Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

“Borrowers acted on the decrease in rates for most loan types, with both conventional and government refinance applications showing gains,” Kan. The spring housing market also saw a boost from lower rates, with purchase applications — driven by a jump in conventional applications — increasing over 5%.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president of economic and industry forecasting, pointed to a rise in mortgage rates last week for why conventional and government purchase activity took a step back. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($510,400 or less) increased to 3.02% from 3%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Refinance activity dropped to its slowest pace since September 2020 – down a full 5% – with declines in both conventional and government applications, according to Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. He added that mortgage rates have moved higher in tandem with Treasury yields. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

“Despite the jump in rates, refinances also increased for the second consecutive week, pushed higher by a 4% bump in conventional refinance applications,” Kan said, “Government purchase applications drove most of last week’s increase, which also contributed to a slightly lower overall average purchase loan size.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The housing market in early 2021 continues to be constrained by low inventory and higher prices. Conventional and government applications to buy a home declined last week, but purchase activity overall is still strong – up 15% from last year,” Kand said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

The venture capital investment is in addition to $1 billion in separate capital commitments from investors that Point has lined up to help fund what it calls home-equity investment (HEI) contracts. “We Homeowners, in turn, get to cash out a slice of their home equity with no payments due until the contract matures.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Thursday that the 2023 multifamily loan purchase caps for Fannie Mae and the Freddie Mac will be $75 billion for each government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), for a combined total of $150 billion to support the multifamily market, according to an announcement from the FHFA.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

The uptick in mortgage applications was a welcome change for the struggling housing market, which has been plagued by affordability issues that have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines. Overall, mortgage applications increased last week by 5.3% from 12% the week prior. from 11% week over week. last week.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. 2%, and the Conventional MCAI that measures loans not backed by the government fell.3%. 7% while the Jumbo MCAI measuring high-balance loans rose.2%,

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. while the Jumbo MCAI measuring high-balance loans rose 2.2%, and the Conventional MCAI that measures loans not backed by the government rose 4.8%. Presented by: FormFree.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Joel Kan, the MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, said in a statement that purchase activity increased for the third straight week, as housing demand remains robust, even as the housing market approaches the typically slower holiday season.

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Miller Samuel

JUNE 28, 2020

Keeping Housing Market Results From The Public Is Never Justified: An Expansive View. When the Covid-19 crisis began halfway through March, the Manhattan housing market was placed on “pause,” as were many housing markets around the country. Hiding DOM as a marketing strategy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2022

Compared to the previous week, applications for refis declined in conventional (-3.6%) and government (-0.3%) products. However, purchase results varied, with a 2% decrease in conventional applications and a 4% increase in government, “which is potentially a sign of more first-time homebuyer activity,” according to Kan.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Year-over-year, contract signings increased by 16.4%. Now that a second stimulus package has been passed and two vaccines are being administered, Yun said economic growth is guaranteed, but high government borrowing will put modest upward pressure on interest rates. Presented by: WFG.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

The housing market received positive data on new residential construction – which is seen as a key solution to the lack of housing inventory,” Kan added. . “Investors remained attuned to the uncertainty around the U.S. “Economic data released over the past week have also pointed to a still-resilient economy.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Even with a slight increase, purchase activity hit its highest level since early July, as applications for conventional and government loans increased.” ” Kan noted that home purchase activity is disproportionately concentrated in the higher price tiers of the housing market. 27, the highest average in five weeks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Borrowers’ demand increased for conventional and government loans, up 4.50% and 1.20% from one week earlier, respectively. Both conventional and government home purchase applications increased last week. The survey, conducted since 1990, covers over 75% of all U.S. retail residential mortgage applications. Mortgage apps also rose 4.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

However, a surge in demand for government loans and adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) played a role in last week’s increase. In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. and government loans were up 13% last week, according to the MBA estimates. from the week prior.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

CMS is going heavy on a rarely used mortgage product to solve this market problem. It essentially allows qualified buyers with a government loan to purchase a home by assuming responsibility for the sellers’ mortgage terms, including the current balance and interest rate. The product, known as an assumable mortgage, is not new.

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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. On a forward-looking basis, you would expect you don’t have the same tailwinds as you did before.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2021

percentage points from what the government-sponsored enterprise projected last month. contraction. But despite these projected slowdowns, other economists are still forecasting a strong year ahead for the housing market. Fannie Mae ‘s latest forecast projects economic growth to hit 5.3% in 2021, an increase of 0.8

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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. Fewer buyers, fewer contract and sales.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, this rise in first-time buyers helps explain what’s driving demand and keeping upward pressure on prices in a market with mortgage rates currently surpassing 7%. One of the primary reasons for this surge is the strong presence of millennials in the housing market, particularly those at the peak, around ages 33 and 34.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The capital markets depend on the due diligence, transparency, and protection our industry provides to do its job. In fact, our industry is so important that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, title insurance professionals were deemed essential by the federal government.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

government bonds or GSE-related [government-sponsored enterprise] securities, then interest rates will rise even further. . The soaring federal deficit requires even more buyers of bonds, and some government bond sales may make it more difficult to issue MBS securities, unless with higher interest rates.”. in 2009 to 1.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

The downsized volume reflects two equally important factors: a housing market characterized by limited inventory, high mortgage rates and reduced demand, but also the banks taking themselves off the board for some residential mortgages. Amid the contraction at Wells Fargo, JPMorgan became bigger than its rival in the mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A $250 monthly child tax credit from the federal government for each child also helps the household. Governments and servicers were both quick to launch forbearance programs for over seven million mortgage borrowers during the pandemic, realizing the historic challenge borne out of the Covid-19 pandemic. But will end in December.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021.

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Houston Properties

JANUARY 13, 2021

Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions. Concerned about a housing market crash? SUMMARY: Coming off a record year, the Houston real estate market started 2021 in a seller’s market. Properties are still going under contract. Worried about missing out on a boom?

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Hank Miller Team

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Attention media Please stop; the greater Atlanta housing market was just fine in the 3rd Qtr of 2022. The Atlanta housing market in Q3 2022 did not melt down. Atlanta Housing Market in Q3 2022 Let’s have a look at factual data. We examine list price, contract price and sold price.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

housing market was a major driver of the economic decline. ” However, the Biden administration has argued that the American economy is not in a recession, based on a still strong labor market. Government also decreased its spending during the second quarter. real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased 0.9%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period.

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Realtor

APRIL 14, 2021

The housing market has been red-hot for a while, but the current market conditions make buying more of a challenge than ever. There is a shortage of houses in many markets. In this market, we are seeing a lot of appraisal gaps being written into contracts. Enter: down payment assistance programs.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

JUNE 18, 2022

Eminent domain or the power of the government to take private property for a public use without the landowner’s consent is embedded in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. The Housing Market Is Spiraling Downward With Dogged Determination – Housing Notes by Jonathan Miller. Click here to visit their website.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

You’ll also want a sponsoring real estate brokerage that offers administrative support, including inputting MLS information, helping with contract follow-up, and handling other office tasks. government-issued alien registration card U.S. government-issued military identification card U.S.

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Genworth MI Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

The housing market has seen many changes over the past couple of years, some as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and some from the rapid changes in the economy. With an increasingly competitive market for buyers, many homebuyers have taken new steps to secure a successful offer.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The financial chaos that sparked the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, leading to a government bailout, now haunts the independent mortgage banking market this Halloween season — and beyond. In short, the IMB industry will contract and reconfigure via failures, asset sales, mergers and acquisitions, according to Capasse’s forecast.

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