Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The FOMC also said it would continue to reduce its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities. In fact, mortgage applications picked up in the week leading up to the Fed meeting, signaling a wave of optimism. However, at Mortgage News Daily , mortgage rates were higher on Tuesday, at 7.30%.

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Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

A corporate executive with FOA explained to HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) that this is not expected to impact the company’s operations in a tangible way, nor is it expected to impede the progress of the other measures FOA is taking to shore up its class A common share stock price.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins sat down with Rick Roque, executive vice president of retail growth and strategy at Sierra Pacific Mortgage and Andrew Maas, co-founder and CEO of Pointable , to talk about AI on his PowerHouse podcast. If we use some of the publicly available GPT models, they can talk about mortgage terms pretty well.

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Appraiserblogs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Appraisers, to see more about the upcoming new UAD currently in design, read the Updated Timeline link in the message below. My concern at this point is ‘training’ materials will be available in Q4 2024, but actual implementation of the ‘new reporting process’ won’t begin until Q3 2025 with limited production, into 2026.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

FHFA’s Appraisal Waivers Expansion The Great Debate on Appraisal Fees Updated UAD redesign timeline with specific implementation dates Mortgage applications decreased 0.1 Conversely, in high-end homes, buyers expect the latest designs, features and finishes; and therefore, an outdated kitchen may be considered as functional obsolescence.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To see the timeline (from 2018 to 2026) PDF, Click Here Too large to include in this newsletter. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on forecasts for economic factors, SFR zoning and more apartments, appraising and rhetoric, opinion, or anecdotal theories, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 19, 2024

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, forms to reports modernization, AMCs, earthquake risk, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == == Rare Coastal Contemporary Manchester, MA, for $9M Excerpts: 5 bedroom, 4.5 Mortgage applications increased 3.3 bath, 5,258 sq.ft.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Federal Reserve, which has been buying mortgage-related securities for more than a year to artificially keep interest rates low, has signaled a desire to taper its bulk purchases within the next month or so. A 30-year mortgage in our area could be had for about 3.125%, up from about 2.875% a month ago. Estimated opening is 2026.

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Will Springer Realtor

JUNE 8, 2022

Calling upon Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other secondary-market mortgage holders to lower the bar to ownership through tax credits, larger deductions on mortgage interest and greater options for down payment assistance can also help. >> Forty-five percent of residential mortgages in the U.S. was $1889. >>

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While walking down a flight of stairs has not historically been considered the most death-defying of acts, one group of social media users is on a mission to change that misconception by highlighting the most dangerous, baffling, and downright weird step designs across the world, starting in their own homes. Are we going to go back to 4%?

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has announced that total mortgage origination volume is expected to increase to $2.3 By loan count, total mortgage origination volume is expected to increase by 28% to 6.5 The Great Rate Race MBA’s baseline forecast is for mortgage rates to end 2025 at 5.9% trillion expected in 2024.

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