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Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009

Housing Wire

Home prices are now posting the biggest monthly declines since January 2009, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report from Black Knight. The post Home prices are dropping like it’s 2009 appeared first on HousingWire. Las Vegas, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C.,

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Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory?

Housing Wire

Today, however, the purchase application data is actually down to levels we saw in 2009 ! How can housing inventory be so low today when it skyrocketed back in 2009? The post Purchase apps are at 2009 level: where’s the inventory? If you connect the lines, you can see where we are on a historical basis.

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Homeowners Have Gained Nearly $300B in Home Equity

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Negative equity peaked at 26% of mortgaged residential properties in Q4 2009 based on CoreLogic equity data analysis, which began in Q3 2009. Underwater mortgages apply to borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are currently worth. billion or 4% from $326 billion in Q3 2023.

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Loan mod scheme from 2009 finally gets settled at $4.6M

Housing Wire

According to the DOJ, from 2009 through 2015, Lindeman and his wife targeted Hispanic homeowners through Spanish-language advertising that promised to cut mortgage payments in half. The post Loan mod scheme from 2009 finally gets settled at $4.6M The DOJ said some of the homeowners targeted had limited English proficiency.

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Fairway, accused of redlining in Alabama, agrees to settle for $1.9M

Housing Wire

Fairway operates in the Birmingham area under the trade name MortgageBanc , which it acquired in 2009. The company ranked No. 12 among the largest U.S. mortgage lenders in the first half of 2024, with $11.8 billion in home loan production. That was down 18% year over year, per Inside Mortgage Finance estimates. This compared to 12.2%

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Hispanic Homeowners Reduce the Home Value Gap

Appraisal Buzz

The gap was as wide as 18% in 2012, following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009, when many minority communities were hit especially hard, setting back progress by several years. Hispanic-owned homes are currently worth 11.9% less than homes owned by non-Hispanic white households, down from 12.1% last year and a recent high of 12.4%

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Travis Kessler set to retire from Texas Realtors, Mike Barnett named as new CEO

Housing Wire

Magel Award of Excellence in 2009. The executive acquired plenty of recognition for his work including a spot on Real Estate Almanac’s Swanepoel Power 200 list of real estate’s most influential people. Kessler also earned the William R.

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