Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The average 30-year-fixed rate mortgage remained flat for the third consecutive week at 3.55% for the week ending Feb. 3, reflecting the impacts of the Omicron variant in the economy, according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS Mortgage Survey. A year ago, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.73%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Home-equity lending overall found its wings in 2023 as a number of independent mortgage banks ramped up product lines over the course of the year — despite a bump in the road in the third quarter when mortgage rates surged past 7%. HELOCs have easily been the product with the largest increase in [loan]-trading volumes.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

Musk went on to comment that the rise in defaults among commercial and residential loans could “hammer” banks. This remark comes on the heels of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. When this back and forth was unfolding, mortgage demand rose 2.9%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall. mortgage industry to fund $4.1 trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Mortgage rates have surged firmly above the 7% mark, making alternatives such as temporary rate buydowns and down payment assistance programs more popular, according to loan officers. A year ago at this time, rates averaged 3.14%. United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) launched the product in August.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Black Knight ‘s Optimal Blue OBMMI pricing engine, which considers refis and data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), reported that rates on Wednesday averaged 5.05%, up about 25 bps from a week prior. Several LOs told HousingWire that clients had locked loans in the 5% to 5.3% Mortgage rates have increased 1.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

HELOCs allow homeowners to tap the equity in their home without incurring a much higher first-lien mortgage via a cash-out refinancing. The interest rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.22% as of August 11, according to Freddie Mac’s most recent weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Mohtashami anticipates that the Fed will push a pause on the interest rate hike in the next meeting, as the central bank is counting on credit getting tighter to create job recession. Federal regulators also seized First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase Bank earlier this week.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Following the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates by an additional 75 basis points on Wednesday, the central bank said it will hike rates as high as 4.6% Before the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75 According to the NAR, there were 1.28

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. These rates drew a record number of people refinancing their homes, with cash-out refinances reaching $1.2 trillion in 2021. homeowners.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mortgage lenders have imposed new rounds of layoffs in the fourth quarter, reflecting a dreadful landscape for originators. . This week, the latest Freddie Mac weekly survey data showed that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 7.08%, up 13 basis points compared to last week. A massive job cut.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The pace of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issuance in the nonagency market slowed considerably in July and August as rising interest rates and Federal Reserve MBS-purchase policy have combined to dampen the momentum exhibited in the private-label space in 2021 and over the first half of this year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. These rates drew a record number of people refinancing their homes, with cash out refinances reaching $1.2 trillion in 2021. homeowners.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. The Towd Point deal involved HELOCs as well as CES loans originated by nonbanks Rocket Mortgage and Spring EQ.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

A host of nonbanks and traditional depository lenders, such as banks and credit unions, as well as a growing number of fintech firms continue to ramp up efforts and product lines to meet that demand. Toohig added that the interest rate on a HELOC is normally variable, “usually prime, plus 1.5 to 2 points.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

After two of the most challenging years in recent history, economists and analysts project a shift in the mortgage market toward the end of 2023, Hoff said. “Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. When will the market turn? Let’s start with the good news.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. That has contributed to UWM’s competitors taking losses on loans when they can least afford it.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

through its Angel Oak Mortgage Trust conduit, recently unveiled its latest private-label securitization (PLS) offering — a deal slated to close in early August backed by 788 predominately non-QM loans valued at $362 million. through its affiliated companies, including real estate investment trust, or REIT, Angel Oak Mortgage Inc.

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Marco Santarelli

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The MBA survey, a staple since 1990, draws on responses from mortgage bankers, commercial banks, and thrifts, covering more than 75% of all retail residential mortgage applications in the US. The overall loan size of $345,900 is the smallest since the first week of 2022. USDA loan applications accounted for 0.5%

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Realtor.com

MARCH 12, 2021

If the potential savings from a new mortgage won’t recoup the closing costs—like title insurance, state taxes, appraisal fees and more—it may not make sense to refinance just yet. The national average for associated refinancing fees is nearly $3,400 with taxes, according to ClosingCorp, a firm providing residential real-estate data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Mortgage rates hold major power in the housing industry; most importantly, high rates exacerbate the current affordability crisis by walloping the buying power of would-be buyers and discouraging some would-be sellers – those with low, fixed-rate mortgages – from listing their homes, a drain on available inventories.

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Marco Santarelli

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In this article, we shall discuss the various types of mortgage notes and how to invest in them. Real estate or mortgage note investing is owning real estate without property management or without becoming a landlord where the homeowner pays the investor instead of the bank. Therefore, the loan amount would be $120,000.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

It is often said that the Fed raises interest rates until something breaks. Many have already pointed to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank , Silvergate Bank , and Signature Bank as evidence that the Fed “finally broke something.” In 2021, mortgage originations hit a record high of $4.4 trillion in 2023.

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Realty Biz

APRIL 11, 2022

The reason there is so much difference between credit card and mortgage interest rates is that the credit card loan is a much higher risk. Credit card loans are unsecured loans. The basic process begins by asking questions like what type of mortgage is best for you? It’s often seven to nine years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Fannie Mae has projected that the recent bank failures may act as the catalyst that tips an already precarious economy into a recession — primarily due to the combination of tighter lending standards by small- and mid-sized regional banks. Jumbo loans account for approximately 12% of all loans originated as of February 2022.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To be clear, the Federal Reserve does not directly set the mortgage rate. The federal funds rate, which is set by the central bank, is the overnight interest rate at which banks borrow from one another. When the federal funds rate goes up, the prime rate tends to follow.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Investors are concerned that the central bank will continue raising the funds rate, pushing borrowing costs even higher. What to expect with the Fed ?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mortgage demand rose as rates dropped following the October slowdown in inflation growth numbers. However, while purchase mortgage applications increased across all loan types, refinance activity remained depressed. The market composite index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 2.7%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Mill Valley California that has residential operations focused on nonagency jumbo loans, recently reported a second-quarter 2022 net loss of $100 million, after recording a net gain of $31 million in the prior quarter. Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. ,

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Realty Biz

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Inflation will accelerate the rise of home prices, but the decreasing loan-to-value of mortgage debt is a natural discount. This happens because the equity in the property increases while your fixed-rate mortgage payments remain the same. How Inflation and Real Estate Work Together.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“It finally seems like we are turning a corner and that’s good news after two years of the Fed’s negative perspective that we’ve heard,” Max Slyusarchuk, CEO of A&D Mortgage , said in an interview. AI can understand the loan status, a loan profile and AI can respond to the consumer.

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Realty Biz

MAY 18, 2021

That’s how mortgages (installment payments) make a high-cost home purchase more affordable. Generally, when inflation is high, mortgage rates are also high to recover the value of tomorrow’s dollar that is loaned today. There couldn’t be a stronger case for taking out a 30 year fixed rate mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 118,055 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.4 billion, according to a presale report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA). billion secured by single-family mortgage reference loan pools valued in total at $156.9 a week earlier.

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McKissock

MARCH 31, 2023

Economic recap March 2023 Following recent bank failures, several questioned whether the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would maintain its firm stance on interest rate hikes. Interest rates According to a Freddie Mac study, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 6.42% on March 23, 2023, down from 6.60% the previous week.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With interest rates still at record lows, many South Florida homeowners have refinanced their home loans. So not only are many homeowners paying lower mortgage payments today; they are doing so while their wealth (home equity) has significantly increased. Home equity can be tapped for renovations, college loans and more.

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Patch of Land

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This rising-rate environment is expected to have a negative impact on refinance volume. But mortgage originators who prepare now for the changes will be able to provide their customers with great opportunities to fund residential property purchases. Loan-product offerings. Government-backed loans: U.S.

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