Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

With low housing inventory and rapid home-price growth, homeownership can seem less and less attainable for several groups of potential homebuyers. HousingWire sat down with Radian CEO Rick Thornberry to learn more about the state of the housing market and how Radian is helping further homeownership.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

Mortgage credit is still the tightest it has been in more than six years, but an unwavering February may be the calm before the purchase storm as lenders prepare for a revitalized economy, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a report on Tuesday. The group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index remained unchanged at 124.6

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

“Even though the pace of layoffs has picked up, many businesses, particularly in transportation, healthcare, and hospitality, continue to have strong demand for workers,” Mike Fratantoni , the Mortgage Bankers Association’s chief economist, said in a statement. Residential building construction added 2,400 jobs during the month.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Job gains occurred mainly in government, health care, social assistance and construction in December, while transportation and warehousing posted fewer jobs. Construction employment continued to trend up, with the sector adding 17,000 jobs in the last month of 2023.

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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. Last week, the U.S. debt ceiling to avoid a default on June 1.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What is happening in the housing market ? Both home prices and mortgage rates continue to rise. If mortgage rates pass 8%, housing market activity will see a contraction, Sturtevant said. “Overall, shelter costs were up 7.2% Rents of primary residences were up 7.4%.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Job gains occurred mainly in health care, government, food services, social assistance, transportation and warehousing. In February, employment continued to trend up in construction, adding 23,000 jobs month over month. The jobs report contains two conflicting implications for the housing market, according to Sturtevant.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

For the second week in a row, mortgage applications increased — this time, up 2.1% for the week ending June 18, 2021, per the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate also rose to 3.18% — the highest level in a month, according to the MBA. of total mortgage applications from 61.7%

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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. Unlike site-built homes, which are always titled as real estate, over 40% of manufactured housing is titled as personal property (the same way a car is titled).

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2023

The 10-year yield and mortgage rates have been rising close to the 2023 high as some labor data shows that the honey badger labor market is still growing. To make things even more complicated, the spreads between the 30-year mortgage rate and the 10-year yield keep getting wider. The four-week moving average fell, to 253,25.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Job growth continued in February, but at a slower pace, suggesting that the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes are having at least a mild impact on the labor market. However, the continued job market resilience could equate to even tighter monetary policy , spelling hard times ahead for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

I do a lot with new construction and homeowners’ insurance is cheaper on new builds because they are brand new,” Williams said. In announcing their departure from the Golden State, the two major insurers cited the increased wildfire risks in the state and rising construction costs.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2023

“The incoming economic data has been filled with conflicting signals,” said Mortgage Bankers Association SVP and Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni in a statement. Manufacturing activity remains quite weak, while consumer spending has held up somewhat better, and new home construction and sales have picked up.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

While many proptech companies have struggled to adapt to the slower housing market conditions and challenging venture capital environment, Flyhomes is viewing this as a time to grow. As of mid-March, Richards said the company had signed up more than 20 clients with an aggregate total of more than 5,000 mortgage originations.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Limited inventory, supply chain disruptions and concerns about inflation have led economists at Fannie Mae to lower their mortgage origination forecasts for the remainder of this year and into 2022. It also downsized its 2022 mortgage origination volume forecast by $55 billion to $3.25 trillion from the $4.36

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

A coalition of trade organizations — including the American Bankers Association (ABA), the Housing Policy Council (HPC), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and U.S. historical dataset. that use trended credit bureau data.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

housing market is short by at least 6.5 The scarcity of housing has driven home prices and rents prices to an all-time high and pushed affordability to a multi-decade low. From February 2011 to April 2022, mortgage rates never rose above 5%, making the cost to borrow money and buy a home very cheap. million homes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

High interest rates, coupled with a still-low supply of housing, have created price hurtles that are keeping many first-time homebuyers and lower-income borrowers locked out of the housing market. Nobody was doing buydowns in 2020 and 2021 [when 30-year fixed mortgage rates were in the 3% range]. in year one, go to 5.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

This bodes well for those hoping to see a soft landing, and for those hoping for lower mortgage rates. The 10-year yield has had a wild ride today, but now is an excellent time to look at my macro take on the labor market and explain what the Fed is looking for with the jobs data. Instead, I have focused on jobless claims data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Friday’s job report , those who have been concerned with entrenched 1970s inflation — which would lead to double-digit mortgage rates — can put their disco shoes back in the closet. I wrote recently about the 1970s inflation and mortgage rates. The bond market has assumed this will push the U.S. percent, the U.S.

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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. Fannie Mae recently projected originations for 2023 at $1.59

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Employment in the construction industry was up by 20,000 jobs from October, thanks to large gains in nonresidential building (up 8,200 jobs) and residential specialty trade contractors (up 6,500 jobs). In February 2020, a combined 300,000 were employed in “ real estate credit ” and as mortgage and nonmortgage loan brokers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

With mortgage rates currently at 7.04%, many first-time homebuyers – typically millennials – will be forced to continue to rent. housing market is not a monolith, so today we’re going to look at some markets where affordability is within the normal renter’s reach. But the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Government employment, however, fell by 216,000 – a stat that Mike Fratantoni, senior vice president and chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association , chocks up to the conclusion of the decennial U.S. But despite residential construction employment climbing back to only 0.8%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The increase was due primarily to the residential and real estate mortgage and construction portfolios, consisting of 70% of the total portfolio in Q4 2022. PacWest Bancorp’s shares were trading at $10.94 on Wednesday afternoon, down 10.4% from the previous closing. “We billion in the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Employment continued growing in government, health care, social assistance, and construction, while transportation and warehousing lost jobs. Does this mean the labor market is breaking? No, but we don’t want the Fed to wait for jobless claims to break above 323,000 on the four-week moving average to cut mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

billion hit the market in the first two weeks of 2022, HousingWire reported last week , but that’s already old news. Since then, another nine private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings valued at $4.6 And it’s likely that even more deals will come to market prior to month’s end. billion have unfolded.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2021

Mortgage applications for new homes dropped 9% in April from March, however, overall applications are still up a whopping 30.8% year over year for homebuilders, according to the latest survey report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The MBA’s mortgage credit availability index increased in April to 128.1

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

Looking at the jobs data and which sector added jobs in March, construction and manufacturing jobs came in positively, and we only lost jobs in the government. Job openings in construction and manufacturing have picked up recently. New home sales, housing starts, and permits fall into a recession.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Private employment increased by 877,000, while government employment fell by 216,000 – a stat that Mike Fratantoni, senior vice president and chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association , chocks up to drops in local education employees as many schools did not bring their workforces back in September.

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Quicken Loans

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Anyone keeping an eye on the real estate market watched for predictions in 2021. Along with the pandemic, 2020 brought a chaotic whirlwind for the housing market. Mortgage rates dropped down to record lows that carried through much of 2021. real estate market is hot. In addition, home values and sales skyrocketed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

of portfolio volume, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Borrowers backed by government entities have the option to extend their forbearance up to 18 months thanks to continued legislation by the FHFA and FHA. However, non–federally backed borrowers don’t all have the same blanket policies.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Government employment, however, fell by 86,000 – a stat that Mike Fratantoni, senior vice president and chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association , chocks up to the loss of jobs tied to the 2020 U.S. census count.

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Hank Miller Team

JULY 12, 2023

The first half of the Atlanta 2023 housing market shared many similarities with the first half of the 2022 real estate market. In fact, some market are ahead of those record highs of '22. Clearly it's not the same market, but the interest rate shock seems to be accounted for. Why give up that sweet mortgage rate?

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Hank Miller Team

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Trying to predict any market; stock, bond, mortgage, real estate or other type is a measured guess at best. But in this maelstrom comes a confident 2022 housing market forecast from Goldman Sachs; they predict home prices will appreciate 16 during 2022. The expectation is that the pace of new construction will pick up.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. In Birmingham, ERA King Real Estate agent Anna-Maria Ellison said that even without lower mortgage rates, she is seeing buyers return to the market. “It

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. So, they prepay the mortgage and sell the property, or sell it once the mortgage matures. “A

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