Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

The Section 502 direct loan program, designed to assist low- and very-low-income applicants to obtain housing in eligible rural areas, provides payment assistance to “increase an applicant’s repayment ability” via a type of subsidy that can temporarily reduce the cost of a mortgage payment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the ongoing struggle for attainable housing, one positive development has been the increased availability of funding options for homeowners seeking to incorporate Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) into their properties. Under this policy, lenders can include income earned from ADUs when underwriting their mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2023

Residents in the state of Rhode Island could soon have an easier time constructing accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on their properties, as a bill prioritized by the state’s House Speaker Rep. We are taking a lot of liberties as a state and giving a lot of power to developers that towns just may not want to or more not be able to do.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Combating the increase in housing costs requires “swift action,” and Lombardo noted that in a prior letter to the president he requested that Biden “make more federal lands available for housing development, so that Nevada can increase its inventory and address shortages to ultimately drive down costs,” he said. A record 1.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

the parent company of top five reverse mortgage lender Liberty Reverse Mortgage and PHH Mortgage Corp. Both companies will eventually be aligned under the name Onity Mortgage , but a timeline was not specified for wider implementation into the subsidiaries outside of “later this year.” Ocwen Financial Corp.,

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Empire Appraisal Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Real Estate and Design Trends to Watch in 2024 Design & Architecture , Design Trends By: Barbara Ballinger Source: [link] From ecosystem conservation to “new” darker neutrals in exterior paint, we look at the trends set to take hold in the industry this year. Land shortages make attached and stacked units smart choices.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2021

Of that $93,870, $41,330 is attributable to regulation during development, and $52,540 is due to regulation during construction. The study was filed out by 2,071 NAHB members and 57 developers, and nearly all of the builders — 98.9%, per the study — reported experiencing some type of regulatory cost during construction.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

PWB has also been a convener to talk about issues and challenges of the day, such as the labor shortage, and share resources that encourage construction training opportunities and leadership paths for women in the industry. The connections she made would have taken her years to develop independently. There is a tribe out there.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

With the Federal Reserve gone AWOL on purchasing mortgage loans, mortgage rates have doubled and spreads over 10-year Treasuries are at historical highs. CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the White House announced plans to extend the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) risk-sharing program, two prominent housing associations shared their differing perspectives on the move. In a series of policy announcements designed to address housing supply and affordability, HUD, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

With the Fed gone AWOL on purchasing mortgage loans, mortgage rates have doubled and spreads over 10-year Treasuries are at historical highs. CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers. Such opportunities may arise.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

While mortgage rates are at an all-time low, people looking to buy their first home — particularly millennials, who accounted for half of all new home loans in 2019 — have a limited and aging stock of houses to choose from. Construction has traditionally been slow to pick up new technology compared to other industries.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought interest rates to record lows and spurred a $4 trillion purchase and refinance mortgage boom in 2021. trillion in mortgage origination volume in 2022. CoreLogic is proud to sponsor Convergence and lead the development of a novel solution to this thorny supply challenge. and Columbus, Ohio.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditations and designations Highlight your professional credentials and any special designations you’ve earned. With extensive experience in new construction home sales, Janet is certified in luxury home sales and specializes in relocation and new construction builder sales.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

For one, the mortgage servicing industry adopted some COVID-era, rescue-type packages where a house does not go into immediate foreclosure. But more broadly, since the Great Recession in 2008, there has been a greater implementation of standardized loss-mitigation measures designed to prevent a foreclosure crisis.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

McCargo said she sees the development as “a big deal,” saying it’s representative of the other ESG work being done more broadly at HUD and at other federal agencies. Social is a new construct, especially in the fixed-income markets and in the mortgage-backed securities space,” she said. “We’re

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2023

Artificial intelligence refers to computer systems designed to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence, such as recognizing speech, identifying patterns or making decisions. By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) language model.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. Ideally, an engineer designs a model of what they want on software, from an air duct to a prosthetic limb, and it is precisely printed out.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The FOMC also said it would continue to reduce its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities. In fact, mortgage applications picked up in the week leading up to the Fed meeting, signaling a wave of optimism. However, at Mortgage News Daily , mortgage rates were higher on Tuesday, at 7.30%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

Last year was challenging for housing and mortgage markets. For the first time in many years, we experienced falling home prices, in part due to skyrocketing mortgage rates which almost doubled from around 3.5% DOE should delay its effective date, while it works with HUD to develop more balanced standards. Congress can help.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

We also commend the administration for the White House initiative announced a week ago Monday to “Ease the Burden of Housing Costs,” which a Housing Wire article noted is designed to reduce regulatory hurdles. Both the standards and the underlying methodology used to develop them are fundamentally flawed.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development. November continued to see a slip in home construction activity, despite inflation cooling off and mortgage rates falling,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow’s economist, said in a statement. Census Bureau and the U.S. November’s annual housing start rate was down 16.4%

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

The new rule guidance is designed to expand the supply of affordable housing by making it easier to develop, repair or operate affordable housing. billion for affordable-housing development and preservation. billion for affordable-housing development and preservation. Louis , that gap is 29.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Housing Policy Council has weighed in on the Conference of State Bank Supervisors’ new proposed standards for nonbank mortgage servicers. In the introduction to the Proposed Standards, CSBS recognizes the importance of nonbank mortgage servicers in the mortgage market,” HPC stated in its comment letter. HPC agrees.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2022

Bush, a Republican President, signing into law the HERA legislation , developed under a Democratic-controlled Congress. Fortunately, HERA’s de novo conservatorship provisions designed to deal with this contingency have more than withstood the test of time. million underwater borrowers to lower their mortgage rate.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Residential zoning laws are designed to promote orderly development, control traffic flow, and ensure that noise and activity levels are appropriate to each specific neighborhood. The cost of labor has skyrocketed in recent years, driven by shortages in the construction workforce.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations. trillion in mortgage originations in 2021. The perplexing part: Why are home prices not declining in this environment?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Reports on housing data are headline-driven, and headlines are designed to cause folks to overreact in both positive and negative ways. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. However, construction should continue at a slow and steady pace. months and above, builders tend to halt construction.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They all have done their studies and have provided their analysis of what their data reflects the total economic life of a home to be based upon its quality of construction. Therefore, for each sale, we must develop a reliable opinion of the value of its land. We’ve just developed the total economic life for one of the sales.

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Assurance Financial

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Buying new construction is slightly different from buying an existing home in another way. The rules for loans and financing for new home construction aren’t exactly the same as they are for buying homes that already stand. FAQs About Home Construction Loans. Curious about the process of getting a construction loan?

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Retrospective appraisals, drive-by (exterior inspection) appraisals, and valuations from plans and specifications, are all valuation assignments where an appraiser develops an appraisal opinion without personally inspecting the property. I was lucky to have never had to use new construction as a comp on an existing home.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Communication took on many forms, including development of written documents stating client reporting requirements, utilizing technology platforms to increase transparency throughout the appraisal process, and developing feedback to the appraiser on appraisal submissions. Complexity in Process and Properties.

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Assurance Financial

APRIL 29, 2021

Important Mortgage Acronyms. When you’re in the process of shopping for a home and a mortgage, you’re likely to encounter what looks like alphabet soup. All those letters and mortgage statement abbreviations can make your head spin. Mortgage Term Abbreviations to Know. ARM (Adjustable-Rate Mortgage).

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The combination of extremely high home prices and regulatory reform have turned this corner of the country into an ADU laboratory of sorts, with plenty of “formulas” being developed today to “grow” more desperately needed homes. and includes the design, labor, materials and permits.

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McKissock

JUNE 3, 2022

If you are performing appraisals for the intended use of secondary market mortgage lending, it’s essential to have a clear understanding of the UAD quality ratings, since you will be required to use them in your report forms. CE Course: Learn about the entire home construction process from the ground up. not a professional contractor.)

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McKissock

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Meet the presenters James Heaslet Serving as the Chief Appraiser for the Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty Service since 2018, James is responsible for developing and overseeing policies and regulations for the VA Construction and Valuation department. Jeff also holds the SRA and AI-RRS designation with the Appraisal Institute.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hondros College Best Ohio real estate school for fulfilling prelicense requirements Visit Website Hondros courses are designed and taught by industry experts who are active in their fields, using real world scenarios to help you retain course concepts. Program follows a blueprint developed by the OH Association of Realtors®.

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