Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations. trillion in mortgage originations in 2021. Fannie Mae recently projected originations for 2023 at $1.59

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

After mortgage rates spiked to 8% in October, causing a riot in the real estate industry, we had an epic move lower in mortgage rates last week. Does this mean we’ve hit the peak in mortgage rates for this economic cycle? Last year, the seasonal peak for housing inventory was Oct.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most important housing market stories in recent weeks has been the decline in new listings , which has slowed the growth rate of total inventory. One thing that I have stressed is that higher mortgage rates can create a slowdown in demand and thus allow more inventory to accumulate through a weakness in demand.

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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. Even some of the most seasoned real estate agents have had to slow down in their current business model.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Despite mortgage rates briefly falling below the 6% threshold, both housing inventory and mortgage demand fell last week. However, we are going to see if 6% mortgage rates are good enough to create some growth in the future or if the housing market needs rates near 5%. Weekly inventory change (Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

In the past year, among the many challenges and difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the real estate and mortgage industries enjoyed a wave of success with low interest rates, refinance opportunities and etc. In real estate, data is king. Needless to say, the digital world took notice.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

home prices are quickly shifting the affordability calculus for prospective homebuyers in 2021 — even though mortgage rates have remained near record lows. Despite average 30-year mortgage rates that have remained below 3% for most of 2021, the rapid home price increases are eroding affordability for average wage earners.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

Will 2021 be more of the same? A buyer’s market in 2021? It’s not likely we’ll see a buyer’s housing market in 2021, at least according to experts. For example, home prices are still expected to rise in 2021, but at a smaller pace than we’ve seen this year. More for Real Estate Enthusiasts. projected clip.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. In 2022 and 2023, quickly rising mortgage rates and shrinking volumes sent shockwaves through the industry and prompted massive job cutbacks. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As 2020 comes to an end, realtor.com ’s economists believe that the housing inventory shortage won’t be as dire in 2021. Additional lockdowns and quarantines due to COVID-19 could put a dent in housing inventory and sales, potentially slowing down the market and putting increased pressure on buyers, the forecast said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fast forward to Thursday, and Opendoor reported losing $662 million in 2021. Opendoor’s losses came after iBuyer Offerpad announced it made $6 million in net income for 2021. Opendoor resold 21,725 of the homes it bought in 2021, up 119% from 2020. billion in unsold real estate inventory.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area had the largest increase in population count between 2021 and 2022 of any metro area in the country, adding more than 170,000 people , according to the U.S. It is unsurprising, then, that Texas has seen a boom in new real estate brokerage offices in the past five years. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration. . ” Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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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. million GAAP net loss for 2021, despite having increased revenue 87% to $330.2 We believe that this should allow us to capture market share from real estate with old, traditional commission models.”.

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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. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022. But high mortgage rates and high home prices proved too much for the listings boom in Jacksonville.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Consumers are happy with real estate service.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers facing high mortgage rates are pulling out of their home-purchase agreements at the highest rate in nearly a year. in August 2022 and marks the highest percentage since October 2022, when mortgage rates surpassed 7% for the first time in two decades. The average interest rate on a 30-year-fixed mortgage was 7.07% in August.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

The mortgage rate outlook component experienced the only decline in March’s HPSI, with the latest results indicating that only 6% of consumers believe that mortgage rates will decrease over the next 12 months. Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Residential real estate brokerages will not do as well in 2022 as they did in 2021, but let’s not get carried away. billion in quarterly revenue, but the vast majority of that is from home sale commissions, which largely are returned to the company’s independent contractor real estate agents. Realogy generated $1.6

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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 19, 2021

Real estate investors buy to flip a home for a profit or get rental income, but they’re not the majority of buyers in America each year. For the majority of mortgage holders, the loan is the cost of shelter. Last year and this year have been crazy for real estate. People were still buying homes during the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage. Before the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75

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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

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

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. . billion production volume in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Despite low inventory, the housing market is expected to remain strong in 2021 due to low mortgage rates. Real estate brokers need to be able to target these clients effectively, so they can close deals quickly. Many real estate professionals discount the seller lead.

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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

MAY 12, 2021

Even with historically low levels of inventory, rising mortgage rates and uneven job growth, experts still believe 2021 will be a record year for home sales. “Employers are providing clarity on permanent remote-work policies, the economy is recovering and mortgage rates remain low. . Redfin projected $2.53

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

“The latest monthly decline is largely due to the shortage of inventory and fast-rising home prices,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. 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%.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. Click n’ Close will retain retail operations related to its reverse mortgage and lending business for Native Americans, the company said Monday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Homebuyers are getting some relief in 2024 as mortgage rates recede from their 20-year high point of last October. mortgage rate, the prospective buyer with a $3,000 budget can afford a $453,000 home. mortgage rate could have afforded a $416,000 home. Mortgage rates stabilized last week, averaging 6.69% as of Jan.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. from the previous year ($375,300). All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The GSEs’ real estate-owned (REO) inventory decreased slightly to 10,902 in Q4, down from 11,019 in Q3 as REO dispositions outpaced acquisitions, the report noted. A rise in mortgage rates in the fourth quarter led total refinance volume to decline to 71,378 loans, down from 83,522 in Q3 2023.

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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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