Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Homeowners are increasingly concerned with flood insurance premium hikes impacting affordability, Fannie Mae ‘s latest national flood survey showed. The latest survey is an expansion from its 2020 version and compared how homeowners’ and renters’ awareness and attitudes towards flood risk and flood insurance changed over the years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Industry experts say that although there’s a correlation between unemployment and delinquency rates, some homeownership costs — including insurance — have increased significantly over the past two or three years, which has had a strong financial impact on homeowners.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The home insurance marketplace has been facing a reckoning. With the death toll from Helene crossing the grim milestone of 230 this week — and with thousands of impacted homes without flood insurance wiped away — this could lead to a ripple effect that drives homeowners insurance premiums even higher.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this month published an issue spotlight that takes a closer look at home equity contracts, or what the industry refers to as home equity investments (HEIs) that offer a lump sum payment to clients in exchange for a stake in their home equity.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

In late June, Susan Gregory received an estimate for a new homeowner’s insurance policy on her 120-year-old St. Augustine, Florida property, after her previous insurer, United Property and Casualty, went insolvent earlier in the year. “It can’t be my forever home if I can’t afford it.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial , which offers both Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) loans as well as proprietary reverse mortgage products, announced that it has lowered the minimum home value for its fixed-rate proprietary products.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

The American Land Title Association saw a nearly 36% year-over-year increase in title insurance premium volume in 2021 for a staggering $7 billion spike, according to the trade group’s Market Share Analysis , published Friday. The title insurance industry generated $26.2 The title insurance industry generated $26.2

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

This is primarily due to rising homeowners insurance premiums, denied claims and inadequate coverage. Several insurance providers announced rate hikes and policy changes shortly after the wildfires. State Farm , for example, sought a 22% rate hike in early February through the California Department of Insurance. Thats up 3.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Californias MetroList, the Northern Nevada Regional MLS (NNRLMS) and Oregon Data Share (ODS) will share real-time data, market insights and transaction history between the more than 30,000 subscribers to the three MLSs. Early last year, NNRMLS launched a home search app called HomeSpotter powered by Lone Wolf Technologies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In 2013, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) began requiring borrowers to pay the Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) for the life of an FHA loan. People have equated FHA insurance to that of private mortgage insurance used by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which is not life-of-loan.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“The cost of owning a home has gone from affordable to unaffordable for a lot of local Florida residents and out-of-towners. Home prices that are much higher than in pre-pandemic times and the disaster-driven surge in HOA and insurance costs are now pricing homebuyers out of the market.” Atlanta $2,811 106.8% $239 65.8%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Despite rising interest rates , higher home prices and a drop in refinance volume , the American Land Title Association recorded $5.89 billion in title insurance premium volume during the first quarter of 2022, compared to $5.68 billion a year prior, according to the trade group’s Market Share Analysis , published Friday.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 4, 2025

The combined value of U.S. homes gained $2.5 In percentage terms, the total value of the U.S. housing market grew 5.2% There are more homes for sale right now than in recent years and that has led to buyers markets in many areas of the country. In 2024, Floridas housing market had several challenges.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. In addition, the credit rating agency expects mortgage rates to move even higher in 2023 and home prices to decline by up to 5%. “We mortgage insurance market in 2023 to deteriorate.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 18, 2022

Assuming a $250,000 loan was committed on December 31, 2021, your monthly payment was approximately $1,007 exclusive of escrow for real estate taxes and insurance. Naturally, this has forced buyers to seek lower price points or has completely eliminated them from the market. Another trend to be aware of is the days on market metric.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

in October—fueled by rising housing and insurance costs—and mortgage rates having edged back above 7%, homeownership remains a distant goal for many living in the U.S. For real estate agents, this economic reality can present both challenges and opportunities, and determine strategies in markets across the country. Last year, 44.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

In July 2024, a coalition of five federal agencies the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. , Additionally, homes in Black communities are undervalued by an estimated 21% to 23%, translating to $162 billion in lost equity for Black homeowners.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Both pose threats to access to capital, the cost of materials and labor, and future housing values.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

The cost of homeowners insurance policies has skyrocketed in the past two years as U.S. insurers have grappled with exponential growth in natural disaster claims. homes, valued at $19.7 homes, worth $13.6 of homes in the U.S., valued at nearly $7.7 And about 9% of homes, valued at nearly $6.6

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The nation’s single-family investment-property sector and the lenders serving those borrowers face some major challenges in 2023 as rent growth is slipping, vacancy rates growing, home-value growth faltering, and a possible recession looms. . by the end of 2023,” the MBA’s December market-forecast report states.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

For example, when looking at the level of mortgage debt in Q1 2024, there are 111,000 homes that would move back into a positive equity position if home values rose by at least 5%. Conversely, 153,000 homes would fall underwater if values declined by 5% or more. of homes underwater) and Texas (1.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

Insurers and government programs frequently subsidize the cost of rebuilding after storms hit, and mortgages mean homeowners are ceding some risk to lenders—especially if their house goes into foreclosure after a storm,” he explained. Recently, prominent insurance companies have exited some of these areas.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

High interest rates, coupled with a still-low supply of housing, have created price hurtles that are keeping many first-time homebuyers and lower-income borrowers locked out of the housing market. So, while the rate of home-price gains is trending downward, home values are still appreciating overall.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The fate of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgages in the ongoing downcycle housing market is being compared with a canary in the coal mine by several industry experts who track the sector and are seeing early warning signs of distress. Rick Sharga, executive vp of marketing at realtytrac.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With a membership comprising more than 90% of the mortgage servicing market, the NMSA is a nonpartisan organization driven by senior executive representation from the nation’s leading mortgage servicing organizations, formed to effect progress and change on the key challenges that face the mortgage servicing industry.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 6, 2022

Reverberations and repercussions from the pandemic continue to move through the real estate market. The latest news of such comes from American Land Title Association (ALTA) who found that, driven by meteoric rise in originations and home values last year, has caused title insurance premiums to increase by 35.9%

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Does the cost of homeowners insurance affect the price of a home? In some markets, the answer is increasingly yes. In recent years, insurance companies have pulled out of some markets altogether after sustaining massive losses due to wildfires, flooding, and other climate-related disasters.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is also an adage that is holding true in some of the nation’s more expensive housing markets including California , Florida and Washington State , according to reverse mortgage professionals in these areas that spoke with RMD. A tax and insurance escrow account is used for budgeting and administration, similarly to traditional mortgages.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 10, 2024

VeroFORECAST evaluates home prices in over three hundred of the nation’s largest housing markets, and the company is committed to the data science of predicting home value based on rigorous analysis of the fundamentals and interrelationships of numerous economic, housing, and geographic variables pertaining to home values.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

This cohort accounted for 1,950,000 properties — equating to 39% of total homes purchased! 1 With over 12,000 Americans turning 65 every day in 2024, this burgeoning market will undoubtedly continue to bring more buyers and sellers to the table over the next decade.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

The federally insured reverse mortgage known as a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) is unique, as are the rates that impact the HECM product. For this reason, I will provide a short monthly educational focus, followed by a summary of the HECM rate market. Why are there two HECM interest rates used with HECM loans?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“The net result for housing is that these low and stable rates allow consumers more time to find the homes they are looking to purchase,” Khater said. As rates change and the market shifts to a more purchase-driven origination environment, lenders need to carefully monitor margins and profitability. reached a record high, up 18.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

. “We’re giving them an offer to unlock their equity and move forward to make an offer on their next home,” Ryan Raveis, co-president of William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance (WRRE) , said in an interview with HousingWire. Once the home sells, the homeowner receives the full proceeds.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) from Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) dropped last week to its lowest level since February 2023, coming in at 6.20%. home value currently stands at $361,282, up 2.9% According to Zillow , the average U.S. year-over-year. The typical rent is 3.4%

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 19, 2024

The record high in home prices—the median sale price nationally increased by 4% in June—has led to a record high in the percentage of American homes valued at $1 million or more. According to Zubiate, some buyers are returning to the Bay Area market as a result of the recent decline in mortgage rates. a year earlier.

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