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Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions

Houston Properties

For certain parts of the economy, usually in the upper-income brackets, they didn’t carry a lot of debt and they couldn’t go out to spend their money. On the other hand, the four restaurant workers would still need to spend monthly payments for rent, food, transportation, and insurance. So, what did they do?

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The title insurance industry prepares for battle

Housing Wire

With the housing market slowing down from its pandemic-fueled frenzy, wire fraud threats, regulatory challenges and the perennial challenge of an aging workforce, the title insurance industry will have a lot to juggle in the new year. For the title insurance industry, she feels this will result in a thinning of the herd.

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Opinion: FHA should lower Mortgage Insurance Premium

Housing Wire

Simply put, it looks at all the insured loans in the single-family business and factors in expected interest rates, home price forecast, default rates and severity rates over the entire duration of these loans, some of which will be on the books for 30 years. They range between GNMA investor confidence to past history.

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