Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

We’ve all been wondering what 5% plus mortgage rates would do to the hot housing market, and now we’ve got that and a bag of chips. As a result, I’ve been rooting for mortgage rates to rise to create a balancing impact on this housing market. Have higher rates worked? Some data to consider: 1.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Understanding that real estate housing markets are hyperlocal, the RealTrends Verified City Rankings represent the newest evolution of RealTrends agent and team rankings. RealTrends excludes transactions such as commercial, rentals, lease, land, empty lots, and outside referred business from published totals.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Local markets spotlights 5 different areas across the country, showcasing what is uniquely happening in those housing markets. Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. She’s also referring to a new group of homebuyers.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

housing market is split into two groups: first-time buyers struggling to enter the market and current homeowners buying with cash,” said Jessica Lautz, NAR Deputy Chief Economist and VP of Research. Housing Markets The median household income for the average homebuyer increased from $107,000 in 2022 to $108,800 in 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

June saw both record-low home price appreciation and the largest single-month increase of for-sale inventory in 12 years, resulting in a cool down in the housing market. And the housing market would likely slow further in the coming months if mortgage rates remain persistently high.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

While recent housing market reports and trends have shown that older homeowners are unwilling to sell their homes for a variety of reasons, one of them may be the expected requirement to pay capital gains taxes stemming from the post-pandemic explosion of home-price appreciation, according to a report from Business Insider.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Mortgage spreads refer to the difference between the 10-year yield and the 30-year mortgage rate. However, the slowdown in price growth is a positive development for the housing market, which desperately needs it. Today, I want to explain why this topic is essential as we look ahead to the rest of 2025.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

StorageCafe’s analysis ranked the 50 most popular moving routes based on “individual move-ins,” referring to one relocation event where an individual household from California establishes a new residence in Arizona. The census report collected data from 3.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

The housing market was crazy again last week. Mortgage rates fell as the banking crisis got worse and purchase application data grew for the second week in a row, but the big question is: Did we hit the seasonal bottom in housing inventory? However, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist or have a Ph.D.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Satisfied past clients become valuable advocates, referring you to their family, friends and neighbors when it’s time to sell. By aligning yourself with a reputable brokerage or team, you gain access to a network of experienced agents who can refer business to you and provide valuable guidance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2023

Last week was wild, and not just for the housing market. We had a 21st-century bank run on Silicon Valley Bank and then the federal government took action over the weekend to stop the contagion. Mortgage rates fell even though the jobs report was stronger than anticipated. Last week, the year-over-year data was only down a smidge.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

real estate market. It also examines climate risk awareness, house price trends and gross domestic product (GDP) shifts extending to 2055. Climate risk awareness refers to a particular region’s vigilance against climate risks in terms of policies and practices.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Amid the whirlwind of economic forces impacting the housing market, one trend stands out. Multigenerational housing, once a rarity, is now becoming commonplace and reshaping not just how we live, but also how we lend and borrow. There are dozens of scenarios that could cause families to choose multigenerational housing.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 22, 2025

housing market. Property insurance underwriting plays an important role in housing markets and the overall economy. It has evolved to become a highly regulated industry at the state level, unlike the housing finance system, which is largely regulated at the federal level.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)s Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program for rental assistance , widely referred to as Section 8 vouchers. The source of the financial discrepancy reportedly came from the misallocation of funds tied to U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That homeowner over the years has referred 10 refinancing opportunities to Sandoval. The sharks are circling now,” she said, referring to the predatory pre-foreclosure players who may try to buy at a lowball price or offer the homeowner a too-good-to-be true solution that leaves them worse off. “As

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Less than a month after announcing its sixth Connecticut Avenue Series (CAS) credit-risk transfer deal of 2022, Fannie Mae is unveiling its seventh CAS transaction of the year — an $866 million note offering backed by a reference pool of single-family mortgages valued at $30.6 Creating a path to success in today’s purchase market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

This is the fifth installment of our economist Q&A series, as we work to answer the top 2021 housing market questions for our HW+ members. In each Q&A, we attempt to bring clarity to the top questions around housing supply shortages in 2021, the future of foreclosures and the future generation of homebuyers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2023

HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami appeared on CNBC‘s Squawk on the Street on Wednesday to talk about the health of the housing market , and more specifically about today’s pending home sales data. Mohtashami explained how demand for existing homes is still trending near 21st-century lows.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The second is in reference to housing inventory. The first is related to the demographic trends playing out across the U.S., in which older people are on track to overtake children as the largest age group over the next decade.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On HousingWire branding calls earlier this year, someone asked us what our tagline, “Moving Markets Forward,” means to me. Having referred to this phrase for over 10 years, the explanation we’ve used is as adaptable and forward thinking as the saying is supposed to be.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The housing market overall is on strong footing, but the data show that lenders are being cautious, given the spike in mortgage delinquency rates in the second quarter, as well as the ongoing economic uncertainty,” said Joel Kan, an MBA associate vice president. The group’s Mortgage Credit Availability Index fell 1.9%

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

The National Association of Realtors Confidence Index Survey for April reveals how hot the housing market is. However, there are signs that housing market demand may be reaching its peak, according to a recent study from Redfin. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.).

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion so far this year that are secured by reference loan pools valued at $78.6 billion note issued against a reference loan pool of 190,774 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $33.6 billion note against a reference pool of 143,889 single-family mortgages valued at about $45 billion.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

That can include being a housing market expert and advising clients on the best times to list or buy a home; having referrals handy for inspections, repairs, staging and photography; understanding the mortgage origination process; and more. This can create conflicts of interest, and real estate agents generally shy away from this.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

Furth says that housing policies can affect every aspect of a person’s life — including family formation, friends, travel, recreation and more. The industry, he says, refers to this principle as “ the housing theory of everything.“ Next, Furth dives deeper into the primary issues facing the housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

No, instead it’s a place to reinject life into this savagely unhealthy housing market.” By uniting the Gathering of Eagles and HousingWire Annual conferences, we are bringing together leaders from critical housing market services providers in one location, at one time at a critical time in our industry.” “We

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Census Bureau reported that housing permits came in at an excellent print at 1,899,000 , surprising me. Then I took a look at housing completions at 1,246,000, and it reminded me of the sad state of the housing market. You can understand why I keep saying this is the unhealthiest housing market post-2010.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

That’s a reference to the song “Mama Said Knock You Out” from L.L I have used this in other articles and interviews, which runs in line with my big macro take that what drives the housing market are mortgage rates and demographics. So, you shouldn’t be surprised about what I am writing today.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Despite what they promised, we sit here today with the United States housing market outperforming all other economic sectors in the world during the pandemic. In order for the housing market to crash due to too many loans going into default when forbearance programs end, the number of loans in these programs needs to grow.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Homeowners are sitting on a record level of about $35 trillion in home equity — more than double the equity levels recorded prior to the financial crisis and housing market collapse of the late 2000s. As a frame of reference, in 2011, the collective level of senior-held equity sat at roughly $3 trillion.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

HousingWire Daily is also part of my daily routine that I reference to stay on top of industry matters that affect decisions I make as CEO. Bill Lowman: The challenges of the 2008 and 2020 housing markets all brought different learning opportunities for me as a leader — and in hindsight some of the biggest gifts.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The National Fair Housing Alliance and nine other housing organizations filed a lawsuit against Redfin on Wednesday, accusing the online brokerage of racial discrimination and favoritism toward predominately white neighborhoods. These minimum price limits serve no legitimate purpose.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to a press release published by the administration, this is the first consolidation of policies for the Title I program in almost 40 years, and will remove the need for lenders to refer to more than 120 separate policy documents. How Freddie Mac is addressing affordable housing challenges. Presented by: Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Gen Z buyers are entering the housing market, and their demographics are emerging distinctly from other age groups,” Lautz said. Similarly, sellers showed a high likelihood of reusing or referring their agents. Generation Z, which comprises individuals between ages 18 and 24, only accounted for 3% of all buyers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

The Civil Rights Movement changed that reality and sparked a phenomenon known as white flight, referring to the mass exodus of white residents from a particular area. In the 1960s, Black residents werent qualified for mortgages in places like Altadena. Black residents enacted their own exodus albeit for a different reason.

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