Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) announced a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI)-based video marketing platform Roomvu to provide mortgage brokers with marketing tools. Their innovative marketing technology is easy to use and is proven to move the needle in our industry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lack of inventory is an issue builders and mortgage loan originators alike are dealing with across the nation. It’s also what keeps Andrew Marquis, regional vice president at CrossCountry Mortgage and Scotsman Guide ’s seventh top LO, up at night, especially as he sees more buyers entering the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

After eight months of consecutive gains, the consequences of low inventory finally caught up with the housing market in February. drop in the number of homes in contract from the prior month, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors. A healthy housing market is considered roughly six months of supply.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The number of first-time homebuyers made up 32% of all buyers in 2023, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors. Against that backdrop, Zillow identified prime markets for first-time homebuyers , and half of them were nestled in the Midwest.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The recent hotter-than-expected inflation reading sent mortgage rates upward. On Thursday, HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed the average 30-year fixed rate for conventional loans at 7.31%, up from 7.19% a week earlier. Despite the challenging housing market, demand isn’t fading. million units, up 4.7%

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

Like new and existing sales, pending home sales felt the strain of exhausted home inventory in April ? according to Thursday data from the National Association of Realtors. The upper-end market is still moving sharply as inventory is more plentiful there.”. dropping 4.4% from the previous month to an index of 106.2,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Average mortgage rates on 30-year fixed home loans continued their march towards 8% this week as the Treasury yield surpassed 5%. Rates have been steadily climbing for seven straight weeks, the longest consecutive increase since Spring 2022, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. million units sold.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 Inventory has broken to all-time lows, but it doesn’t look like the year-over-year data will be positive at all this year unless demand softens up. NAR Research : Unsold inventory sits at a 1.7-month

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales for April came in at 5.41 Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As the 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased for the sixth consecutive week to 7.70%, mortgage applications slumped, hitting their lowest level since 1995. Mortgage applications decreased 6.9% 13, compared to the week prior , according to weekly mortgage application data from the MBA. for the week ending Oct. from 14.4%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Pending home sales increased modestly in February despite rising mortgage rates , growing 1.6% month over month, according to the newest data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Ongoing job gains are clearly increasing demand along with more inventory.” Overall, active inventory grew 14.8%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The challenges in today’s mortgage market have caused many originators to expand their loan product offerings outside of qualified mortgage (QM) criteria set by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Higher interest rates , shrinking Agency business and low inventory still threatens volume.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. If we had a massive credit boom-to-bust, inventory would have skyrocketed in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tiffany Fletcher, senior vice president of operations support and operational risk for VRM Mortgage Services , offers strategies for doing just that, showing how VRM is growing and changing during these unique times. Tiffany Fletcher, VRM Mortgage Services HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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Inman

MAY 8, 2024

Low inventory drove prices higher nationwide despite some of the highest mortgage rates in decades, National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

million , according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Wednesday. In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Mortgage lenders are betting on down-payment assistance programs, buy-down options and renovation products to provide brokers opportunities to win in a market with mortgage rates nearing 8%, a lack of inventory and high home prices. range, which is a normal mortgage market.” 4-7, in Las Vegas.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. Inventory is always seasonal. Today inventory levels are at 1.02 million and 1.93 I use the 1.52-1.93

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Existing home sales dropped to their lowest level in nearly 30 years in 2023, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), released Friday. Slow home sales in 2023 were accompanied by higher mortgage rates , with the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage hitting a 23-year high in early November.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As mortgage rates edged near multi-decade highs, pending home sales declined 1.5% in October on a month-over-month basis, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). In today’s tough housing market, the rental market is cooling off, giving some relief to homebuyers. down from 72.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. million and 6.16

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

in March compared to February despite rising mortgage rates , according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Meaningful gains will only occur with declining mortgage rates and rising inventory.” Existing-home inventory in March improved 14.4% Pending home sales increased by 3.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

According to the National Association of Realtors, existing home sales for April’s housing market came in at 5,8500,000. housing market for 2020 to 2024 is that home prices could escalate to an unhealthy level. The post Existing home sales data: A bad sign for housing market? My biggest fear for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Existing-home sales picked up in January as buyers took advantage of the lowest mortgage rates seen in several months. from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million in January, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). In fact, by the end of January, for-sale housing inventory was at 1.01

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Over the three-month moving average, mortgage rates dipped to 6.6%, then climbed back toward 7%. For-sale inventory increased 14.8% Meanwhile, the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales increased by 9.5% Meanwhile, the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales increased by 9.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

million, according to the National Association of Realtors. The latest weakness in existing home sales still reflects the buyer bidding process in most of October when mortgage rates were at a two-decade high before the actual closings in November,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement. “A Housing inventory fell 1.7%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although high mortgage rates, elevated home prices and limited housing inventory have crippled the 2023 housing market, the outlook for 2024 is brighter, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). “The bond market is forcing the Fed to pivot.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2021

Mortgage rates fluctuated again last week, down 5 basis points to 2.95% after managing to pop back up to 3% the week prior, according to Thursday data from Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. Mortgage rates have been hovering around 3% for over a month now, as macro economic factors left the bond market hesitant over the global recovery.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

in September despite significant affordability hurdles weighing on the market, according to data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Furthermore, inventory remains tight, which hinders sales but keeps home prices elevated.” Pending home sales ticked up 1.1% in September. increase in September.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

month over month in January, according to the newest data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Overall active inventory improved 7.9% The job market is solid, and the country’s total wealth reached a record high due to stock market and home price gains,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Economists at Fannie Mae say the Federal Reserve ‘s fiscal policy is having its desired effect on the housing market – home price growth began to slow in the summer, and the GSE says the housing slowdown will continue through 2023. The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $2.44 trillion in 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The average 30-year-fixed mortgage rose, ever so slightly, to 2.88% for the week ending Sept. Mortgage rates have been roughly flat for months now. financial markets,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. A year ago at this time, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.90%. for the past two weeks.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to an all-time low of 2.88% this week, the eighth time in 2020 the weekly rate has set a record in a Freddie Mac series that goes back almost five decades. The average 15-year rate fell to 2.44%, the lowest in almost 30 years of data, according to the mortgage financier.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Declining mortgage rates spurred the demand for home loans at the beginning of 2023, spreading optimism across the industry. After months of a slowing housing market, sellers are offering more discounts to close deals and mortgage lenders are launching programs to protect their clients’ rates.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Existing home sales fell in today’s report , which isn’t surprising, but one headline that shocked some people was that home prices are still up year over year, even with higher inventory and higher mortgage rates. Of course this isn’t the healthiest housing inventory story. from the previous year ($375,300). All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) urged the U.S. The currency policy will put VA buyers on the sidelines, especially in a market with already tight inventory, Sears pointed out. “In Concerns over the existing VA policies have been echoed among mortgage professionals.

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