Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. 2022 Forecast series. What are the drivers of housing demand in 2022? 5 predictions for the 2022 housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2024

As the numbers of seniors carrying mortgage debt in retirement has increased, so too has the potential financial burden of a regular monthly mortgage payment. “Retirement researchers warn that mortgage debt in retirement can be a trap,” the article explained.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And homes in many communities have shot up in value in recent years, leading to tax increases through reassessments. But opinions differ on how much impact higher taxes are having on local housing and mortgage markets. “I In 2022, the average tax on a U.S. But home values and taxes have shot up in several neighborhoods.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) and the Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ) remain as the primary options left for older homeowners who want to use their home equity to create more liquidity during retirement. It also allows the homeowner to draw a portion of the home’s value, but only for a defined period.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Home-equity lending is on a roll this year, with the combined volume of home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) and traditional closed-end home equity loans up 47% from January to May of 2022, compared with the same period last year. That deal, dubbed GRADE 2022-SEQ2, was a $198.6

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has acquired the assets of Illinois-based retail lender Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation. Founded in 1993 by Bill and Michael Giambrone, Platinum has 22 branches and 79 active loan officers, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. million in cash.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” One of the top 10 lenders that posted gains, however, was Open Mortgage. This is a different situation.” HMBS issuance in 2023 came out to $6.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Home equity continued to rise in the first quarter of 2024 as residential properties with mortgages collectively gained $1.5 homeowner with a mortgage added $28,000 in equity during the year ending in March 2024 — the highest year-over-year increase since late 2022. of those with mortgages underwater.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

However, the lenders and loan officers who will be most successful in the second half of 2022 will be those who pivot quickly, understanding both the nuances of the market and the best strategies to help solve problems for today’s homeowners, homebuyers, homesellers, Realtors and financial advisors. Generational nuances.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Homeowners 62 and older saw their collective home equity levels drop in the fourth quarter of 2023 by roughly $119 billion to $12.84 This is according to the Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), a measure of senior-held home equity from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) and data analytics firm RiskSpan.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The baseline conforming loan limit for mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2024 will be $766,550, up 5.5% Conforming loan limits are increasing at a slower pace, mirroring home prices, overall. The regulator compares home prices year over year and adjusts the limit by the corresponding amount.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A new report from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Research Institute for Housing America (RIHA) takes a closer look at the shifting demographics for older Americans over 50 and the impact on the nation’s housing supply. The report, titled “ Who Will Buy the Baby Boomers’ Homes When They Leave Them? year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Years of rising prices and a prolonged period of increasing mortgage rates have made one issue top of mind for most homebuyers: affordability. Take the Zillow Home Value Index. It measures the typical home value for single-family residences, condominiums and co-ops in the 35th to 65th percentile within their region.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Fueled by a surge in mortgage rates , owning a home has become increasingly expensive. According to a Freddie Ma c housing and mortgage market report released Monday, while mortgage payments remain the primary pressure point for homeowners, insurance costs are emerging as a growing burden. from 2022 and up 40.8%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Homeowners 62 and older saw their collective home equity levels rise in the second quarter of 2024 by roughly $600 billion, increasing to a total of $14 trillion and continuing a streak of forward momentum observed in the first quarter. billion) increase in senior home values, which was offset by a 0.89% (or $20.9

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The reverse mortgage volume boom appears to have diminished for now, at least if new data is any indication. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell in August, 2021 by 14.3% A sharp drop in reverse mortgage volume. The leaders in volume gains were Mutual of Omaha Mortgage (rising 45.6%

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

home, a buyer making the median income needs to put down nearly $127,750, or 35.4%. Just five years ago, when mortgage rates were hovering just above 4% and the typical home was worth nearly 50% less, that home would have been affordable with no money down. home , currently valued at $360,681, up 4.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A mortgage lender isn’t the first place most people would turn to for yoga, meditation or personal wellness. The app offers users the standard fare you’d expect in a mortgage app from a major fintech lender. The app offers users the standard fare you’d expect in a mortgage app from a major fintech lender. As of Oct.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Mortgage rates continued the downward trend this week amid signs that the U.S. The recent declines, however, have not been enough to convince borrowers to take out a home loan. At Mortgage News Daily , rates were even lower, at 6.29% on Thursday afternoon. Flat and falling home prices. in 2022, but by a 4.1%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs). billion in 2021 to $4.6

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has set a new baseline conforming loan limit of $806,500 for one-unit properties in 2025, authorizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase mortgages up to this amount. increase over the current $766,550 cap for 2024, aligning with home price trends. The new limit reflects a 5.2% increase

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

Fewer buyers rushed to lock mortgages last month amid a rapid climb in long-term mortgage rates , reflecting home affordability concerns, reports from Mortgage Capital Trading and Black Knight showed. . Compared with the same period last year, the number of rate locks by mortgage volume was down 25.4%. .

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This is due to several factors, including rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and a decline in the availability of small-dollar mortgages, defined as those for homes priced at $150,000 or below. Cities: A Qualitative Analysis ” and “ The Socioeconomic Consequences of the Decline in Small Mortgages.” Authored by Craig J.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Using a 1-10 scale, the portal displays current risk factors for a property as well as the expected change for each risk in 15 and 30 years, the length of a typical mortgage. homes, valued at $19.7 of homes in the U.S., valued at nearly $7.7 And about 9% of homes, valued at nearly $6.6

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 5, 2024

trillion, with three out of five mortgage holders possessing at least $100,000 in equity they can borrow against, according to the August 2024 ICE Mortgage Monitor Report. Despite outstanding mortgage debt hitting an all-time high of $13.8 Despite outstanding mortgage debt hitting an all-time high of $13.8 year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Home prices are now posting the biggest monthly declines since January 2009, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report from Black Knight. Median home prices in August fell 0.98% in August, only slightly better than July’s 1.05% monthly decline. With mortgage rates at 6.7% With mortgage rates at 6.7%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After two years of runaway home prices, the Federal Reserve stepped in to reverse engineer rampant inflation, and it has been utilizing the housing market as one of the main economic engines to achieve its objective. in September 2022. They eased below 6.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Boston-based fintech company Hometap has deployed more than $1 billion in home equity investment (HEI) products since its launch in 2017, the company announced on Tuesday. Of the $1 billion total, $730 billion has been deployed since 2022, and the company has issued more than 10,000 HEIs in total as of January.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

Homeowners 62 and older saw their collective home equity levels rise in the first quarter of 2024 by roughly $328.5 This is according to the Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), a measure of senior-held home equity maintained by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) and data analytics firm RiskSpan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

Under its Sell & Stay program, which charges an annual option fee, clients have the right to repurchase the home or to direct a third-party sale at any time. If the home value appreciates, customers get to keep the difference. billion in volume in 2022, a decline of more than 50% from its 2021 production of $30.5

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Older homeowners, who have been paying their mortgages for longer, are part of a select group that owns their homes outright. billion) increase in senior home values during the second quarter, which was offset by a 0.89% (or $20.9 billion) increase in senior-held mortgage debt. homeowners.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The wholesale arm of Rocket Mortgage on Tuesday raised anticipated agency conforming loan limits to $715,000, a sign that the nation’s largest mortgage lender is confident the maximum loan limit set by the federal government will rise by at least 10% in 2023. 6, the lender said Tuesday. “We’re

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Many young Americans purchased their first homes during the pandemic or in the years preceding it, and they later profited from a historic increase in home values brought on by the homebuying boom of 2021–2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Western pessimism is also unsurprising given the year-over-year declines Western states have seen in home values. Builders reported covering closing costs, offering discounted or free features, helping buyers sell their existing home and providing other incentives. 2019 level. If the nation’s largest homebuilder, D.R.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

Home price growth slowed in May, showing signs of a cooling housing market. But housing is the least affordable it has been since the mid-1980s as mortgage rates rise and home values soar, driven by low housing inventory, a new Black Knight report suggests. in May from a revised 20.4% Prices, however, are still up 1.5%

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