Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate. The sector outlook reflects expectations for a slowing economy in 2023, with a modest increase in unemployment and potential pricing corrections in the housing market. Fitch Ratings also expects the outlook for the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2024

Large institutional investors typically emerged following a raft of defaults and foreclosures stemming from the 2007-08 financial crisis , putting inventory on the market from 2007-09. Additionally, technological advancements allowed companies to acquire and manage large portfolios of single-family homes more easily.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2024

Homebuilder constraints Unlike the prelude to the 2008 housing market crash, homebuilders today face unique challenges that mitigate the risk of overbuilding. After the last crash, builders scaled back significantly and never fully recovered to pre-2007 levels. In 2024, the housing market is set to continue on.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 8, 2024

However, the trends this year are particularly challenging for house hunters, more so than at any point since the housing market boom began in 2012.” of the average national wage in the second quarter – marking the high point since 2007 and standing well above the common 28% lending guideline.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It goes to show what the failure to build enough homes from 2006 to the present combined with ultra-low, unrealistic mortgage rates and massive amounts of fiscal stimulus can do to the housing market. This is something that housing industry leaders should be thinking about — carefully. The history of housing.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The credit markets were toxic back then, featuring loans with big recast payments which meant that you could have two people working full-time and still be at a credit risk. As you can see in the chart below, the credit markets broke in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and then the job-loss recession of 2008 started, which made things much worse.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

The online reaction was immediate — housing must be about to crash. That’s not to say that the data points the Fed used are incorrect — in fact, we are in a savagely unhealthy housing market , but it’s not a bubble. First, because there is no speculative debt demand going on today, there can’t be a housing bubble.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. Geneva Financial, founded in 2007 by Aaron VanTrojen, has more than 130 branch locations in 46 states, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Homes that reach the market sell quickly, bidding wars are the new normal and the investor share of sales continues to rise.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Both these laws paved the way for more responsible lending and a more responsible consumer. During the build-up to when the housing bubble burst, housing was getting noticeably weaker on many fronts. Currently, the housing market is in a recession: sales, production, jobs and incomes are all falling in the housing sector.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If appraisal values experience a pronounced downturn, it could indicate serious issues and lead to another crisis similar to 2007-08. Mortgage executives should focus on these indicators — as well as keep a close eye on their originating markets — to ensure they understand key market factors and can adjust business strategies accordingly.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Non-QM mortgages include loans to the self-employed, such as small-business owners or gig workers, and other borrowers who fall outside the box of agency lending guidelines.). Six non-QM private-label securitizations backed by 4,600 loans valued at $2.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This week’s HW+ member spotlight features Reina Ramos, senior vice president, mortgage market leader at City National Bank of Florida. She joined CNBF after more than a decade with Seacoast Bank , where she served as senior vice president, residential lending production manager. HousingWire : What keeps you up at night and why?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

The Federal Reserve (Fed) maintained the federal funds rate in the 5% to 5.25% range on Wednesday, following 10 consecutive hikes that brought rates to a level never seen since 2007. We have been seeing the effects of our policy tightening on demand in the most interest rate sensitive sectors of the economy, especially housing and investment.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

While the growth rate is cooling monthly, we are still in a savagely unhhealthy housing market trying to get national inventory levels back to pre-COVID-19 levels. Nor can we ever have a credit sales boom again with lending standards back to normal. Case in point, purchase application data is already below 2008 levels today.

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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. According to Mohtashami, the country has been experiencing a “ savagely unhealthy housing market ,” with inventory levels at around 1.16 million, below the 2019 range of 1.52 million to 1.93

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

Since early 2018, Jayachandran has led National Housing Trust, upholding a commitment to the preservation of home, opportunity, and dignity through affordable housing. In her role as CEO, Priya leads NHT’s engagement in public policy, lending, and energy sustainability.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

It also concludes existing market conditions are likely to decease the “attractiveness of PLS as a financing outlet.”. Since the global financial crisis in 2006-2007, however, there have been only five securitization deals valued in total at $900 million, which used closed-end or HELOC loans as collateral, the report states.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We understand the nature of the concerns [with Credit Suisse], but the current situation is night and day from 2007 as the balance sheets are fundamentally different in terms of capital and liquidity, and we struggle to see something systemic.”. “We believe the U.S. Credit Suisse through its subsidiary DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc.,

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

The housing market across the country, and especially in Boston and New England, is experiencing a growth trend that’s accelerated over the last few years. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Without a national market, local supply and demand for mortgages could become unbalanced. The mortgage markets of 2007 and 2020 remind us that there is no durable mortgage market without federal backing (including the banking system). Nongovernment-backed lending disappeared in both cases virtually overnight.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

But when the credit markets seize up and liquidity stops, all of the sudden we went to maybe a low of 85 or 88 cents on the dollar. So when that happens, you don’t originate, you don’t lend at par for something at 88. So you stop.”. Everyone bowed out. And it doesn’t. It’s the total opposite from that. Then COVID hit. “So

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

In its most recent annual report to Congress, November 2020, the Federal Housing Administration ( FHA ) published its “capital ratio,” a measure of capital reserves to insurance-in-force held within the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). The same report revealed FHA had amassed capital reserves in the amount of $78.9

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. We are nowhere near that!

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Empire Appraisal Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

Single-Family Home Median Sale Price Data from National Association of Realtors and Florida Realtors , through March 2024 Historically, Florida has been relatively volatile with pricing, having suffered an outsized impact in the housing market in the fallout from the 2007-2008 financial crisis, for example.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JULY 6, 2022

markets, but Fla.’s Six of the nation’s top 25 most overvalued housing markets are in the Sunshine State, which can expect to see a “prolonged period of unaffordability” even as prices in other regions of the country cool. We are poised to have a very hot market through 2022 and a very robust spring homebuying season.”.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Additional indicators can be some of the factors that led up to the last market bust; there are plenty of articles online with which to familiarize yourself. Some early warning signs of housing market correction are: A) Listing inventory in MLS starts to climb steadily. What will be the early signs?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

For example, from 1985-2007, housing tenure was five to seven years; from 2008-2024, it grew to 11-13 years. housing market, which offers a 30-year fixed mortgage, especially compared to countries like Canada that have had to try 90-year loan modifications. This is the risk of late-cycle lending in the U.S.,

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are starting to see all of those signs following the release of September housing data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Unfortunately for buyers, a combination of the typical seasonal trend and higher borrowing costs has slowed housing market activity to an excruciatingly slow pace – and there are concerning signs ahead.

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Will Springer Realtor

MAY 9, 2022

The housing market has become bubbly,” said economist Enrique Martinez-Garcia of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He was one of the authors of a recent report that found signs of a housing bubble in the real estate market. This looks a lot like the housing boom that we saw prior to the 2007–09 financial crisis.”

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 23, 2024

Lenders rely on reviews to ensure the accuracy and reliability of appraisals before making lending decisions. When I called my client, they just wanted to know if the value was the same as a house or 4 units. It was my last review for lending purposes. Investors use them to evaluate the value and risk of potential investments.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2024

of the average national wage, which is higher than the standard lending guideline of 28 percent and represents the highest level since 2007. However, the trends this year are particularly challenging for house hunters, more so than at any point since the housing market boom began in 2012. annually and 7.3%

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

The housing market is cooling-off. Excerpts: Lending was not very prudent prior to the crash of 2008 as suggested by the trend in the median credit score (FICO), a measure for credit worthiness; for newly originated first-time purchase mortgages the median FICO score was 686 in Q1 2006 versus 740 in Q4 2020. Find out why not.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

In 2007, he started appraising conservation easements, which are specified areas of land earmarked for environmental conservation. The housing market received positive data on new residential construction – which is seen as a key solution to the lack of housing inventory.”

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s the most since 2007. One of the hottest search phrases on Google today is, “When is the housing market going to crash?”. Not “ Will the housing market crash?” We shared in a previous newsletter the many factors driving our buoyant housing market – and there is no end in sight to home appreciation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2022

“I am confident that she will bring a depth of expertise and perspective to FHA at a critical time for our country’s housing market.”. Housing industry stakeholders have a lengthy list of changes they hope Gordon will implement. Toomey, in a statement published in May 2022, also criticized Gordon’s career in housing.

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