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New home sales continue to climb in 2023

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. 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. On a year-over-year basis, however, new home sales are still down 19.4%.

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The state of the homebuilding market

Housing Wire

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. 2022 marked a unique time for homebuilders. Our upcoming State of the Residential Construction Industry (SORCI) Report will reflect how builders have braced for impact: Despite the rate of new contracts slowing, margins didn’t decrease. Quality Leads.

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Planet Home Lending adds new regional sales manager

Housing Wire

Adding his leadership skills will be beneficial at a time when Planet is looking to differentiate itself with various purchase loan products, one-time-close construction loans and other niche programs, the company stated. Bolstered by its 2022 acquisition of Homepoint ’s delegated correspondent channel, Planet originated $13.9

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Credit for Builders Less Available, Costs More

Eyes on Housing

During the second quarter of 2022, credit became both tighter and more costly on loans for Acquisition, Development & Construction (AD&C) according to NAHB’s Survey on AD&C Financing.

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Six Essential Steps to Commercial Real Estate Success

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Working as a commercial real estate developer can be a lucrative career path for savvy entrepreneurs. Setting Yourself Up for Success in Real Estate Development. Perhaps the most important trait for a commercial real estate developer is the ability to identify an ideal piece of land. Image by Unsplash. Network to get funding.

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Trade groups express concern to FHFA over historic credit data

Housing Wire

We hope that by providing early, proactive, and constructive feedback to FHFA and the GSEs, there will be adequate time to augment the data made available in the planned 3Q 2024 data release as well as in any subsequent data release.” and FICO 10T credit score models as well as the bi-merge credit reporting policy,” the letter added.

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Mortgage rates continue their fall, to 2.93%

Housing Wire

Though uncertainties over consumer behaviors related to reopening and COVID-19 developments remain, the group believes temporary factors are largely responsible for current strong inflation. Fannie Mae’s economic group said its outlook on mortgage rates will remain the same: 30-year fixed contract rate at 3% in 2021 and 3.3%

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