Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

With low housing inventory and rapid home-price growth, homeownership can seem less and less attainable for several groups of potential homebuyers. HousingWire sat down with Radian CEO Rick Thornberry to learn more about the state of the housing market and how Radian is helping further homeownership.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade. This is a huge boon for the program as seller concessions have not been allowed within the FHA-insured program since its inception.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

The initiative helps with the lack of houses for sale, but these sellers are likely to become buyers again and will continue pressure the market. The country is suffering from a dearth of housing supply, not a lack of demand,” Boltansky wrote in the report. percentage points and helping about 3.5 million families.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

housing market is not a monolith, so today we’re going to look at some markets where affordability is within the normal renter’s reach. In a study published this week, First American economist Ksenia Potapov analyzed the share of homes that are affordable to the median renter in any given market. But the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

After years of historic growth, the housing market is beginning to normalize. While some are using the current market uncertainty as an opportunity to promote products that offer less protection under the illusion of saving consumers money, now is not the time to start embracing shortcuts to well-established processes and products.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Mortgage Insurers (USMI), the association that represents the nation’s leading private mortgage insurance companies, announced on Wednesday that it has named Seth Appleton, current president of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), as USMI’s new president.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Developers and construction companies seem to “have come to terms with the affordability challenge and have been erecting smaller homes at more approachable prices this year,” said Ratiu. While builders can’t make existing homeowners move, they can add more new homes to the housing stock.” .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Despite much of the political oxygen in Washington regarding housing issues being taken up by President Joe Biden and the White House, Republicans got their first major opportunity to offer an alternative vision for solving the nation’s housing problems. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA),” the memorandum stated.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Another issue is home sellers’ bias against buyers using FHA loans, where offers from non-FHA borrowers are often selected even though lower in price. Another development in the focus on first-time homebuyers is CFPB’s recent announcement that it was going after junk fees and other non-competitive practices in the mortgage loan process.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

The FHA also insured more than twice as many loans to Black and Hispanic borrowers last year as the rest of the mortgage market combined. The only guy who isn’t affected by interest rate growth right now is someone who is buying a million-dollar house, putting down 25% to 30%,” Westcott said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) noted in a briefing on Tuesday that it managed to record another banner year for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund. We are not announcing a mortgage insurance premium change today,” Gordon said. “I

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2021

Those investments include the sale of SunStreet solar and stakes in insurtech firms Hippo Home Insurance and Doma (formerly known as States Title ). The LENx investments will remain in place along with the core homebuilding business, which has strong fundamentals given the ferocity of the housing market, executives said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

After completing countless Veterans Administration (VA) mortgage loan transactions over the years, Chris Pascoe, a Marine veteran turned RE/MAX agent, has developed something of a system. Next, he has his buyers write a letter to the seller, a practice that has come under scrutiny lately for creating potential biases.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

As a driver of the economy, housing should be bolstered by: Non-bank lending institutions to lend in lower-income areas and to minorities in the same way that CRA provides for banks Reducing government-insured and guaranteed mortgage loan fees. While home inventories remain low, the prospects for first-time buyers diminish.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Entering the housing market today is challenging for many homeowners. Pent-up housing demand, low-interest rates and new buyers have also added to the crisis. Governments have begun to address the housing issue by upzoning single-family homes. These developed skinny towers as luxury condominiums.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2023

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2022

Headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on “creating an instant and enjoyable home closing experience for buyers and sellers.” ” Below, Simkoff answers questions about the housing industry: HousingWire: To start off, what is your current favorite HW+ article? Getting there was an uphill battle, though.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

So why aren’t more commercial real estate (CRE) entities – investors , principals, banks, law firms or developers – seeking the same? Market conditions have certainly trended downward for residential or commercial real estate. They can be, in essence, the “boots on the ground” for investors and developers alike.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2022

In May , the administration, in a bid to increase housing supply, announced several additions to its CWCOT program, including an exclusive 30-day listing period for governmental entities, owner-occupant buyers, and nonprofits to bid on foreclosed, formerly FHA-insured properties.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

During her visits, one thing stood out to Golding, who served as the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s principal deputy assistant secretary from 2015 to 2017. I am confident that she will bring a depth of expertise and perspective to FHA at a critical time for our country’s housing market.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

TB: It seems like each mortgage process should be relatively standardized because we’re manufacturing loans — the vast majority of which will be purchased by the two GSEs or insured by FHA , VA or USDA. And then closing as fast as possible because we’re still in a tight housing market with tight inventory.

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Miller Samuel

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As we say in the petition , this change can impact several groups in particular: consumers, the taxpayers, the housing market and appraisers. If the buyer realizes they overpaid for the property, the agents are now the professionals with the bullseye on their back. Ever heard of straw buyers?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Experienced real estate investors often say that there are opportunities in every market — whether prices are rising or falling, whether the trends lean towards a buyers’ market or a seller’s market. It’s simply a matter of adjusting your investment strategy to optimize current market conditions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

High interest rates, coupled with a still-low supply of housing, have created price hurtles that are keeping many first-time homebuyers and lower-income borrowers locked out of the housing market. You can see that’s a really big impact for that first-time buyer, giving them the ability to kind of ease into that payment.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

That, in turn, could lead to improved liquidity outlets for loans secured by single-family investment properties — through the private-label securitization (PLS) market and via insurers, pension funds and other institutional investors that hold loans or mortgage-backed securities in portfolio. . Empty sails in single-family.

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Miller Samuel

MARCH 19, 2019

The New York state political zeitgeist was recently and suddenly tilted against luxury development in New York City. If this latest turn of events plays out as written, we'll be able to look back at this era as a milestone where the supertanker began to turn in the wrong direction for the new development multi-family industry.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Department of Housing and Urban Development. Now, the housing industry is welcoming HUD’s next potential leader. “On Also, the new administration will tackle the ongoing housing affordability crisis affecting both homeowners and renters,” Broeksmit said. On behalf of MBA, I congratulate Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

. “Treasury yields declined late last week, as market concerns over bank closures and the potential for broader ripple effects triggered a flight to safety in Treasury bonds,” Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president and deputy chief economist, said in a statement. That was a favorable development,” Deitch said.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JUNE 18, 2022

But once these qualities are developed, many appraisers find eminent domain work to be interesting, challenging but worthwhile, and financially rewarding. Becoming an expert appraisal witness in an eminent domain case starts with developing a comprehensive understanding of how value is determined in this special proceeding.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The mortgage-servicing rights market just keeps on ticking even as the overall housing market takes a licking. Those Ginnie MSRs, however, represent a weak link in the nation’s housing system when the economy is under stress, as it is now. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) called FHA Connection, a database used to insure and generate FHA case numbers associated with the borrower’s home loan application. All FHA mortgage lenders use a system by the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. housing market is experiencing a price “correction,” defined as a 10% price drop from its most recent peak. The next 12-24 months are likely going to be quite a challenge for prospective buyers.

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D Fritz Appraisals

JULY 7, 2021

This rise has caused rental rates to spike, increased demand for housing and has made it very difficult, if not impossible, for first-time buyers to get their foot in the door of home sweet home. The Housing Bubble May Already Be Shrinking. For home buyers, it’s roughly the same experience. Fritz Appraisals Inc.,

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Eppraisal

JUNE 6, 2023

Designed to make homeownership more accessible, FHA loans provide an array of benefits for first-time buyers and individuals with limited financial resources. At its core, an FHA loan is a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

These policies were the result of a collaborative effort between the GSEs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). It’s important to watch any red flags in the housing market, but it’s also key to stay objective. There is no integrity in that.

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The affordability question is becoming more difficult to justify too, as home prices and interest rates rise amid other challenges facing buyers.“That’s Buyers with the deepest pockets may wait, however. The aim is to generate more multi-family housing, from duplexes to fourplexes. home buyers. in January to $775,000.

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The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Our land brokers anticipate steady demand from land buyers, other CRE investors, land developers, and tenants in Ohio, Central Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio. See below why we feel Ohio land for sale market is still ripe for growth. The Ohio housing market has remained resilient over the past year and a half.

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