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When borrowers ‘ghost’ their servicers

Housing Wire

We service their loans. million forbearance programs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching 1.5% The company serves a $50 billion loan portfolio. Investment firms that purchase mortgage loans in default also face the same challenge. We have their email addresses. We have their phone numbers. We know where they live.

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

The latest news regarding the Omicron variant has many cautious about whether the recovery that began in the second half of 2020 and blossomed in 2021 can continue. When this article was published, the unemployment rate is at 4.2%, inflation is above 6%, and both stock market and housing market values are elevated.

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What would it take to crash the housing market?

Housing Wire

I set a specific home-price growth model for the years 2020-2024 that said if home prices only grew at 23% during this five-year period, the housing market would still be OK, given wage growth. With where prices were heading when mortgage rates were under 4%, we were looking at 35%-40% cumulative home-price growth in just three years.