Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The national real estate brokerage found that the nationwide median sale price reached $420,357 in March 2024. In Texas and Florida , however, key market signals show diverging trends. year over year in March, although growth in listings is expected to subside due to the lock-in effect of higher mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “The bond market is forcing the Fed to pivot.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But in 2024, industry analysts believe mortgage rates will be the primary focus for many firms. “I I think the three most important factors driving sentiment and action next year are going to be supply, demand and mortgage rates.” Morgan , said. So, that has always been the concern.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, housing professionals hope for relief from the high mortgage rates, terrible inventory levels and slow sales that characterized the year. They may find that relief for mortgage rates next year, according to forecasts from various industry experts compiled by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

Adam Wiener, Redfin ’s president of real estate services, is leaving the brokerage after nearly 16 years of service, CEO Glenn Kelman announced in an email sent to employees on Tuesday. He then went on to run the partner program, analytics, marketing and a variety of new businesses. Change is necessary and good,” said Kelman.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The last two years of soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices have brought the fastest erosion in housing market affordability in modern history, and it’s hurt first-time homebuyers the most. To conduct this analysis, Redfin compared median monthly mortgage payments for homebuyers in August 2023 and August 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Despite persistently high interest rates , big four title firm Fidelity National Financial recorded a much stronger start to 2024 than it did a year ago. In first-quarter 2024 , Fidelity reported total revenue of $3.299 billion, up from $2.474 billion a year ago. The firm’s title segment reported $1.7

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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. Additionally, Wheeler noted that the firm tripled its market share from Q1 to Q4 2023, growth that Wheeler and Opendoor plan to expand upon in 2024.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Louis-based Clever Real Estate found that recent homebuyers, as well as people who are considering a home purchase in the next year, are experiencing a laundry list of difficulties. Last month, Clever surveyed a total of 920 Americans about their views of the home purchase process and real estate agents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

You can see why I have been on team higher mortgage rates for some time now because we don’t have any other way to get off this madness. Total inventory data is deficient, and this was my biggest fear in the years 2020-2024, and it happened. Housing is the cost of shelter to own the debt; it’s not an investment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Even though Jerome Powell announced three rate cuts in 2024, Fannie Mae Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) group continues to forecast a modest downturn in 2024. Since the beginning of November, mortgage applications have rebounded approximately 15%. HousingWire last week analyzed several of the 2024 industry forecasts.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mortgage rates stabilized in the past week but remain close to the narrow range observed since the start of this month. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.69% as of Jan. 25, an increase from last week’s figure of 6.60%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Now that mortgage rates have risen, demand is getting hit, while we are still showing 14.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Now he is off the sideline because a 5% down payment is completely doable,” said Krichmar, a mortgage banker at Legend Lending Corporation. Based on annual changes to an index of national home prices, conforming loan limits for mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on one-unit properties will be $766,550 in 2024.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

For housing and mortgage professionals, however, these apparent boons spell trouble. The cold water comes in the form of the Fed continuing its presently high federal funds rate, which indirectly produces higher mortgage rates. Thus far in 2024, economic strength and persistent inflation seem to be surprising experts again.

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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%. The real story in housing has been the price boom that we have seen since 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The housing industry, including the secondary market it feeds, is still likely to be sluggish in 2024, with marginal improvements in some sectors as others tread water or retreat slightly, industry players who spoke with HousingWire predict. said many of the same headwinds the market faced in 2023 remain as we roll into 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Foreclosures remained relatively stable in the first quarter of 2024 and homeowners continue to hold significant equity. properties started the foreclosure process in March 2024, up 3% from the previous month but down 4% from March 2023, according to a report released Thursday by real estate analytics company Attom.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

While reverse mortgage volume in 2024 got off to a rocky start, new data that breaks out retail Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements versus wholesale production showed that it was the former that took the bigger hit in the first month of the year, based on new data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Marketing Leaders award are open now through April 30th, 2024. The HousingWire Marketing Leaders award recognizes outstanding professionals who have demonstrated excellence in marketing within mortgage and real estate. Click here to nominate someone.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“ Recovery year ” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales. A little more than two months into the year, however, mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been as the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The housing market will continue to slow down in 2023 , even though mortgage rates have declined recently. According to the Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group, the real gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 0.4% So what does it mean for the housing market ? . in 2022 and drop 0.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

Thanks to high mortgage rates , mortgage refinance rates, and even higher home prices , the vibe among homebuyers has been fairly bleak these past couple months. In Fannie Mae ‘s most recent National Housing Survey, only 17% of consumers said they think it’s a good time to buy a home. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

If you bought into the theories being peddled by this crash-cult crowd (who, by the way, have been infecting the discourse of economics since the creation of social media and YouTube channels) then you would have believed that the second housing market bubble crash was imminent during 2020. housing market. But the 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. 31% in 2023-2024. And they hope that rates will soon fall. in 2019-2020, 16.9-17.2%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule. You should be finding buyers before real estate agents anyway.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. housing market; the 10-year is above 1.94%, something that didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021. million to 4.98 million in January 2019.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2021

During the previous economic expansion from 2008 to 2019, the housing market was subject to the constant refrain of build more homes. We first had to whittle down the excess inventory and get our financial house in order (i.e., million until 2020-2024. We still have not seen housing starts begin the year at the level.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the current, not the waves, that will propel longstanding changes in the American housing market, said Logan Mohtashami , HousingWire’s lead analyst. In winter 2020, on the brink of the COVID-19 pandemic, the housing economy was “on an even keel,” Mohtashami said. This content is exclusively for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. For real estate professionals, this option presents an opportunity to capture more sales. Yet staggeringly few are aware of its existence.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In a groundbreaking development for the real estate and mortgage industries, HousingWire has announced the successful merger of HousingWire Annual and RealTrends’ Gathering of Eagles. This isn’t your father’s housing event. No, instead it’s a place to reinject life into this savagely unhealthy housing market.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Elevated mortgage rates and high home prices pushed sales of existing homes down again in October to the lowest monthly pace since August 2010. Multiple offers, however, are still occurring, especially on starter and mid-priced homes, even as price concessions are happening in the upper end of the market.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As mortgage rates edged near multi-decade highs, pending home sales declined 1.5% Historically high rates harmed the housing market in October Annualized existing home sales remained below 4 million in October, the lowest rate since 2010. Pending home sales in October fell to their lowest level since 2001. down from 72.6

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

On Wednesday evening, during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call with investor and analysts, CEO Rich Barton took a contrary view: Zillow is just beginning to unlock its revenue generating potential. “In In a hostile housing market and a noisy industry environment, why is Zillow outperforming?” he posited. Of the approximately 1.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Dallas, Texas – HousingWire, the leader in mortgage and real estate news and information, proudly announces the ascension of its flagship podcast, HousingWire Daily , to the No. Our vision is a world in which housing leaders have a complete view of the housing market, and a broad community of peers with whom they can connect.

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