Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Real estate investors purchasing distressed properties at foreclosure auction have been telegraphing a possible housing market slowdown for the last six months. A deeper dive into foreclosure buyer behavior shows which markets are most likely to see a home price correction in the next six months.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” The pool of non-QM borrowers includes real estate investors, fix-and-flippers, foreign nationals, business owners, gig economy workers and the self-employed.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. We are not taking the unhealthy housing market theme off this marketplace.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

Reports released this week by several respected market observers point to less good and increased bad and ugly ahead for the housing market. Moody’s Investors Service , in a housing-market report released this week, puts some ugly back into the home-sales figures for May, however. in the two prior estimates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Read on to learn more about what Doug Duncan – Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist — and Mark Palim – Fannie Mae’s vice president and deputy chief economist – had to say about the housing market, the Fed’s interest rate cut timeline and their views on overcapacity in the industry. How close are we from being done?

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Dubbed “Investors Flex,” the non-QM product for real estate investors, offered purchase and refinance loans up to $2 million that could be used to finance up to 20 properties by using each property’s monthly rental income to qualify. billion in mortgage loans in the first quarter of 2022, a 29.7% UWM originated $38.8

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

The housing market boomed in 2021 like few could have expected. What is on the horizon in 2022? This makes new home construction a continued challenge, even as demand exists to accelerate new housing. Things may be taking a turn for the better in 2022, though. COVID-19 has made investors wary and workers scarce.

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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

The rapidly cooling housing market in 2022 was not kind to Big Four title insurer Old Republic. While the century-old firm, which is celebrating its 100 th anniversary in 2023, did generate net income for both the fourth quarter of 2022 as well as for the year as a whole, it was down substantially last year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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. It is always good to know where we are with the real estate market, but it is essential to keep all data in historical perspective. . Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Supply being near all-time lows is one thing, but existing home sales aren’t crashing like they did in 2022. The supply and demand equilibrium changed after November 2022, and that itself has kept prices rising even with existing home sales still trending at the lowest levels ever for the third calender year. million in March.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It is very good news for the housing market, which has suffered greatly from the affects of rate hikes over the last nine months. Forward thinkers are seeing the bright side of a slower housing market and capitalizing on this time to prepare for a future when the housing market is hot again.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall.

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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. The Fed report shows HELOC balances nationwide stood at a total of $336 billion at yearend 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Despite the closed title purchase order volume dropping 36% year over year and the number of closed refinance orders dropping 79% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, Fidelity National Financial still managed to record a strong Q4 in 2022. For the full year 2022, Fidelity’s title segment recorded revenue of $9.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps early next year, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. All signs point to continuing upward pressure on interest rates in 2022. by the end of 2022.”. With rates rising, housing-?nance

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Growing obstacles in 2022’s market. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), Q2 2022 saw total loan production expenses—including commissions, compensation, occupancy, equipment and other production expenses and corporate allocations—soar to a study-high of $10,937 per loan, up from $10,637 per loan in Q1 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Surveyed professionals also pointed to finding investor clients and have had success with products such as non-qualified mortgages ( non-QM s), down payment assistance programs (DPAs) and home equity line of credits ( HELOC s). “U.S. home prices continued to rally in July 2023,” Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P DJI , said.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Despite the expected flattening of volume year-over-year, the non-QM sector is expected to double its market share in 2022, from about 5% in 2021 to nearly 10%, according to HomeXpress. So, what do brokers need to know about non-QM heading into 2022? Last year, the non-QM sector experienced a pause in the secondary market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Conway, Arkansas. Rochester, New York.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director Sandra Thompson has put affordability at the top of the annual to-do list for the government-sponsored enterprises. In its 2022 Scorecard , the conservator also tasked the GSEs with updating their pricing framework to “increase support for core mission borrowers.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Despite slower housing market conditions , Big Four title firms Stewart , First American and Fidelity National Financial all managed to earn profits in 2023. Both figures were down significantly from 2022 when it recorded $3.07 Executives at First American also lamented the challenging housing market conditions posed in 2023.

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Mashvisor

MARCH 23, 2022

The Denver housing market has performed exceptionally well in 2021 but will it continue to be scorching hot in 2022? Table of contents Denver Housing Market 2022: Will It Be…

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Mashvisor

JANUARY 10, 2022

As we usher in the new year, a lot of real estate investors and homebuyers are looking for 2022 housing market predictions and forecasts. Will the trends from 2021 continue…

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

After a record breaking year in 2021 , 2022 is off to a slow start for “big four” title insurer First American Financial. The firm generated $2 billion in total revenue during the first quarter of 2022, unchanged from a year ago. The market is currently transitioning from record low interest rates to a more normalized environment.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Founded in 2013 by Brew Johnson, Brett Crosby and Alex Perelman, Peer Street developed a marketplace connecting lenders and borrowers seeking capital to investors looking for real estate-related debt. The business attracted investor Michael Burry, one of the featured players in “The Big Short.” million in 2021, Dunn wrote.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. Today, the average is 2.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

The multinational investment bank and financial services company says home prices, which have been on the decline since June 2022, will fall further this year than previously predicted. The company is eyeing the San Jose, Austin, Phoenix, and San Diego markets in particular. The index projected a decline of 6.1%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

On Friday NAR reported that total housing inventory levels broke under 1 million in December, dropping to 970,00 units for a population of 330 million people. 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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“Most home sellers are buyers of homes, so the action we are seeing this year is a healthy step in the right direction to get more balance in the housing market ,” Mohtashami wrote on Saturday. The most recent inventory bottom was in 2022 at 240,194 units, while the inventory peak in 2023 was 569,898. Between Feb.

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Mashvisor

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Colorado Housing Market Forecast 2022 The time has come to expand your real estate portfolio with a property in the state of Colorado. And a smart real estate investment is…

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“We are excited about how we are set up for 2024 and beyond,” CEO Carrie Wheeler told investors and analysts listening to the firm’s Q4 2023 earnings call on Thursday evening. Indicative of Opendoor’s scaled-back approach to business was the fact that it bought just 11,246 homes in 2023, compared to 34,962 homes in 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Onder raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital including a pre-seed round led by Rackhouse Ventures in 2021, but in late 2022, as the housing market slowed and economic uncertainty rose, the flow of venture capital funds slowed. EasyKnock received $57 million in venture capital last year.

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Mashvisor

JANUARY 11, 2022

Are you looking to invest in the Michigan real estate market in 2022? The thought of real estate investments in Michigan has made many investors feel stuck between a rock…

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

million increase of 2022. While this is below the job growth in 2021 and 2022, when the economy was rebounding from the sharp job losses in 2020, it is still a much higher pace of job growth than we had before the pandemic,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said in a statement. With December’s numbers in, a total of 2.7

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Mashvisor

MARCH 5, 2022

What do experts say about the Idaho Housing Market Forecast 2022? Read on as we give you a sketch of the Idaho real estate market and its drivers.

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