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The 2023 Housing Market: A Look Ahead

Housing Wire

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. This sounds dramatic, but when considering where that would put home prices, it means that if we were to see that decline fully realized by April of next year, prices would only be down about 5 percent year-over-year. People can afford to pay their mortgages.

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Mike Fratantoni on MBA’s 2022 mortgage market forecast

Housing Wire

We’ve had the sharpest and yet also the shortest recession in history, record-low mortgage rates leading to record origination volumes, and record home prices as housing demand far outstripped supply. Public health officials note that we have many more tools to address this latest — and likely not the last — challenge.

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Housing 2020 recap: Demographics popped the housing bubble boys

Housing Wire

On April 7, in an article for HousingWire , I proposed an economic model that showed what needed to happen for us to proclaim that “America is Back.” 9, in another article for my blog , I made the case that the economic conditions for the AB model had been met. This was a dark and challenging time for our country.

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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

Housing Wire

In January I received a text message from Dave Savage, CEO of Mortgage Coach. News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). Tech100 Mortgage Winners.

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When borrowers ‘ghost’ their servicers

Housing Wire

Goldstone is an executive at a mortgage servicer company trying to reach out to homeowners. “We But we’re having a hard time reaching out to them,” he said during a panel at the annual Residential Mortgage Servicing Rights Forum held in New York City in October. We know who the borrowers are. We service their loans. of the U.S.

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The market outlook may be unclear, but lender challenges cannot get clearer

Housing Wire

One of the challenges in discussing what the mortgage industry needs to do next is figuring out what’s actually coming next. More pessimistic forecasters believed that the Fed would keep rates high to combat inflation and that 7% or even 8% rates would become the new norm. Does this mean that technology is always the answer?

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HomeLight and NAREB Launch the Black Real Estate Agent Program™

HomeLight

The goal is to help new black real estate agents get started in the business and give them the training and resources they need for long-term success. HomeLight has joined forces with the National Association of Real Estate Brokers to launch a new program that we believe will change a lot of lives. Full Transcript. Hi, everybody.

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