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Home seller concessions reach pre-pandemic levels

Housing Wire

With the rise in mortgage rates and inflation, concessions regained popularity, reducing the overall cost for homebuyers through money toward repairs, closing costs and mortgage-rate buydowns. The lowest concession rate of 13.4% These areas saw a surge in migration as remote workers looked to relocate to affordable and warm areas.

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Reverse purchase financing: The financing option no one is talking about

Housing Wire

The HECM for Purchase is not a refinancing tool; it is not akin to a Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ). And after years of advertisements and TV commercials promoting the benefits of better-known reverse mortgage loan uses like continuing to live in your current home while tapping your home equity, 4 who could blame them?

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UWM enters the HELOC space

Housing Wire

Top wholesale lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is the latest originator to join the resurgent home-equity lines of credit (HELOC) market. Last week, it launched temporary rate buydowns , allowing borrowers to receive lower mortgage rates at the beginning of their loan terms by using seller concessions as part of the payment. .

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Reverse mortgage volume, HMBS issuance see improvement in March

Housing Wire

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements increased 8.3% The actual breakout of numbers also paints a telling picture, since March saw new borrower (or “equity takeout”) originations rise by 10.7%, HECM for Purchase (H4P) endorsements increase by 15.1% and even HECM-to-HECM refinances jump by 8.8%.

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Will new products stop the bleeding for mortgage lenders? 

Housing Wire

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. Homepoint is in a tough spot. We’re not afraid to get smaller as an organization.” Homepoint is hardly alone.

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Reverse mortgage volume, securities issuance fall in February

Housing Wire

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell 11.8% I think the best places to focus right now are giving the H4P a muscular new push due to the seller concessions update , and working with forward mortgage distribution and servicing opportunities to convert forward loans into new reverse borrowers,” he said.

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Agent strategies for getting first-time homebuyers across the finish line

Housing Wire

Not to mention the current mortgage rates at decades-high levels as well as sellers who are locked in with pandemic low rates. Zillow research also found that a majority of homeowners with mortgages have locked in a rate below 5%, and are almost half as likely to consider moving. It never will be. I’ll explain later.)

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