Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

What constitutes a “lowball” offer, when is it appropriate or not appropriate and how can you encourage your buyer clients to stop insisting on offering a price that’s unlikely to result in an offer? By definition, a lowball offer is an offer that is significantly below market value. Have there been price changes?

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

Worsening market conditions are only going to accelerate an already hyper-competitive mortgage lending industry that is still learning to adapt to post-pandemic homebuying behaviors. Market research backs that up. Mortgage lending is facing the same disproportionate dilemma that technology, in many ways, can make worse.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

In honor of National Homeownership Month, Chase Home Lending unveiled on Tuesday an upgraded suite of resources for homebuyers to assist in navigating the homebuying process and managing homeownership. Chase also offers a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers purchasing in majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods across the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For most real estate agents, working with a reliable lending partner is essential to a smooth and successful transaction. Finding reliable lending partners takes time and some trial and error, but once established is often the lifeblood of LOs. The lender and LO can make or break the transaction.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

In this hot housing market, Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint understands the key to originating more home loans is ensuring more sellers accept offers made by its buyers. Homepoint partnered with fintech mortgage company Accept.inc , which upgrades offers from qualified buyers to an all-cash bid.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For many of us, the start of a new year is usually synonymous with a renewed sense of professional self, focusing on new goals, new prospects for the year and, of course, the excitement for the upcoming spring real estate market. 2020 proved that we all need to work to find new ways to generate business.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Seventy million dollars in seed funding is a colossal investment for an unproven tech startup, even one that promises to fully disrupt a relatively low-margin, traditional industry like mortgage lending. The startup says it has also partnered with top local real estate agents who know their way around the markets they serve.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Few things affect the real estate market more than the rise and fall of interest rates , which has a ripple effect that directly influences everything from buyer behavior to market trends. Generally, the Fed will adjust its lending rate by a quarter percent, but at times the adjustment has been larger.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

In a competitive market where most borrowers are mortgage rate shopping, credit optimization can be the difference between closing a loan or losing out to an offer from a competitor. Here why CreditXpert’s new platform — that combines the best of Wayfinder and the What-if Simulator — can help you reach more buyers and close more loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Wells Fargo rolled out a down payment grant program that will offer $10,000 to eligible buyers or homeowners who currently live in or are purchasing homes in underserved communities in eight metropolitan areas. Eligible buyers can combine the bank’s grant with other programs including — Wells Fargo’s Dream.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

Mortgage credit showed signs of loosening up in March, and with it, more availability for lower credit scores and high LTV products to enter the housing market, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a report on Thursday. A homebuyer’s guide to a competitive housing market. The housing market is extremely competitive right now.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

ECOA prohibits reverse redlining — targeting minority communities for predatory lending — but Congress amended the statute in 1976 to allow for special purpose credit programs. It could be a sustainable lending product for a community where a lender has had poor penetration. A special purpose credit program can take many forms.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Despite difficulties in the mortgage market at large, non-QM lenders are seeing growth and opportunity. The non-QM demand for loans is very healthy,” Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind said. “We We are not seeing a similar volume trajectory as the agency market.” We increased our liquidity and found more buyers for our loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Articles about rates, housing inventory and inflation were among our most popular, including: Purchase mortgage rates fall same week as Fed rate hike New home sales make it clear, housing is in a recession The nation’s housing market is on a correction course. This theme wasn’t limited to white papers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

As the spring selling season kicks off, many educated sellers know that buyers are experiencing spring fever and are tired of sitting on the fence watching home prices increase. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. Serious buyers showed discernment as they know inventory is growing. With only 1.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Jeremy Foster, founder and chairman of Calque Buying a home today can be stressful and fraught with complicated issues, such as contingencies requiring the buyer to sell their current home before qualifying for the home they want to buy. Buy before you sell (BBYS) products may be the answer.

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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. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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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. The proposal would make it more expensive for large banks to hold, sell or service mortgages, reinforcing their now decade-long retreat from mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Competition for home buyers is tougher than ever right now, as tightened housing stock supply continues to plague the housing market. Acra Lending is doing what it can to help free up inventory. In addition to low inventory, the massive competition in the market has led to an increase in home prices. Jumbo products.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The highly competitive purchase market and bidding wars gave rise to power buyer models to help non cash buyers compete. With all this change, it’s worth exploring some examples of how proptechs are adapting, and check out some of the business models that have survived the market pullback.

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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. Credit standards for home-only applicants are much higher than for buyers seeking a mortgage, and this helps explain the high denial rates.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But Brian Hale, who is assisting several buyers in their hunt for independent mortgage bank acquisition targets, sees an even more brutal landscape ahead. Based on numerous interviews with mergers and acquisitions experts, we dove into the 2023 IMB buyer profile. trillion in loans, about half of 2021’s $4.4 trillion to $1.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2024

Looking back, last year’s market was dominated by purchase lending, with loans to buy homes making up 82% of a historically low number of originations. The market in which these folks purchased their first home was one of record house prices, ballooning down payments , rising rates and elevated debt-to-income ratios (DTIs).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In light of this, HousingWire sat down with Saleforce’s Global Head for Mortgage and Lending, Geoff Green, to learn how lenders can better turbocharge mortgage for today’s home buyers. Once that alignment is in place, ongoing marketing for the customer journey and contextual cross-sell/upsell can, and should, occur.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Prospective homebuyers are slowly growing less sensitive to home prices and high-interest rates, and fewer of them are willing to wait for a better market to buy a home. There were also some generational disparities in what would-be buyers were willing to sacrifice. As of July 2023, about 80% of outstanding U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

Robbin Sutton with DASH Realty Carolina has been a broker for 20 years, and she’s never seen anything like the current housing market in the Raleigh-Durham metro. Thankfully, most banks were still lending. The post North Carolina’s low home prices luring buyers appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

The 5% market’s a healthy market,” said Anna Ruotolo, branch manager and senior loan officer at Synergy One Lending. “A A 5% market will be good. I think that brings enough people back into the market, [though] I do think there’s still a lot more demand than supply.”. Make a plan. Continue to educate.

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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. Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. First, mortgage lending standards have remained high after the last bubble. The last time we saw prices decline, the combination of declining prices and bad mortgages forced inventory onto the market. There will be two key differences between 2023 and 2010.

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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. In many ways it was similar to today, with one exception: When I started, I hadn’t been spoiled by a housing market like the one in 2020 and 2021. The housing market won’t be like this forever.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

In the most competitive housing markets in the country, virtually every buyer has immaculate credit, a few hundred thousand dollars – or more – for a downpayment and knows what their mortgage options are. Not that many of the buyers even need one. In the nearby San Francisco housing market, where the average home sells for $1.4

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Lax lending standards and cheap credit, plus a popular belief that real estate values never decline, created a massive bubble. market is viewed as a safe harbor by those in China with capital. in 2008 and 2009.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Transactions in the fix and flip market have been booming in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, up 14% over 2021 and up 58% over 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. A year ago, we were offering to lend 85% loan-to-cost or 90% loan-to-cost, and that’s down to like 75% loan-to-cost.

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Lamacchia Realty

MARCH 11, 2024

Buyers hoping to purchase condos have been under more stringent lending regulations over the past three years, initially under temporary guidelines that were later made permanent. Buyers and buyer agents alike needed to be keenly aware of how the new regulations would impact the purchase of a condo in any building over 5 units.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

The share of refinances in mortgage origination volume dipped below 50% for the first time in 15 months in March, according to Black Knight ‘s new monthly data report, the Originations Market Monitor. With interest rates continuing to tick up, the purchase mortgage market is where most lenders will focus operations over the next year.

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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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