then falls in the fall and winter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Mortgage lenders are betting on down-payment assistance programs, buy-down options and renovation products to provide brokers opportunities to win in a market with mortgage rates nearing 8%, a lack of inventory and high home prices. range, which is a normal mortgage market.” 4-7, in Las Vegas.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.”. Year over year, however, inventory is up 2.7%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Mortgage assumption is a niche option that gained momentum in 2023. An assumable mortgage enables a qualified buyer to take over a seller’s mortgage terms, including the existing balance and interest rate. trillion in mortgages were originated in 2020 and 2021, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2021

April’s 7.08% decline in mortgage delinquencies wasn’t even half of the drop March posted, but it did manage to push the national delinquency rate to below 5% for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, Black Knight revealed in a new report. How real estate agents can alleviate consumer pain points in a tight market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Mortgage delinquencies were down across the board in January, with the overall national delinquency rate declining to 3.38%, a drop of 10 basis points from December, according to Black Knight ’s month-end mortgage performance statistics. Inventories that were 90-plus days late on mortgage payments increased largely in Florida.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

That number then steadily dropped, bottoming out at 825 in the second quarter of 2020 after COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic. But iBuying companies resumed business in full in May and June of 2020 as housing demand began to rebound, thanks to record-low mortgage rates and a wave of relocations made possible by remote work.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to an all-time low of 2.88% this week, the eighth time in 2020 the weekly rate has set a record in a Freddie Mac series that goes back almost five decades. The average 15-year rate fell to 2.44%, the lowest in almost 30 years of data, according to the mortgage financier.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Realtors can usually count on their biggest season being spring, followed by summer, but nothing about 2020 has been normal, including home-buying patterns. Kanacki said that when it came to seasonal buying, “we’re still riding the wave with 2020.” Now, believe it or not, fall home-buying season is in full swing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Now that mortgage rates have risen, demand is getting hit, while we are still showing 14.8%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chantilly, Virginia-headquartered mortgage bank Prosperity Home Mortgage saw mortgage origination volume plummet by 40% last year — at a time when mortgage rates had more than doubled, home prices remained elevated and the market suffered from a shortage of inventory. . Purchase mortgages accounted for about 82.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The simple answer is the same one I have been giving for years, especially after the summer of 2020: We have too many people chasing too few homes. We broke to all-time lows in active listings data in the worst time possible — the years 2020-2024, when home-buying demographics were the best in U.S. Unsold inventory sits at a 3.3-month

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Housing professionals already know that high mortgage rates are bad for business. But with mortgage rates ascending past 7% according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center , those hopes have so far been dashed in 2024. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Mortgage credit availability dropped in March, a sign that lenders tightened credit standards amid insufficient inventory of homes for sale and rising mortgage rates. The monthly Mortgage Credit Availability Index fell by 0.7% last month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Presented by: CreditXpert.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

I am going to do my best to try to make sense of what is happening with the housing market right now, since the years 2020-2024 have been a talking point of mine for years and my biggest concern since the fall of 2020 has been prices overheating — not having a deflationary collapse. . million until then as well.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For many of us, the start of a new year is usually synonymous with a renewed sense of professional self, focusing on new goals, new prospects for the year and, of course, the excitement for the upcoming spring real estate market. 2020 proved that we all need to work to find new ways to generate business.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Employment in the construction sector is 40,000 higher than its level in February 2020, while employment in residential building is 7.6% An estimated 140,000 renovated properties purchased at foreclosure auction or bank-owned auction were resold to owner-occupant buyers between January 2020 and December 2021. Presented by: Auction.com.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. You can see why I have been on team higher mortgage rates for some time now because we don’t have any other way to get off this madness. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2023

monthly gain reported in July 2020. Conscious of changing mortgage rates, home buyers are taking advantage of any rate declines,” Lawrence Yun , NAR’ s chief economist, said in a statement. Higher mortgage rates have eroded buyers’ purchasing power and prices have taken a hit. However, existing home sales were still down 22.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

The number of buyers who locked in mortgage rates for second homes soared 178% year over year in April, marking the 11th straight month of 80%-plus growth, according to a recent Redfin study. Still, second-home mortgage rate locks are holding steady at more than double pre-pandemic levels. from a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

But, there is one bright spot — inventory is rising. This has been a concern of mine after the summer of 2020 as inventory levels were breaking all-time lows, facilitating unhealthy home price growth during a more prominent demographic patch in U.S. The one positive: Inventory is rising. Unsold inventory sits at a 3.0-month

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

With the exception of May 2020, when the pandemic had virtually shut down housing market activity, this is the lowest level of monthly home sales in 12 years.” December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In addition, this is the fourth straight month of inventory declining, while days on the market are growingl! From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. With first-lien mortgages … the trading volumes are down from 2021 and 2022 peak levels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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