Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

“Government refinance applications historically lag the more rate-sensitive movements of conventional applications, and that was true last week, as both FHA and VA refinancing volumes increased.”. “The The housing market is entering the busy spring buying season with strong demand,” Kan said. from 11.2% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2021

“Both conventional and government refinance applications increased, with applications for government loans having their strongest week since June 2012.”. “This is a positive sign of more lower-income and first-time buyers returning to the market,” Kan said. decrease from last week. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Refinance activity dropped to its slowest pace since September 2020 – down a full 5% – with declines in both conventional and government applications, according to Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. He added that mortgage rates have moved higher in tandem with Treasury yields.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Appraisals in Black and Latino neighborhoods are more likely to fall short of the contracted sale price, a Freddie Mac study of 12 million appraisals found. The research examined appraisals for home purchases the government sponsored enterprise received from 2015 through the end of 2020. That hypothesis, too, led to a dead end.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

trillion the following year, according to the government-sponsored enterprise. With rates at escalated levels, it is affecting home buyers facing affordability challenges. . Given this, homebuilders may focus more on comparatively modest product offerings as the number of move-up buyers is low.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“Applications for government mortgages offset some of the overall decline by increasing 3%, driven by a solid gain in government purchase applications and an 11% jump in VA refinance applications,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president of economic and industry forecasting. The USDA share of total applications rose to 0.6%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. 2%, and the Conventional MCAI that measures loans not backed by the government fell.3%. 7% while the Jumbo MCAI measuring high-balance loans rose.2%,

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The point of the editorial seemed to be to scaremonger over government programs to help home buyers and student loan borrowers. Supply of homes for sale is very low, and most of the year we’ve had more buyers than sellers. New contracts dipped as affordability is out of reach for so many. That’s blatantly wrong.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

Compared to last year, fewer people are applying for purchase mortgages, the MBA reported, as home prices continue to rise and prospective buyers avoid astronomical bidding wars. “Most of the decline in mortgage rates came late last week, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage declining to 3.15

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

“Investors in the bond market were reacting to the government issuing debt while expecting the Federal Reserve to increase rates in September amid persistent inflation,” HousingWire ’s Flávia Furlan Nunes wrote last week. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs fell to 6.50% from 6.20% a week prior. the week prior.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Worst-case scenario, the broker representing the buyer will have to negotiate their own fee with their client and the seller can no longer be compelled to make a blanket offer of compensation in order to list on the MLS,” Murray said. They have gone through all of this and it will end up being punitive to buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“This is perhaps a sign that more first-time buyers are entering the market,” Kan said. Homeowners once again acted on the decline in rates, with refinance activity rising for the second straight week and up 105% from a year ago,” Kan said. The unadjusted purchase index also increased, jumping 0.4% from the previous week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

Sales in general are still high, per Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather — 59% of homes that went under contract in the current four-week period had an accepted offer within the first two weeks on the market — but the recent low numbers suggest some homebuyers have reached their limit on high home prices and bidding wars.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2021

With spring approaching – signaling the start of a busy buying season – the purchase market sported its strongest showing in four weeks, with gains in both conventional and government applications, according to Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. from 12.3% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Lower rates led to an increase in refinance applications, with government loan applications jumping 10 percent to the highest level since May 2021.” ” Kan also noted that purchase applications for both conventional and government loans increased on the week that ended Aug. of total applications. the week prior.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Plenty of buyers, but not enough homes for sale,” California-based mortgage loan officer Dan Stone, who works with hundreds of mortgage lenders, told HousingWire. Prices are still expensive, forcing buyers to look at less expensive homes or areas not as preferred. There are still so many borrowers looking to purchase a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

However, a surge in demand for government loans and adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) played a role in last week’s increase. and government loans were up 13% last week, according to the MBA estimates. It’s counterintuitive but real: Despite surging mortgage rates , borrowers’ demand for home loans rose last week.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

In the recent court documents, NAR claims that the government’s arguments for resuming the probe into the trade group’s Participation Rule and Clear Cooperation Rule were “alarming” and would “destabilize the law” if accepted. Those defendants rely on the government to keep its word. NAR, however, sees things differently.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. It essentially allows qualified buyers with a government loan to purchase a home by assuming responsibility for the sellers’ mortgage terms, including the current balance and interest rate.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Year-over-year, contract signings increased by 16.4%. Now that a second stimulus package has been passed and two vaccines are being administered, Yun said economic growth is guaranteed, but high government borrowing will put modest upward pressure on interest rates. Presented by: WFG.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This is done in advance of having a buyer in order to protect payments from going up in the current rate environment, Guaranteed Rate said in an announcement about the launch. Despite the decline in home price growth and projections of rates dropping, affordability challenges are expected to continue to weigh on buyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

The venture capital investment is in addition to $1 billion in separate capital commitments from investors that Point has lined up to help fund what it calls home-equity investment (HEI) contracts. “We Homeowners, in turn, get to cash out a slice of their home equity with no payments due until the contract matures.

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Realtor

OCTOBER 29, 2020

When you’re a first-time home buyer approaching the finish line in the journey to your new home, you want nothing to go wrong, right? These are the most common contingencies that are part of your new home closing process: Home inspection contingency: This gives buyers the right to have the home professionally inspected.

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Raleigh Realty

MARCH 29, 2021

Buying a Home As a Government Employee Are you a government employee preparing to buy a home? With the right resources, you can ensure a successful investment and one in which you may save tens of thousands of dollars thanks to being a government employee. Who Is a Government Employee?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s true that first-time buyers make up a larger piece of a smaller pie, as housing inventory shrinks. However, this rise in first-time buyers helps explain what’s driving demand and keeping upward pressure on prices in a market with mortgage rates currently surpassing 7%. It never will be. I’ll explain later.)

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Only government refinances saw a slight increase last week,” Kan said. These worsening affordability challenges have been particularly hard on prospective first-time buyers,” Kan added. The average contract interest rate for 30-year-fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($642,000 or less) rose to 5.40% from 5.33%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The trade group estimates that the average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($548,250 or less) remained unchanged at 3.30%. decline in applications for government loans. For jumbo mortgage loans (greater than $548,250), rates decreased to 3.32% from 3.33% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The settlement proposed at the time included requirements for NAR to boost transparency about broker commissions and to stop misrepresenting that buyer broker services are free. The Justice Department is not free to ignore the principles of contract law and fair dealing that bind every other party before the courts,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration said that nonprofit organizations and owner-occupant buyers will have first dibs on foreclosed properties that get auctioned off through its Claims Without Conveyance of Title (CWCOT) program, specifically prioritizing these groups over investors.

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Appraiserblogs

JANUARY 8, 2024

The seeming destruction of the appraisal profession by the federal government, GSEs and lending stakeholders is a collective action problem. Goliath’s strength is in his messaging. It is appraisers who are destroying the message. Appraisers are responding to new GSE and lending dictates with reactions based on our own personal well-being.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Benefits can include: No down payment Competitive interest rates No private mortgage insurance (PMI) Limited or no closing costs Funding fee waived for service-connected disabled veterans More favorable credit criteria Loan types There are a number of VA loan options to meet the needs of today’s veteran buyers, including purchase and refinance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

from the previous week, with a larger gain in government refinances. The trade group estimates that the average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($647,200 or less) decreased to 4.09% from 4.15% the week prior. Buyers on average bought 0.8 Mortgage applications jumped 8.5% in the same period.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

The economist added that government purchase applications had slower growth, contributing to the larger loan balances and suggesting that prospective first-time buyers are struggling to find homes to buy in their price range. The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 60.3% of total applications last week, from 64.1%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

Pending home sales reached its highest mark for the month of May since 2005, up 8% from the previous month of April as low inventory continues driving buyers to snatch up available real estate. “Buyers are still lining up a feverish pace,” Yun said. ” Contract signings on new homes increased 13.1% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2022

Today we are seeing a more governed and purpose-oriented approach to networks of blockchains. Today, established actors in settlement services are collaborating on the same ledger with the same form of smart contract to eliminate transaction overheads. Distributed Ledger Technologies are the Backbone of Blockchains.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

That’s the date the federal government will likely no longer be able to satisfy its obligations if Congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit, according to the U.S. And, federal lawmakers have yet to reach a deal on the U.S. debt ceiling to avoid a default on June 1. Department of the Treasury.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Michael Loftin, CEO of Homewise , whose work revolves around sustainable homeownership, suggested HUD take a cue from the government-sponsored enterprises. Tara Roche, who co-authored the report, said that making small-dollar loans more accessible would help curb buyers’ reliance on riskier and costlier alternative financing.

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