Housing Wire
APRIL 15, 2024
Last week’s above-consensus inflation figures brought the mortgage market back to a sour reality: The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate, an index closely watched by industry experts, may be close to or even above the 7% level for longer than previously expected. Where are mortgage rates headed? in second-quarter 2024.
Housing Wire
JANUARY 25, 2023
As mortgage rates continue to decline, Chad Earnest’s mantra with his referral partners in 2023 is “no buyer left behind.” The Montgomery, Texas-based area manager, who moved from AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation to Cardinal Financial Company in November, launched in mid-2022 a platform to help their referral partners succeed.
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Housing Wire
MARCH 7, 2024
And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. My guess is we’ll do 10 or 11 deals this year in the $5.5
Housing Wire
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
With mortgage rates down nearly 50 basis points from the recent peak about a month ago, borrower demand picked up again this week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, rose 2.2% retail residential mortgage applications.
Housing Wire
OCTOBER 13, 2022
With mortgage rates surging to the 7% mark, industry observers believe that a new refi wave won’t return for several years. The latest weekly survey data from Freddie Mac shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage surged 26 basis points from last week to 6.92%, a record-setting climb to its highest level since April 2002.
Housing Wire
MAY 1, 2024
This has led to the development of policies by state and local housing finance agencies to aim assistance specifically at this group, particularly for “mortgage eligibility or down payment and closing costs assistance.” Identification of a loan under these conditions is currently optional, the bulletin explained.
Housing Wire
APRIL 29, 2024
The attorney general of Michigan has re-released a consumer alert about the reverse mortgage product category during financial literacy month. A reverse mortgage is a type of home equity loan extended, in most cases, to those who are 62 years of age or older,” the announcement stated.
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