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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

More specifically, that means targeting an unemployment rate close to 4%, inflation close to 2%, and using regulatory tools to prevent unsound lending or other financial imbalances. The last two years have been a wild ride. Odds are that this turn in the pandemic will likely be just a temporary setback.

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Logan Mohtashami: The 2022 housing forecast

Housing Wire

Accordingly, my upper end range in mortgage rates is 3.375%-3.625% and the lower end range is 2.375%-2.50%. Most of the time, the economy is like a slow-moving ocean liner that changes direction gradually and without much effort. COVID was a veritable iceberg for our ocean liner economy, but the ship did not go down! The forecast.

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What would a Trump win mean for housing?

Housing Wire

As I write this the morning after the election, the next president of the U.S. presidential election and control of the Senate remain in the balance, but the widely-anticipated ‘Blue Wave’ appears to have floundered, with betting markets now making Donald Trump the favorite to win a second term,” Capital Economics Chief U.S.