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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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

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million in 2022. Compass attributed some of these struggles to the slower housing market of 2023, which saw Compass close 178,848 transactions, down 15.5% Compass’ other financial results also showed improvements over 2022. million was an improvement over the $158 million net loss in Q4 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” One of the housing economic realities that I have been trying to stress this year is that a traditional seller of a home is typically a buyer as well. Since the credit standards have improved post-2010, we shouldn’t see distressed sellers until a job loss recession happens, even if sales fall noticeably.

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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. Following are excerpts from their responses that reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of the current market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a result, the company’s executives told investors and analysts that they were pleased with the firm’s second quarter performance, especially in touring, financing, and renting. Purchase loan origination volumes in Q2 2023 grew 30% sequentially from Q1 2023 and 73% year over year from Q2 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 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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Quicken Loans

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Anyone keeping an eye on the real estate market watched for predictions in 2021. Along with the pandemic, 2020 brought a chaotic whirlwind for the housing market. In combination with low housing inventory and labor shortages, that drove up selling prices. real estate market is hot. Buyer demand continued.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market is continuing as we get closer to August. I have been talking about the range of inventory that I need to see to remove the ‘ savagely unhealthy’ housing market theme. million, we will be in a much better place for housing. Then, we started 2022 at all-time lows in inventory!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. ” Who is jumping into the market? Investor demand tends to increase at times when most borrowers are waiting for rates to decline, Justin Fullmer, area manager in Idaho for Future Mortgage , told HousingWire. from the week prior.

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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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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Pacific Western Bank also explored a capital raise with potential investors. However, amid volatility in the market and depressed stock prices, “it would not be prudent to move forward with a transaction at this time,” the bank said. billion in the fourth quarter of 2022. In addition, it has drawn $3.7 from the previous closing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

While purchase locks showed significant improvement month over month, the volume is 40% down compared to March 2022. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan share increased to more than 20% of the pipeline in March, up from 18% at the start of the year and 12% from a year ago. “A

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,”

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

The slower housing market at the start of the year was not enough to prevent Fidelity National Financial from turning a profit. During the first quarter of 2023, the Big Four title insurer reported revenue of $2.474 billion, down from $3.167 billion in Q1 2022, and a net income of $59 million compared to $400 million a year prior.

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Mashvisor

APRIL 3, 2022

Are experts seeing signs of a housing market crash 2022? Whether it is true or not, investors should know how to prepare in case a crash happens. In the past…

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Hank Miller Team

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s hard to find a housing market not presently on fire, Atlanta is no different. Compared to a decade ago and the worst housing crisis ever, this market turn around improvement is among the tops in the country. Rising rates, rising rents, diminishing inventory and corporate investors are in the mix.

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Mashvisor

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

If you’re interested in committing to a property in 2022, there are questions you must ask yourself, and at the top of the list: Is the 2022 US housing market…

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Birmingham Appraisal

MAY 11, 2022

So How’s The Birmingham Housing Market? With the first quarter of 2022 under our belts, I thought I would take a quick look at how the numbers stack up against past years, and for March. A shocking stat to me was the steep increase in median prices for the month of March from 2017 to 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Annual house price growth hit a record high in 2021, over 17%, and growth remains in the double digits thus far in 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Affluent Americans (or investors) are the only ones who can bypass the sting of high mortgage rates by paying all cash. That’s the highest down-payment percentage since June 2022. FHA loan usage increases in September As sellers field fewer offers, buyers with FHA loans may have greater luck to close on a home. in April 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

During 2021 and into 2022, the surveys on whether it’s a good time to buy a house have simply collapsed. This did ring some alarm bells last year as many housing crash addicts used the results of Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index to call for an epic crash in the second half of 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

During 2021 and into 2022, the surveys on whether it’s a good time to buy a house have simply collapsed. This did ring some alarm bells last year as many housing crash addicts used the results of Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index to call for an epic crash in the second half of 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. Hey Clayton …” and a link. No surprise here. Jobs are important.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Just like Earth, mortgage rates and housing markets are cyclic and we’re heading into another Ice Age. We are looking at this 2022 market like a snow day in January. FHA, VA and USDA aren’t accepted by sellers. The first quarter of 2022 has already shown us substantial drops in volume.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

So, it appears Angel Oak’s liquidity channels are open for business this year, despite what the lender’s asset management arm, Angel Oak Capital Advisors , described in a recently published “2022 Mid-Year Outlook” white paper as a very challenging market for nonagency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Is that the case for all major Texas housing markets? What should buyers and sellers be doing right now? What should they expect in this housing market? We’ll dive into the state of the Texas real estate market with Real Estate Real Fast host Aaron Jistel. How to vet real estate agents as a seller.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

We remain in a tough part of the cycle,” Ryan Schneider, the CEO of Anywhere Real Estate, told investors and analysts on the firm’s second quarter earnings call Tuesday morning. This is due, in large part, to a 15% head count reduction since June 2022. We don’t the rule is necessary for the market to operate well,” Schneider said. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The latest – perhaps final – rate increase comes on the heels of eight rate hikes since March 17, 2022, which includes four 75 basis point increases in June , July , September and November , a 50 basis point increase in December and 25 basis point hike in February. ”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

The company also launched temporary rate buydowns, which allows borrowers to receive lower mortgage rates at the beginning of their loan terms by using seller concessions as part of the payment. It comes at a time in which the housing market favors buyers and seller concessions become more frequent. and Sprout Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage broke 7% for the first time since April 2002, leading to greater stagnation in the housing market,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a statement. Temporary rate buydowns are not new, but tend to receive more attention when rates surge, according to industry experts.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

“Home sellers are buyers” — this is a phrase that I have been using in my economic work to explain the reality of the housing market recently. So, when home prices and mortgage rates rise so quickly, some sellers won’t list , which means they’re not buying either. million in July 2022). million in July.

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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. Who will buy these assets?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022. It also allows home sellers to receive top dollar for the home, he said. The product, known as an assumable mortgage, is not new.

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