Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Ahead of Friday’s national jobs report, mortgage rates have found stability after increasing for multiple weeks. Polly ’s average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans was 7.17% on Tuesday, down from 7.24% one week earlier, according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center. one week earlier. Between Feb.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

in the previous month… Nine of the 20 cities reported higher price increases in the year ending April 2022 versus the year ending March 2022. This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. Imagine if mortgage rates didn’t rise this year. The 20-City Composite posted a 21.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

After nearly three years of doom and gloom in the mortgage industry, housing experts — including Fannie Mae economists — are expecting interest rates to ease. Connie Kim : Fannie Mae calls for mortgage rates to dip below 6% by the end of this year. If mortgage rates get down to 5%, then I think there is a nonlinear piece to it.

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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. However, this year has seen one big game-changer: the 10-year yield finally cracked over 1.94%, which drove mortgage rates over 4%. We have been through a lot of drama since 2012, especially the drama in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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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. home-price boom is over.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the country’s largest wholesale lender, expanded its debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) loan options to four after launching its first product in March. With the expanded options, investors could get loans starting as little as $50,000 and up to $2 million. UWM originated $38.8

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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. at the end of April, according to HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center. They crested near 7.6%

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Average mortgage rates on 30-year fixed home loans continued their march towards 8% this week as the Treasury yield surpassed 5%. Rates have been steadily climbing for seven straight weeks, the longest consecutive increase since Spring 2022, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. million units sold.

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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

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.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.76% this week, down from 5.87% the prior week.

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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. 2023’s forward thinkers are investing in mortgage tech now. Housing market observers are watching closely. .” Defying aggressive action from the Fed is the strong labor market.

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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

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. rebranded as Rithm Capital ). Toohig said Raymond James finished the year with some $1.1

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. 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

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. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in March was $393,500, an increase of 4.8% All four U.S.

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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. Mortgage rates will steadily rise, possibly to 3.3% by the end of 2022.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

Mortgage rates fell again this week, but the primary cause was not the banking crisis fiasco. According to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage declined to 6.28% as of April 4, down from 6.32% the previous week. range mid-week, and mortgage rates also tracked lower,” Jones added.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In the quest to extend homeownership to everyday Americans, local lenders—a segment that includes credit unions, community banks and independent mortgage banks serving communities across the country—play a vital role. counties , local lenders help millions of people access resources and services necessary to buy a house.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Recently, the Mortgage Bankers Association increased its 2021 forecast in total mortgage origination volume from $3.74 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. Looking back.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

Mortgage rates rose slightly this week ahead of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee ‘s rate hike. The 25-basis point increase to the federal funds rate was widely anticipated and priced in by capital markets. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.30% a year ago at this time. million.

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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. s quarter one earnings just as the stock markets opened early Thursday morning. Our mortgage business took a pretty tough hit,” said Ryan Schneider, who has been Realogy’s CEO since the start of 2018. “Our

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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week made a series of significant changes to loan level pricing adjustment (LLPA) fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on conventional/conforming mortgages. The changes include updates to pricing for second homes, high-balance loans and cash-out refinances that were first announced in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

Fintech startup Tomo will allow borrowers to lock in a mortgage rate for up to 120 days, about twice as long as most lenders. . The lock-in period complements a new product dubbed “Lock & Shop,” which does not require a property address to guarantee a mortgage rate, according to the company. .

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s counterintuitive but real: Despite surging mortgage rates , borrowers’ demand for home loans rose last week. There were very low levels of mortgage applications in the weeks prior to the surprising uptick. In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. ”

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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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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. Presented by: Polly.

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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

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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It’s proving to be a brutal February for the mortgage industry, with mortgage demand falling for the third time in four weeks. At a time when purchase activity typically ramps up, the latest mortgage application data is showing that mortgage demand is dropping due to mortgage rates climbing back up. of the total.

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