Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2022

Co-founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson, the lender and “power buyer” allows homebuyers to make all-cash offers to compete with institutional investors. UpEquity earns a commission from brokering or selling the mortgage buyers take out to buy their homes. In October, ??the

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Local housing markets is a HousingWire magazine feature spotlighting housing trends across the country. Austin, Texas In 2021, Austin had one of the hottest housing markets in the country. But, in 2022, as prices in the metro rose to never-before-seen levels, things started to change.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

. “This program helps tear down these barriers and open more doors to the houses, neighborhoods, and lifestyles of our customers’ dreams, an investment that will help build a foundation for generations to come,” Kasey Marty, executive vice president of secondary marketing at Guaranteed Rate, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. The red-hot housing market of the past 2 ½ years was characterized by sub-three percent mortgage rates, fast-paced bidding wars and record-low inventory. But more recently, market conditions have done an about-face. at the end of 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

below the August 2022 level. An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Pending home sales, like new home sales, are based on contract signings. Mortgage rates have been rising above 7% since August, which has diminished the pool of home buyers,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

That partnership is everything,” Amy Breach, a Seattle-based Keller Williams agent, told HousingWire in late 2022. But three multibillion-dollar class action antitrust lawsuits looming over the real estate industry may soon reshape how buyers interact with agents. The lender and LO can make or break the transaction.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

compared to October 2022, it’s still the smallest annual decline in nearly two years, according to a report from Redfin. Here’s a look at why pending-home sales picked up: The number of existing homes listed increased in October, giving buyers more options to choose from. in October 2022. Although pending sales fell 4.8%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

. “The spread between mortgage rates and the 10-year Treasury has been abnormally wide since early 2022 — further narrowing of that spread is expected to put downward pressure on mortgage rates in the coming months.” Both trends will help some buyers regain purchasing power,” said Kan. Nik Shah, CEO of Home LLC.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. However, there are a number of attention-grabbing headlines, which unfortunately only compare today’s housing market to the very recent history of the last two years. However, in many areas of the country it does remain a seller’s market. Historically 2.5

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The housing market was hotter than ever last year, with pandemic-driven demand boosting home sales to their highest level in 14 years. Beginning in January 2020, 7% of purchase transactions had a contract price above the appraisal value. Meanwhile, buyers are plucking up homes left and right. Therein lies the problem.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period. trillion and to nearly $9.3

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

Though the desire for buyers to purchase a new home remains strong, skyrocketing prices are putting the dream out of reach for some buyers, economists in the housing industry said. An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, the first year examined. in 2022. . rise from a year ago.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. The housing affordability crisis has pushed potential buyers to the sidelines.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Compared to October 2022, existing home sales slumped 14.6%, down from 4.44 Homes typically go under contract a month or two before the closing, which means the October data largely reflects purchase decisions made in August and September. lower than October 2022 when inventory was at 1.22 months in October 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The modified rule still gives sellers and their listing brokers a role in setting compensation for buyers’ brokers,” the filing states. According to the DOJ, when a seller makes an offer of compensation to the buyer broker, the buyer broker does not need to compete on their compensation price in order to attract clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

The financial and housing markets are still trying to sort out the banking crisis and whether we have seen the last Fed rate hike in this cycle. On these crazy days in the financial markets, I stress to people, it’s not how the trading day goes that matters; it’s the final closing number.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JULY 6, 2022

A quick change in rates has led to a quick change in the housing market. UPCOMING (PUBLIC) SPEAKING GIGS: 7/15/2022 Lunch & Learn Big Market Update (sign up here)) […]. We didn’t see much difference right away in the stats, but we are finally getting some good numbers now. Let me show you what I mean.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Pending home sales rose for the third month in a row in February, but at 0.8%, the uptick over January was less than is typically seen in the run-up to the spring housing market. Month-over-month, contract signings increased in three U.S. Overall, contract signings were down 21.1% from February 2022. from February 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Lenders saw the value of agency loans made at lower rates — in the 3% range — in 2021 and early January 2022 drop precipitously over the course of the first quarter. That negatively affected liquidity options in both the loan-trading and securitization markets as higher-rate loans [above 5%] subsequently hit the market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This marks the second consecutive month of increases and the strongest sales pace since March 2022. January marked a surge of people signing contracts to buy new homes. The uptick in the sales pace resulted in just 439,000 new homes remaining on the market at the end of the month, representing 7.9 months in December.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

An index level of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Contract transactions slowed a bit in September and are showing signs of a calmer home price trend, as the market is running comfortably ahead of pre-pandemic activity,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. The index dropped to 116.7

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market took a beating in 2022, nearly stalling as the year came to an end — on the heels of interest rates jumping more than 3 percentage points over the first half of 2022. As we turn the corner into 2023, however, the landscape so far looks brighter for the RMBS market.

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Hank Miller Team

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

So what happens if the appraisal is below contract price? The early '22 market is already showing it'll be as tight or tighter than the '20 & '21 markets, buyers are tossing off all constraints to "win" the beauty contest of buying a home.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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. mortgage market was ripe for refinancing, but today closer to 10%. . RTC), closed 747 S&Ls with assets of more than $407 billion. .

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Hank Miller Team

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s with a MASSIVE dose of “we think” that we offer our latest opinions (12/16/21) for the first quarter of the 2022 North Atlanta real estate market. It's not a rosy outlook; expect home buyer frustration to increase in 2022. So what's in store for home buyers and sellers that have to make a move this spring?

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 18, 2022

Cancel culture invades real estate.The number of canceled home contracts hit a two year high in June 2022. Atlanta is over the national average but well off the leaders at 17th of the sampled markets. Still, 22 of contracts terminating isn't a anything to ignore. When a buyer terminates, what can a seller do?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5 housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. From NAR : “December was another difficult month for buyers, who continue to face limited inventory and high mortgage rates ,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“It’s now entirely possible for us to qualify buyers for their dream home by the time they leave the open house. Production volume in the first half of this year was down about 47% from the same period in 2022. market share, IMF data showed. Agents submitting an offer at 8:30pm? The lender originated $10.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2023

2023 began as 2022 had ended, with U.S. below its peak in June 2022. Buyers in the market still find themselves competing over relatively few homes for sale, a fact which continues to prop up home prices,” Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at BrightMLS , said in a statement. National Index was down 0.5% Miami (+13.8%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Existing home sales started 2023 right where they left off at the end of 2022, dropping for the 12 th consecutive month. January sales reflect purchase contracts made in November or December, and there is evidence that in many markets, the housing market has bottomed out and buyers are beginning to return to the market.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This is done in advance of having a buyer in order to protect payments from going up in the current rate environment, Guaranteed Rate said in an announcement about the launch. billion in volume in 2022, down 56% from the previous year’s production of $78.13 Guaranteed Rate originated $34.38 About 71.2%

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

The decline, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s (MBA’s) Market Composite Index, continued to be led by a drop in the refinance share of mortgage activity, which has been consistent for more than two months. . Higher mortgage rates also impacted purchase market conditions, according to the MBA. from 10.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

But they do agree on one thing: Higher interest rates will quell housing demand, which will allow inventory to rebound and, eventually, spur the return of reluctant buyers. through the rest of 2022. Signed contracts to purchase existing homes declined a wider-than-expected 8.6% in mid-June,” Yun added.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The 2022 housing market was largely characterized by the swift slowdown in demand caused by rapidly rising mortgage rates. year over year in 2022, according to data from the National Association of Realtors , home prices still managed to rise 5.8% Low inventory has propped up home prices in many markets,” she said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

New home sales data last month was much stronger than had been anticipated; the market had expected a contraction of 4.7% Since July, about 10,000 contracts have been canceled each month, according to data from John Burns Consulting. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. in November.

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