Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

Insurers and government programs frequently subsidize the cost of rebuilding after storms hit, and mortgages mean homeowners are ceding some risk to lenders—especially if their house goes into foreclosure after a storm,” he explained. Recently, prominent insurance companies have exited some of these areas.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Private mortgage insurance helped over 2 million low downpayment borrowers secure mortgage financing in 2020, a 53% increase from 2019, according to data from the government sponsored entities. The private mortgage insurance industry also supported $600 billion in mortgage originations. Mortgage Insurers.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

As someone who spent a career in the title insurance industry – both as a builder of a title business and leader of the industry’s trade group, — I am proud of the role we play in helping to protect what most Americans consider the biggest purchase of their lives. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Not all sides of housing have been hit as hard as mortgage lending,” Gigliotti said. Many Axis trainees come from sales-based careers in hospitality, retail or insurance, which makes it easier to adapt to the mortgage business. He expects hiring to pick up again on the lending side in the third quarter of 2024.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

For now, we can say the labor market isn’t tight anymore, but it’s also not breaking. From the Fed: In the week ended March 2, initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits were flat, at 217,000. At the time this would be a speedy labor market recovery, and it happened on schedule, too Total employment data 4.

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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 28, 2023

Yun also expressed concern about a possible government shutdown, which could worsen the conditions in the housing market. “It It will disrupt some home sales in the short run due to the lack of flood insurance or delays in government-backed mortgage issuance,” he said.

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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. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Does the cost of homeowners insurance affect the price of a home? In some markets, the answer is increasingly yes. In recent years, insurance companies have pulled out of some markets altogether after sustaining massive losses due to wildfires, flooding, and other climate-related disasters.

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Urban

JUNE 16, 2021

Data show that flat-out rejection of buyers seeking government-backed loans disadvantages households with lower incomes, lower credit scores, and less wealth, many of whom are people of color.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The cost of homeowners insurance has surged in Florida as insurance companies have grappled with significant losses due to an increase in natural disasters. And homeowners insurance costs are three times higher in Florida than the national average.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Mortgage capital markets tech firm Polly announced its application programming interface (API) integration with CoreLogic , which will enable lenders to streamline the digital mortgage process. Lenders can also license Polly’s raw data for use in tandem with existing in-house tools.

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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. According to the Urban Institute , conventional, privately insured mortgages experience lower loss severity than GSE loans without private MI despite their higher loan-to-value (LTV) ratios.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

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. In a study published this week, First American economist Ksenia Potapov analyzed the share of homes that are affordable to the median renter in any given market. markets,” Potapov wrote.

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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

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. In terms of acceptance in the secondary market of these TRBLs, which is key to ensuring lender liquidity, the jury is still out.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Indices that increased in September were rent, owners’ equivalent rent, lodging away from home, motor vehicle insurance, recreation, personal care and new vehicles. What is happening in the housing market ? If mortgage rates pass 8%, housing market activity will see a contraction, Sturtevant said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

today should be between 158 million and 159 million , or in a weaker labor market growth scenario, between 157 million and 158 million. Now let’s look at the labor market on all fronts from the data we got this week to get a comprehensive view of the labor market today. From the St.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

years in prison — the maximum the federal government said it would seek — as well as three years of supervised release. As the housing market changes, so does lending fraud. Housing market conditions are changing in ways that may increase fraud risk and fraud schemes are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

And yes, this certainly has had an impact on insurance companies from coast to coast, as we’ve seen insurers retreat en masse from states such as California , Florida , and Texas , which have all seen record losses in recent years from wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, severe winter storms, sinkholes, and more.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The Hill case is not a common occurrence in the world of housing finance, but it is far from rare. In fact, rate locks for rate-and-term refinances were down 89.2%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

What happens when the Federal Reserve begins pulling back in a serious way from the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market that it has helped to prop up through billions of dollars in bond purchases since the start of the pandemic in 2020 — to the point where it now holds a $2.7 trillion agency MBS portfolio? The Feds existing $2.7

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2023

CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM), the nation’s third-largest retail mortgage lender, unveiled its latest initiative this week that is aimed at helping first-time homebuyers overcome the financial hurdles of purchasing a home in today’s competitive housing market. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private businesses.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The government mortgage insurer will shorten the seasoning requirement from six months to three months and allow issuers the option to pool re-performing loans into TBA-eligible Ginnie Mae II Multi-Issuer Pools. .” Creating a path to success in today’s purchase market. Presented by: Calyx.

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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. Most recently, rising interest rates have intensified the fight for housing. million homes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

For investors in the private-label securities (PLS) market, the earlier signal was enough to unleash a boatload of money that had been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the “peak” to arrive, according to several market experts interviewed recently by HousingWire. It’s a matter of speed. …

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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. FHFA was comfortable approving VantageScore 4.0

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

His 15-plus years of career include three years at Home Point Financial, where he was promoted to senior managing director of enterprise risk and corporate governance and seven years at Black Knight Financial Services. In a tight housing market, Xactus said it aims to help customers close loans more quickly. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Today’s housing market has many looking for ways to cash in their equity, especially older homeowners. HousingWire: What makes HECMs an advantageous alternative to HELOCs in today’s market? A HECM is insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 2 and cannot be frozen or reduced at any time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Christian Mills, head of Financial Advisor Relations at Reverse Mortgage Funding, about the ways a reverse mortgage can create a stable cash flow for homeowners in the midst of a volatile housing market. CM : Firstly, reverse mortgages, whether government-insured or proprietary, are non-recourse loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

Indexes that contributed to the annual increase were food (+8.5%), motor vehicle insurance (+15.0%), household furnishings and operations (+5.6%), recreation (+4.8%), and new vehicles (+6.1%). Higher mortgage rates have slowed demand by pricing some would-be buyers out of the market,” Sturtevant said. compared to March 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Manufactured housing is a topic that has gained some steam on Capital Hill as of late, with the White House announcing earlier in the year that it intends to address the lack of affordable housing in the nation by upping the available supply of MH. How Freddie Mac is addressing affordable housing challenges.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Smart pandemic policies like this stabilized the housing market and, by extension, the economy when it was most needed, and today’s challenging market has emphasized the need for further policy reform as servicers expand their loss mitigation toolkits to keep homeowners in their homes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

Roosevelt enacted the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) as part of the New Deal to provide small down payment home loans for working-class Americans. The relationship between diversity, economic growth, housing and GDP The housing market is large and varied. GDP, roughly $3 trillion. For decades, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, Paradise’s housing market, though constrained by unresolved wildfire litigation and issues like proper home insurance, even has the high-demand, low inventory problems of most other U.S. We currently have about 33 stick and manufactured homes active on the market and 103 active lots.

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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. mortgage market was ripe for refinancing, but today closer to 10%. . RTC), closed 747 S&Ls with assets of more than $407 billion.

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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. Not Greater Atlanta. Actives down 13.5

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