Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

These improvements came as the number of direct title orders opened in the quarter jumped from 308,000 in Q1 2023 to 315,000 in Q1 2024. These improvements came as the number of direct title orders opened in the quarter jumped from 308,000 in Q1 2023 to 315,000 in Q1 2024. The firm’s title segment reported $1.7

Insurance 442

Insurance Real Estate Sellers Housing Market 442

Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Last year, there were (number) homes sold here, and the average selling price was (dollar figure). (If Do you remember the last time you received a letter in the mail, in an envelope, that was hand-addressed to you? People remember snail mail simply because we don’t receive much of it. Call or text me with any real estate questions!

Real Estate 435

Real Estate Open Houses Brokerage Real Estate Agent 435

Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Key highlights from this month’s AMI show that the decline in the number of active agents, those with a closing in the past year, has plateaued. The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month. March’s report saw the AMI reaching a score of 114.6,

Real Estate Agent 417

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 417

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In January, the number of properties with a foreclosure filing inched up on both a monthly and a yearly basis, according to a report released Tuesday by Attom Data. California, Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois had the greatest number of foreclosure starts last month. In total, 33,270 U.S.

Legal 509

Legal Real Estate Marketing Mortgage 509

Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

to 2,105, while HECM case numbers also trended higher, continuing a streak of consecutive monthly increases. HECM endorsements Overall, case numbers issued grew by 8.2% in April to 3,502, the highest case number figure recorded since August 2023 according to RMI. compared to the prior month.

Mortgage 393

Mortgage Finance Marketing Business 393

Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers developed a framework for estimating the number of home sales in 2024 based on the current levels for mortgage rates. We can observe this trend in both the count of new listings per week and in the total number of unsold homes on the market. In the 24 months beginning March 2022, the U.S.

Mortgage 293

Mortgage New Listings Inventory Sellers 293

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month. The number of agents changing offices is divided by the number of agents active in the past 12 months in the analyzed market areas. This could represent a stabilization in the agent pool which is an additional helpful trend.

Real Estate Agent 414

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Brokerage Agents 414

Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Freedom Mortgage were handed minor setbacks by the presiding and magistrate judges, respectively, in a case that the regulator brought in widespread violations in its 2020 submission of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. The development was first reported by National Mortgage News.

Mortgage 383

Mortgage Law Clients Development 383

Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The number of completed short-sale and deeds-in-lieu transactions in Q4 2023 totaled 134, a decrease of 12% compared to the previous quarter. Of the total number of modifications, about 31% in the fourth quarter reduced a borrower’s monthly payments by more than 20%. The rate for U.S.

Government 462

Government Mortgage Inventory Real Estate 462

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This data includes customers’ social security numbers. ” “Based on our investigation, we understand that your name, address, social security number, and loan number may have been obtained by the unauthorized third party,” the document states. .” District Court for Central California.

Law 487

Law Contracts Insurance Clients 487

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An update on loanDepot ’s January cyberattack shows that a higher number of individuals were affected than previously disclosed, while tens of millions of dollars in additional expenses will be added to the company’s first-quarter earnings results. The number of individuals affected exceeds the 16.6 On Tuesday morning, the top 15 U.S.

Contracts 437

Contracts Insurance Mortgage Marketing 437

Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

However, the drop in active agent count from a peak in late 2022 will mean that the total number of experienced agent recruits will remain lower than what we were seeing in recent years.” The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month. The monthly AMI value finished at 70.4

Real Estate Agent 446

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 446

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Hackers had access to names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, current addresses, bank account information, and credit card account numbers. In Massachusetts, the data breach affected 430 customers, but there’s no indication of the total number of individuals affected nationwide. Top 10 U.S. 4, loanDepot said that 16.9

Mortgage 417

Mortgage Development Business Marketing 417

Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

However, if we go back to the November and December case number assignments, the writing was sort of on the wall that a month like this was coming.” That’s because those were the two lowest case number assignment months in all of 2023, McCue said. The retail channel volume decrease of 15.7% effectively “masked” a gain of 3.9%

Retail 414

Retail Mortgage Business Loan Officers 414

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month. The number of agents changing offices is divided by the number of agents active in the past 12 months in the analyzed market areas. While inventory is still low, professionals are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. respectively.

Real Estate Agent 446

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Brokerage Agents 446

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It is not difficult to sleuth out the reason that San Diego’s low days-on-market and high price-per-square-foot persist: the number of homes for sale has been hollowed out and remains anemic. The number of listings in San Diego fell 50.5% In 2022, however, only 55.3% after New York (53.9%) and Washington, D.C.

Marketing 427

Marketing Mortgage Realty Brokerage 427

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Equifax’s digital income and employment verification tool – The Work Number – is available to one million additional employees of U.S. With the new integration between Payroll Relief and The Work Number, those verifications can happen instantly and digitally outside of regular business work hours, Equifax said.

Legal 437

Legal Business Government Tools 437

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

With December’s numbers in, a total of 2.7 With December’s numbers in, a total of 2.7 in December and the number of unemployed Americans also showed little change at 6.3 in December and the number of unemployed Americans also showed little change at 6.3 Economists were expecting an addition of 170,000 jobs.

Transportation 437

Transportation Construction Government Investors 437

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The number of owner-occupied homes skyrocketed, quickly depleting the number of vacant for-sale homes. The number of homes “held off market” – second homes, vacation homes and others that are neither for-sale, for-rent or occupied – shrank. It’s no secret that 2023 was a difficult year to buy a home. New data from the U.S.

Inventory 427

Inventory Sellers Mortgage Marketing 427

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Keep in mind that we are still at a historically low level of movement and that the number of agents active in real estate has declined over the last year representing a smaller pool of recruitable agents. The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month.

Real Estate 407

Real Estate Brokerage Real Estate Agent Agents 407

Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

That’s mildly interesting given the lag time for endorsements, but case numbers issued in January rose to their highest level since October,” RMI said in its commentary accompanying the data. H2H refinance case numbers showed the ongoing alignment of reverse to 10-year [Constant Maturity Treasury (CMT)] rate nuances, rocketing 87.9%

Retail 427

Retail Mortgage Real Estate Agent Business 427

Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

On a yearly basis, the number of delinquencies edged up 2.65% in 2023. However, the rate of serious delinquencies was still 19% (-108,000) below that number at the end of December 2022. As a result, some loans appeared temporarily delinquent, ICE noted in its First Look Mortgage Performance report. million loans. million loans.

Mortgage 427

Mortgage Inventory 427

Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

If the region maintains its current pace of housing production through 2035, home prices could rise by 25% and the number of cost-burdened households could increase by 7.6% (or 260,000 households), with a disproportionate effect on low-income households, the report states. The analysis, conducted by McKinsey & Co.

Investing 445

Investing Housing Market Construction Development 445

Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 26, 2024

Because the job market remains strong and inflation continues to rise faster than expected, the number of rate cuts by the Federal Reserve could be curtailed later this year. Mortgage rates will likely remain “higher for longer” than previously forecast, according to Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group.

Mortgage 396

Mortgage Housing Market Marketing Appraisal 396

Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

In February 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8%, marking an 0.2 percentage-point decrease from February 2023. The rate remained unchanged from January 2024, according to the latest CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights report. The foreclosure process affected only 0.3% home equity , which was up by $1.3

Mortgage 481

Mortgage Marketing 481

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

An investigation showed that names, addresses, Social Security numbers and loan numbers may have been obtained by the unauthorized third party bad actor, Nations Direct said on its website. 30, 2023, the lender disclosed on March 14 in a notice shared with the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

Mortgage 427

Mortgage Government Sellers Clients 427

Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The number of buyers who are bringing all cash to the transactions has been on the rise. Pending home sales increased by 3.4% in March compared to February despite rising mortgage rates , according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Sales were essentially flat compared to one year ago.

Inventory 454

Inventory Buyers Realtors Investors 454

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The score is computed by estimating the number of agents who changed brokerages in a given month. The number of agents changing offices is divided by the number of agents active in the past 12 months in the analyzed market areas. The most recent trailing 12-month value shows a new low of 89.4,

Real Estate Agent 436

Real Estate Agent Real Estate Agents Brokerage 436

Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

The number of unemployed Americans also rose to 6.5 Job seekers are taking longer to find work, and the number of job switchers has declined.” Though all signs point to a cooling labor market overall, the economy picked up another 275,000 jobs in February. Average hourly earnings for private-sector employees grew by 0.1% and were up 4.3%

Transportation 446

Transportation Retail Housing Market Construction 446

Sacramento Appraisal Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

This is a freakishly high number of offers, and I think there are some interesting layers here to talk about. A property in the Sacramento area had a whopping 147 offers as reported by the listing agent. Any thoughts?

Realtors 358

Realtors Agents Appraisal Housing Market 358

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The lawsuits allege that the defendants, which are referred to as “data brokers,” have violated a law that prohibits the disclosure of home addresses and unpublished home phone numbers for judges, law enforcement officers, prosecutors and their families. The law is named after Daniel Anderl, the son of a federal judge.

Real Estate 417

Real Estate Law Business 417

Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2024

A record 47% of government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) purchase loans in 2023 came from first-time homebuyers, a number that’s been trending gradually higher throughout the past decade. 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.

Lending 501

Lending Mortgage Buyers Government 501

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Although some have estimated the trade group’s membership numbers could drop by nearly 1 million members, many don’t believe that will happen because some MLSs require NAR membership in order to access their platforms. million members. million members. Certainly there are a lot of places in the U.S. In about half the U.S.,

Realtors 427

Realtors Agents Brokerage Contracts 427

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The modest increase in mortgage credit availability stems from a greater number of conventional loan offerings, according to MBA senior vice president and deputy chief economist Joel Kan. The MBA’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index (MCAI) increased in January to 92.7, The MCAI for conventional loans increased by 1.3%

Mortgage 427

Mortgage Government Lending Technology 427

Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

The number of assumptions being completed is a small but growing fraction of all home sales. The number of assumptions being completed is a small but growing fraction of all home sales. The new service, Roam Boost, will cater to people with credit scores of at least 640 and down payments of at least 15%. An estimated 12.2

Mortgage 417

Mortgage Buyers Lending Investors 417

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Thanks to the joint efforts of HUD, VA, and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), the number of Veterans experiencing homelessness has fallen by 4% since early 2020, and by 52% since 2010,” the announcement stated. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S.

Tools 475

Tools Development 475

Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Nationwide, that number soars to more than 754,000 borrowers and a total of $384.7 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is being sued in federal court over accusations that it failed to refund nearly $385 million in mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) to borrowers over a period of more than two decades.

Insurance 475

Insurance Mortgage Development Legal 475