Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Mortgage rates have been rising above 7% since August, which has diminished the pool of home buyers,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said. Some would-be home buyers are taking a pause and readjusting their expectations about the location and type of home to better fit their budgets.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? However, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist or have a Ph.D. dollar liquidity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But for the past 12 months, the metro’s housing market has been in complete chaos. “It The Provo-Orem market is growing at a faster rate per capita than really anywhere else in the state of Utah, including our capital, Salt Lake City.”. My agents are still getting three to four offers on a house.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Unlike site-built homes, which are always titled as real estate, over 40% of manufactured housing is titled as personal property (the same way a car is titled).

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM), the nation’s third-largest retail mortgage lender, unveiled its latest initiative this week that is aimed at helping first-time homebuyers overcome the financial hurdles of purchasing a home in today’s competitive housing market. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private businesses.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It 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. Moreover, many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. So why is this program so rare?

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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

JULY 25, 2023

One of my recent new home buyers got their final quote on a property a 30-minute drive from the coast and it had gone up 40% from a year ago. The rising costs and lack of availability of homeowners insurance has forced many homeowners and buyers to turn to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation , the state’s insurer of last resort.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2023

in the conventional market, but decreased by 14% in the government space. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) share of total applications increased to 12.7% Refis comprised 27.6% of the total applications last week, up from 27% the previous week. Meanwhile, mortgage apps declined by 6.9% last week from 12.3% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

The recent settlement involving the National Association of Realtors and major real estate firms revolves around the practice of “broker cooperation,” where agents representing sellers share commissions with agents representing buyers. Last year, mortgage rates increased from 3% to 8% and home prices still increased in most markets.

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Urban

JUNE 16, 2021

Data show that flat-out rejection of buyers seeking government-backed loans disadvantages households with lower incomes, lower credit scores, and less wealth, many of whom are people of color.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Job gains were most notable in the health care (+72,000), government (+71,000) and construction (+39,000) sectors. The housing market is eager to see mortgage rates ease as rates have spent nearly a year above 6.5%, and have most recently been hovering above 6.7%,” Realtor.com economic data analyst Hannah Jones said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2022, the housing market was a little hotter than this year due to lower mortgage rates, pushing home prices up. Moreover, for the first time, the federal government backed mortgages north of $1 million. These loans would normally end at the jumbo market , which is dominated by banks.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2021

So much so, in fact, that Harrisburg is ranked seventh on Realtor.com’ s list of housing markets positioned for the most growth in 2021 — ahead of Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego and Dallas. You put the house live on Friday, offers roll in on Sundays, and it’s gone Monday afternoon.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Before the new law was enforced, many condo associations were investing their reserves in government-insured instruments, sacrificing their liquidity to generate a return. As a result, new condo listings are flooding the market in Florida as sellers try to unload their properties at a discount.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

While rising interest rates affected all homebuyers, this impact was more pronounced among Hispanic households, many of whom are first-time buyers with lower median incomes and who live in higher priced markets,” according to NAHREP. That’s encouraged the ITIN buyers to come down and start buying.” Recently, it came down to 5%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

2%, and the Conventional MCAI that measures loans not backed by the government fell.3%. The Government MCAI that includes mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration , the Veterans Administration and the U.S. 7% while the Jumbo MCAI measuring high-balance loans rose.2%, Department of Agriculture rose.3%, 3%, MBA said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

The government-sponsored enterprise’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), which tracks the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home, rose 3.3 On the buyer side, 20% said it was a good time to buy in March, which remains unchanged from February. points to 61.3

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Miller Samuel

JUNE 28, 2020

Keeping Housing Market Results From The Public Is Never Justified: An Expansive View. When the Covid-19 crisis began halfway through March, the Manhattan housing market was placed on “pause,” as were many housing markets around the country. Hiding DOM as a marketing strategy. Ignoring the buyers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While the unprecedented uptick in mortgage rates led to a lack of demand from buyers, it has also acted as a deterrent for homeowners, who are hesitant to list their homes for sale in a tough market. In turn, purchase inventory levels have stayed low in most markets. A normal spread would revive the economy.

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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.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

Ongoing affordability challenges are expected to limit buyers from entering the market in 2023, according to Fannie Mae , which will result in continued decline in home sales in coming months. On the buyer side, 21% said it was a good time to buy, an increase from 16% in November. recorded in October 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Meanwhile, buyers offer bigger down payments to lessen the cost of monthly payments In September, buyers were typically putting down 16.1% In those cities, the typical buyer put down 25% of the purchase price. In September, government-insured FHA loans represented a little over 15% of U.S. respectively. in April 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

housing market is short by at least 6.5 After more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth, there are simply not enough affordable entry-level and first-time move-up options available for buyers. Most recently, rising interest rates have intensified the fight for housing. million homes.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

government credit rating downgrade caused mortgage rates to rise this week,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Construction spending advanced in June, a sign that companies and the government continue investing in real estate and infrastructure projects. The combination of upbeat economic data and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

The government-sponsored enterprise index accounts solely for purchase mortgages reported by lenders during the past three days. Creating a path to success in today’s purchase market. So, what should lenders be doing to thrive in the face of a post-pandemic housing market rife with new hurdles? Presented by: Calyx.

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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. CMS is going heavy on a rarely used mortgage product to solve this market problem. The buyer must submit to the application and underwriting process to qualify, just as they would in any new mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. government is forecasting that it will need to issue some $1.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The evidence for this can be seen here in a series of charts published with the article: Considering all the wild machinations in the market that we lived through from the date of the first infections to the present, I thought it would be useful to recap some of the year’s significant economic milestones. BC Era: Before Coronavirus.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The program helped a generation of Americans purchase their first home, however, due to a government policy known as “red-lining,” banks were effectively prohibited from issuing FHA-insured loans in neighborhoods that were predominantly Black or Hispanic. Lower homeownership rates mean there will be fewer buyers. For decades, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

The lion’s share of the job growth in April came from gains in the professional and business services sector (up 64,000 jobs), the leisure and hospitality sector (up 48,000 jobs), the government sector (up 56,000 jobs), and the health care sector (up 52,000 jobs). year-over-year increase, further complicating things for the Fed. “For

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

Purchase mortgage rates this week averaged 5.10% continuing a decline from last week amid a housing market slowdown, according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS. The government-sponsored enterprise index accounts solely for purchase mortgages reported by lenders during the past three days. point, down from last week’s 4.43%.

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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

APRIL 12, 2023

The uptick in mortgage applications was a welcome change for the struggling housing market, which has been plagued by affordability issues that have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines. Overall, mortgage applications increased last week by 5.3% from 12% the week prior. from 11% week over week. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

While many proptech companies have struggled to adapt to the slower housing market conditions and challenging venture capital environment, Flyhomes is viewing this as a time to grow. This is just one more arrow in their quiver.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

The housing market received positive data on new residential construction – which is seen as a key solution to the lack of housing inventory,” Kan added. “We have just started to see buyer demand pick up in recent months, so any disruption to the positive momentum would be a major setback for the industry.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. It’s by no means the best market anyone’s ever seen, but [non-agency mortgage] originations are growing.

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