Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But do not conflate a more moderate rate of GDP growth as a contraction,” Harker said. before heading toward 4% in 2025. I do expect GDP gains to continue through the end of 2023, before pulling back slightly in 2024. He expected unemployment to end the year at about 4%, above the current 3.8%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

We’re operating the company prudently as if the mortgage industry origination volumes will remain at or near historic low levels through 2025,” Nima Ghamsari, Blend’s co-founder, said in an earnings call on Monday. Blend Labs reported a $478.4 million loss in the second quarter, following a $73.5 million loss in the first quarter.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

. “We continue to aggressively reset our cost structure to address the impact of generationally low unit volumes as we maintain our focused execution of Vision 2025,” Martell said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Pontiac, Michigan-based wholesale lender will instead coordinate appraisals in-house, contracting with appraisers directly, offering appraisers and brokers a way to bypass AMCs altogether, which UWM CEO Mat Ishbia characterizes as “middlemen.”. It currently has about 35% of the wholesale market. “If

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

EPM filed a counterclaim against JIM for breaching the sponsorship contract by changing the car’s driver starting May 2022. “The Defendant has breached the terms of the Lease by failing and refusing to pay the rent and other amounts owed under the Lease,” the plaintiff said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

Several lenders have major sponsorships with Major League Baseball teams, including LoanDepot’s nearly $10 million a year-contract for naming rights of the Miami Marlins’ stadium, now called LoanDepot Park. LoanDepot will also be the official presenting sponsor of the League Championship Series until 2025.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

By doing so, you are adding value to their marketing efforts and getting them a contract even if you don’t write a loan on that home,” Clark said. trillion in 2025, according to forecasts from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). “Our philosophy is, ‘Go help agents that are sending you buyers.’ For comparison, lenders funded $2.4

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Meanwhile, 2025 and 2026 will be off the charts. And 2024, 2025 and 2026, they’ll be the three best mortgage years in history because everybody that’s doing 6.5% And 2025 and 2026 will be off the charts. Ishbia: The reality is if a broker breaks the contract and if they have, we will address it, and we will win.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

We expect things to pick up this year, but certainly 2025 should be a great year so ’24 is that bridge year. There is a lot of inefficiency in managing a lot of contracts and integrations are always a nightmare. JB: I think 2024 is going to be a really interesting bridge year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We could be down to 60,000 to 70,000 originators by 2025.” .” Dave Stevens, CEO at Mountain Lake Consulting and former president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), said the current rate environment “is what’s crushing the mortgage industry and grinding it to a halt.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Overall, the California-based lender is implementing a program dubbed “Vision 2025” to save between $375 million and $400 million annualized, including headcount reduction, process optimizations, real estate consolidation and reduction in marketing and third-party spending. . . ” The company reported a net loss of $91.3

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Yes, demand will slow if unemployment climbs, but it’s probably 2025 before we see the bulk of that. Contracts growing We continue to see the new contracts grow each week: There were 7.7% more new contracts started this week than the same week a year ago.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

So while we can see currently the prices of home sales holding up, the signals for the end of 2024 and into 2025 seem to suggest we’re heading for flat home prices. We can measure home sales in real time by tracking all the homes that moved to contract pending status this week. There were another 15,000 condos into contract.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 19, 2024

The transformation is required at the end of 2026 with testing beginning late 2025. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) increased to 7.13 The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 6.90

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

trillion in 2025, up from $1.50 Q4/Q4 contraction of real gross domestic product (GDP). Home prices are now expected to rise 3.2% over the year, compared to 7.1% Origination volume forecast for 2024 Fannie Mae forecasts the total single-family mortgage originations volume to be $1.98 trillion in 2024 and $2.44 trillion in 2023.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Appraising will be different in 2025. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) increased to 7.31 The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with jumbo loan balances (greater than $726,200) increased to 7.32 percent from 7.27

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

The question now is: will we surpass that all-time high this year or will it get delayed until 2025? Pending sales This week saw 66,000 new contracts for single-family homes started. The median price of all the homes in contract right now is $389,000. That’s 15% more than the same week a year ago.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

recession to begin in 2023, which gathered more votes than 2022 (30%), 2024 (8%) or 2025 and beyond (17%). The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) increased to 5.40 The average contract interest rate for 15-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 4.62

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The median price of the homes in contract is higher than last year and the new sales each week are up a few percent over last year. We could see inventory from distressed sellers emerge in 2025. There are now 378,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. This is what a soft landing looks like. There was no crash.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Those covenants, or contracts, include requirements related to lender financials, such as minimum net worth or income requirements, that, if breached, can lead to cancellation of the agreements. So, what people are now talking about is mid-2024 or maybe 2025 will be a killer [renewed boom].”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

The speed of the rate hikes has shrunk gain-on-sale margins because mortgage companies haven’t contracted quickly enough to offset falling demand. His prediction is that 2025 and 2026 “will be off the charts.” But servicing performance has been exceptional. Ishbia’s goal is to get the broker channel back to 33% overall market share. “It

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 26, 2024

Current listings and especially homes in contract show current market conditions. The problem with listings and homes in contract is that they are not closed sales. Many listings have price changes before closing while homes in contract will sometimes fall out or will close at a price different from that published in the MLS.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

The dozen federal civil lawsuits filed in reaction to the Lakeview data breach to date, each of which make similar claims and seek similar damages, accuse Lakeview of negligence, breach of contract and fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment as well as violations of state consumer privacy and unfair business practices laws. trillion in U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

We know buyers are eager to purchase properties, as 39% more homes went under contract in January (1719 units) compared with the previous – admittedly quiet – month. Bellevue saw a 68% increase in condos going under contract – or Pending sales – (163) in the past month for a 17% YoY boost. in Q1 2025 (6.3%) 5.6%

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

2024-2025 USPAP 7-Hour Update Course is being approved or is approved, in the states. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) increased to 7.53 The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 7.29

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 9, 2024

It was particularly true on the Eastside, where sales surged 52% from February to March and 9% year-on-year (YoY) and inventory narrowed to under a month (29 days) before all homes for sale would theoretically be under contract if no others hit the market. The typical Seattle condo is selling for $587,500, up 5.3% since February and 9.8%

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As someone who’s potentially interested in ‘training’ appraisers on the new process, it seems to me that providing training in Q2 2025 would be more appropriate than 6 months before. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) remained unchanged at 6.78

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The number of homes going under contract – known in the industry as Pending sales – fell to 2340, an August figure not seen in King since 2010 when there were only 1580 in the heart of the housing crisis. Many economists believe a recession isn’t likely in the last months of this year but they aren’t ruling out a downturn in 2024 and 2025.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In his estimate: “Homebuilding’s going to contract.”. Realtor.com anticipates the market recalibration could last through 2025. Homes go under contract in a median 20 days, up an additional 11 days from only a month earlier. Homes are going under contract at a median of 15 days, 10 fewer days from three years ago.

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