Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

Mortgage rates fluctuated again last week, down 5 basis points to 2.95% after managing to pop back up to 3% the week prior, according to Thursday data from Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. Mortgage rates have been hovering around 3% for over a month now, as macro economic factors left the bond market hesitant over the global recovery.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

The broader economy showed signs of recovery last week, pushing the average mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan up eight basis points to 3.17%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. “We are far away from those mortgage rate levels right now, but you have to know your limits with new home sales.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% We do not see new construction returning in a meaningful way any time soon. “The Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

These metros also continue to grapple with below-average inventory recovery, maintaining pressure on buyers. Recovering inventory in these areas has helped to ease competition and bring price appreciation under control. Bidding wars are commonplace in these areas, exacerbated by a scarcity of options.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

For better or worse, trends in the mortgage industry tend to mirror corresponding trends in the overall real estate market. Inventory issues. Emerging out of the pandemic, the first half of 2021 showed that there is a historically low housing inventory across multiple markets in the U.S. All about the rates. Push for tech.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Those advantages, coupled with cheap land, made the city a favorite for homebuilders like DR Horton and Lennar that brought plenty of new inventory to market. But high mortgage rates and high home prices proved too much for the listings boom in Jacksonville. Listings jumped at both the state and city levels in 2021 and 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, housing professionals hope for relief from the high mortgage rates, terrible inventory levels and slow sales that characterized the year. They may find that relief for mortgage rates next year, according to forecasts from various industry experts compiled by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

To say that mortgage rates have been on a wild Mr. Toad’s ride in 2022 is an understatement. People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% It’s savage man, truly savage with the mortgage rate rise.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

And with Fed rates expected to rise even further, industry experts and economists don’t expect mortgage rates to stabilize for at least another year. Mortgage rates , which are currently near a 22-year high, declined slightly from last week ahead of the Fed’s sixth rate hike announcement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Since October of 2022, the share of buyers who are purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one quarter of the market. These all-cash homebuyers are happily avoiding the higher mortgage interest rates, which touched 7% in the fall of 2022 before trending down to the current rate of 6.28%. Today, the average is 2.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

.” At the head of this particular snake is the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced lumber mills to close in 2020 due to health and safety concerns, thus crippling builders and construction crews with skyrocketing material prices. The result: a bottleneck with scores of would-be buyers in a low-inventory market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher, senior vice president of operations support and operational risk for VRM Mortgage Services , offers strategies for doing just that, showing how VRM is growing and changing during these unique times. Tiffany Fletcher, VRM Mortgage Services HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As 2020 comes to an end, realtor.com ’s economists believe that the housing inventory shortage won’t be as dire in 2021. Additional lockdowns and quarantines due to COVID-19 could put a dent in housing inventory and sales, potentially slowing down the market and putting increased pressure on buyers, the forecast said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While sellers of existing homes have struggled with rising rates and softening demand, homebuilders have not only survived, but thrived in this market thanks to the use of mortgage rate buydowns , a tool more widely used by builders since their business is selling homes and clearing inventory.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

With record-low inventory nationwide, real estate agents seem to be hearing the same thing day in and day out: “I’d list my home, but where would I move?” Nationwide, inventory is at all-time lows. Here are 10 solutions for sellers who what to buy that go beyond waiting and watching for magic inventory to appear.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There’s no doubt we’re in a seller’s housing market. With inventory at record lows, demand surging and prices on the rise, buying — even just finding — a home in today’s market is quite the challenge. Qualify for the lowest mortgage rate you can. A mortgage pre-approval is non-negotiable in this environment.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One of the top concerns for homebuyers as well as agents right now is the historic lack of inventory. Change the search area, change the type of home or find an equally great school district to look in that has more inventory. Offer them solutions to get a better-than-average mortgage rate. Find them their dream home.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

Not prequalifying is unprofessional and can waste your time and the sellers. Don’t lose the listing of a motivated, have-to-sell seller over price. Try saying the following when the seller requests a list price that is too high: “That’s interesting, ‘seller.’ Always prequalify, 100% of the time!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“The softness in home sales reflects this year’s escalating mortgage rates. Higher mortgage rates are discouraging many potential home sellers from listing their property. Higher mortgage rates are discouraging many potential home sellers from listing their property. month over month to 1.28

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2021

Record low inventory and strong buyer demand once again pushed up the cost of homes in the U.S., “With buyer demand continuing to outpace the previous year’s levels amid historically lowest inventory of for-sale homes, the pressure on home prices is going to fuel home price growth in the first half of 2021,” Happ said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Homebuyers flocked to what little inventory existed in January, with existing-home sales rising 6.7% from December and mortgage rates shot up 30 basis points. from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.5 January sales fell 2.3% from a year earlier, though the median existing-home price rose 15.4% “While the 6.7

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

His recent article, “Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?” takes a deep dive into what the heck is going on with purchase applications, housing demand and inventory levels. This article, for example, asks why, if purchase applications are down to 2009 levels, are inventory levels still so freaking low?

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McKissock

AUGUST 14, 2022

The housing market has cooled since the intensity of the post-pandemic real estate rush, but the seller’s market we experienced has left us with plenty of discussion about what the nation’s housing inventory looks like. Housing Inventory So Low? Need for New Construction. Construction Workforce Concerns.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Educate your clients about financing While many homebuyers can benefit from a 30-year, fixed-rate conventional mortgage , other borrowers might need access to other loan programs with more lenient guidelines. Should they consider new construction? Find them the right home Inventory is scarce, and will likely stay that way for a while.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Home purchase demand managed to maintain pace through the summer, and now through the fall, as record low mortgage rates continued to encourage new borrowers to enter the market. And if the economy’s recovery is sluggish next year, distressed sales may also add to market inventory,” said Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

billion revenue, which mostly stems from a 5% sales fee charged to home sellers and proceeds from flipping homes. But like real estate brokerage Compass , another company significantly financed by the SoftBank Vision Fund , Opendoor has constructed an empirically money-losing business model with little sign of reversing course.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

However, since I had the possibility of the 10-year yield getting to 2.42% and 4% plus mortgage rates, I accounted for that in the range. The one thing that has happened in 2022 that has been worse is that national inventory levels have worsened in 2022 to start the year. Inventory has been falling for years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The effects of low housing inventory continue to cause significant ripples in the housing market, as a recent Redfin report shows home sale prices across the country have reached an average of $344,625 — an all-time high, and an 18% increase year over year. That means the average home sold for 1% more than its asking price.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2021

Most major players are projecting home prices to rise, and while strong construction could put more inventory on the market, it likely won’t be enough to tip the scales in buyers’ favors. Low mortgage rates will also help offset those rising prices. With that said, it does seem like buyers will see some relief at some point.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Rob Nunziata , co-CEO and co-founder of Florida-based FBC Mortgage , says one mortgage sweetener that holds out some promise for making houses more affordable for a broader swath of borrowers is the temporary rate buydown. “It Nobody was doing buydowns in 2020 and 2021 [when 30-year fixed mortgage rates were in the 3% range].

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Hank Miller Team

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Atlanta is one of the steady ones, and housing inventory in Atlanta will not jump in 2023. Atlanta Housing Inventory Everything must be kept in context. Balance – as the market returns to a more consistent pattern, sellers will be back to 2-4 months on the market, concessions, and a protracted listing period.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. mortgage rates, so on the mortgage rate side of the equation, it’s never been better. Housing permits are growing and this is a good thing for the economy and construction jobs. These households got sub-3.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory. The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston , the broker-owner of Charlotte-based Lodestone Real Estate and Investments. “We being outbound. “We

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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. Lower rates are likely to make homeownership accessible to more buyers and it should prompt some potential sellers who are locked in at a rate of 3% or less to list. New construction is backed up,” she said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? I don’t believe housing inventory below 1.52 The housing market shifted in March of this year.

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