Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Demand for mortgage loans increased for the first time in six weeks, ahead of the Federal Reserve ’s meeting on Wednesday, when observers expect at least another 75 basis points hike to the federal funds rate. The latest weekly survey data from Freddie Mac shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to an average of 6.02% this week past week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Mortgage rates have risen recently but they could be much worse than they are today. Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for housing in 2024. The most important data line for me, along with mortgage rates , is jobless claims data because I value labor data over inflation. That hasn’t happened.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mortgage applications fell for the fifth consecutive week as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.31%, its highest level since December 2000. For the week that ended August 18, mortgage applications fell 4.2% from the prior week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. bond yields spike last week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Stevens, a legend of the mortgage banking industry who helmed the Federal Housing Agency and the Mortgage Bankers Association in a career that spanned four decades, has died. He left government service and became president of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The latest forecast also projects total mortgage origination activity at $1.6 The mortgage market is projected to slip further to $1.3 The slowing effect on the housing market of the higher mortgage rate environment has been largely predictable, and home prices appear to have already begun trending downward.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Demand for mortgage loans dropped following the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates by an additional 75 basis points last week. The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, declined 3.7% The MBA data shows the refinance share of all mortgage activity decreased to 30.2%

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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. The expansion comes amid a surge in mortgage rates and declining loan origination volume.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2023

These events led to lower mortgage rates and increased purchase application data last week, but decreased housing inventory. Here’s a quick rundown of the last week: The 10-year yield had a Lord of Rings battle at a critical technical level, pushing mortgage rates lower at the end of the week with no real break in the bond market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

They also come as the mortgage industry is making efforts to adopt artificial intelligence solutions to improve productivity and better assist customers. Follette, who joined Pennymac 12 years ago, became the company’s senior managing director and chief mortgage operations officer in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Deran Pennington, a former Movement Mortgage top sales executive sued for poaching by the lender, filed a counterclaim alleging that Movement breached the contract by failing and refusing to pay his due compensation. million and liquidated damages for the company’s breach of contract. Movement filed a lawsuit in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2024

The last time we had a stressed seller market was when national home prices crashed in 2008-2011 and even with more inventory , we’re nowhere close to those levels. The numbers speak for themselves and if anyone you know has been saying housing looks like 2008 for the past 10 years, I will tell you that the person doesn’t read.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.55% a year ago at this time. Other indices showed even higher mortgage rates. What to expect with the Fed ?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures that occurred over the last week have caused even more uncertainty within the mortgage industry. Meanwhile, mortgage lenders are still trying to calm down their investors and business partners. ” The latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) survey proved Deitch right. .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

Periods of economic contraction, as witnessed during the 2008 financial crisis, typically result in a reduction in the supply of credit as lenders adapt to deteriorating market conditions reflected by higher losses on loan products and a reduction in consumer demand for loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. In 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, he landed a job at secretive big data startup Palantir , where he learned that the $10 trillion mortgage industry was still in the Stone Age technologically. Blend Labs CEO Nima Ghamsari is a betting man. He was right.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Supreme Court weighed in on a class action lawsuit against Quicken Loans , now Rocket Mortgage , regarding its appraisal practices during the financial crisis, delivering a procedural win for the mortgage lender. million stemming from allegedly tainted appraisals for 2,769 mortgage loans Quicken Loans originated from 2004 to 2009.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Today’s housing market suffers from affordability issues due to mortgage rates in the 7s and high home prices. People are quick to panic over any part of the housing market that looks stressed, fearing we’ll see 2008 levels of destruction all over again. Last week in 2011, 396,955 homes hit the market without a contract.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a counterclaim against Jesse Iwuji Motorsports (JIM) last week for allegedly breaching a sponsorship contract. The Atlanta-based mortgage lender is accusing the stock car racing team of breaking the agreement by changing the driver of the car starting in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There is one simple reason for this: it’s not 2008. The truth is that if mortgage rates fell below 5.875% and kept going lower, everyone’s housing predictions would need to be revised this year because the builders can sell their homes with lower mortgage rates. Let me be honest here: we got lucky as a country.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Fannie Mae has lowered its mortgage origination forecasts for 2022 and 2023 due to the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) aggressive inflation-fighting monetary policy and corresponding volatility in the mortgage market. Staying nimble in a fast-paced market with the right mortgage technology. trillion in 2022 to $1.85

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

It happened in 2008 and then didn’t happen again until 2023. We don’t have any data that shows sales are crashing from this low level: this is key when looking at the future because it does give us a place to grow sales as long as mortgage rates fall. From NAR : Existing-home sales waned 1.0% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Fraud risk continues to rise even as the market contracts . Although the housing market slowdown and drop in prices has meant that more and more borrowers are underwater on their mortgage , Yun anticipates that foreclosure rates will remain at historically low levels in 2023, remaining less than 1% of all mortgages next year.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2024

The moves haven’t been significant and our weekly pending contracts data picked up this week. However, we came close to our target with inventory growth of 9,726 and there’s a silver lining: mortgage rates have recently fallen. When mortgage rates increase, demand falls and the price-cut percentage grows.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Mnuchin , have raised a $124 billion claim against the federal government, essentially arguing that the FHFA, which was created in the wake of the 2008 housing crash, acted illegally when it took several actions to prevent Fannie and Freddie from collapsing. home loans. home loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Through every financial transaction in a person’s life — whether a mortgage, auto, student or personal loan — there is one constant: the borrower. When the pandemic forced a shutdown of the economy, Congress gave blanket permission for any affected consumer to place their mortgage in forbearance,” Schwartz said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2022

In 2008 when blockchain and its celebrity use case of BitCoin came into view, with breathless excitement discussions of complete decentralization of purchases and bank-less futures coursed freely through public discourse. Mortgage Industry and Blockchain: Early but Important Days.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Obviously, mortgage rates have been stubbornly over 7% for a couple of months. That’s a change in expectation of mortgage rates. Buyers early in 2023 had slightly lower rates than now and were optimistic that mortgage rates would go lower still. We’re hearing people imagine 8% mortgage rates. What’s happening? That’s a 1.9%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Just a few years ago, we were talking about shrinking the GSEs’ footprint, giving GSE charters to vertically integrated Wall Street banks, and giving these same Wall Street banks access to the GSEs’ Common Securitization Platform, which would have enabled them to dominate mortgage markets. Let’s keep up the momentum.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Higher mortgage rates continued to impact home sales over the last month, with existing home sales declining in September for the eighth consecutive month, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). . regions experiencing month over month contractions. . regions experiencing month over month contractions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. In 2008, 49% of Realtors had a client with a distressed sale, today it is only 1%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Delray Beach, Florida-based mortgage lender ResMac, Inc. It’s all part of a strategy to not only survive the most challenging mortgage market in decades, but to come out of it stronger. It’s all part of a strategy to not only survive the most challenging mortgage market in decades, but to come out of it stronger.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

June was a rough month for jumbo-mortgage securitizations, with only two private-label offerings brought to market valued at roughly $821 million. The two jumbo-loan deals that did make it out of the gate last month were issued by Rocket Mortgage and J.P. Morgan Chase via the Rocket Mortgage Trust and J.P. million and the J.P.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The pace of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issuance in the nonagency market slowed considerably in July and August as rising interest rates and Federal Reserve MBS-purchase policy have combined to dampen the momentum exhibited in the private-label space in 2021 and over the first half of this year. billion over the same period in 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Home owners have a good thing in their cheap mortgages and high equity. In fact, the 61,000 new contracts pending this week for single-family home purchases was 16% more than the same week a year ago, when sales were tanking with the mortgage rate spikes. That happened in the 2008 bubble burst. No one wants to move.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Others have expressed concerns that we are headed for a housing crash, like in 2008. Let’s talk about the difference between today’s market and the one during the years leading up to the bursting of the housing bubble in the Great Recession of 2008. THE RISE IN HOME PRICES IN THE YEARS LEADING TO 2008.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The reasons for that are solid demographics and low mortgage rates , which will not change much in 2021. My housing economic mindset really starts from 1996 as mortgage rates are much lower now than in previous decades. Of course, today is a much different story; our demographics are much better, and mortgage rates are lower.

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