Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

In its third year, the 2023 HW Finance Leaders award celebrates the outstanding achievements of the top finance executives in the real estate and mortgage space. As the housing market continues to face volatility, the role of CFO has become increasingly critical. Congratulations to the 2023 HW Finance Leaders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. at the end of 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With mortgage rates briefly topping 8% and home prices breaking records throughout the year, many would-be sellers simply decided not to bother listing their homes, exacerbating already tight inventories. Mortgage rates followed suit, walloping buyers’ purchasing power. New data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). in events to garner business. were from the Northeast 16.3%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The Federal Reserve ’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances found that the median net worth of a homeowner is approximately $255,000 — more than 40 times that of a renter. First-time homebuyers are the driving force of the housing market and typically utilize low down payment mortgages to achieve homeownership.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The last two years of soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices have brought the fastest erosion in housing market affordability in modern history, and it’s hurt first-time homebuyers the most. To conduct this analysis, Redfin compared median monthly mortgage payments for homebuyers in August 2023 and August 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 4% between July and August, the strongest pace of sales in three months. Homebuilders are still benefiting from very low inventory of existing homes for sale, which has driven more buyers to consider new construction,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said.

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Miller Samuel

JANUARY 23, 2024

housing market. A long time friend and journalist Kathleen Hays invited me to speak with her about the impact of the recent Fed pivot on the U.S. She has extensive experience interviewing experts about the economy from time at Bloomberg Television. I very much enjoyed the conversation and I hope you do too!

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

The affordability challenges homebuyers are facing are becoming more deeply entrenched, according to Black Knight ‘s most recent monthly mortgage monitor report. “In In a sense, the gridlocked housing market has been feeding on itself,” Andy Walden , VP of enterprise research strategy at Black Knight, said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. From NAR : The median existing home price for all housing types in March was $393,500, an increase of 4.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

In 2023, home purchases slowed across the board due to low levels of inventory, high mortgage rates and soaring home prices. Nationwide, 90,772 mortgages for second homes were originated in 2023, down 40% from a year earlier and down 65% from the height of the post-pandemic housing boom in 2021, according to a new report from Redfin.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The premise of a mortgage rate lockdown is simple: so many American households have such low mortgage rates that some will never move once rates rise, which then locks up housing inventory. We are getting closer to that period where total inventory traditionally falls. in 2021 and as high as 6.25% in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Competition for home buyers is tougher than ever right now, as tightened housing stock supply continues to plague the housing market. Acra Lending is doing what it can to help free up inventory. By working with borrowers in unusual circumstances, Acra is helping create opportunities for inventory to open up.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. There’s about 8,500 fix-and-flip mortgage lenders in the U.S. The opportunity is interesting in the sense that there’s a housing shortage. billion (£3.7

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2024

Weekly housing inventory data For the third consecutive week, we haven’t quite reached my weekly target of inventory growth between 11,000 and 17,000 homes. However, we came close to our target with inventory growth of 9,726 and there’s a silver lining: mortgage rates have recently fallen.

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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. Are you hoping to buy a home in 2021’s hot housing market ? How much house can you afford to buy?

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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. billion, according to offering documents. “So

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Average mortgage rates on 30-year fixed home loans continued their march towards 8% this week as the Treasury yield surpassed 5%. Rates have been steadily climbing for seven straight weeks, the longest consecutive increase since Spring 2022, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. million units sold.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

“I haven’t seen a dry spell like this in the time I’ve been in business,” Bob Yopko, president of First Equity Residential Mortgage , said of this year’s spring homebuying season. Mortgage rates tend to align with the 10-year U.S. “Mortgage rates should be 5.55%, not 6.5%,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

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 home sales continue to be an outsized share of the housing market ,” Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS’ chief economist, said in a statement. from a month prior, but down 3.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Mortgage rates stabilized in the past week but remain close to the narrow range observed since the start of this month. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.69% as of Jan. 25, an increase from last week’s figure of 6.60%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Canadian customers can now work directly with the OJO concierge team to connect with local agents and mortgage professionals from Royal Bank of Canada , said Natalka Falcomer, who was named president of OJO Home Canada. This year alone, OJO Labs acquired real estate search site Movoto and personal finance platform Digs.

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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Mortgage rates and home prices are high and inventory is paltry, resulting in a largely frozen housing market. The survey also found that 68% of Americans plan on using loans from their financial institution and/or lines of credit to help finance their home purchase. But it’s not a slam dunk, don’t get me wrong.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Even with demand buoyed by a sparse housing inventory, growing financial challenges for buyers are forcing home sellers to cut prices to close deals, a new Redfin research report found. In some markets, more than 50% of active listings have experienced a price cut, according to Altos Research. According to the brokerage, 6.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The holidays have come early for the mortgage industry. Mortgage rates fell below the 7% threshold this week as markets prepared for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s announcement on Wednesday. The 30-year, fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.95% for the week ending Dec. on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 10-year Treasury yields tumbled, the average 30-year fixed mortgage fell 26 basis points in the week ending Nov. The 30-year, fixed mortgage averaged 7.5% 9, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. 9, the largest one-week decrease since last November. as of Nov. for the week ending Nov.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

house prices rallied again in the third quarter of 2023. year over year in Q3, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index. In fact, home prices rose 2.1% quarter over quarter and 5.5% Month over month, the FHFA’s seasonally adjusted monthly index ticked up 0.6% in September.

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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

APRIL 5, 2024

As a result, mortgage rates are likely going to stay elevated for longer.” The housing market is eager to see mortgage rates ease as rates have spent nearly a year above 6.5%, and have most recently been hovering above 6.7%,” Realtor.com economic data analyst Hannah Jones said in a statement. million and a rate of 2.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

And while real estate agents repping luxury homes aren’t seeing as many bidding wars as they did this summer , their respective housing markets are still crazy right now. The National Association of Mortgage Brokers has been advocating for mortgage brokers for almost 50 years. 1, and runs through May 1. “So

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

At that margin, ATTOM notes, the cost of renovations, property taxes, mortgage interest and other expenses — which in total consume 20% to 33% of the resale value — could easily cancel out any return on investment for the flipper. housing market.” People are calling it the Great Renovation.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to an all-time low of 2.88% this week, the eighth time in 2020 the weekly rate has set a record in a Freddie Mac series that goes back almost five decades. The average 15-year rate fell to 2.44%, the lowest in almost 30 years of data, according to the mortgage financier.

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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% Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage. The median existing house price increased 7.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“The latest weakness in existing home sales still reflects the buyer bidding process in most of October when mortgage rates were at a two-decade high before the actual closings in November,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. “A A marked turn can be expected as mortgage rates have plunged in recent weeks.”

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