Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). in events to garner business. were from the Northeast 16.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

million in mortgages last year, mainly for building and construction. CCBank, founded in 1993, had nearly $871 million in total assets and $127 million in equity capital at the end of 2023. The deal is the latest in a challenging mortgage origination market as interest rates are expected to stay higher for longer.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Additional lockdowns and quarantines due to COVID-19 could put a dent in housing inventory and sales, potentially slowing down the market and putting increased pressure on buyers, the forecast said. The 2021 housing market will be much more ‘normal’ than the wild swings we saw in 2020,” said realtor.com’s Chief Economist Danielle Hale.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

David O’Reilly, CEO of Howard Hughes Holdings which constructs planned communities, describes the market being “at the cusp,” saying that the demand appears to be coinciding with more members of Gen X nearing a time where they will become “empty nesters.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

For what felt like a moment in time, buyers enjoyed the luxury of being incredibly picky, carefully selecting what felt like their dream homes in a market that had shifted towards more favorable conditions. The changing tides Previously, buyers were able to look for over a month, as average days on market continued to climb.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

If you’re looking to buy a home, you’ll stand the best chance in a buyer’s housing market, where listings are flush, demand is low and buyers have the upper hand — not to mention most of the negotiating power. Seller’s markets, on the other hand, are on the opposite side of the spectrum. A buyer’s market in 2021?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. However, a silver lining in the subdued housing market is the strength in new-home sales. They were withdrawing volatility from the market, and they were lowering rates to benefit consumers.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

The early entrants into the market — including Milo and Figure Technologies — made loans equal to 100% of the borrower’s cryptocurrency value with no down payment required. “The effective use of technology allows us to accomplish this.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

million in “sweat equity grants” will go to support four nonprofit housing providers. The organizations will “use HUD’s grants to construct or rehabilitate 445 homes along with contributed labor from the homebuyers and volunteers that will significantly lower the cost of homeownership,” HUD explained. “The

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are a few trends in financing that will continue to catalyze the construction of more ADUs: Expanded access to mortgage financing The Federal Housing Authority announced a new policy in October 2023 that has made it easier to finance construction of new ADUs, as well as making it more achievable to buy or refinance a house with an existing ADU.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 15, 2024

The housing market is a complex and dynamic system influenced by various economic factors , policies, and consumer behaviors. As of 2024 , the question of whether the housing market will crash is on the minds of many, from potential homebuyers to economic analysts.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. With the deal, Maxwell expanded its secondary market platform to add more than 180 clients.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

After the release of proposed new rules for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) program late last year, the reverse mortgage industry expressed a lot of excitement. AARP applauds HUD’s update to its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage for Purchase Program which keeps vital consumer protections in place,” Jones said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

Due to this reality, I have downgraded the housing market from unhealthy housing to a savagely unhealthy housing market. HousingWire: How will rising rates affect new home construction? Housing construction will be impacted if the monthly supply for new homes breaks above 6.5 Inventory has been falling for years.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 6, 2024

The tumultuous wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the housing market landscape, leaving in its wake a trail of unprecedented shifts. However, amidst this flux, there are pockets of resilience—housing markets that have not only weathered the storm but have emerged stronger, with inventory levels surpassing pre-pandemic benchmarks.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

HousingWire sat down with Radian CEO Rick Thornberry to learn more about the state of the housing market and how Radian is helping further homeownership. HousingWire: What is the current state of the housing market for first-time homebuyers and communities of color? According to the Radian Home Price Index , home prices rose 9.2%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s not forget the substantial fiscal and monetary policy that provided extraordinary levels of support for households, businesses, and markets here and abroad. The main takeaway from Mortgage Bankers Association forecast is that we see 2022 as a transition year, moving from a refinance market to a purchase market.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

OCTOBER 20, 2023

” “Yet, continued softness in the apartment market means that we should expect the shelter component of inflation to come down eventually as well, which could help overall inflation to cool to the Fed’s 2% target and allow the Federal Reserve to start easing policy. .”

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Realty Biz

AUGUST 5, 2023

Buying a new construction home has its pros and cons. There are also limitations regarding changes during construction and potentially longer commutes from commercial areas and schools. Locating a cheap house to build often means deviating from standard new construction. Different types of new homes can be less expensive.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Young people make up a smaller share of recent homebuyers than in previous years most likely due to the increased market activity of baby boomers, a new Zillow report published on Thursday found. This white paper covers strategies for targeting the growing market of millennials and connecting with them. Presented by: Doma.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This article is part of our 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. The monthly Realtors Confidence Index is an essential measure of what real estate professionals are seeing in their local markets and how the market is evolving on a monthly basis. One such measure is who is entering the market.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

JANUARY 22, 2024

From the NMHC: Financing Conditions Show Signs of Improvement, Apartment Market Continues to Loosen with Decreasing Deal Flow Apartment market conditions continued to weaken in the National Multifamily Housing Council's (NMHC) Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions for January 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

High interest rates, coupled with a still-low supply of housing, have created price hurtles that are keeping many first-time homebuyers and lower-income borrowers locked out of the housing market. In terms of acceptance in the secondary market of these TRBLs, which is key to ensuring lender liquidity, the jury is still out.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

While many proptech companies have struggled to adapt to the slower housing market conditions and challenging venture capital environment, Flyhomes is viewing this as a time to grow. This is just one more arrow in their quiver.” She learned about Flyhomes and its products through her broker.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

It has constructed a servicing platform while adding multi-asset originations and asset management capabilities. Messina went on to describe the company having “steadily grown” its mortgage servicing and subservicing portfolios.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember the good old days of pre-construction condominiums? I remember when, among other things, you could purchase a pre-construction condo with a mere 5% deposit. Your profit was already factored in, irrespective of market appreciation. And that was it. No further payments. Nothing due in 30 days.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

Voxtur, which has been on a buying binge over the last few years, plans to combine Blue Water’s capital markets SaaS platform with its own constellation of real estate solutions. ” Blue Water is controlled by Rice Park Capital Management , a private equity firm headquartered in Minneapolis.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2022

The supply-demand imbalance fueling the housing market shows no signs of abating in 2022, even as homebuilders attempt to bridge the gap. An under-supplied market has strong implications for house prices, particularly during a time when prices seemingly set new records every month. Measuring the housing deficit.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bancorp , parent company of First Internet Bank, announced that the exit will include its nationwide digital direct-to-consumer mortgage platform, which originates residential loans for sale in the secondary market. The home equity loans balance was $24.7 The residential mortgage loan balance for First Internet was $383.9

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

The layoffs include loan officers, underwriters, processors, post-closing and secondary market staff. Employees on the technology, marketing and human resources teams are on the list. The lender’s guide to surviving this mortgage market. 5, according to the document reviewed by HousingWire. As the U.S. As the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Mortgage demand picked up in recent weeks due to rates declining to 6% levels and a massive backlog of homes under construction, as mentioned by HousingWire ‘s lead analyst Logan Mohtashami in a recent column. At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

The companies entered into a joint venture that puts $250 million of equity into single-family rental homes. But for DivcoWest the single-family rental markets represents a shift from the San Francisco company’s general focus on office, retail, industrial, and multifamily spaces. Total homes sales have been down in the U.S.

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Equity Renovation Construction Investor 367

Realtor.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Many homebuyers may find the added expense of new construction well worth it, due to the money they stand to save on renovations and repairs that might crop up in an older home. But homebuyers should also know that they can lower the costs of new construction right when they make the purchase through some smart negotiation tactics.

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Real Trends

MARCH 29, 2023

There was one problem, we were already at a new home deficit, making the new home market incredibly competitive. Practically every listing that came on the market received 15 to 20 offers, and bidding wars drove prices higher and higher. New homes began to linger on the market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Those who know me – at least, through TRB, are fully aware of my thoughts on pre-construction condos, the pre-construction condo industry, and the way that pre-construction condos are sold and eventually built. Your “Buying Pre-Construction Condos and CAKE!” That made sense, right? It made sense.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

We are still at least a million listings shy of being a balanced market, so this excuse is not going to subside anytime soon. Stop answering clients’ concerns by saying, “Yeah, there’s really nothing on the market, I mean everything in the MLS is already pending. They may have a downpayment saved that isn’t their home equity.

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Realtor.com

JANUARY 2, 2023

While purchasing new construction is indeed different from purchasing previously owned property, many misconceptions abound about new builds. With that in mind, we’re here to set the record straight on some easily busted new-construction myths that just won’t quit. New construction homes are more expensive.

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