Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. One of the critical data lines that I want to see improve this year is days on market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At the crux of the case is the allegation that commission rates are too high, it’s unfair that the seller pays the buyer’s agent’s commission, and that the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Code of Conduct and MLS Handbook lead to set pricing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The mortgage servicing rights (MSR) market has been very active this year, with robust deal flow that is on par with last year’s record $1 trillion in trading volume and with generally good pricing for MSR packages, industry experts agree. Is it affecting the MSR market? “I

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

But while rates have dropped, the housing market has continued to be challenged by low inventory levels. “As the prime spring buying season takes off and the best time to sell draws near, buyers will be looking for well-priced, ready-to-move-in homes,” Hannah Jones, Realtor.com’s economic data analyst, said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 4, 2024

compared to normal 2017 to 2019 levels, indicating that the market remains seller-friendly. “In In addition to higher median list prices and fewer homes for sale versus 2019, the increase in median price-per-square foot suggests that the typical home on the market today is worth 52.7% Petersburg-Clearwater, FL – 68.0%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. The housing market can’t replicate the type of massive credit expansion we saw from 2002-2005, so the price-growth story has more to do with inventory collapsing to all-time lows. The reality is that home sellers and builders had too much pricing power.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. One such measure is who is entering the market. Today, the average is 2.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Austin is still the nation’s hottest housing market, as tech workers continue to flock to the Lone Star State’s capital. Homes are staying on the market an average of 24 days, Redfin reported. The jumbo market for brokers is back in a huge way. Presented by: Rocket Pro TPO. year over year, to $465,000.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The mortgage servicing rights (MSR) market has opened 2023 with a healthy volume of capital committed to purchasing the assets along with multiple sellers primed for deals — as evidenced by the $60 billion to $65 billion in MSR portfolio offerings currently out for bid, market experts say.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

I can also provide expert advice about renovations and the potential return on investment — where to get the biggest bang for your buck — or simply answer any questions you have about the market. You’ll want to include the list price, sale price, and days on market. We negotiated to get the sellers the highest price possible.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

1, a decrease from last week’s figure of 6.69%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. Khater added that the solid jobs market, income growth and household formation growth should provide strong fundamental support to the housing market in the months ahead.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“This collaboration reflects our dedication to equipping NAR members with innovative solutions that cater to the evolving needs of their clients, ensuring a smooth experience for sellers and buyers alike,” said Rhonny Barragan, NAR vice president of strategic alliances in an announcement of the deal. markets, according to the page.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2024

That’s a place where rates are really having a significant effect,” Powell said during a press conference after Wednesday’s meeting of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC). “As of now, the market is pricing in just one cut by the end of the year and 2-3 cuts in 2025.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. The market has now faced a contraction in existing-homes sales for nine consecutive months, while home prices and rates rise.

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Boston Appraisal

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Rise in Interest Rates and How It Affects Buyers and Sellers When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the Federal Reserve was quick to act by substantially reducing interest rates, which resulted in many new buyers entering the market to purchase a home at low rates. This affected buyers and sellers.

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Mashvisor

DECEMBER 14, 2021

There are two main real estate market cycles: the buyers market and the sellers market. Learn how investors can take advantage of either cycle. Timing is important in the real…

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors. The post Threat of climate change looms large for some home buyers appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. However, there are a number of attention-grabbing headlines, which unfortunately only compare today’s housing market to the very recent history of the last two years. However, in many areas of the country it does remain a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Despite these massive headwinds, we have positioned Compass for significant upside when the market begins to recover.” Compass attributed some of these struggles to the slower housing market of 2023, which saw Compass close 178,848 transactions, down 15.5% million in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s monetary tightening policy and the recent banking crisis have the potential to change the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market’s dynamics more than anything seen over the last two decades, according to secondary market experts. They are likely to be replaced by money managers as investors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Mortgage rates climbed again this week as investors braced themselves for ‘higher-for-longer’ conditions following last week’s Fed meeting. These headwinds are causing both buyers and sellers to hold out for better circumstances.” Additionally, the yield on 10-year treasuries shot up to 4.6% on September 27 from 4.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

.” Incenter has businesses focused on capital markets, loan diligence, student lending, insurance, property tax, accounting and marketing. According to Parrish, some of Incenter’s clients, such as IMBs, face pressures from the market downturn. Founder Tom Piercy took over the chief growth officer role.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

In down markets, the best agents and the best brokerages gain market share,” Reffkin, the CEO of Compass, told investors and analysts during his firms first-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday evening. “We In addition to Compass’ market share gains, the firm also recorded a 10% annual bump in revenue to $1.05

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Home sellers with high equity aren’t as sensitive to higher rates because they bring a more significant down payment. I have stressed that housing doesn’t move like the stock market. A real estate investor, on the other hand, doesn’t have that type of shelter relationship with a home, that a homeowner does. months in May 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. ” Who is jumping into the market? Investor demand tends to increase at times when most borrowers are waiting for rates to decline, Justin Fullmer, area manager in Idaho for Future Mortgage , told HousingWire. from the week prior.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Tech executive and investor Keith Rabois at venture capital firm Founders Fund led the capital injection. 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. So why is this program so rare?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Most home sellers are buyers of homes, so the action we are seeing this year is a healthy step in the right direction to get more balance in the housing market ,” Mohtashami wrote on Saturday. Investors’ focus will turn to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s biannual monetary policy update scheduled for Thursday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The effort was intended to decrease systemic risk, but by focusing narrowly on the risk posed by banks, it would likely increase risk in the mortgage market. Nor would banks be able to improve their economics by distributing their mortgages into the mortgage-backed securities market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a byproduct of the qualified mortgage rule of 2010, which has been a game-changer not only for the housing market but for the overall U.S. million active listings per the last report, we have 526,000 per our last Housing Market Tracker article. Now that the days on the market are over 30 days, the housing market is healthier.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mortgage hedge advisory and secondary marketing software firm Mortgage Capital Trading, Inc. BAMCO supports live, flow-based, loan-level MSR pricing, expanding execution options for sellers while creating new client acquisition opportunities for buyers. released a new marketplace for co-issue loan sales this week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a positive note, however, the days on the market are no longer a teenager anymore: that metric grew from 18 days to 21 days. I cheer because the savagely unhealthy housing market theme I talked about back in February of this year was the same premise of the housing reset talking point the Federal Reserve uses.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In the first quarter, we saw normal seasonality in purchase opened orders with sequential improvement coming off the fourth quarter,” Fidelity CEO Mike Nolan told investors and analysts during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call on Thursday. “In The number of purchase orders opened per day was up 5% on a yearly basis. “In

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period. to 4.75% range, up from 0.25% a year ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Buyers seem like they can’t get a break,” Kechian said. “I I really think they had about three months last year where it was a buyers market in the fourth quarter. Literally, we’re right back to being a seller’s market again.” Connie Kim : Tell us about your main market.

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Inman

MAY 24, 2024

Homeowners can't sell a primary residence through Xome's seller portal without a listing agent, but can hire an agent on their own or ask Xome to match them with one.

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