Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

Connecting with clients and consumers has never been an easy task, and today’s market has been no exception. Tasked with an endless list of functions, this year’s 2022 Marketing Leaders did it all despite market turmoil. VP, Marketing & Growth. Vice President, Marketing & Communications. Alan Parris.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage increased to 3.22% during the week ending Jan. 6, up from 3.11% the week prior, according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS Mortgage Survey. A year ago, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 2.65%. The 15-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 2.43% last week, up from 2.33% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Falling mortgage rates last week brought increased demand. 1 compared to the previous week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.17% last week. Refinance applications exceeded their 2022 levels for the second week in a row, a first since late 2021.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

With a challenging year ahead, the professional services company affiliated with Rocket Mortgage has decided to restructure the marketing team in the first week of 2023, resulting in about 20 jobs cut, according to former employees. . Late last week, the Rocket Central Marketing team announced a reorganization,” he said. “As

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2024

Mortgage rates had a chance to break to new highs this year, but the Federal Reserve took a moderate tone at the last Fed meeting. We saw the benefit of lower mortgage rates with the last two existing home sales reports, which showed growth. Then mortgage rates rose, facilitating five weeks of negative purchase application data.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

Like its nonbank competitors, Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America operated in a highly challenging mortgage market in 2022. “The fourth quarter results were weaker than we expected,” a team of mortgage lending analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods wrote in a report. The retail channel, with $8.2

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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 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Thanks to a boom in the housing market and a historic refinance market, the past two years have been a favorable period for the mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The housing market experienced more volatility last week, with housing inventory dropping as mortgage rates moved higher. The start of 2023 has been good, considering mortgage rates have stayed above 6% most of the time. I am keeping an eye on how much growth we can get with mortgage rates over 6%. Since Nov.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The trough for the mortgage origination market is nearing an end point and 2024 is shaping up to be a better year for the industry, economists of the the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said at the 2023 Annual Convention & Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But then a rebound in 2024 — up 19%,” Fratantoni said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Americans’ debt balances continued to compound in 2022 as inflation put pressure on budgets and the cost of borrowing increased. Per the report, mortgage balances drove the uptick in household debt during the fourth quarter, with an increase of $254 billion compared to Q3. trillion by the end of December.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The honey badger labor market woke up on Friday and chose violence, biting the legs of any job recession bear it could find. The first reaction from the bond market was to shoot up bond yields and mortgage rates went higher. labor market? However, as the day progressed, bond yields decreased from the peak.

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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. These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. In a regular market, they would be closer to 5.25%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2022

In its second year, HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders award is honoring the most creative and influential marketing minds of the housing economy. Eligible nominees include CMOs (or equivalent title) in mortgage lending, servicing and real estate. The post Nominations for the 2022 Marketing Leaders are open!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Securitizations backed by jumbo loans and mortgages on residential investment properties have propelled a rebounding private-label market in 2021. Still, the balance of the year looks promising for the private-label market, according to MAXEX. And the elephant in the room is interest rates. “We Become a member today.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Recent market trends — including an improvement in mortgage rates, housing affordability and potential refinance opportunities — suggest positive signs for the real estate market this year, according to February’s Mortgage Monitor report from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Mortgage rates held at 6.71% as of Jan.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s a tough time for mortgage lenders. A rapid rise in mortgage rates and a big drop in origination volume has led to thousands of industry job losses over the last six months. By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As we approach 2022, some concerning headwinds confront the mortgage origination industry. For companies to survive and thrive, mortgage executives must focus on three primary factors: risk, strategy and efficiency. In terms of managing financial risk, considerations include interest rate, market and reputation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Guaranteed Rate hired Bijoy John, former head of marketing at Newrez , as its vice president of marketing. John’s new tasks will include consumer direct marketing and the crafting of strategies for new products. What led me to Guaranteed Rate’s marketing team was Victor Ciardelli’s vision for the company.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2024

We survived jobs week and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talking to Congress, with mortgage rates ending the week below 7%. But will mortgage rates keep heading lower? Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for all my housing work, so I focus on it religiously. We haven’t broken either yet.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2024

The mortgage rate lockdown premise says that if rates rise, inventory can’t grow meaningfully. The idea is that nobody will trade their low mortgage rates to buy another home — even though this happened every week last year. With mortgage rates higher, will this stop inventory from growing year over year?

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Go Mortgage sued its former director of capital markets for “corporate sabotage,” alleging computer fraud, violation of trade secrets, breach of contract and tortious interference with a business relationship. Chikonde worked at Optimal Blue for five years before joining Go Mortgage, according to her LinkedIn profile.)

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced the baseline conforming loan limit for 2022 will be $647,200, an increase of 18%. The federal government will now back mortgage loans of nearly $1 million, with the new ceiling loan limit for one-unit properties in most high-cost areas now $970,800 — or 150% of $647,200.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

That figure was up 5% year over year and was only 3% below the peak price of $432,496 in May 2022. In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. Major markets such as Tampa, Orlando and Dallas also posted supply growth of 20% to 30% during this period. Redfin reported that among the 10 U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Housing professionals already know that high mortgage rates are bad for business. But with mortgage rates ascending past 7% according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center , those hopes have so far been dashed in 2024. Bad for sellers Prospective home sellers may not notice incremental changes in mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Will mortgage rates break toward 8% again, making another 2024 data line that looks like a carbon copy of 2023? It’s not part of my 2024 forecast, but since the Federal Reserve likes playing with fire , let’s look at where we are with mortgage rates and their impact on weekly housing data. Serious mortgage rate talk!

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee-headquartered Defy Mortgage is the latest player to join the non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending space, which targets entrepreneurs and gig workers who have various forms of collateral, including cryptocurrency. We are able to count it as liquidity from a reserve requirement and for asset depletion.”. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

In February 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8%, marking an 0.2 The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due), accounted for 1.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

When the entire mortgage industry saw volume drop by more than half in 2022, nearly every lender emerged with battle scars. Non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) wholesale lender A&D Mortgage , however, saw origination volume increase by more than 31% to $3.2 billion in 2022, up from the previous year’s $2.2

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Mortgage rates went from a low of 2.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). in events to garner business. were from the Northeast 16.3%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How will mortgage rates impact seasonal inventory in 2024? Also, when mortgage rates rise, the inventory peak happens later in the year. I am a very pro-housing supply person and will feel much better about the housing market when we return to pre-COVID-19 levels for total active listings.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Total mortgage delinquencies rose slightly in the third quarter of 2023 as the job market cools and inflation puts more pressure on homeowners. However, delinquency rates are still well below historical averages, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The haunted house ride with the bond market and mortgage rates continued this week, but one housing data line hasn’t been spooked. New listing data appears unafraid of the mortgage rate ghost story over the last few months. In the same vein, the bond market is now very oversold.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

The 2022 TECH100 Mortgage list of honorees spotlights the innovators that are making the housing sector better and more sustainable by increasing efficiency, improving borrower experience and bringing elasticity to mortgage origination and servicing processes. Markets Served. finicity.com/mortgage/. Mortgage Coach.

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