Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“We believe the pay-to-play marketplace is a step backwards for consumers and the industry as a whole and we very much like our position and growth plan in a market structure the continually evolves towards our principles of access, independence and transparency,” he said. It’s a year of execution as we prepare to scale in 2024 and 2025.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Last year, fast-rising rates and related volatility, coupled with liquidity challenges in the bank and nonbank sectors, high home prices and a shortage of housing inventory all worked together to suppress mortgage originations and the secondary market outlets for those loans as well. trillion, down considerably from the $4.4

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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. trillion in 2025, according to forecasts from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). economy remains hot.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

housing market could have a soft landing in 2023. The market was roaring — way too hot — with bidding wars, speculators and investors who thought they couldn’t lose. By October 2022, it looked like 2023 would have rising inventory and falling home prices. Inventory has fallen all year. is $450,000.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. At the end of the day if mortgage rates come down, I don’t just think that’s gonna solve the inventory problem right away,” said Ben Cohen, managing director at Guaranteed Rate.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

So, even at the current rate of new-home construction, with demand at stellar levels, the homebuilding industry is still falling well short of the break-even point needed to actually reduce the nation’s housing deficit, assuming the experts are correct. So, that just means not everybody can afford a new house, or a house altogether.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The expected open unit increase was highlighted by several California-based Realtors, who all agreed that demand is higher than available inventory. “I Wildfire-relief funding generated by the law is not expected to be dispersed until 2025, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 14, 2024

Even after a few weeks of mortgage rate jumps, the Seattle/King County housing market is displaying surprising strength. It may take four to six months to be realized,” noted Mason Virant from the University of Washington, “but higher levels of for-sale inventory should soon have an impact on stabilizing price levels.”

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There is a feeling of Halloween in the real estate world because this housing market is a bit scary these days. The market is spooking many potential buyers and sellers thanks to stubbornly high mortgage interest rates. I would call it ‘housing purgatory’ rather than housing recession,” says Marci Rossell, noted U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 13, 2024

GIMME SHELTER: AMERICA’S HOUSING PROBLEM WORSENS This country is struggling – mightily – to put enough roofs over the heads of Americans. Housing inventory nationwide flipped from oversupply to undersupply about a dozen years ago when consumers and the banking industry began to slowly rebound financially from the Great Recession.

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