Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The housing market faced a lot of uncertainty when COVID-19 caused the real estate industry to pause under shut-downs, but low interest rates and the desire for more space has turned this year into a boom time for real estate agents. Lovern was actually on maternity leave at that time when open houses and contracts were paused. “In

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

The venture capital investment is in addition to $1 billion in separate capital commitments from investors that Point has lined up to help fund what it calls home-equity investment (HEI) contracts. “We Homeowners, in turn, get to cash out a slice of their home equity with no payments due until the contract matures.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The number of homes under contract across the country has risen for the last few weeks. Pending home sales climb There are 362,000 single-family homes under contract. We’re showing 6% more homes in contract now than last year. Homes stay under contract for 30 to 40 days. The rate of home sales is picking up!

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

housing market boomed. Here’s all the latest housing market data. Home prices jump The median price of the homes that went into contract this week jumped to $389,900. It’s the second week in a row with an uptick in the price of the homes going into contract. For years, the U.S. Don’t they?”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. This is why the Altos Research numbers we cite are always smaller than the NAR numbers, which accounts for all home types and those in contract.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

“Mortgage rates were volatile last week, as investors tried to gauge upcoming moves by the Federal Reserve amidst several divergent signals — including rising inflation, mixed job market data, strong consumer spending, and a supply-constrained housing market that has led to rapid home-price growth,” Fratantoni said. “As

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Mortgage rates inched back up this week and remain anchored north of 7% as investors focus on the impact of rising headline inflation ahead of next week’s Fed rate decision. What to expect from the Federal Open Market Committee meeting next week ? How are mortgage rates affecting the housing market ?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pennymac Financial Services is the latest mortgage company to issue debt in a challenging housing market. In October, HousingWire reported that Freedom Mortgage and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust moved to raise money through debt offerings with high investor demand. For example, Freedom raised $1.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

1, investors are trying to make sense of the steady September inflation data and its impact on the Fed ‘s next rate-hike decision. What is happening in the housing market ? If mortgage rates pass 8%, housing market activity will see a contraction, Sturtevant said. In comparison, the CPI rose 0.6%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. However, in 2020 new listing data came back, and we don’t want to see the new listings continue to decline this year — that would be a double negative for the housing market. The days on market were too low.

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The Robert Weiler Company

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

For the non-QM lenders serving the single-family investment-property space who have managed interest-rates well to stay ahead of the market, however, there’s still plenty of opportunity to pick up market share, industry observers argue. . by the end of 2023,” the MBA’s December market-forecast report states.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The franchisor’s leaders believe current housing market conditions will have a greater impact on NAR membership numbers than the provisions in their settlement. “We “In about half the U.S., It’s impossible to be an agent if you can’t see which homes are for sale, or unlock the door to those homes, or even write an offer.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. ” Who is jumping into the market? Investor demand tends to increase at times when most borrowers are waiting for rates to decline, Justin Fullmer, area manager in Idaho for Future Mortgage , told HousingWire. from the week prior.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“We are excited about how we are set up for 2024 and beyond,” CEO Carrie Wheeler told investors and analysts listening to the firm’s Q4 2023 earnings call on Thursday evening. Looking where we stand today, we are expecting an increase in contract volume late in Q1, which will translate into sequential acquisition growth in Q2,” Wheeler said.

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In recent years, the real estate industry has noticed some significant trends in the commercial and residential housing markets. Moreover, earlier this year a bidding war broke out over a 140,000-square-foot shopping center housed at Office Depot in Port Charlotte, Florida. Why Private Investors Want Commercial Real Estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

On Wednesday evening, during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call with investor and analysts, CEO Rich Barton took a contrary view: Zillow is just beginning to unlock its revenue generating potential. “In In a hostile housing market and a noisy industry environment, why is Zillow outperforming?” he posited.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The trade group estimates that the average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($647,200 or less) increased to 3.75% from 3.72% the week prior. How lenders can continue to serve borrowers despite housing affordability challenges. Presented by: Equifax.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

District Court of Southern District of New York against Sprout Mortgage and Sprout Mortgage Asset Trust for fraud, breach of contract, promissory estoppel and unjust enrichment. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. What lenders should know about today’s economic climate.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Investors are concerned that the central bank will continue raising the funds rate, pushing borrowing costs even higher. What does it mean for the housing market ?

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

District Court of Southern District of New York against Sprout Mortgage and Sprout Mortgage Asset Trust for fraud, breach of contract, promissory estoppel and unjust enrichment. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. What lenders should know about today’s economic climate.

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The Robert Weiler Company

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

The 2022 housing market has been underscored by interest rate spikes and refi decline and lenders are working hard to adjust to new borrower trends. Unison, through an REA contract, advances the homeowner a portion of the equity in the property in exchange for a lien position and a share of the home’s future appreciation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. Some of them are gone forever, and some of them are basically going to have to rebuild capability,” he said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

“Investors remained attuned to the uncertainty around the U.S. “Investors remained attuned to the uncertainty around the U.S. 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.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. The market has now faced a contraction in existing-homes sales for nine consecutive months, while home prices and rates rise.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot be purchased by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The economic standoff between rising inflation and rising interest rates continues to weaken the housing market nationwide, with home sales falling across all 12 Federal Reserve districts, according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book report. Prospects for future improvement anytime soon are dim as well.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

The settlement of the commission lawsuits mandates that buyers now sign a contract to compensate their agents directly before touring homes or even identifying potential properties. This barrier of signing a contract upfront will cause many buyers to delay reaching out to an agent, limiting their access to the information agents provide.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

Treasury yields dropped as a result, as investors continue to expect a weaker macroeconomic environment in the coming months.”. The average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($647,200 or less) decreased to 5.43%, from the previous week’s 5.74%, the largest weekly decline since 2020. the previous week to 30.8%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . Since the summer of 2020, I have talked about what could change the housing market, which was a 10-year yield above 1.94%, which means rates over 4%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Even as pending sales of starter homes across the nation’s 50 largest metro areas grew on a yearly basis in July, the number of homes going under contract in other price tiers backtracked. Sale prices for starter homes rose 4.2% during the year ending in July, compared to 7.9% growth for luxury homes, 5% growth for upper-priced homes and 4.6%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With fewer buyers, some homebuilders have been selling homes in bulk to investors who plan to rent the properties out. In its third quarter earnings call, Lennar , the nation’s second largest homebuilder, told investors its new sales orders fell 12% in the third quarter from a year prior.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. Chicago’s housing market started out hot in 2022. Department of Agriculture (USDA). during the same time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2022

A lot of the housing data was lagging the rate move, so it wasn’t apparent that higher rates impacted the data yet. Going back to the summer of 2020, the one factor that I said could change the housing market was the 10-year yield getting above 1.94%. However, the housing market changed once the 10-year yield broke over 1.94%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Auction.com , the nation’s largest online platform for distressed real estate sales, recently reported that demand for homes sold at auction began to decline late in the second quarter of 2024 even as the available supply of foreclosed homes also contracted.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

Investors aren’t panicking. If some of these classes of homeowners need to unload, if some of the fears about the housing market start to finally happen, it will appear very quickly in the weekly new listings data. The market is still running below the pace of new contracts each week in 2022. We’ve been at 4.2

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