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Housing Wire
JULY 3, 2023
PrimeLending , a Texas-based retail mortgage bank, aims to expand its market share by growing within its existing footprint in a margin-thinning environment. Licensed in 23 states across the country, PrimeLending has 150 branches including satellite and primary retail locations. Companies may be struggling in one way or another.
Housing Wire
AUGUST 10, 2023
The share of distressed property auction buyers who say they are owner-occupants nearly doubled over the last year, boosted by a game-changing government policy that took effect last August. That was nearly double the 8% of buyers who described themselves as owner-occupants in a February 2022 Auction.com buyer survey.
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Housing Wire
JUNE 3, 2022
Although housing inventory is beginning to increase, demand continues to exceed supply even as mortgage rates have spiked,” Mike Frantantoni, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s SVP, said in a statement. Could renovated foreclosure resales help solve the nation’s increasingly complex affordable housing puzzle?
Housing Wire
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. I feel bad trying to convince somebody that it’s a good time to buy and get a mortgage. higher than last year.
Realtor
APRIL 14, 2021
This is creating bidding wars, offers over asking, and appraisal gaps—houses are going quickly,” says Shanon Schinkel , branch manager and mortgage lender at Homebridge Financial Services. ” And did we mention that economists expect mortgage rates to rise? Experts say p otential buyers should make pre-approval their first step.
Housing Wire
JULY 21, 2022
Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data.
Housing Wire
JANUARY 6, 2023
Nearly every loan originator is fixated on going after the purchase mortgage market in 2023 following a brutal 2022 — a year in which even some of the top producers saw their origination volume drop to 20%. The name of the game in the industry was purchase mortgages. and Scotsman Guide ‘s fourth-ranked LO in the country.
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