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Mortgage rates surge to highest level since 2000

Housing Wire

“The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has hit the highest level since the year 2000,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist said. These headwinds are causing both buyers and sellers to hold out for better circumstances.” Other indices showed significantly higher mortgage rates this week.

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Risks of nonbank mortgage sellers and servicers revisited

Housing Wire

The origination period of the analysis was 2000-2015 to allow for loan seasoning and two models were estimated: one with a definition of default as a loan becoming 90 days past due or worse, and the second a loan becoming 180 days past due or worse. These were 2000-2003, 2004-2008Q2, 2008Q3-2011, and 2012-2015. Specifically, the 1.9

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US home sales fall to historically low level: Redfin

Housing Wire

The second occurred in October 2023 when mortgage rates peaked at their highest point since 2000. Data continues to reflect seller-friendly market conditions as the median sale price reached another record high of $439,716 — up 5.1% In these areas, individual home sellers have been facing strong competition from homebuilders.“

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Can my agent get a better deal than others? The data says probably not

Housing Wire

Now, with agent commissions starting to decline, agents naturally want to convey the value of their services to buyers and sellers. We simply wanted to document the distribution of the price effect for both buyer and seller agents. The answer is, almost certainly not. “We The dataset includes 2.3 million single-family home sales.

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Lower mortgage rates are stabilizing the housing market

Housing Wire

These were forced credit sellers, which means these sellers don’t sell to buy a home like a traditional seller does. Since they were distressed forced sellers, inventory skyrocketed in 2006 and stayed very elevated in 2007 and 2008. As we can see below, none of that is happening today because the seller isn’t stressed.

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Housing affordability dipped in March: First American

Housing Wire

since January 2000. Home sellers would rather withdraw from the market than sell at lower prices.” “The Consumer homebuying power, which represents how much one can buy based on changes in income and mortgage rates, decreased 0.1% between February and March 2024 but increased 0.8% year over year. since March 2023 and 90.2%

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You can’t buy what’s not for sale in the housing market

Housing Wire

And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. In most markets, the seller, or supplier, makes their decision about adding supply to the market independent of the buyer, or source of demand, and their decision to buy. Homer Simpson or Spock?