Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The secondary market, often an afterthought for most participants in the mortgage process, took center stage in 2020. But to understand the stability that the secondary market brought during a world-wide pandemic, you first have to look back at 2008. Think of it as the underdog quickly becoming the hero of the story.

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) this week released updated loan-level data collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO), according to a joint announcement. The newest release adds data through 2021 into the available dataset.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. housing market; the 10-year is above 1.94%, something that didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021. million and 6.16 million to 4.98 million in January 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Federal Open Market Committee left future economic policies virtually unchanged at its Wednesday meeting, indicating that short-term mortgage rates will stay low for years to come. “The announcement of such a change in plans would impact market rates well in advance of the actual change,” Fratantoni said.

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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%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami joins the HousingWire Daily podcast to talk about why low mortgage rates need to end. During the interview, HW+ Managing Editor Brena Nath interviews Mohtashami on his most recent article , “We need higher mortgage rates to cool the housing market.”. Already a member?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2023

Can we now say that the housing market ‘s spring selling season is finally underway? We didn’t see too much volatility in mortgage rates last week, but purchase apps declined in reaction to rates rising two weeks ago. Mortgage rates started the week off at 6.61% and ended at 6.66%, so a calm week on the rate front.

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Housing Wire

JULY 10, 2022

Just how bad was the mortgage market in June , when rates climbed north of 6%? The company’s monthly mortgage originations report also revealed that 82% of locks in June were purchases, the lowest share of refis since the company began tracking data in 2018. Purchase rate lock volume is down nearly 16% from June 2021. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have signed onto a memorandum of understanding to formally share information between each other related to nonbank mortgage companies. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2013. It also entered into a similar MOU with the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform for lenders. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination system and POS for the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Now that mortgage rates have risen, demand is getting hit, while we are still showing 14.8%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

To say that mortgage rates have been on a wild Mr. Toad’s ride in 2022 is an understatement. People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

CBC Mortgage Agency — a federally chartered housing finance agency — is reducing interest rates on repayable second mortgages used for its down payment assistance (DPA) program. CBC Mortgage Agency is the provider of Chenoa Fund, a national DPA program that comes in a repayable and forgivable option.

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JULY 1, 2024

A joint report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have published and updated loan-level data for public use collected through mandatory demographic questions on mortgage applications through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO).

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2024

Are we seeing the start of a market shift in mortgage demand? Notably, mortgage rates have been gradually declining, and we’ve observed back-to-back positive weeks in purchase application data for the first time since mid-March. However, as mortgage rates began to rise earlier this year, we observed a decline in demand.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

CBC Mortgage Agency – a federally chartered housing finance agency – will offer two temporary rate buydown features for its down payment assistance (DPA) program for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. United Wholesale Mortgage and Rocket Mortgage offer lender-paid temporary rate buydown options in addition to seller-funded buydowns.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

Eric Hill, an Atlanta real estate agent representing a nationwide homebuilder, had a plan to help more than 100 homebuyers get mortgages. In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The problem: They did not qualify for the loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the third quarter, luxury home sales jumped 41.5% , the biggest year-over-year shift since 2013, according to Redfin. And while real estate agents repping luxury homes aren’t seeing as many bidding wars as they did this summer , their respective housing markets are still crazy right now. So it’s been a crazy year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cornerstone Financing , a venture co-founded by former Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF) CEO Craig Corn, has secured $285 million in financing through global investment firms Aquiline Capital Partners LP and Nomura. In 2013, Corn and his partners launched RMF , which became a leading reverse mortgage lender. 31 of that year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

She’s also a known quantity in the mortgage space. In 2013, Fraser was tapped to head CitiMortgage in St. The day I started at CitiMortgage was the day the market started responding to the Fed, and inevitably was the end of the refi boom,” Fraser, who became CEO in May 2013, said in an interview with the Post-Dispatch. “The

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I’m talking about housing market crash headlines. These dramatic peaks and valleys in the data have fed the demons of greed and fear that infest the minds our extreme housing bulls and the fierce housing market bears – leading to equally wild speculations about the future of U.S. Mortgage rates followed, which dampened demand.

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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. million line in the sand has been this: Home prices grow above that 23% level: check Mortgage rates spike higher: check.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mortgage credit availability increased slightly in August but remained close to the very low levels last seen in January 2013, according a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The trade group’s monthly Mortgage Credit Availability Index picked up by 0.3% in August.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

would give the brokerage a “fully diluted market value of $12.5 Reuters and other outlets Tuesday morning pegged Compass’s hoped-for market value at $10 billion. Presented by: Motto Mortgage. Realogy has more than double Compass’s market share (and endured its own $356 million loss in 2020) but traded at $15.09

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Mortgage credit availability dropped in May, a consequence of a tougher mortgage landscape that has resulted in lender consolidation as well as high rates and limited inventory that has stretched consumer budgets. The monthly Mortgage Credit Availability Index fell by 3.1% and the Conforming MCAI dropped by 3.9%.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

While the Fed’s interest rate policy certainly has an influence on mortgage rates via its effect on the 5-year and 10-year Treasury note rates, there is by no means a one-to-one correlation between the two. Thus, lenders can and should expect continued volatility in mortgage rates through the end of 2021 and into 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2021

The Housing Policy Council sent a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday expressing its opposition to delaying the implementation of the Final QM Rule and expiration of the 2013 QM Rule, set to take effect on July 1, 2021. 1, 2022 and opened up a comment period.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Census Bureau released their new residential construction report for April, showing a miss on the estimate and a negative revisions data line, which I believe is lagging behind the current market reality. We simply cannot finish homes in America promptly, and now that mortgage rates are over 5%, some buyers won’t be able to purchase a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At Altos considers any score above 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2013, Thuan Nguyen was working out of his chaotic office in the heart of Silicon Valley. The office was like a market,” Nguyen recalled. “It Get $75 off your initial membership with coupon code “intro75” The post This techie mortgage broker has cleared $1 billion in originations this year. They hustled, too.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Finance of America Companies (FOA) President Kristen Sieffert is bullish on the prospects for the reverse mortgage industry’s leading lender in 2024, particularly after the company went through a series of major changes last year, including the acquisition of American Advisors Group (AAG).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

We had some good news this week for the housing market : purchase application data is up , the builder’s confidence index rose to beat estimates, and the 10-year yield and mortgage rates have fallen. New home sales missed estimates from 2013 to 2015. This is bullish for America and for mortgage rates to head lower.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Lending standards tightened in October, largely due to higher mortgage rates and the worsening outlook for the economy, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said. The mortgage credit availability index (MCAI) fell by 0.5% This caused it to reach its lowest level since March 2013, according to the MBA. in September.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Temperatures are slowly starting to rise in many parts of the country as we head into spring — and so is homebuilder sentiment, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday. Builders are continuing to offer a variety of incentives.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

Mortgage rates trended down in July from their peak above 6% in June, but that wasn’t enough to spur mortgage lending activity. from June , marking four straight months of decline, according to Black Knight ‘s originations market monitor report. Rate lock volume in July fell 14.4% The decline was led by 16.9%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Mortgage Collaborative, the mortgage industry’s independent cooperative network, has begun releasing details on a significant virtual event they will host for their members during the first three weeks of December. The post The Mortgage Collaborative brings its own fresh take on virtual events appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

promoted Brian Ralston to executive vice president and chief mortgage banking officer. In his new position, Ralston will lead the mortgage banking division’s strategies and oversee origination and servicing operations of the wholesale, non-delegated and delegated correspondent channels, and warehouse lending.

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