Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2024

Have lower mortgage rates already started to slow down housing inventory? Now, with mortgage rates dropping below that 7.25% level recently, inventory hasn’t been able to hit that growth model once. However, 2024 looks much healthier than 2023 data, as we desperately needed to get off those historically low levels of active listings.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Housing demand is very seasonal, so the fact that our pending contract data is firming up lately just shows that lower mortgage rates have stabilized and firmed up demand recently. It will likely take mortgage rates to go under 6% and stay there for an extended period to get real sustained demand growth from record-low sales levels.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

An often misguided premise I see on social media is that lower mortgage rates are doing nothing for housing demand. Purchase application data First, purchase apps is the fastest way to look for positive or negative data at higher or lower mortgage rates. That’s ok — very few people are looking at the data without an agenda.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Two former New Jersey -based mortgage loan originators have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud by the U.S. Gallo previously shared perspectives with HousingWire on his business strategy for 2023 after enduring challenges in 2022. billion in loans between 2018 and October 2023, according to the DOJ.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Despite initial concerns that tariffs would push mortgage rates up to 8% and reduce housing demand, this week has brought some encouraging news. The 10-year yield has remained stable at a crucial technical level and even reversed direction, resulting in improved mortgage rates. This is what happened in the last two years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2024

18 and mortgage rates and bond yields headed higher. But, we have to remember that mortgage rates had already made an almost 2% move lower since the highs of 2023 without rate cuts, as the bond market always gets ahead of the Fed. This explains the rise in mortgage rates since the Fed cut rates.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Have we seen the bottom in mortgage rates for 2024 after a crazy roller coaster ride so far this year? My 2024 forecast had a mortgage rate range of 7.25%-5.75%. To get to the lower end of this range, we needed to see two things: the labor market getting softer and the mortgage spreads improving. Yes, here’s how and why.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2025

Today, the jobless claims data again showed why mortgage rates continue to be elevated, confirming that the labor market isnt breaking. Mortgage rates have remained mostly in a range over the past two years, fluctuating between 6% and 8%. In 2023, the Fed continued to hike rates. We held that line very late in the year 2023.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2024

Given last week’s surprising jobs report, how much longer will we have to deal with higher mortgage rates ? It’s essential to track the labor data along with inflation because the key to getting lower mortgage rates for longer lies with the labor data more than inflation.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heading into the 2025 housing market, we havent had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. of outstanding mortgages, around 8.7 million borrowers, carry a mortgage with an interest rate over 6%. had these cheap mortgages. People with expensive mortgages are more likely to sell their house.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

in the past year, driven by more cases of identity and transaction fraud New data shows that cases of fraud among mortgage applicants is on the rise — an eye-raising trend as demand from borrowers remains relatively quiet. The CoreLogic Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index jumped by 8.3% in 2024 and by 12% in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

Mortgage rates continue to move lower this week even as higher borrowing costs have kept activity subdued across many areas of the housing market. compared to June 2023. Fannie also upwardly revised its forecast for purchase mortgage origination volume to $1.22 Data from the U.S. year over year in June. during the year.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 26, 2024

mortgage delinquency rate increased significantly in November, rising 8.38% compared with October, according to ICE Mortgage Technologys First Look report. The foreclosure pre-sale inventory rate was about 0.34%, down about 2.09% compared with October and down nearly 16% compared with November 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 24, 2024

An examination of CoreLogic data indicates that, in comparison to prior years, jumbo mortgage originations saw a discernible drop in both dollar quantities and market share in 2023 and 2024. Jumbo loan volumes plummeted 61% and conforming loan volumes fell 67% from their peak in 2021 to 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Lower mortgage rates in September had a measurable impact on home sales. Pending home sales data is the latest sign that falling mortgage rates in August and September boosted home sales. According to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), pending home sales in September jumped 7.4% year over year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On this crazy day with the bond market, mortgage rates dropped to another yearly low after the CPI inflation print. That means some borrowers are getting mortgage rate quotes under 6% today, so the rate environment has improved greatly from the highs around 7.50% this year. The mortgage spreads are improving in 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

House of Representatives proposes to relieve Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers of mortgage insurance premiums (MIPs) once they reach a certain level of home equity , aligning FHA policies with those of conventional loans. Mortgage insurance exists as protection from foreclosure on low equity loans. Introduced by Reps.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Its late December so all the 2025 mortgage rate forecasts have been published. Most housing market analysts expect mortgage rates to spend the year with a 6 handle. The most optimistic predictions assume 2025 will see mostly low 6s for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage. Unfortunately, all of them are already wrong.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Federal Reserve cut rates on Wednesday and mortgage rates went up! The 10-year yield and 30-year mortgage rates have been in a slow dance since 1971 and trended together. The growth of housing permits is a good sign for economic expansion, and falling mortgage rates since June have helped push this data line. What happened?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Mortgage rates continued to recede during the past week, with the market anticipating a Federal Reserve rate cut next month and the U.S. At HousingWire ‘s Mortgage Rates Center , the 30-year conforming loan rate averaged 6.66% on Wednesday. economy showing signs of weakening. That is the slowest pace since March 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The holiday season is here, and despite higher mortgage rates last week, housing demand is displaying some festive resilience. Mortgage rates picked up last week, though that hasnt significantly impacted our pending contract data, which is showing some positive year-over-year growth when we compare it to 2022 and 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2024

Have lower mortgage rates positively impacted the housing demand data yet? Purchase application data My belief has always been that for the existing home sales market to have real growth and make it stick, we need sub-6 % mortgage rates with some duration. Then, once again, mortgage rates headed higher and sales went lower.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

The downward movement in mortgage rates over the past few months accelerated last week as a cooler-than-expected jobs report and indications of a Federal Reserve rate cut led to a steep drop in loan pricing. Several reported that mortgage rates rose again on Tuesday due to weaker mortgage-backed securities prices.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Mortgage rates continue to rise, serving as a bucket of cold water for lenders and consumers that were warming to lower borrowing costs just a few months ago. According to HousingWire ‘s Mortgage Rates Center , the average 30-year conforming rate was 6.61% on Tuesday. in 2023, but starts for attached properties rose by 3.2%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

Mortgage rates are dropping fast. Mortgage rates are now the lowest they’ve been in over a year. Last year at this time, mortgage rates were rising, eventually peaking at 8% in October 2023. Are we past the opportunity for declining mortgage rates to help demand and pick up home sales in 2024?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Declining mortgage rates have yet to break the dam on the stalled housing market, but the sweet spot on rates that would get the market moving again is about 5%. This is why industry estimates call for a robust 2025 with $2 trillion in expected mortgage originations.” But now rates are down more than 1.5% from this peak.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This is in line with the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s (MBA) Purchase Applications Payment Index (PAPI), which uses information from the MBA Weekly Applications Survey (WAS) to calculate how new monthly mortgage payments change over time in relation to income. It is down by $114 from one year ago, equal to a 5.3% The PAPI is down 9.1%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

economy appears to be on firmer footing than previously thought, mortgage rates are forecast to end 2024 at 6% and home-price growth is also on the move. in 2023 to 2.3% These are conclusions drawn by economists at Fannie Mae ‘s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. in 2024 and 2% in 2025. by the end of 2025.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

Open Mortgage on Friday shut down its distributed retail channel and laid off more than two dozen employees. years after the Texas-based lender changed ownership and nine months after it exited the reverse mortgage business. The divisional closure comes 1.5 Open was founded in 2003 by Scott and Tana Gordon. In June, the U.S. “The

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Former Open Mortgage executive Brenda Hedeen has been hired by Utah-based Canopy Mortgage as its new chief financial officer. Hedeen was the CFO of Open Mortgage from May 2022 to October 2024. She also had CFO stints at On Q Financial and Mann Mortgage. ” she wrote in a LinkedIn post this week.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Mortgage rates fell this week and they are now far from the levels widely discussed after the election. With the final jobs report for 2024, mortgage rates made a nice move lower today, and its been a positive story this week. The mortgage spreads did improve a lot on Friday, too, which helped with rates, so start spreading the news.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

mortgage market , which has already seen big interest rate declines in the past week following a Fed meeting that teased forthcoming cuts to benchmark interest rates, along with a much weaker-than-expected jobs report. Mortgage spreads tightened at the same time, taking the Fannie Mae current coupon to 5.05%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Although those 2019 levels represent a five-decade low before COVID-19, the market was still functioning better than it did from 2020 to 2023. Now, as we look ahead to 2025, the market is in a much better position if mortgage rates fall toward 6%, something that wasnt the case before.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mortgage rates continued their ascent this week after Fridays jobs report showed that employers added more positions than expected in December, which is likely to cement a pause on interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve later this month. Merritt thinks mortgage lenders could take some comfort in that trend.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

home in June 2022, you probably locked in about $1,400 a month in mortgage payments. Due largely to higher mortgage rates , that same home today would cost about $2,175 a month. Mortgage payments are only part of the affordability challenge. Mortgage rates peaked in May 2024 and have slid over 100 basis points since then.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The difference is mortgage rates: even with inventory growing at a healthy clip this year, mortgage rates just heading down toward 6% for a brief period of time resulted in higher prices in a seasonally soft period. million in October 2023). However, that didn’t happen. from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.96

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Mortgage applications are now at their highest level in more than two years after an 11% jump during the week ending Sept. 20, according to the newest weekly applications survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) accounted for 5.9% on mortgages with 80% loan-to-value ratios.

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