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DataDigest: In the nation’s hottest housing market, flood insurance premiums soar

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housing markets , recording some of the highest year-over-year growth in March, as measured by the CoreLogic Home Price Index. billion per year by 2050 from the base period in severe climate-risk scenario,” economists at CoreLogic said. Here are the 10 counties with the highest annual loss projections through 2050.

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How originators can capitalize on reverse mortgage business in light of the changing housing market

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With a housing market in transition , originators are looking to seize profitable opportunities that benefit both borrowers and their own bottom lines. HousingWire: With interest rates gradually rising and refinance volume on the decline, how can originators benefit from adding reverse mortgages to their product mix?

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Insurance carrier exodus rattles California and Florida housing markets

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According to an analysis using CoreLogic’s Climate Risk Analytics: Composite Risk Score (CRA) , Florida’s Miami-Dade County is forecast to have the highest climate change-related risk in the United States, with estimated annual losses of $988 million per year through 2050.

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Opinion: The baby boom wave is cresting

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Peak 65 serves as an historic demographic milestone of the new paradigm shift that is changing every aspect of the housing market , finance, retirement planning process and the fragile supply/demand balance of housing inventory for real estate at large. We are living in a watershed moment in history.

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HW+ Member Spotlight: Josh Mettle

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With over 20 years of mortgage experience, Mettle has dedicated his career to the mortgage industry. Prior to NEO Home Loans, Mettle served as senior vice president, director of physician lending at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. Josh Mettle: It’s a tie between Mortgage Coach TCA and BNTouch CRM.

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Why it’s time for the housing industry to get serious about climate risk

Housing Wire

Change in uninsured losses As of late, however, the uninsured losses are being absorbed by other stakeholders in the housing finance system, including mortgage lenders, mortgage servicers, private mortgage insurers, government agencies, capital markets investors, and the government-sponsored enterprises.

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

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It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. So, they prepay the mortgage and sell the property, or sell it once the mortgage matures. “A

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