Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Despite continued home price appreciation and a volatile mortgage rate environment that has resulted in the least affordable housing market in decades, there remains a minority of consumers who still feel that now is a good time to buy a home. The housing market index fell 1.2 points in September to 60.8,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

points, but has steadily recovered over 60% of its COVID-19 pandemic loss when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. The idea that it’s a seller’s market also picked up steam last month with the percentage of respondents who said it was a good time to sell a home gaining 3% to 59% in October.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

A bullish housing market. economic recovery was a false story and that we were about to embark on a second housing bubble crash due to forbearance. The housing market didn’t crash at all, in fact, more Americans bought homes with mortgages in 2021 than in 2020. What a year 2021 has been. The excellent.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Price corrections are coming to housing markets across the United States, Black Knight said following July’s home price decline from June. Relatedly, tappable home equity is expected to pull back in the third quarter as equity-rich markets already saw declines in July. . While July’s home price grew 14.5%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. In 2023, we had one big bounce in sales and then sales trended lower all year long as mortgage rates went from 6% to 8%. million units, down 1.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2024

Mortgage rates had a chance to break to new highs this year, but the Federal Reserve took a moderate tone at the last Fed meeting. We saw the benefit of lower mortgage rates with the last two existing home sales reports, which showed growth. Then mortgage rates rose, facilitating five weeks of negative purchase application data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. However, a cool-down in prices is not the same thing as a housing crash.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The real estate market has shifted, and we are in a new housing paradigm. Mortgage interest rates have risen quickly in the past few months further eroding affordability. 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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

You think things are bad in the housing market now? Stick around and see if mortgage rates climb into the 7% range. Even the most battle-tested industry players are preparing for one of the strongest housing market corrections in decades. Blake Bianchi, CEO of Future Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2024

We survived jobs week and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talking to Congress, with mortgage rates ending the week below 7%. But will mortgage rates keep heading lower? Mortgage rates and the 10-year yield The 10-year yield is the key for all my housing work, so I focus on it religiously.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Going into 2023, people thought housing inventory would skyrocket, home prices would crash, and we would see the housing market of 2008 all over again. We created this weekly tracker at the end of 2022 to give people a live weekly outlook on everything that drives the housing market and which factors to follow.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the week following the Federal Open Market Committee ‘s meeting, mortgage applications sunk. 22, mortgage applications fell 1.3% from the prior week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mortgage rates moved to their highest levels in over 20 years as Treasury yields increased late last week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Tuesday’s housing starts report clearly shows that homebuilders are going to be done with single-family construction until mortgage rates fall. Currently, we are in a much different housing recession than what we had from 2005-2011. Why do I call it a housing recession? months of supply but of that number, 6.22

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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.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2021

Globally speaking, things look much different roughly a year later – jobs are returning by the millions, a series of viable vaccines are being deployed across America, stimulus checks have hit bank accounts and mortgage rates are ascending rapidly from nearly a year of historic lows. in 2021, 3.6% in 2022 and 4.1% in 2021, 4.5% in 2021, 4.5%

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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. The reasons for that are solid demographics and low mortgage rates , which will not change much in 2021. Due to the solid demand for homes, housing supply for both new and existing homes are at all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

metropolitan areas since 2011. Redfin classified purchases as all-cash when transactions had no mortgage loan information on the deed. Affluent Americans (or investors) are the only ones who can bypass the sting of high mortgage rates by paying all cash. mortgaged home sales, up from 14% a year earlier but down from 16.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mortgage rates have more than doubled from the beginning of the year and homebuyers facing affordability challenges are increasingly turning to adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) to reduce their monthly payments. The Freddie Mac’s index compiles purchase mortgage rates reported by lenders during the past three days.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. Total housing costs for American homeowners versus their wages are meager, and most will buy a home right away when they sell. Looking at housing this way, the last four decades make sense. The days on market were too low.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

According to the January 2024 survey for the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) , 90% of builders reported high interest rates as a significant issue in 2023, while 77% expected them to be a problem in 2024. In 2011, only 13% of homebuilders worried about the cost of labor, versus 87% in 2019.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) updated the National Mortgage Database (NMDB) Aggregate Statistics series to include fresh quarterly data on the loan performance of residential mortgages until Q2 of 2024. of all mortgages that were outstanding were either in the foreclosure, bankruptcy, or deed-in-lieu stages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

However, I will give you all the charts to show Uncle Dave that housing credit doesn’t look like it did in 2008 because the qualified mortgage (QM) law makes that impossible. Foreclosure data The chart below shows that the 2008 housing crisis started years before the 2008 recession. Here is an example with our Nov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2022

It’s an excellent time to discuss housing inventory. The housing market shifted in March of this year. As the 10-year yield broke above 1.94% and mortgage rates rose, we saw the impact on housing data. Yes, crazy to think, but this is a survey trend data line, and the housing market was in free-fall at that time.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Director Calabria has one goal and that is to fully privatize the mortgage market and leave the GSEs as nothing more than a counter-cyclical last choice for the housing market. Calabria has written, spoken, and testified for years on his view that the mortgage market should be fully privatized.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There’s a showdown at the housing market corral between homebuyers and sellers. When I came up with the “ savagely unhealthy housing market ” label in February of this year, it was based on the premise that the housing inflation story that we have had to deal with since 2020 was a historical event.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

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. This sounds odd to people because mortgage rates went all the way to 8% , and price growth was picking up. Sales faded 6.2% All four U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From NAR : “In essence, the residential real estate market was frozen in November, resembling the sales activity seen during the COVID-19 economic lockdowns in 2020,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Plus, available housing inventory remains near historic lows.” economic history. . As we can see below, the U.S.

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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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Homeowners are sitting on a record level of about $35 trillion in home equity — more than double the equity levels recorded prior to the financial crisis and housing market collapse of the late 2000s. Older homeowners, who have been paying their mortgages for longer, are part of a select group that owns their homes outright.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Homebuilder confidence continued its downward spiral in October, hitting its lowest level since August 2012, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Tuesday. Three other indices monitored by the NAHB also posted declines in October.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The housing market continues to cool amid high mortgage rates , affordability challenges and still-low inventory. Housing inventory remains tight heading into fall Meanwhile, total housing inventory at the end of August was 1.1 Elevated mortgage rates add to affordability pain As of Aug. from July and 14.1%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

SimpleNexus , a digital mortgage startup, announced on Tuesday that it picked up $108 million in a Series B funding around. The fund raise comes as the company attempts to increase its marketshare within the eClosing and mobile mortgage segments.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2024

The investors, such as ex- Blackstone Group company Invitation Homes , “bulk-purchased” foreclosed homes, with many converting them into rental housing, and with a distinct advantage over smaller investors. Studies GAO reviewed found that no investor owned 1,000 or more single-family rental homes as of late 2011,” the results said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . million in August.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

points, but has recovered more than half of its early pandemic-period decline when April’s HPSI hit its lowest reading since November 2011. August’s HPSI survey revealed both a confident seller’s and buyer’s market, however, Fannie Mae reported September buyers showing more hesitancy. Presented by: NAMB. As of Oct.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The mortgage industry started 2023 with optimism due to an increase in housing activity. Fannie Mae expects home sales to remain subdued for the remainder of 2023, although recent mortgage application data came in stronger than expected. million, it still marks the slowest annual pace of sales since 2011. million units.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2023

As we can see in the data below, the days on the market fell back down to 29 days. For some historical context, back in 2011, this data line was 101 days. The NAR data looks a bit backward, so if you want more fresh weekly data, I write the Housing Market Tracker every week on Sunday night to give you that information.

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