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Has 2021 Been a $2 Trillion Year?

Empire Appraisal Group

Has 2021 Been a $2 Trillion Year? The booming real estate market is on a pace to shatter records this year. The real estate data firm CoreLogic reports that the total value of residential real estate transactions in 2021’s second quarter topped $600 billion for the third time in the past year.

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Teraverde CEO Jim Deitch on finding ways to monetize home equity

Housing Wire

The dismal 2024 mortgage market has one very silver lining: $32 trillion in home equity. The biggest year of mortgage production , from 2021-2022, generated $4.5 Compare that with $30 trillion in financeable equity — it dwarfs it. The industry has to innovate. Innovation kills the competition.

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Rocket CEO talks new AI tool, changes in leadership and M&As

Housing Wire

That’s the latest step the mortgage lender has taken to integrate AI into its operations. That’s the latest step the mortgage lender has taken to integrate AI into its operations. Each year, Rocket employees participate in 65 million calls with clients, including 3.1 billion in closed loan volume and reached 2.5

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A repositioning of players in the MSR market is underway

Housing Wire

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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Wells Fargo is selling a $50B package of MSRs

Housing Wire

Wells Fargo has finalized the sale of a $50 billion block of mortgage-servicing rights (MSR), a deal that is expected to close later this year, according to bank officials. Market speculation has been rife since January of this year that Wells Fargo was preparing to sell some sizable MSR packages, HousingWire reported previously.

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‘Mortgage winter’ is expected to thaw a bit

Housing Wire

The year ahead promises to offer the housing industry some relief, compared with a grueling 2023, but it is likely to be only a small bounce forward toward a healthier market. As 2023 moved toward a close, 30-year fixed rates had dropped into the mid-to-high 6% range.

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Will Omicron variant stop first Fed rate hike?

Housing Wire

My rule of thumb has always been when working from a zero interest rate policy, the 2-year yield needs to be above 0.56% to have an honest discussion about this. Here is the 2-year yield before the headline on the new variant: Currently, the 2-year yield has fallen and is 0.50%.

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