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How the Fed’s rate hike will affect the housing market

Housing Wire

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall.

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Home equity products light up a dark housing market

Housing Wire

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. It appears that securitization market has arrived.

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How to account for non-QM market growth

Housing Wire

Despite difficulties in the mortgage market at large, non-QM lenders are seeing growth and opportunity. The non-QM demand for loans is very healthy,” Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind said. “We We are not seeing a similar volume trajectory as the agency market.” We increased our liquidity and found more buyers for our loans.

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This growing IMB aims to capture leads through its proprietary tech, not agent referrals

Housing Wire

Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. On the non-QM side, only 3% of the market has been penetrated. The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states. The market is retracting but it’s the best time to build,” Watanasuparp said.

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The housing industry will soon be up in ARMs

Housing Wire

If there’s a bet to be made on the future of the non-agency lending space, it’s that the adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market pivoting to an up-rate environment. He described today’s non-QM market as a “very large bucket.”.

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How LOs are dealing with a mortgage rate lockdown

Housing Wire

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. But for loan professionals, relief doesn’t pay the bills. million to 1.93

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Could the assumable mortgage level the playing field?

Housing Wire

In a paper published by the Urban Institute in October, Ted Tozer, the former head of Ginnie Mae , argued that government changes to assumable loans could benefit the market. of the balance of a loan being assumed would be fair to both the borrower and the servicer.” Tozer suggested “a fee of 1.3%

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