Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. Mortgage rates fell even though the jobs report was stronger than anticipated. They reversed their bearish take on bonds, and people started to buy the 10-year yield, causing mortgage rates to fall.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Like its competitors, Tennessee-based First Community Mortgage, Inc. (FCM) FCM) reduced the company’s size through 2022 amid a tough mortgage market. “There is certainly optimism in the air as mortgage applications have started to pick up on,” Keith Canter, CEO at First Community Mortgage, said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

The typically busy spring housing market seems to already be at the doorstep despite stubbornly higher mortgage rates. Mortgage applications increased by 9.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ending March 1, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s (MBA) weekly mortgage applications survey.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. In 2022 and 2023, quickly rising mortgage rates and shrinking volumes sent shockwaves through the industry and prompted massive job cutbacks. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? Weekly inventory increased by 1,734.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2023

Last week ended with a wild ride for mortgage rates. We anticipated the two inflation reports could help mortgage rates, however, we had a bad bond auction last Thursday, and the 10-year yield rose sharply. Weekly active inventory grew slowly again and purchase apps were down week to week again.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The most underreported housing story I’ve seen this year is that even with mortgage rates rising to 8%, the number of homes that took price cuts before they sold was 4% below 2022 levels. This happened even with higher home prices and higher mortgage rates in 2023. Now lets take a look at the weekly inventory data.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

However, since I had the possibility of the 10-year yield getting to 2.42% and 4% plus mortgage rates, I accounted for that in the range. The one thing that has happened in 2022 that has been worse is that national inventory levels have worsened in 2022 to start the year. Inventory has been falling for years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. Retail sales have been off the charts, job openings are at 11 million, GDP growth picked up big time and jobless claims hit a level last seen in 1969. The excellent.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

HousingWire: Let’s start with a bang Logan, will the inventory crisis end this year? The goal for inventory is to get back to 1.52-1.93 Inventory is about to increase as it always does during this year. HW+ Member: With all of the money coming out of Rubles and a crazy equity market. Back to the inventory crisis.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Conway, Arkansas. Rochester, New York.

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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. The post Mid America Mortgage rebrands to Click n’ Close appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

debt ceiling impasse and the resilient economy led mortgage rates to climb to the highest level in two months. The latest MBA data published on Wednesday morning shows that mortgage loan applications decreased 4.6% retail residential mortgage applications. Last week, the U.S.

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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

APRIL 12, 2023

Mortgage rates tumbled downward by nearly 1% last week on the heels of a lackluster jobs report, which helped to spur renewed interest in mortgage loans by potential homebuyers. Overall, mortgage applications increased last week by 5.3% retail residential mortgage applications. from 12% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mortgage businesses at Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are now only a fraction of what they were in 2022. As a group, the trio originated about $80 billion in mortgages in 2023, down from nearly $218 billion the prior year – a $138 billion decline (63%). The data shows that the bank produced $25.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

Higher mortgage rates did not scare away potential homeowners last week. Plenty of buyers, but not enough homes for sale,” California-based mortgage loan officer Dan Stone, who works with hundreds of mortgage lenders, told HousingWire. The latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) report confirms Stone’s perceptions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. I feel bad trying to convince somebody that it’s a good time to buy and get a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Meanwhile, retail trade, mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, information, and financial activities posted fewer jobs in February. The jobs report contains two conflicting implications for the housing market, according to Sturtevant. Job openings were essentially unchanged at 8.9

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2023

As the banking crisis stabilized last week, mortgage rates increased, reducing borrower demand for home loans. However, with limited for-sale housing inventory, these higher rates are primarily challenging for potential first-time homebuyers. Overall, mortgage applications fell last week by 8.8% in the same period. .”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The average 30-year-fixed mortgage rate averaged 3.89% for the week ending Feb. 24, down three basis points from the prior week, according to Freddie Mac ‘s latest mortgage survey. Mortgage rates typically move in concert with the 10-year Treasury yield , which notched 1.94% on Wednesday, down from 2.03% the prior week.

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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 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

MAY 17, 2023

Borrowers’ demand for home loans slowed down last week as mortgage rates increased to their highest level in two months. ” In the mortgage market, the latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) data published on Wednesday morning showed that loan applications decreased by 5.7% Refis comprised 27.4%

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Back in March, HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami coined the phrase “savagely unhealthy” to describe the state of the housing market. When Mohtashami first used the phrase in his commentaries back in March, he said, “I have lost my five-year home-price growth model of 23% in just two years, and inventory has worsened in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. Active inventory rose by 823 single-family homes and new listing data is trending at all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Mohtashami focused on the latest inventory and the Federal Reserve’s rate hike announcement. How will the announcement impact mortgage rates? Retail sales also came in a bit lighter than expected: HW+ Member: Are you implying that the builder survey and retail could influence the Fed to come off the 75 bps guidance?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cliffco Mortgage Bankers is among the rare independent mortgage banks doing more business than last year. To get there, Cliffco, which has been in business since 1987, is going after the non-qualified mortgage ( non-QM ) market and investing in tech to get in front of buyers and non-agent referral partners.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates don’t move in tandem with the Fed’s benchmark rate, but instead generally track with the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds. Where mortgage rates will go will depend on how the markets react to new economic data, Melissa Cohn, regional vice president of Wlliam Raveis , said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

The mortgage industry continues to rightsize , and On Q Financial is taking it as an opportunity to expand through loan officer recruitment and tapping into its network of homebuilders. New builds are a bright spot in a bleak housing market as buyers seek new builds due to the lack of resale inventory.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

The rise of active listings in this spring housing market reminds me of a zombie slowly rising from its grave. Yes, we found the seasonal bottom for housing inventory on April 14, but this year’s rise in active listings has been tepid at best. This doesn’t appear to be the case for 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The company said data from its platform and other industry sources shows a growing backlog of mortgages that are in foreclosure or delinquent but not in a mortgage forbearance program. Daren Blomquist, vice president of market economics at Auction.com, estimates that foreclosures will grow to more than 1.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2021

Per White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, direct deposits could be hitting Americans’ bank accounts as early as this weekend. For the housing industry, Biden’s American Rescue Plan is an enormous buoy at a time when home prices are sky-high , inventory is low, and millions are struggling to make rent and mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nearly every loan originator is fixated on going after the purchase mortgage market in 2023 following a brutal 2022 — a year in which even some of the top producers saw their origination volume drop to 20%. The name of the game in the industry was purchase mortgages. Connie Kim: Let’s zoom in on the New Jersey housing market.

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