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Tom Davis shares non-QM opportunities to capitalize heading into 2025

Housing Wire

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. HW : We’re seeing an uptick in ground-up construction. New construction volume levels have increased to 10-year highs with a percentage share of 33%.

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Construction worker shortage has reached “crisis” levels

Housing Wire

To keep pace with current construction demand, and account for attrition, 740,000 new construction workers are needed each year for the next three years , a report by the Home Builders Institute contends. million new hires for construction. The construction worker shortage has reached crisis level.

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Home inspector sees interaction from baby boomers, aging in place and reverse mortgages

Housing Wire

This was some of the perspective shared by Matt Cook, the director of business development at HomeTeam Inspection Service , who shared with HousingWire ‘s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) how the growing number of older homeowners is impacting what he sees on a daily basis. Some feel like homes arent built like they used to be.

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Keller Williams launches KW New Homes Community

Housing Wire

Keller Williams is launching the KW New Homes community and partnering with Legacy International to offer new home sales training to address the increasing opportunity in the market. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. The BDRC training is slated to launch in Q4 ’21. Census Bureau. on a year-to-date basis.

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New home sales market welcomes lower mortgage rates

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Housing starts aren’t booming, primarily due to 5-unit construction slowing down. months , the builders will pause construction. Also, mortgage rates spiked this fall, so the builders are mindful of those homes that haven’t started construction yet.

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The far-reaching impact of “The House that SHE Built”

Housing Wire

This scholarship program and two others continue today to provide financial support to qualified students and career professionals interested in advancing their education and training in building industry-related fields. The connections she made would have taken her years to develop independently. There is a tribe out there.

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Housing costs continue to burden American families: NAHB

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). Policymakers at all levels of government need to enact policy changes that will allow builders to construct more homes, such as speeding up permit approval times, providing resources for skilled labor training and fixing building material supply chains.”