Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 31, 2025

According to Fannie Maes Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group , mortgage rates are now expected to end 2025 and 2026 at 6.3% in 2026, modest downward revisions owing to weaker incoming data and greater clarity on trade policy. and 6.2%, respectively, downward revisions of three-tenths for each. in 2025 and 2.1%

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2025

billion in 2026 for nonbank mortgage issuers under its coverage. Like PennyMac, other nonbank mortgage companies are expected to extend their debt profile in the coming years. Fitch estimates 2025s maturity wall at $1.5 billion for the remainder of the year, picking up to $2.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

NAR also updated its 2026 projections. It previously predicted home-price growth of 2% in 2025 and 2026, but it has revised these upward to 3% and 4%, respectively. These are downward revisions from the forecast they released in late 2024, which predicted existing-home sales in 2025 to hit 4.9

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The deal is projected to boost Rockets adjusted earnings per share by late 2026. .” Rocket expects the merger to generate over $200 million in run-rate synergies by 2027, including $140 million in cost savings from streamlining operations and $60 million in revenue gains by connecting financing clients with Redfin agents.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The largest financial institutions — banks holding at least $250 billion in total assets and nondepository institutions generating at least $10 billion in 2023 or 2024 — must comply with the rules by April 1, 2026. Meanwhile, smaller institutions — providers that hold more than $850 million and less than $1.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rule goes into effect on March 1, 2026, according to the CFPB. The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The MBA still forecasts 2026 to end at $2.37 As for mortgage rates , the MBA still predicts that 2025 and 2026 will end at 6.5% Its updated forecast, released Feb. 19, put this year’s total origination volume at a projected $2.055 trillion, up slightly from January’s $2.052 trillion forecast. trillion in volume.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 14, 2025

Economists predict further slowing in 2025 and 2026 as elevated mortgage rates and four years of rapid appreciation curb demand. Slowing Price Growth Ahead Despite the rising expenses, home sales continued at a steady pace through 2024, sustaining moderate home price growth.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

.” Despite constraints, the research estimates that automation will reach 68% of mortgage operations by 2026. It also estimates that lenders will start leaning more heavily on outsourcing as full-service partnerships are expected to rise from 30% today to 42% by 2026.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 22, 2025

The pace of home price growth has been fairly steady during the past year, the firm says, but is expected to moderate in 2025 and 2026. in 2026, in Fannie Maes latest Home Price Expectations Survey (HPES), produced in partnership with Pulsenomics. Single-family home prices increased 1.4% in 2025 and 3.3% for 2025 and 3.6%

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 7, 2025

Looking ahead, MBA anticipates continued momentum in 2026, projecting $709 billion in total commercial real estate lending, with $419 billion dedicated to multifamily loans. Multifamily lending, which is included in the total figures, is also expected to rise by 16%, reaching $361 billion in 2025 compared to $312 billion the previous year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The ESR Group predicts that the broader economy will remain stable and expand at an above-trend pace through 2026 as it navigates elevated core inflationary pressures and heightened policy uncertainty. As part of their newest outlook, Fannie Maes economists shared five predictions for the housing market in 2025.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Some emerging risks in the economy and housing market are pushing delinquencies higher, but those higher delinquencies will not likely translate into higher foreclosure auction volume until at least early 2026, Daren Blomquist , the companys vice president of market economics, said in the report.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 10, 2025

The transaction is expected to be accretive to Rocket Companies adjusted earnings per share by the end of 2026. Rocket Companies will maintain its strong balance sheet and conservative leverage profile upon close of the transaction. The post Rocket to Purchase Redfin for $1.75B first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But I disagree and in the last decade, I made another controversial call, saying the homeownership rate can get back to 66.21% at some point between 2022-2026. How we grew homeownership Before this decade, some pundits said that expecting ownership to stay at 62.2% was too bullish and that the homeownership rates were destined to go lower.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2025

Fannie Mae would conduct an IPO in 2026 to raise $5 billion, while Freddie Mac would follow in 2027 with a $15 billion offering. Treasury would retain the warrants for 79.9%

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Mandatory implementation will occur on November 2, 2026. I look forward to November 2, 2026, when all these changes are behind us. Open the menu and select Module 10. These changes, effective in the new report, will commence limited production in September 2025. Heres a link to the timeline. The transition will be challenging.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The requirement would go into place in 2026, and it would ensure NAR leaders and staff “understand” how to properly handle and process sexual harassment complaints, among other things. The Board approved the rule 858 to 47.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 31, 2025

The transaction is expected to be accretive to Rocket Companies adjusted earnings per share by the end of 2026. Rocket Companies will maintain its strong balance sheet and conservative leverage profile upon close of the transaction. The post Rocket to Acquire Mr. Cooper in $9.4B Transaction first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

He said he was aware that lawmakers were studying the issue to potentially place on the ballot in 2026, which would likely mean a revision to the states constitution. DeSantis equated the concept of property taxes to renting from the government just to live in your own property.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

LPT plans to IPO in 2026, and Palmer says the firm is building everything, from software to compliance, to support a national scale. IPO on the horizon Remarkably, Palmer has self-funded LPT Realty to this point. Ive had plenty of people offer me capital. I wont take it, he says. I believe in this too much. That resolve will be tested soon.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released a draft of its strategic plan for 2022-2026 and is requesting input on the plan from the general public. The post FHFA Releases Strategic Plan for 2022-2026 appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. The post FHFA Releases Strategic Plan for 2022-2026 appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We’re raising the fiscal year 2025 and 2026 estimated revenue growth to 22% and 18% (from 17% and 16%), baking in an increase in FICO’s mortgage score price to $5 in 2025 and $6.50 in 2026, alongside additional pricing actions in auto and card,” the analysts wrote in the report.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Fannie Mae’s Expanded Housing Choice , which the company launched in April 2022 and has extended through April 2026, was established to expand housing opportunities for HCV holders by incentivizing multifamily borrowers to accept vouchers as a valid source of income. Currently in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Due to this, McKeveny and the folks at Zelman are expecting meaningful growth in home sales and origination volumes in 2026. That may not make sense, but it is the bounce off the bottom effect and it can be significant. There’s really no shortage of demand, Hale said.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The largest institutions will have to comply by April 1, 2026, while the smallest covered institutions will have until April 1, 2030. Compliance with the rule will be implemented in phases, with larger providers subject to the rule sooner than smaller ones. Financial firms will be required to comply based on their size.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

If a big recession hits in 2025, it would typically take nine to 12 months for that to create inventory, so that would be 2026 before wed see a surge of homes for sale from a recession. By the end of next year we should be basically back to the old normal levels of inventory.

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Real Estate News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Hale announces his retirement after more than 50 years with the organization. Plus, Corcoran hires Scott Mitchelson as global growth leader.

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MARCH 10, 2025

It cannot be revisited until the 2026 session at the earliest. In Hawaii , a bill seeking to establish what would effectively be a state-based clone of the federal HECM program was introduced in the Legislature before being submitted to multiple committees for further deliberation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For Universal Studios employees, the owners of the park are seeking to construct a 1,000-unit mixed-use development slated to open in 2026 that would promise a short commute to the Universal Orlando Resort, which is also aiming to open a full-scale third theme park called “Epic Universe” next year. “To

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 21, 2025

Full-service partnerships are expected to rise from 30% to 42% by 2026, measured by growth outcomes instead of simply on cost. The report, which draws on insights from 257 non-bank lenders and ecosystem partners, also explores how outsourcing is being redefined.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

JBREC is not forecasting meaningful rent growth until 2026 and beyond, which will make it harder for new project developments to pencil.” We believe rates (including financing rates) staying higher for longer will delay any rebound in construction activity in the near term,” he wrote.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The broader economy is expected to remain on solid footing and expand at an above-trend pace through 2026 as it navigates elevated core inflationary pressures and heightened policy uncertainty, the ESR Group writes in its report. Because mortgage rates are unlikely to drop below 6%, those homeowners with mortgages in the 2.5%-5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To reach a key financial goal in 2026, Blend Labs plans to diversify far beyond mortgage. Achieving positive free cash flow by 2026 would represent a financial landmark for Blend. ​​”We are guiding to a free cash flow margin of 8% for our conservative case, 18% for the market norm, with our base case at 12%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It is unclear as to how Wood’s decision will impact the future of the two Batton suits, which were slated to head to trial in late 2026 or early 2027. A hearing for the Batton I suit that was scheduled for Thursday has been cancelled.

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Real Estate News

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Yun expects existing sales to rise 9% next year and even more in 2026, though the market has proved difficult to predict in recent years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

trillion in 2026. in 2026, according to Fratantoni’s forecast. Fratantoni expects a major rebound for the mortgage market over the next two years. His forecast calls for $2 trillion in origination volume in 2025 and $2.28 Mortgage rates should fall to 5.9% in 2025 and 5.7%

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