Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.76% this week, down from 5.87% the prior week.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Executives at both Stewart Information Services and First American Financial bemoaned the challenging housing market environment as they discussed their respective firms’ first quarter 2023 earnings with investors Thursday morning. According to DeGiorgio, mortgage rates would have to drop well below 5.0%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

The Mortgage Bankers Association expects this heightened pace to drop unemployment numbers to below 5% by the end of the year. Despite increased rate of tech adoption, the mortgage industry still has room for continued development and processes. Overall, there are approximately more than 4.2 Presented by: CreditXpert.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And now, with the COVID-19 vaccine circulating and the economy slowly regaining strength, Zillow researchers say millions of additional households could enter the housing market in 2021. Specifically, housing markets like Portland, Maine , Bay City, Mich. markets; by December 2020, prices were already up 23.6%

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). That more or less lined up with mortgage application data for new builds , which showed demand up 26% year-over-year in June but down 5% from May. “New At the current sales pace this inventory represents 7.4 from a month prior, but down 3.6%

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Mortgage rates jumped this week as investors grapple with persistent positive economic data and a hawkish Fed. The Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.81% as of July 6, up significantly from last week ’s 6.71%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. It appears that securitization market has arrived.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Mortgage rates continued to inch towards 7% this week as the 10-year treasury yields climbed past the 4% threshold. Some economists say that this development contributed to drive up the 10-year treasury yield to its highest level since November 2022. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 4.99% a year ago at this time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

As the Federal Reserve announced yet another 75 basis point interest rate hike Wednesday, loan officers and lending executives — already well aware of the news — were looking ahead, questioning whether mortgage rates will spike or dip in the aftermath. It is possible that the 30-year fixed mortgage rate may settle down at 5.5%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2021

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell three basis points from the week prior to 2.93%, according to data released Thursday by Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. This marks the first time in over two months mortgage rates have fluctuated outside a five basis point range above or below 3%.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) completed its acquisition of Black Knight Tuesday, making the combined company the biggest player in the mortgage tech space. I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The average 30-year-fixed rate mortgage climbed to 3.09% during the week ending Oct. 21, rising from 3.05% the week prior, according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS Mortgage Survey. A year ago, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.80%. The MBA has forecast purchase mortgage volume to hit a record $1.73

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2022

Texas lender Mid America Mortgage rebranded as Click n’ Close to expand into the mortgage technology industry following the sale of the majority of its retail lending operations. Click n’ Close will retain retail operations related to its reverse mortgage and lending business for Native Americans, the company said Monday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. rise in houses sold in the same timeframe – from 670 to 940. The post Why is the El Paso housing market so hot right now?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. New home sales data last month was much stronger than had been anticipated; the market had expected a contraction of 4.7% Added Sturtevant: “Homebuilders are banking on home shoppers returning to the market in the first part of 2023.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. How will the Federal Reserve respond to economic developments in 2022, and what will be the impact on mortgage rates?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Ohio-based Union Home Mortgage is the latest in a string of lenders this week to institute workforce reductions. The multichannel lender, which originated roughly $13 billion in residential mortgage last year, declined to provide any details about the layoffs. The lender’s origination volume increased 25.8% billion, up 65.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Donny Kirby, former vice president of national direct-to-consumer sales at Wyndham Capital Mortgage , spent more than 12 years at Charlotte, North Carolina-based company before leaving to start a mortgage broker shop, Cornerstone Home Loans. Connie Kim: You had a long run at Wyndham Capital Mortgage dating back to 2011.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). According to Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), new home inventory represented about 30% of the total inventory on the market in 2023, compared to the historical norm of 12%. This is 12.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This slowdown is good news for the housing industry as it may lead to a decline in mortgage rates. While the Fed’s short-term rate does not directly impact long-term mortgage rates, it does steer market activity to create higher rates and reduce demand. Mortgage demand rose 3.2%

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

For the seventh consecutive month, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report rose month-over-month , gaining one-point to a reading of 56, according to a report released Tuesday. The NAHB attributes the continued rise in builder confidence to low existing home inventory.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). This aligns with mortgage application data for new builds, which showed demand up 35.5% Two factors are at play here: high mortgage rates, which, currently around 7.5% At the current sales pace this inventory represents 7.3

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When it comes to housing and mortgage markets this fall, most attention is being focused on the expiration of eviction and foreclosure moratoria and the pending completion of forbearance terms for many homeowners. Note that some of these loans in the foreclosure inventory may have been so prior to the pandemic.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

First-time homebuyers are the driving force of the housing market and typically utilize low down payment mortgages to achieve homeownership. However, buyers are contending with rising interest rates , high home prices and constrained inventory. trillion in mortgages are backed by private mortgage insurance.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

housing market is being driven in part by reaction to the COVID pandemic, as potential buyers move from urban apartments to suburban homes. ” 3 solutions to a gridlocked housing market. . ” 3 solutions to a gridlocked housing market. May’s data continue to be consistent with this hypothesis.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

“Lack of inventory continues to be the overwhelming factor holding back home sales, but falling affordability is simply squeezing some first-time buyers out of the market,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. Total housing inventory at the end of May grew to 1.23 Unsold inventory sits at a 2.5-month

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). New home sales increased in February for the third straight month, in a sign that the market may be stabilizing,” Kelly Mangold, the principal of RCLCO Real Estate Consulting , said in a statement. “New This represents 8.2 This represents 8.2

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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

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

According to Joel Kan, the Mortgage Bankers Associations assistant vice president of economic and industry forecasting, that robust year-over-year improvement in activity is a sign the market will continue to see sustained demand for housing through the end of 2020. Presented by: Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Adrian Gastelum, a vice president and branch manager at Nova Home Loans, recently had a prospective borrower apply for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage. The problem is, a mortgage credit reject (MCR) is kind of like your scarlet letter, to be completely honest,” Gastelum said. That changed on September 11.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

housing market — it now applies to the world economy. As I noted during my recent podcast on HousingWire, things are getting sloppy in the markets, and when chaos happens, you can’t ever be sure how bad the damage is going to be. Savagely unhealthy is no longer just a term for the U.S. I can understand this mindset.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2022

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Arjun Dhingra, who serves as sales and business development at All Western Mortgage. Creating a large following on Instagram , he offers updates on the housing market, tips on the home-buying process and so much more. Somehow ended up a mortgage banker!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This growth in demand is consistent with what I have been saying for many years – that if interest rates stayed low, good housing demographics in the years 2020 to 2024 would substantially drive up demand for housing, including new home sales, which will be the only period where we would start a year at 1.5 million a year. It is legit.

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