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David Stevens, former FHA Commissioner and MBA President, has died

Housing Wire

Dave and his wife Mary were instrumental in the 2011 creation of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation, which has helped more than 16,000 families with crucially ill or injured children stay in their homes while their child is in treatment.” Stevens oversaw FHA programs for single and multifamily housing for two years.

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CFPB ‘quietly’ affirms support for HUD counselors partnering with mortgage originators

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-approved counselors can use fee for pre-purchase counseling and homeownership education services. The change was confirmed through a LinkedIn post by HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling David Berenbaum. “The This list is provided for ease of reference.

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Supreme Court orders review of recession-era class action against Rocket

Housing Wire

The lawsuit, filed in 2011 in the Circuit Court of Ohio County, West Virginia, claimed that the nonbank lender wrongly influenced home appraisal values during the financial crisis. The dispute involves a potential payment of $9.7 Its affiliate appraisal company, Title Source, now Amrock, provided the appraisals, court records show.

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Rise above the panic, for the housing market’s sake

Housing Wire

compared to the week prior and the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with loan balances of $726,200 or less, decreased from 6.48% to 6.45%. An opportunity for commercial real estate investors and developers? When this back and forth was unfolding, mortgage demand rose 2.9% What does this sound like to you?

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Are new home sales flagging a recession?

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The only time this has happened was the 2006-2011 period. The new home sales sector is much different — it’s a contract to purchase a home that isn’t built yet. This is 16.6 percent (±10.4 percent) below the revised March rate of 709,000 and is 26.9 percent (±13.7

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Sale Price vs Appraised Value Disconnect

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According to aggregate statistics from the Uniform Appraisal Dataset released by the FHFA, roughly 57% of appraisals were above the contract price in 2021. Related Posts: A Low Appraisal is Now a Bad Appraisal A low appraisal is now a bad appraisal. Well, that's according to the headline. The article does not stress ‘bad.’…

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. “The state of the housing crisis,” Pullen said, “Is such that we do not have the luxury to say ‘no’ to any innovative approach.”.