Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Ahead of Friday’s national jobs report, mortgage rates have found stability after increasing for multiple weeks. Polly ’s average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans was 7.17% on Tuesday, down from 7.24% one week earlier, according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center. one week earlier.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week’s above-consensus inflation figures brought the mortgage market back to a sour reality: The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate, an index closely watched by industry experts, may be close to or even above the 7% level for longer than previously expected. Where are mortgage rates headed? in second-quarter 2024.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Mortgage rates inched back up this week and remain anchored north of 7% as investors focus on the impact of rising headline inflation ahead of next week’s Fed rate decision. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 6.02% a year ago at this time. Other indices showed different mortgage rates this week.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2022

Austin-based mortgage tech platform UpEquity laid off around 10% of its workforce last week, proof that the rising interest rate landscape hurts real estate technology companies, too. . The company then receives monthly payments with interest from the homebuyers, who can avoid going through a bank to get a mortgage. In October, ??the

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

High mortgages and stubbornly elevated home prices are worsening the housing affordability crisis. Average mortgage rates hit 6.7% As a result of the limited supply, still-rising prices and elevated mortgage rates, sales activity for starter homes has stifled. Austin buyers must earn $92,000, down 3.3% The typical U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

Mortgage rates fell again this week, but the primary cause was not the banking crisis fiasco. According to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage declined to 6.28% as of April 4, down from 6.32% the previous week. range mid-week, and mortgage rates also tracked lower,” Jones added.

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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. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 6.70% a year ago at this time. These headwinds are causing both buyers and sellers to hold out for better circumstances.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their downward plunge this week as inflation keeps decelerating. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.63% as of Feb. 1, a decrease from last week’s figure of 6.69%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday. Is the housing market normalizing?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Find your audience Not every real estate transaction is the same because not all buyers and sellers are the same. Do you specialize in helping first-time buyers and sellers, or are you leaning towards working with real estate investors ? mortgage lenders, home inspectors, etc.)

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

New York-based mortgage platform Roam has secured a $1.25 Roam focuses on a distinctive niche within the mortgage industry: assumable mortgages. Tech executive and investor Keith Rabois at venture capital firm Founders Fund led the capital injection. The platform advertises sellers listing to qualified buyers.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Redfin classified purchases as all-cash when transactions had no mortgage loan information on the deed. High mortgage rates are exacerbating inequality between people who own homes and people who don’t,” Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari said. In those cities, the typical buyer put down 25% of the purchase price.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Mortgage rates jumped this week as investors grapple with persistent positive economic data and a hawkish Fed. The 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 6.81% as of July 6, up significantly from last week ’s 6.71%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

“ Recovery year ” was the theme heading into 2024 as mortgage professionals hoped for some reprieve in a frozen housing market characterized by high interest rates, low inventory levels and sluggish sales. A little more than two months into the year, however, mortgage rates are the highest they’ve been as the U.S. economy remains hot.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s counterintuitive but real: Despite surging mortgage rates , borrowers’ demand for home loans rose last week. There were very low levels of mortgage applications in the weeks prior to the surprising uptick. In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. from the week prior.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Average mortgage rates on 30-year fixed home loans continued their march towards 8% this week as the Treasury yield surpassed 5%. Rates have been steadily climbing for seven straight weeks, the longest consecutive increase since Spring 2022, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. million units sold.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mortgage applications fell for the fifth consecutive week as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.31%, its highest level since December 2000. For the week that ended August 18, mortgage applications fell 4.2% from the prior week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. bond yields spike last week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

in March compared to February despite rising mortgage rates , according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Meaningful gains will only occur with declining mortgage rates and rising inventory.” The number of buyers who are bringing all cash to the transactions has been on the rise.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

mortgage industry recently had to remind itself of this fact when a CNN analysis found that the nation’s largest credit union, Navy Federal, has the widest disparity in mortgage approval rates between white and black borrowers of any major lender. Is the mortgage industry offering fair access to loans? credit histories.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

Mortgage rates are surging again due to sustained economic growth and continued inflation, eclipsing 7% on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage on Thursday, March 2 touched 7.10% , up 16 basis points from 6.94 Lower mortgage rates back in January brought buyers back into the market. on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. With first-lien mortgages … the trading volumes are down from 2021 and 2022 peak levels.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 10, 2024

Fannie Mae is selling a pool of approximately 1,205 deeply delinquent mortgages totaling $221.9 CIPs are typically smaller pools of loans that are geographically focused and marketed to encourage participation by non-profit organizations, minority- and women-owned businesses (MWOBs), and smaller investors. million in UPB.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better Home & Finance Holding Company has partnered with information technology consulting company Infosys on a mortgage-as-a-service platform. Better’s mortgage as a service currently consists roughly 20% of its revenue and the lender aims to grow this business line, Garg said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

Mortgage rates little changed this week as investors assessed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ’s latest comments on rate hikes. Other mortgage indexes also show rates slightly rising. By contrast, the 30-year was at 5.70% a year ago at this time. since mid-May, running in a steady 100-basis point range, Ratiu noted.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

When the entire mortgage industry saw volume drop by more than half in 2022, nearly every lender emerged with battle scars. Non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) wholesale lender A&D Mortgage , however, saw origination volume increase by more than 31% to $3.2 billion in 2022, up from the previous year’s $2.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

Interest rates for mortgage loans broke five straight weeks of declines caused by the bank crisis. For the first time in over a month, mortgage rates moved up due to shifting market expectations,” Sam Khater , Freddie Mac ’s chief economist, said in a statement. in the first week of April to 3.6%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

When the 30-year fixed rate dropped for the third straight week in late March, homebuyers responded, giving a boost to mortgage applications. And, following investors’ rush into bonds after the recent bank failures earlier this month, yields moved even lower last week — and mortgage rates followed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. LenderPulse requests surveys from 24,000 mortgage professionals across the country on market trends and lender opportunities and challenges. in events to garner business. Roughly 36.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

Mortgage applications jumped 8.5% for the week ending March 4, as mortgage rates dropped for the first time in three months as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported on Wednesday. Borrowers’ demand for mortgages increased across the board. Buyers on average bought 0.8

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

A panel of experts assembled at a recent Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) conference in New York predicted that adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market contending with fast-rising interest rates. Morgan among its investors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2021

After several consecutive weeks of drops, mortgage applications jumped 16% for the week ending July 9, 2021, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The refinance share of activity of total mortgage applications increased to 64.1% The FHA share of total mortgage applications decreased to 9.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

debt ceiling impasse and the resilient economy led mortgage rates to climb to the highest level in two months. The latest MBA data published on Wednesday morning shows that mortgage loan applications decreased 4.6% retail residential mortgage applications. “Investors remained attuned to the uncertainty around the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Mortgage rates dropped to 6.78% this week, the biggest weekly decline since mid-March, as investors digested a raft of mixed incoming economic data. As inflation slows, mortgage rates decreased this week,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac ’s chief economist in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

Mortgage rates rose slightly this week ahead of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee ‘s rate hike. 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 6.81% as of July 27, up from last week ’s 6.78%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Mortgage industry watchers have started 2023 with optimism regarding the possibility of mortgage rates returning to the 5% range this year – but not without a dose of volatility on the way. “The mortgage market began 2023 on a positive note, with a decline in mortgage rates leading to an uptick in refinance applications.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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