Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Purchase mortgage rates have risen faster in the last three months than at any time since May 1994, climbing ever closer to the 5% mark due to a combination of rising inflation , the war in Ukraine, and disruptions to the supply chain. Another index shows mortgage rates even higher. Mortgage rates have increased 1.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Finally, some good news: the growth rate of inflation is cooling off for now, and with the CPI inflation report being positive, the 10-year yield fell noticeably, and mortgage rates will fall with that! This of course led some people to believe that bond yields and mortgage rates would go much higher today.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

A homeowner is considered equity rich when they have at least 50% equity in their home, a feat more easily accomplished when skyrocketing home price appreciation widens the gap between what someone owes on their mortgage and the value of their house. The portion of mortgaged homes that were equity rich rose from 41.9%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Mortgage rates continued to climb this week as U.S. Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.09% as of August 17, up from last week’s 6.96%. Other indices showed even higher mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The ICE — Black Knight merger creates the first end-to-end digital infrastructure that will reorder incentives and change how housing markets operate. Portals: These destinations become marketplaces that integrate the supply chain and allow consumers and their advisors to choose and close within minutes – not months.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

With material and labor shortages, and supply chain issues it is taking a year-and-a-half to two years to complete a property. 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. Again, data from Redfin supports Do’s assertion.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Horton , the nation’s largest homebuilder by gross revenue and total closings, this week released its second quarter earnings for the fiscal year, which executives deemed “outstanding,” despite ongoing supply chain challenges , “a very tight labor market ,” and the massive uptick in mortgage rates. per diluted share.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. How will the Federal Reserve respond to economic developments in 2022, and what will be the impact on mortgage rates?

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Home price data is consistent with the hypothesis that COVID-19 has encouraged potential buyers to move from urban apartments to suburban homes,” Lazzara said. This demand may represent buyers who accelerated purchases that would have happened anyway over the next several years. increase and Seattle with a 18.3%.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

months of supply; a healthy market generally has between four and six months of supply. Buyers were likely anticipating further rate increases and locking in at the low rates, and investors added to overall demand with all-cash offers,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. That translates to just 1.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Over the same time period, here is what happened to 30-year mortgage interest rates: 4% in 2019 3% in 2021 6% in 2022. In January 2020, Carmel Ford of the NAHB Economics and Housing Policy Group published a special study titled Cost of Constructing a Home. What is the impact of lumber relative to interest rates?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

Some of the best performing stocks in America this year are from large, national homebuilders – strong consumer demand , limited competition from the existing home sales market , and an improving supply chain have boosted their outlooks. from April, and up 5.7% from May 2022, to 1.63 million. “Our ”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

With interest rates now at 14-year highs, the cost of homeownership is becoming an issue for most prospective home buyers. HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Darne, vice president of marketing at CreditXpert, about how mortgage lenders can leverage credit to help make homeownership more affordable.

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DW Slater Company

JUNE 16, 2022

Not braking just easing off the pedal as there are some current issues that are impacting the markets. Economic changes, policy changes, supply chain issues, social changes, and buying power can all impact real estate. Mortgage rates are already moving up and are projected to move higher. What’s Been Driving Our Markets?

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Quicken Loans

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Along with the pandemic, 2020 brought a chaotic whirlwind for the housing market. Mortgage rates dropped down to record lows that carried through much of 2021. So, it’s no wonder that a year like that left experts and new buyers guessing. Buyer demand continued. real estate market is hot.

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Hank Miller Team

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Trying to predict any market; stock, bond, mortgage, real estate or other type is a measured guess at best. Toss in a global pandemic, global supply chain issues along with global inflation and the challenge is exacerbated. The two main drivers; low mortgage rates and historically low inventory.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Homebuilder confidence in single-family homes jumped one point to 84 in February from 83 in January , according to the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Strong buyer demand in February helped offset supply chain challenges and a surge in lumber prices, according to Chuck Fowke, NAHB chairman.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Rising interest rates and a slowing economy overall are already taking some of the air out of the rapid home-price appreciation the housing market has experience over the past year, according to the recently released Federal Reserve Beige Book for July. Overall, annual mortgage origination levels are expected to be $2.8

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 11, 2022

The housing market has been a roller coaster ride since COVID-19 began, and it hasn’t shown signs of stopping in 2022. It’s increasingly difficult for home appraisers to predict what will happen next, between seller booms and fluctuating mortgage rates. More Second Home Purchases. More Second Home Purchases. 2021 to Jan.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been part of the mortgage banking industry since 1983 — 39 years to date through different housing markets. So when I talk to loan originators today, I harken back to my early days when fixed mortgage rates were over 14% and there were absolutely no refinances to be had.

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Will Springer Realtor

MARCH 8, 2022

The supply chain, already strained, may come under renewed pressure with threats to shipping lines and air travel. Similar fears exist for the energy supply, equity markets, currencies, electric and internet grids, and defense of nations aligned against Russia. Most home buyers focus on the direction of interest rates.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Temperatures are slowly starting to rise in many parts of the country as we head into spring — and so is homebuilder sentiment, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday. In January, the survey had 107 respondents.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

“This transaction volume is taking place against a backdrop of continuous supply chain and labor disruptions.”. months supply. Buyers are facing a housing market that looks to be as competitive as ever,” Handy said in a statement. This is an increase of 3.3% after a 10.4% drop in January. . after a 10.4%

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Eppraisal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Yet if history demonstrates anything, it reveals the cyclical nature of the real estate market. This fact will give hope to buyers for the long term but what about the more immediate future? Home Buyer Profiles The number of first-time home buyers is growing substantially , according to the National Association of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

For the third consecutive week, mortgage rates pushed past 3% – with the average mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan up four basis points last week to 3.09%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Khater expects a 3% rate to sustain market interest for many potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bigger story here is that if we want to see mortgage rates fall, we need more rental units, and right now we have a massive backlog of 2-unit homes under construction — over 900,000. Traditionally, housing starts, permits, and completions would move together, like what we saw in 2002-2005.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite the volatile mortgage rate environment and overall economic uncertainty, homebuilder confidence slowly continues to rise, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

After record sales in 2021, demand for new construction waned throughout 2022 as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates cutting into home buyer’s purchase power and making financing new development projects even more costly for builders. What are you expecting to see next year in terms of supply chain issues?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Homebuilder confidence continued to rise in October despite increasing affordability issues due to rising material prices and ongoing shortages, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report released on Monday. Treasuries and mortgage-backed debt.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. In Birmingham, ERA King Real Estate agent Anna-Maria Ellison said that even without lower mortgage rates, she is seeing buyers return to the market. “It

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

For the first time in nearly a year, homebuilder confidence moved into positive territory thanks to strong consumer demand , limited competition from the existing home sales market , and an improving supply chain. The gauge measuring traffic of prospective buyers increased four points to 37.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Despite the decline, many industry observers see big potential for the housing market in the year ahead. It’s no secret that low mortgage rates and societal shifts brought on by COVID-19 have collided to form a red-hot housing market. But home prices have increased. Presented by: Fannie Mae. million in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

For the first time in nearly a year, homebuilder confidence moved into positive territory thanks to strong consumer demand , limited competition from the existing home sales market , and an improving supply chain. The gauge measuring traffic of prospective buyers increased four points to 37.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

Rising home prices, limited inventory and the uptick in mortgage rates continued to deter some homebuyers last month as sales of existing homes fell 6.6% The median existing-home price for all housing types in February was $313,000, up 15.8% Fannie Mae on how to make housing more affordable. 2020, as prices rose in every region.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

That drop in builder confidence is in spite of sky-high buyer demand, which hasn’t waned despite rising home prices and climbing mortgage rates – the latter up 30 basis points from February. Policymakers must address building material supply chain issues to help the economy sustain solid growth in 2021.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

David Meyer is thankful that his business is still plugging along during the wildest housing market in decades. With mortgage rates hovering around 7% and home prices still at record highs, buyers across America are calling off the house hunt and finding multifamily apartments. . It could be a while.

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