Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters. The NHC lauded the development.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. Index values for most construction inputs are down from 2022 but remain above pre-pandemic levels. That could set the backdrop for a slower pace of construction.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

ICBA, along with a team of community bankers and technology vendors, collaborated with Bureau staff for over two years to develop these modified TRID disclosures,” the letter , sent by the group to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra , states.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Late last month, Ginnie Mae released a term sheet for one of the most anticipated new developments for the reverse mortgage industry — a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) product referred to as “ HMBS 2.0.” To get a better idea of the potential impact that HMBS 2.0 I do think [HMBS 2.0]

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The rate of homes under construction has roughly plateaued since April 2022. The figure – up 17.7%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. The latest HBGI data continue to show a changing geography for home construction,” Robert Dietz , the NAHB’s chief economist, said in a statement. at the end of 2019 to 12% earlier in 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The construction activity is likely to place the housing industry and its financing partners on a “collision course” with insurers, the outlet said. The construction figure in Florida far exceeds the next most prominent states. Developers continue to build in these areas with few obvious signs of slowing, the story said. “La

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

metro areas that are embracing new development and “creating a more diverse and plentiful supply of homes.“ Pacaso said that these shortages have been exacerbated by various types of “municipal zoning and building ordinances [that] have historically restricted new housing construction.“ Other estimates are much higher. Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with “substantial” renovation and rehabilitation. The president called for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to apply protections for renters of multifamily units financed by loans acquired by the agency. Also on Tuesday, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. This USDA program, however, is in serious trouble. The LIHTC program, administered through the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2022

To help the lowest-income families, who increasingly can’t find affordable housing in today’s market, federal, state, and local governments devote considerable resources to subsidize the development of affordable housing with below market rents. This creates a disjointed system where policies overlap and can be redundant.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to tout the possibilities that 3D printing technology could bring to the construction of affordable housing in the U.S. A key goal for the project includes the deployment of local and sustainable resources for construction materials.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3% As more first-time homebuyers are turning to new construction, builders offer smaller, more-affordable homes as well as incentives like interest rate buydowns to tempt buyers off of the fence. Over the past year, the value of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

And for those who still want to build a home from scratch, rising construction costs , limited lot sizes, and excessive red tape can make the process seem insurmountable. Considering how much construction technology, materials, and techniques have evolved, building a new home should be far simpler than it is. Opportunities to innovate.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is a hangover from the favorable financing conditions of 2021/2022. Concentrated Development: Many developers flocked to the same areas, leading to localized oversupply. The Developer’s Dilemma To illustrate the current challenges, let’s consider a hypothetical developer, Dave.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Cleveland – Demand for residential construction and real estate has stabilized in this District, and contacts attribute this stabilization to the arrival of spring and flattening interest rates. Chicago – Residential construction activity has been down modestly in this District.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

They include the reallocation of funds originally earmarked for relief from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for affordable housing construction, as well as new provisions for the 2021 American Rescue Plan (ARP) Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program to clarify the use of such funds for affordable housing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The only viable solution to these problems, as other municipal leaders and housing industry experts have previously suggested, is the construction of more homes. The plan also addresses environmental impact concerns of new construction, Rubio said, by paying attention to the floodplain of Portland’s urban center.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. Agency loans have limitations such as loan amounts, only allowing up to ten financed properties and they don’t accept five to nine units.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In this executive conversation, Steven Katz, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Residential Financing at Arbor Realty Trust, shares his thoughts on the burgeoning build-to-rent (BTR) market. SK: Construction lending is extremely complex, and in which banks have traditionally been the dominant players.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2021

Its apartment development business and single-family rental joint-venture, and a stake in master-planned community developer Five Point Holdings would be among the businesses being spun off into a new company. Total construction costs are down 0.7% Lennar’s stock rose nearly 11% on news of the spin-off announcement.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

government-sponsored banks that provide liquidity to financial institutions to support housing finance and community investment—brought recommendations on how they can help improve the housing supply. billion to affordable housing and community development. Instead, the FHLBanks—11 U.S. taxpayers from risk.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge joined Biden to mark the 100th year since a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents of the Greenwood District. The tax credit would cover the difference between total development costs — including acquisition, rehabilitation, demolition and construction — and the sales price.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. million new single-family construction units in 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Retail lender Movement Mortgage has invested $200 million to expand its nonprofit Movement Foundation , and to accelerate the development of its growing charter school network. The investment will also aide in the development of adjacent affordable housing and health clinics in Central America, the company said in a statement this week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Construction starts in the BFR market are being propelled by the ongoing demand for single-family rental units as high mortgage rates and limited for-sale inventory push home-purchase prospects further out of reach of many would-be homebuyers. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2024

HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami recently wrote that higher mortgage rates “have increased recession risk by targeting the one sector that always falls before every recession: residential construction workers. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) showed that housing starts shrank 4.4% Data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday. The backlog of new construction homes continues to emerge into the market just in time for the spring shopping season,” Nicole Bachaud, Zillow ’s senior economist, said in a statement. New home sales started off 2023 on a positive note, rising 7.2%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this week established Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) and Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs) for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in 2025. DDAs are areas with high construction , land and utility costs when compared to an area’s median gross income (AMGI).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since its foundation in 1997, Proprietary Capital has developed a platform to invest in the U.S. It also has a niche in construction and manufactured home loan programs. residential mortgage market and housing-related assets.

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Eyes on Housing

MAY 31, 2021

Builders and developers responding to NAHB’s Survey on Acquisition, Development & Construction (AD&C) Financing continued to report declining interest rates in the first quarter of 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the “Mortgage Market Resilience and Access to Credit Summit” on Tuesday, October 15 at HUD’s headquarters. Ginnie Mae and the U.S. Census Bureau Advance Monthly Retail Sales (Thursday) Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (Thursday) U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Global asset manager Bain Capital announced Monday that it has acquired a controlling stake in Archwest Capital , a California -based company that offers financing to residential real estate investors. Archwest provides business-purpose financing for single-family and multifamily homes, as well as mixed-use and commercial properties.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

In certain parts of the Phoenix AMA that do not have a designated water provider, builders and developers need a certificate of AWS to obtain a building permit. Kamps added that he anticipates the prices of the 80,000 lots that already have AWS will also increase if developers chose to sell them, since there currently is a finite supply.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

A study released Thursday by fintech and personal finance website SmartAsset delved into Zillow data on new home sales. A key conclusion is that while new construction creates additional supply for first-time and move-up buyers alike, it comes with an additional expense. was $335,170, compared to $414,990 for new construction homes.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

The ongoing banking instability may affect the availability of jumbo mortgages and residential construction loans due to the high concentration of those originations stemming from small and mid-sized banks, Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group said. While single-family housing starts rose 1.1%

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