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Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory falls

Housing Wire

Just when I thought it was safe to say we were getting more traditional spring housing inventory , we hit a snag last week, as active inventory and new listings declined. Weekly housing inventory The numbers this week are unfortunate: inventory should be growing like it does at this time every year.

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DataDigest: What happens when insurance carriers abandon America’s biggest housing markets

Housing Wire

When clients find their dream house and are ready to make an offer, Todd Armstrong’s next call isn’t necessarily to the seller’s agent or the buyer’s loan officer. “We Tight inventory and soaring home prices have pushed more homebuyers to more affordable areas in California. The result?

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FHA does a solid for mortgage credit rejects. Will it move the needle for loan officers?

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) called FHA Connection, a database used to insure and generate FHA case numbers associated with the borrower’s home loan application. When the borrower is denied for an FHA mortgage loan, an MCR report had to be created for that denial.

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Don’t expect a drastic housing market turnaround in 2023, Fitch Ratings says

Housing Wire

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. “A small offset or decline in home values, which we are starting to see, (…) can help that consumer who’s in the market for the first time,” Brown said.

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Winners and losers of this volatile housing market

Housing Wire

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. Less business for lenders and real estate brokerages, in return, is hurting title companies, tech vendors, appraisers and mortgage insurance firms. The culling.

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The housing market correction will be deep, and ugly

Housing Wire

You think things are bad in the housing market now? Even the most battle-tested industry players are preparing for one of the strongest housing market corrections in decades. Probably, the housing market needs to go to a correction to get to that place.” ” Where is the housing market heading?

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Desperate for deals, mortgage pros get creative

Housing Wire

Roberts and thousands of other loan officers across the country continue to be hampered by a serious inventory shortage , which results in heavy competition for fewer deals. Strategies to differentiate themselves include buying leads, providing niche loans and getting on builders’ preferred lender list.