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Optimal Blue hopes to hook mortgage brokers with real-time rate feature

Housing Wire

The company’s Loansifter PPE, a component of Black Knight’s suite of integrated solutions designed for brokers, supports execution searches across more than 120 wholesale investors. Cracking the code on marketing to the realtor channel. and Thomas H.

Mortgage 397
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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for February came in as a miss of estimates at 6.02 However, a seller is also a natural homebuyer, unless they’re an investor. However, distressed sales are down a lot today compared to back then, and sales to investors are 19% today compared to 16% back then.

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Existing home sales data continues to outperform

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for November came in hot at 6.46 Then everyone went crazy on investors and iBuyers , suggesting that these people were holding up the entire housing market. This number is above my sales trend peak of 6.2 million and 6.2

Inventory 516
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This savagely unhealthy housing market needs higher rates

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 Because we had a housing credit bubble from 2002 to 2005, the credit demand push on exotic loan debt structures was a setup for future forced credit selling.

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

Today the National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales fell once again to 4.80 However, it’s not the market of 2002-2011. Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues.

Inventory 482
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The housing market is still savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors reported that existing home sales for March came in as a miss of estimate at 5.77 Housing demand has been stable for the past few years; we have never had a credit boom in demand since 2002-2005. From NAR : Total existing-home sales dipped 2.7% million in March.

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Is the savagely unhealthy housing market back?

Housing Wire

We don’t have a massive credit boom as purchase application data is at historical lows; we haven’t had the same run-up in credit as we saw from 2002-2005. This is why I always draw the black line on the chart below — to show people that we haven’t had a credit boom for many years.