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Mortgage rates head lower, helped by better mortgage spreads

Housing Wire

Here are the price-cut percentages for last week over the previous few years: 2024: 38% 2023: 33% 2022: 33% Pending sales Below is the Altos Research weekly pending contract data year-over-year to show real-time demand. These are live weekly contracts, compared to the purchase application data, which looks out to 30-90 days.

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Planet Home Lending adds new regional sales manager

Housing Wire

Adding his leadership skills will be beneficial at a time when Planet is looking to differentiate itself with various purchase loan products, one-time-close construction loans and other niche programs, the company stated. By contract, the country’s top 50 lenders as a whole saw volumes fall by more than 50% during the same period.

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Inventory needs to increase to balance housing market: Fed Beige Book

Housing Wire

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday.

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Go Mortgage sues former capital markets director for ‘corporate sabotage’

Housing Wire

Go Mortgage sued its former director of capital markets for “corporate sabotage,” alleging computer fraud, violation of trade secrets, breach of contract and tortious interference with a business relationship. Go Mortgage, licensed in 44 states, originates in both the retail and wholesale channels.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. TreeHouse worked with Tesla on an ecofriendly home battery and opened a 25,000-square-foot retail store in Dallas. Khater wrote.

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Lower mortgage rates, higher demand lead to optimism for late 2023

Housing Wire

“The latest data on the housing market show that homebuilders are pulling back the pace of new construction in response to low levels of traffic, and we expect this weakness in demand will persist in 2023, as the U.S. retail residential mortgage applications. Consequently, mortgage rates started a downward trend.

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Mortgage apps decline as rates hit the 7% mark

Housing Wire

retail residential mortgage applications. The housing market received positive data on new residential construction – which is seen as a key solution to the lack of housing inventory,” Kan added. The latest MBA data published on Wednesday morning shows that mortgage loan applications decreased 4.6% Department of the Treasury.

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