Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Bonnie Williamson never intended to be a real estate agent. As more and more people enter the real estate industry – membership at the National Association of Realtors has ballooned to a record 1.6 Just how we do contracts now is so much faster. In 2021, 6.12 Brokerages Invest in Tech.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Year-over-year, contract signings increased by 16.4%. As 2021 approaches, Yun predicts that there will be a slight uptick in mortgage rates to around 3%, existing-home sales to increase by roughly 10% and new home sales to increase by 20%. Streamlining the refinance process in this low mortgage rate environment.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. of homes that went under contract that month, according to a new report from Redfin. The average interest rate on a 30-year-fixed mortgage was 7.07% in August. That rate is up from 14.3% This price was 2.8%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Treasury bonds and Mortgage Backed Securities to lower long-term yields. The record low interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages fueled the largest refinance boom since 2012 and led a snapback in home sales. Housing and mortgage outlook. By July sales were above year-ago levels. appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. The direction of mortgage rates – upward or downward – is the prime mover for home buying, and decade-high rates have deeply cut into contract signings,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. “If year over year in 2022, to 5.19 million units.

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The Robert Weiler Company

JANUARY 2, 2021

In real estate, buyers and sellers must be knowledgeable to make informed decisions. Are you familiar with a land contract in Ohio, as well as the state-specific requirements? What is a land contract in Ohio, really? While a land contract might be ideal for you, there are important details you need to know, first.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

CoreLogic released its final three-year housing and mortgage outlook report for the year on Thursday, and if numbers hold up, the data company predicts 2021 will maintain its unprecedented sales and record low mortgage rates as the economy continues to recover. On average, CoreLogic predicts mortgage rates to sit closer to 3.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

Mortgage applications dropped again , falling 0.9% from the previous week, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association for the week ending April 30, 2021. It’s important to note, Kan said, that mortgage application numbers from this time last year reflect challenges brought on by the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The coming winter is expected to be an existential test of survival for many independent mortgage banks (IMBs), according to leaders of several mortgage advisory firms. “We’re really at the darkest part of the market this winter,” Brian Hale, CEO and founder of consultancy Mortgage Advisory Partners , said. .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Mortgage demand remained relatively flat last week amid volatility in mortgage rates in recent weeks. The market composite index , a measure of mortgage loan application volume, rose a marginal 0.2% for the week ending August 5, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Presented by: 1000watt.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

However, the sting of higher mortgage rates is hitting the single-family construction data, and the real story is that the housing completion data, which has been bad for a long time, is still terrible. This happened in 2013-2014, and in 2018 when mortgage rates moved toward 5%. percent) above the April 2021 rate of 1,505,000.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Demand for mortgages declined for the second consecutive week, led by a dip in purchase mortgage applications — despite rates on a downward trend. The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 1.7% for the week ending July 8, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

And with Fed rates expected to rise even further, industry experts and economists don’t expect mortgage rates to stabilize for at least another year. Mortgage rates , which are currently near a 22-year high, declined slightly from last week ahead of the Fed’s sixth rate hike announcement. million in September 2021.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Guaranteed Rate Affinity has initiated legal action against former loan originators, accusing them of breaching contracts by failing to pay back advanced signing bonuses and commissions after they left the company. Guaranteed Rate Affinity is a joint venture established in 2017 by Guaranteed Rate and Anywhere Real Estate (former Realogy ).

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

We interviewed more than 25 mortgage industry experts to gather the best insights, strategies, and recommendations to pivot and win in today’s market. In the 2021 NextGen homebuyer research, two in three stated they did not think lenders were trustworthy or reliable. Generational nuances. Their research shows the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

What does the top-producing lending officer (LO) in the country have to say to other mortgage lenders? for purchase mortgage origination, and he is taking the stage at HW Annual. Weaver currently serves as an originator at CrossCountry Mortgage. My customer is the real estate agent. Mindset is everything.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Within mortgage companies, even those that have huge scale versus small scale, they’re offering really the same borrower experience and the same loan officer experience. SW: How does that impact you as a mortgage lender CEO? You’re signing a contract in 2020-2021 when the industry is doing $3.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

20, the National Association of Realtors said that contract signings were up 23% year over year. There were nine new pending contracts for every 10 new listings, a slower rate than the 9.9 The post No seasonal slowdown this year as real estate agents report a busier-than-usual fall appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There were 66,000 new listings this week, of which 14,000 are already in contract. 14,000 of those new listings are already in contract. In 2021 there were actually more total sellers, but at the peak of the frenzy, so many of those were immediate sales that they never get counted as active inventory.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We’re seeing fewer new sellers each week, but inventory is building as homebuyers wait to see if mortgage rates will come down to make purchases more affordable. Fewer new sellers also means that inventory can’t grow too much; the real trouble develops when demand drops and supply surges. What’s happening with inventory?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The majority of lenders easily lost half of the volume last year that they originated in 2021, and LOs who have their own databases to tap into are highly sought after. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead.

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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

Weakening economic outlook, high inflation and affordability challenges took a toll on buyer demand, leading to a drop in both purchase and refi applications last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, declined 6.3% Department of Commerce.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

For the next two months, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) will credit borrowers up to $600 for their appraisal costs, the lender said in a statement Wednesday. According to the Pontiac, Michigan-based lender, the credit will be available on all primary purchases, including jumbo mortgages. The offer will run from now until March 31.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

With mortgage rates now north of 6% and the stock market officially in bear territory, two of America’s most prominent real estate brokerages instituted large-scale layoffs and halted expansion efforts. But mortgage rates increased faster than at any point in history. in April 2021, to $4.51

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

At the National Association of Realtors Real Estate Forecast Summit on Thursday, NAR’S Chief Economist Lawrence Yun explained that although many are working from home now, he doesn’t expect that change to be permanent. By 2021, that number will decrease to 18%, then continue to decrease in 2022 to 12%. “I

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

MISMO , the real estate finance industry’s standards organization and a subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association , plans to launch a working group that will create standards for Electronic Home Equity Lines of Credit (eHELOC). billion, ATTOM , a real estate data provider, reported. billion in Q4 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Homeowners collectively nationwide now have more than $10 trillion in tappable equity (equity beyond a 20% cushion) tied up in their properties, according to the Black Knight Mortgage Monitor. The Towd Point deal involved HELOCs as well as CES loans originated by nonbanks Rocket Mortgage and Spring EQ. from the fourth quarter of 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mortgage rates are the dominant factor driving home sales, and recent declines in rates are clearly helping to stabilize the market.” compared to December 2021. An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. “We The new normal for mortgage rates will likely be in the 5.5% and the Midwest (77.6)

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. billion in the fourth quarter of 2021,” a recent market assessment by ATTOM shows. billion in 2021 to $9.6

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the third quarter, the company intensified the diversification of its businesses and further downsized its mortgage business amid a challenging macroeconomic landscape. . ?”Our million profit in the third quarter for its mortgage businesses, driven primarily by a gain of $267 million in servicing. . Rithm reported a $209.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the reflection, a mortgage executive sees faint images of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. The financial chaos that sparked the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, leading to a government bailout, now haunts the independent mortgage banking market this Halloween season — and beyond.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” The Big Chill” or “Frozen,” says Green, principal at real estate law firm Polunsky Beitel Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market. over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Palo Alto, California-based fintech Point , which offers home-equity investment (HEI) contracts to homeowners, is expanding its services into Nevada and Ohio. With the expansion, Point’s HEI contracts are now available in 18 states and the District of Columbia, according to the company. CoreLogic analysis shows U.S.

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