Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Total mortgage delinquencies rose slightly in the third quarter of 2023 as the job market cools and inflation puts more pressure on homeowners. The increase was driven entirely by a rise in earliest-stage delinquencies – those 30-days and 60-days past due. However, that’s notably lower than the historical quarterly average of 0.40%.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Facing a challenging housing market can be daunting for agents and loan officers alike. As industry professionals grapple with uncertainties, market shifts and evolving dynamics, the key to thriving lies not only in adapting to change but also in embracing it as an opportunity for growth.

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Real Trends

APRIL 3, 2023

Over half of buyers’ agents (58%) report that staging a home has an effect on most buyers’ view of the home most of the time, according to the National Association of Realtors ’ 2023 Profile of Home Staging report. Another 31% of respondents reported that home stage has an effect on buyers but not always.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

From listening to executives at the biggest companies in real estate and mortgage to dedicated panels on growing women in leadership and how to build competitive marketing strategies , you can find inspiration on stage in Austin, Texas. At HW Annual, they will be mapping out their playbooks for the future.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market. Here’s the rundown for the last week: Purchase application data has stabilized — the bleeding stopped.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

We’ve heard a main goal for you this year is growing your market share, but fair warning, it’s not going to happen without some serious intentionality and strategizing. At HousingWire Annual this year, Jon Lyons , executive vice president of marketing at Class Valuation , is joining our speaker line-up.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Finance of America Companies (FOA) Chief Marketing Officer Chris Moschner found himself working for the lender in the wake of its acquisition of American Advisors Group (AAG), and Moschner previously told RMD about his journey to the position and the “intoxicating” opportunity he sees in the reverse mortgage space. So, that’s really it.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

The spring housing market music is playing, and purchase application data and active listing inventory rose together last week. Now that I believe the seasonal inventory bottom is in, we can focus on the next stage: tracking the weekly data on how much inventory growth we can get this year before the seasonal inventory starts to decline.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

Is the labor market finally normalizing? Jobs Friday data came in as a beat of estimates, but the labor market is clearly starting to come back to earth, killing the fear of 1970s wage spiral inflation. Part of my COVID-19 recovery model on the labor market was that job opening should reach 10 million in this recovery.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, data-driven marketing can be more cost effective, helping you focus your marketing budget on homeowners who are most likely to sell, and on buyers who are actively looking for their next home. Need more examples? If you want seller leads and already have a CRM you love, Offrs + RAIA is an excellent choice.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. Spoiler: If you haven’t realized that the housing market since 2012 has been trolled out by professional grifters who don’t ever forecast sales, that is on you. from April 2021 ($340,700), as prices increased in each region.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Virtual staging offers both advantages and disadvantages in the real estate industry. Using virtual tools, properties can be showcased with furniture and decor without physical staging. Considering the pros and cons is essential in deciding if virtual staging is the right choice for a specific property and target market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2023

Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. As you can see in the chart below, there is a big difference between the current housing market and those looking for a repeat of 2008. Hopefully, this is just a blip, which can occur from time to time with weekly data.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

today should be between 158 million and 159 million , or in a weaker labor market growth scenario, between 157 million and 158 million. Now let’s look at the labor market on all fronts from the data we got this week to get a comprehensive view of the labor market today. What the U.S. What the U.S. percentage point to 3.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

In a 30-second TV spot, Mansbridge takes a stage to answer questions from an audience resembling a press pool. Mansbridge served as the lead anchor for CBC News’ “The National,” its flagship broadcast, from 1988 to 1992, and then from 1995 until his retirement in 2017. In a new campaign from HomeEquity Bank launching Jan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Update series. After the series wraps, join us on February 6 for the HW+ Virtual 2023 Housing Market Update. With continued supply chain disruption, cost increases and fear of inflation , the market has felt tenuous at best. 2022 marked a unique time for homebuilders.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The honey badger labor market is still going strong as we got another solid jobs report Friday, which pushed bond yields higher at first. This will be important to think about going into 2023, especially if the labor market does what the Federal Reserve wants it to do, which is slow down enough to create a job loss recession.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Now, with five weeks of data in front of us, we can say they have stabilized the market. Since the weaker CPI data was released in November, bond yields and mortgage rates have been heading lower. The question then was: What would lower mortgage rates do to this data? The bleeding has stopped. Total inventory levels.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Just hours after announcing his firm’s acquisition of 3D scanning firm Matterport , CoStar Group CEO Andy Florance took to the stage in Scottsdale, Arizona, at HousingWire ’s annual conference, The Gathering , to discuss the news. Photography is so 1989,” Florance said. Brands matter.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Last week was relatively calm for the housing market after the fiasco of the banking crisis. The banking crisis has stressed the mortgage backed securities market , pushing rates higher than usual. Last week had the potential for fireworks, but it was pretty tame, this week we have four labor market reports to deal with.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

2006 is when Zillow came out with their Zestimates and with that, they started to very slowly provide to the consumer a more transparent way of understanding the market, and how to see not just the value of their home, but also what their neighborhood was doing and how prices were going up and down,” Saunders said.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2023 Profile of Home Staging, 62% of buyers say a staged dining room is important. Find an Agent Who Can Help You Stage Your Home An experienced agent will understand the value of staging, provide DIY tips, and refer you to the best staging experts in your market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The most recent RMBS Credit Indices report from the Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) shows that loan pools supporting outstanding private-label residential mortgage-backed securities issuances overall are performing relatively well to date in both the prime and nonprime markets. Mid-stage delinquency rates declined from a high of 17.5%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Gary Keller took to the stage at the 2023 Keller Williams Mega Agent Camp in Austin, Texas , Tuesday morning with his usual bravado: a black-and-white video featuring his favorite animal, the buffalo , in a thunderstorm, alongside a motivational message for agents. “We are the storm,” the text read. Timing is a fool’s game.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. America’s fix-and-flip short-term property market is estimated to be worth as much as $68 billion a year, according to F2 Finance. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Find some quick tips on staging a bedroom. The Importance of Staging A Primary Bedroom After the kitchen and the main living room or family room, the primary bedroom is third on most buyers' list of critical spaces. These rooms should be a priority when preparing and staging a home for sale. For most, it's a place of refuge.

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HomeLight

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most of the time, if the house needs any repairs, most realtors expect the homeowner to make the necessary repairs before they lift the house on the market.” Looking into selling a house “as is” in Michigan? They don’t want to make the repairs themselves to lift the house for sale with a realtor. They don’t have the time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Nathan Knottingham, COO at Vetted VA , announced the launch of a new mortgage continuing education provider, MLO Force , from the stage at HousingWire’s The Gathering this week. The company said it is well aware of the current challenging mortgage market and has priced the courses accordingly.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

O’Neil will start at Ocwen on June 13 to lead the firm’s global finance organization amid a challenging mortgage origination market. That will be instrumental as we continue to navigate a challenging mortgage originations market.”. She arrived in March 2019, in the early stages of the Ocwen- PHH merger and integration.

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Real Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It’s probably been a while since you orchestrated a house staging for your sellers. When the market was moving hot and fast last year, it just wasn’t as necessary to stage a home. But now , home staging could make all the difference in attracting potential buyers and signing on the dotted line. Fewer days on market.

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HomeLight

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s no surprise real estate agents representing buyers and sellers agree that living room staging is a top priority when selling your home, according to the National Association of Realtors. Even if your living room is run-of-the-mill, you can turn it into a head-turning showroom using affordable living room staging touches that sell.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 13, 2024

You want to make sure your property stands out in a competitive market and attracts potential buyers. One effective way to achieve this is through home staging. Home staging is the art of preparing your home to showcase its best features and create a welcoming environment that appeals to a wide range of buyers.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The secondary market, often an afterthought for most participants in the mortgage process, took center stage in 2020. But to understand the stability that the secondary market brought during a world-wide pandemic, you first have to look back at 2008. Think of it as the underdog quickly becoming the hero of the story.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the purchase market becoming a primary emphasis for lenders in 2021, HousingWire sat down with CreditXpert VP of Marketing Mike Darne to talk about credit trends in a purchase market and how that impact lenders’ pipelines. Far too many of these inquiries become denials. That’s too bad. It makes sense.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The U6 unemployment rate, which has been historically used by American bearish people to say the labor market isn’t great, is currently below what we saw in the best levels before the great financial crisis. During this recovery, a big theme of my jobs and labor market analysis was that job opening should get to 10 million plus.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Black Knight’s Surefire CRM and Mortgage Marketing Engine helps mortgage professionals win new business, drive repeat business and gain referral business. Surefire’s comprehensive marketing automation and content means organizations no longer need to patch multiple, disparate systems together to manage emails, texts and forms.

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