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Mortgage companies issue debt. Here’s why that’s a positive sign to the market

Housing Wire

Mortgage companies raising debt in the current high mortgage rates landscape is a sign that market conditions are improving, although a recovery from the downturn may come later than expected, analysts told HousingWire. And recent transactions show that there’s an appetite among investors for debt in the mortgage space.

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‘Mortgage winter’ is expected to thaw a bit

Housing Wire

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 portfolio of MBS.

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Three in four baby boomers don’t use homebuyer resources

Housing Wire

About 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day and all boomers will reach that milestone by 2030, according to census data. Clients served in this manner received services like foreclosure mitigation counseling, refinancing, reverse mortgages or rehab loans. NeighborWorks surveyed some 2,200 adults from Jan.

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‘Silver tsunami’ could have a bigger impact on 2024’s housing market: analyst

Housing Wire

And by 2030, the entire baby boomer population or generation will be over 65.” If this came to pass as Whitney predicts, then some seniors may not have as much of a need for a product like a traditional reverse mortgage through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program.

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Rocket Mortgage breaks into the solar industry

Housing Wire

Rocket Companies , parent of Rocket Mortgage , has its eyes on the solar energy industry, announcing this week that it will enter the green energy game by 2022. The study also found that solar accounted for 43% of all new electricity-generating capacity added in the nation last year and predicted that the solar market will quadruple by 2030.

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Opinion: The baby boom wave is cresting

Housing Wire

2030 Transformation: By 2030, all Baby Boomers will have turned 65, traditionally known as retirement age. This sets the stage for the coming Transformational Decade of the 2030s. Paul Donohue is a reverse area sales manager for Mutual of Omaha Reverse Mortgage. That’s approximately 4.3

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Anywhere Real Estate reports $19M in Q2 net income

Housing Wire

To reach this goal, Schneider said the firm is integrating its brokerage and title operations, which the firm hopes will lead to higher attach rates in its mortgage and title operations. to exchange $273 million of the 5.75% senior notes due 2029 and 5.25% senior notes due 2030 it holds for $218 million in new 7.0%