Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Combine that with the lack of inventory in New Jersey and bidding wars are back, Kechian said in an interview with HousingWire. I really think they had about three months last year where it was a buyers market in the fourth quarter. Literally, we’re right back to being a seller’s market again.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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 sets up a domino effect [for market activity].”

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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. Mark Glebman, Caliber Home Loans. Housing prices started to inch down in July, but were still 14.5%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Austin is still the nation’s hottest housing market, as tech workers continue to flock to the Lone Star State’s capital. Homes are staying on the market an average of 24 days, Redfin reported. The jumbo market for brokers is back in a huge way.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. Closing just shy of $100 million of production in 2022, he’s aiming for a higher loan origination volume in 2023.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. Profitability may resemble the market in 2018 , when around one-third of nonbank lenders failed to turn a profit.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. CMS is going heavy on a rarely used mortgage product to solve this market problem. Tozer suggested “a fee of 1.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

And, following investors’ rush into bonds after the recent bank failures earlier this month, yields moved even lower last week — and mortgage rates followed. When the 30-year fixed rate dropped for the third straight week in late March, homebuyers responded, giving a boost to mortgage applications. Mortgage applications increased 2.9%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

But recent consumer price reports and a strengthening jobs market have led to a boomerang effect on mortgage rates, said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. Lower mortgage rates back in January brought buyers back into the market. There are two reasons for this price stability—record low inventory and record high equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Amanda Phillips, EVP of Compliance, ACES Quality Management In the current mortgage landscape, ensuring the highest standards of loan quality is paramount not only during the origination process but also over the life of the loan. AP: QC is crucial for lenders to ensure loan quality and mitigate risk.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

I had sought out the agent because she had the best track record in the area, worked with a lot of investors on the buy side, and had a history of closing quickly. We are also seeing new models proliferate, albeit on a small scale and in targeted markets. The legal threat that looms largest is what’s known as the “Moehrl case.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And despite fierce bidding wars, competition from institutional investors and sore wrists from writing dozens of heartfelt letters to home sellers, even buyers are growing in courage these days. ” Duncan added that home sellers are citing high home prices and tight inventory as primary reasons why it’s a good time to sell.

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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%. That is also the case for Chris Gallo, senior loan officer at NJ Lenders Corp. After dropping from $1.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

. “It’s obviously not just a flip flop, it’s a pretty big move,” said Luke Johnson, the founder and CEO of Neat Loans. . Whether demand for ARMs will grow largely depends on mortgage rates and liquidity in the secondary market, mortgage executives and analysts said. . Stricter regulations, new guidelines.

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Miller Samuel

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the years, I have bantered with the Espinal Adler Team (Marie Espinal and Jeff Adler) at Douglas Elliman Real Estate about the market which has been invaluable for on the ground intel. I hope you find that this apple was fully peeled: Jonathan Miller’s Market Outlook. And, in-turn, when the market falls, it will fall forever.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

There’s no question that 2022 has seen serious changes to the housing market. Between significantly fewer refinances, rising mortgage rates and housing inventory nearly cut in half since 2020, loan officers (LOs) and brokers face a pivotal time where adaptation is a must for success.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s positive news for an industry that has recently dealt with a lackluster amount of inventory. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market. Now you need to work on who will be buying in this market. Mortgage products expected to get love .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

The markets have been shaken to the core. And it’s led to several sleepless nights for mortgage loan originators and mortgage executives. The price data has changed the expectations for the Federal Reserve ’s meeting on Wednesday, with the market betting on a 75 bps increase in interest rates (compared to 50 bps previously).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

TB: The reality is that the mortgage process, particularly in today’s purchase market, is still a deeply human process. TB: In this purchase market, it’s the ones who are identifying borrowers they can work with on purchasing that first home. What’s the role of tech as lenders play the long game in this market?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. At the end of the day if mortgage rates come down, I don’t just think that’s gonna solve the inventory problem right away,” said Ben Cohen, managing director at Guaranteed Rate.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

As the market moves into a post-refi-boom era, loan officers face tough competition for purchase loans. HousingWire recently spoke with William Tessar, president of Civic Financial Services , about the private lending space and how LOs can benefit from serving real estate investors. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. It was another brutal year, pushing loan originators to work longer hours, close loans faster while diversifying their mortgage product offerings.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Large banks have historically been the rulers of the jumbo market. Economic conditions, however, are opening up space for new entrants eyeing market share. Their retreat opens up opportunities for rival firms to grab market share. Part I explains the jumbo market’s decline.) Part I explains the jumbo market’s decline.)

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Rates at the 7% or 8% level could spur a reduction in home prices, but current inventory issues have limited this impact. Even with rates in the mid-7s, there are bidding wars in dozens of markets across the country. Inventory remains thin. Inventory this past week last year was above 550,000 homes. When asked why U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Real estate investment trust Redwood was founded in the early 1990s as the need for more private investors in the mortgage market grew. “We would partner with banks to buy their loans and securitize them so the banks could recycle their capital.” The mortgage market has changed over the decades.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. But any market that pushes some businesses to the brink of insolvency also will create opportunities for others. The last two years have been good to Christian Dicker. The culling.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Lenders will have to “manage expenses and improve customer service in a purchase market,” Tom Wind, executive vice president of consumer lending with U.S. One of the ways that lenders “manage expenses” has historically been by laying off processors and loan officers. Bank Home Mortgage , said at the MBA Annual convention.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

The 25 bps hike was widely expected by Wall Street, as the macroeconomic policy crafters have yet to break the labor market and inflation levels are still considered elevated at 5%, far above the 2% target. Existing home sales in particular have been paltry in 2023, largely due to low levels of inventory.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With a deadly combination of low housing inventory, reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation in mortgage tech is expected. As the market has shifted, however, with mortgage rates rising in 2022 faster than forecast and lenders quickly cutting costs, some tech providers now are left vulnerable. Strategic M&As.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

The private-label and agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) markets , the primary sources of liquidity for many mortgage lenders, are taking a beating so far this year. That dour performance mirrors what’s happening in the primary mortgage market — where origination volume is down drastically year to date in 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This implies easing inflation next year, and mortgage rates near 6% would help affordability issues caused by two things: The inflation fight has fueled the mortgage rate spike Low inventory and a steady job market have put a floor on home prices The good news is that GSEs remain committed to loan approval guidelines that help in these tough cycles.

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PennyMac

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Many potential homebuyers and investors overlook bank-owned properties, but for buyers who take the time to understand the REO process, these homes can be a significant opportunity. REO properties are attractive to homebuyers or real estate investors for several reasons. What is a Real Estate Owned (REO) Property?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

(The FHFA’s conforming loan limit was a baseline of $647,200 in 2022, and $726,200 in 2023.) In the secondary market, these jumbo loans are sold to other investors, such as real estate investment trusts, hedge funds and insurance companies. In June, only 30% of his mortgage production came from jumbo loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Housing inventory remains persistently low, home prices are at all-time highs and affordability is becoming out of reach for more people with every passing day. The same trend is seen in existing-home sales due in large part to a lack of inventory of available homes for sale. Median new-home sales prices rose 17.5%

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Fannie Mae will end up creating more instability for the trillions in the bond market – investors will have to process millions of valuations with the physical attributes of the home collected by unlicensed, uninsured, and unprepared individuals getting paid $10-$25 per inspection. Very tough market now with many layoffs.

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DataMaster

JUNE 9, 2021

After months of being outbid, he decided to wait and see if the housing market cools off a bit. Due to covid-19 and the subsequent rise in building supply costs and drop in inventory, the effects on homeownership are yet to be seen. Ask a bank or loan officer, though, and their suggestions are higher, ranging from 28% to 35%.

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