Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

According to NAR, this settlement brings an end to all of the litigation claims brought by home sellers. For over a century, NAR has protected and advanced the right to real property ownership in this country, and we remain focused on delivering on that core mission.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While sales of newly built homes are trending in a positive direction, higher rates and elevated prices continue to pose affordability challenges that may leave potential homebuyers on the sidelines.” Many home shoppers are delaying their purchases in the hopes of lower mortgage rates and more inventory in the spring.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

announced the addition of the Orlando-based team, The Home Squad , to its roster. We welcome The Home Squad to SERHANT., The Raumakers began their career in real estate in 2016 at Keller Williams before joining eXp Realty in 2018 and launching The Home Squad. “In In early February, SERHANT. The team’s 16 agents are SERHANT.’s

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

At The Agency , where I serve as president, one of our core values is ensuring quality at every touchpoint — in our marketing , technology, services, events and beyond. 1. Get clear on your core competencies What do you do best? How do those core competencies affect your customers and audiences? It’s a big question.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Both Walsh and Chrissy Oliver, the vice president of M&A at Compass , noted that when they are looking to acquire firms with core services including integrated or joint venture mortgage and title firms, there are some extra levels of vetting required. “We We like deals where core services are non-existent or very weak.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

The core questions surrounding the “magnitude” of the company’s potential recovery, the work that would be required to receive it, and whether the settlement will survive due process considerations are key questions that could determine the company’s ongoing presence in the class. million — other parties could also be disadvantaged. “If

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2023

After two years of runaway home prices, the Federal Reserve stepped in to reverse engineer rampant inflation, and it has been utilizing the housing market as one of the main economic engines to achieve its objective. recently as core inflation numbers improved for the third consecutive month. They eased below 6.5% in September 2022.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even if August’s headline inflation was driven up by energy prices, the core CPI provided more evidence that core inflation is trending down toward pre-pandemic levels, Jiayi Xu, economist at Realtor.com said. Other buyers are looking for opportunities to purchase a home where they rent out part of it to generate additional income.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

It’s exciting to be part of a group of people who share a common core value of homeownership, specifically allowing people to age in their homes in a dignified manner.” It’s truly exciting to be part of a team and an organization that aligns so well with [the reverse mortgage industry’s] core values.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Shelter inflation has recently given core inflation the legs to stay firm and head higher. This is why we have some divergence between core inflation and headline inflation. Core Inflation excludes energy and food prices because they can be very volatile. As you can see below, rent inflation took off like home prices did.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“This strategic move allows Trustar Bank to focus on our core services while still providing portfolio mortgages to our valued customers,” Shaza Andersen, CEO of Trustar Bank, said in a statement. It has 18 mortgage loan officers , per the National Multistate Licensing System (NMLS).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In his new position, Schneider will oversee “Cenlar’s banking, financial, client management, core operations, default operations, borrower operations, transfer operations and project management businesses,” according to a press release.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Mauricio Umansky ‘s residential brokerage The Agency is venturing into core services. Through Agencia Insurance Solutions, agents will be able to offer clients access to flexible online home, auto and life insurance options. NAF offers numerous home financing options including conventional, jumbo , non-QM, as well as others.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“The people who have run Fairway’s Wholesale Department are some of the most talented, humble people in the business and will be a huge value add at their next mortgage home,” Fairway CEO and founder Steve Jacobson said in a statement. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

The report, released back in December, noted that Navy Federal Credit Union approved more than 75% of white borrowers who applied for a new conventional home purchase mortgage in 2022 vs. less than 50% of black borrowers. cities — looms in the background. To avoid becoming the next Navy Federal, lenders must evaluate the whole picture.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In spite of a higher-than-expected CPI reading in August, core inflation readings have been falling every month in 2023. In the housing sector, the combined impact of higher rates and higher home prices drove the cost of financing a home up more than $400, or 22.5%, from a year ago. research and consulting at TransUnion , said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Problems at the agency reportedly escalated in 2022 when residents of IHA-managed homes spoke out at a public meeting of the organization to share numerous complaints — including infestations, broken air conditioning units, security lapses and crime. Throughout the city, more than 20,000 residents utilize housing under the purview of IHA.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Housing starts declined 9% in 2023, an indication that homebuyers looking to purchase a new construction home may continue to struggle with the lack of inventory this year. Mortgage applications jumped more than 10% as a result, with solid increases for both refinances and home purchases. 12 compared to a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

Over the last 20 years, finding a home and applying for a mortgage have become highly digitized. However, the actual home buying transaction experience all the way through closing has been essentially untouched even though consumers cite it as one of the most stressful and confusing parts of the homebuying journey.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

As NORC’s research summary explains: ‘Many will struggle to pay for the health, personal care, and housing services they need. […] Even with home equity , nearly 40% will not be able to afford assisted living,’” she cited. seniors and their children is for the seniors to age in place in their own homes, Mohanty said.

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Inman

MARCH 26, 2024

The S&P Core Logic Case-Schiller National Home Price Index tallied a 6 percent annual increase in January, reaching its fastest annual rate in more than a year, according to data released Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

Even with its most significant component, shelter inflation, keeping core CPI higher than it should be, it’s been hard to accelerate the core data. Of course, if the Fed keeps talking about 1970s-style entrenched inflation, I will keep telling them to leave their disco pants at home because this isn’t the 1970s.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Home-price growth has slowed markedly in many parts of the country, which has helped to improve buyers’ purchasing power,” Joel Kan, MBA’s vice president and deputy chief economist, said. New home sales also climbed in February for the third straight month, according to the U.S. February’s new home sales showed an uptick of 1.1%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

At National CORE , one of the nation’s largest affordable housing developers, we provide affordable housing to 25,000 residents in over 8,500 affordable rental units. Fundamentally, National CORE is about improving the lives of the families and seniors living in our housing. That’s a great idea, which National CORE supports.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“When we think about the market that we’re today, then to the extent that we can diversify versus utilizing our capital to continue to grow our platform; doing fee-based business on a sub-servicing perspective; helping customers stay in their homes; and helping MSR owners or MSR investors service the asset that they own.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Core” price growth, excluding food and energy, remained unchanged in November from the prior month, hovering at 4.0%. Home prices , however, are still on the rise in much of the country. Consumer prices were up 3.1% in November from a year earlier, down from 3.2%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

However, in 2022, home sales were collapsing in the fastest fashion ever in history, so we must be mindful of comparing this year to last. Headline inflation has increased recently with oil prices rising, but core inflation has more downside. That said, I hope we extend inventory growth longer before the seasonal decline.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Proptech firm Flyhomes has entered into an agreement to purchase Innovative Holdings, LLC’s “buy before you sell” platform Home Sale Assured. Founded in 2022 by Eric Meadow, Home Sale Assured produces a “Guaranteed Backup” options contract, which enables existing homeowners to buy their next home before closing the sale of their current home.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2023

This is truly a savagely unhealthy housing market as we have too many people chasing too few homes. Between the critical CPI data and the PPI data, we should see the same story: the headline inflation data is falling noticeably, but the core inflation data is a bit more sticky. Below is the year-over-year core CPI data.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Existing-home sales picked up in January as buyers took advantage of the lowest mortgage rates seen in several months. Existing-home sales rose 3.1% While home sales remain sizably lower than a couple of years ago, January’s monthly gain is the start of more supply and demand,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

There are three core provisions of the plan. The FFB risk-sharing initiative will assist in the construction of “tens of thousands of additional affordable homes” over the next decade, he wrote.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The housing market has not hit the bottom in existing home sales yet, Fannie Mae projected. With mortgage rates having previously soared to around 8% , existing home sales will likely decline further to bottom out in early 2024. Existing home sales declined 4.1% Existing home sales declined 4.1% million in 2023, 4.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

On Wednesday, Manhattan home seller Monty March filed a lawsuit in U.S. In the complaintant, March, who sold a home in Manhattan and is the only named plaintiff, states that REBNY’s Universal Co-Brokerage Agreement forced him to pay an allegedly inflated commission fee to the buyer’s broker. is safe from a commission lawsuit.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 4.1% Indices that increased in September were rent, owners’ equivalent rent, lodging away from home, motor vehicle insurance, recreation, personal care and new vehicles. Both home prices and mortgage rates continue to rise. annual increase.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As diverse as any other ethnicity, many Black Americans are, at their core, hard-working, family-centric, church members who live, for the most part, in urban areas. After World War II, the GI Bill provided veterans benefits, including home loans. Often, these homes are owned by Black homeowners. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Existing home prices are up 3.9% NAR ‘s existing home sales report on Thursday gives us insight into the why factor. The median existing-home price for all housing types in August was $407,100, an increase of 3.9% history, and we all paid the price with massive home price gains in a short amount of time.

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