Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

didn’t go into recession until 2008. Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. As you can see in the chart below, there is a big difference between the current housing market and those looking for a repeat of 2008.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

However, there are a number of attention-grabbing headlines, which unfortunately only compare today’s housing market to the very recent history of the last two years. It is always good to know where we are with the real estate market, but it is essential to keep all data in historical perspective. . Historically 2.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Through numerous interviews with industry players, HousingWire assessed the rapidly changing housing market to determine who remains vulnerable to the higher-rate environment, and who’s primed to capitalize in the months ahead. I don’t think it’s a win for anyone on the lending side. The culling.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

With the banking crisis spurring more talk of a recession, the question now is: What would housing credit look like in a recession? housing market would crash during the pandemic. One of the main reasons for that fear was that housing credit was about to get tight, meaning fewer people could buy homes with mortgages.

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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. Millennials, a sizable chunk of people in their prime buying years, are entering the housing market in force.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Post-2010, lending standards in America became normal again, and while I still believe they’re very liberal, they’re sane. This was very critical to not only the housing market but also the health of the U.S. The most important factor is that debt structures are vanilla.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

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. housing market behavior for the first time since the boom of the early 2000s.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. in 2008 and 2009. Lax lending standards and cheap credit, plus a popular belief that real estate values never decline, created a massive bubble. Following a pattern eerily similar to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This is the kind of information you need as we get close to Thanksgiving and share the dinner table with Uncle Dave who says (for the 13th year) that we’re seeing 2008 all over again. Foreclosure data The chart below shows that the 2008 housing crisis started years before the 2008 recession.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People’s first reaction was to wonder if this was 2008 all over again. Well, it isn’t 2008, but this type of loan does have risk — and it’s the risk that is traditional among all late economic cycle lending in America when the loan requires low or no downpayment. We have a much better housing ecosystem now for sure.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2020

HousingWire spoke to Doug Perry, Citadel’s new managing director of Wholesale and Retail Sales, about his plans for Citadel and the current state of non-QM lending. HW: What does the demand for non-QM lending look like now following the sector’s pause earlier this year? Underlying demand for non-QM lending products remains strong.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

. “This is about the same rate of price growth that occurred during the 2002 through 2006 period when subprime lending drove exuberant housing demand. “But that is where the similarities end.

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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. Then we saw an uptick in people filing for foreclosures and bankruptcy during an economic expansion from 2005 to 2008. All my six recession red flags were raised toward the end of 2006, and the recession didn’t start until later in 2008.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) “codified housing goals and added a Duty to Serve, which gives FHFA the tools to ensure that Fannie and Freddie stay focused on affordable housing and serving the housing needs of low- and moderate-income families instead of using a federal backstop to just cherry-pick the most lucrative loans.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Still, this seems like a booming housing market, right? I have often claimed that 2008-2019 would have the weakest housing recovery ever in history. I also said that the new home sales recovery would be fairly anemic, housing starts would never start a year at 1.5 year to date compared to 2019 levels. And it did.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But one analysis from the 2008 mortgage crisis found that “loans in majority-Black ZIP Codes were more likely to be FHA loans, suggesting that FHA played an outsized role in post-crisis homeownership in majority-Black neighborhoods,” the paper explained.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This was “likely attributable to massive government stimulus and other support programs designed to stabilize the housing market during the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to the report. Bias in lending is a challenge that the mortgage industry has been struggling with, as seen from a handful of suits. in 2021 from 77.7%

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

As 2022 proves to be a challenging year for the housing market, lenders are looking to take advantage of potential downtime by improving their internal processes. Applications for ARMs rose this year for the first time since interest in ARMs waned due to the role they played in the housing crash of 2008.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. As you can see below, the new home sales market from 2018-2022 doesn’t look like the housing market we had from 2002-2005.

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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. Chicago’s housing market started out hot in 2022. Department of Agriculture (USDA). during the same time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2024

Banks have largely retreated from mortgage lending since the 2008 Housing Crisis — an issue which the SVB borrower short/lend long risks are further exacerbating. CHLA might also point out that banks do not exactly have the best track record in terms of second mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this series of interviews, we focus on the people who are shaping the state of housing at the top — the policy and regulation experts. The FHFA and the GSEs are essential to painting the picture of today’s housing market and industry trends. KS: At its peak, independent mortgage brokers represented 60% of the mortgage market.

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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. I have documented the history of these housing price crash addicts for a decade now. Case in point, purchase application data is already below 2008 levels today.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Despite what they promised, we sit here today with the United States housing market outperforming all other economic sectors in the world during the pandemic. In order for the housing market to crash due to too many loans going into default when forbearance programs end, the number of loans in these programs needs to grow.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows. 1) End forbearance plans immediately so more homes come on the market. New Home Supply. Hard pass.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The 2022 housing market has been underscored by interest rate spikes and refi decline and lenders are working hard to adjust to new borrower trends. However, purchase lending has faced continued downward pressure due to affordability constraints. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The NMDB program enables FHFA to meet the statutory requirements of section 1324(c) of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, as amended by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, to conduct a monthly mortgage market survey.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last week, the biggest bank failure since Washington Mutual in 2008. It will be hard to be completely confident in the near term that Sunday’s intervention will halt the pressure on smaller banks, who play a large macroeconomic role and could become considerably more conservative in their lending.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 11, 2024

History of the DTS program FHFA issued a final rule in 2016 that implemented the DTS provisions of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA). Keeping stock of manufactured home supply According to 2021 American Housing Survey (AHS) , compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

America’s fix-and-flip short-term property market is estimated to be worth as much as $68 billion a year, according to F2 Finance. The opportunity is interesting in the sense that there’s a housing shortage. We are able to essentially lend against the asset and move very quickly,” Faes said. LendInvest has more than $4.7

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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

APRIL 1, 2022

As you can see below from the unemployment rate chart, the job recovery was much faster than after the great recession of 2008. . The internal jobs data always pointed to a strong recovery, and job openings have been trending higher since 2008. Just whistle, folks — that is a hot labor market. 4, 5 and 6.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In times like these, the “one-stop-shop” approach to the servicing and lending process has become even more appealing, and there is a company providing that in a flexible capacity: Xome. As low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, lenders are reporting record-breaking purchase and refinance volumes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

Marina Walsh, MBA’s vice president of industry analysis, noted that the pandemic-spurred surge in housing and mortgage demand, record-low mortgage rates and widening credit spreads translated into soaring net production profits that reached their highest levels since the inception of the MBA’s annual report in 2008.

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