Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

With strong demand and limited options for existing homes, many homebuyers are turning to new construction. Mortgage applications for new construction home purchases increased 35.5% in July on a year-over-year basis, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS) data.

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New Construction Construction FHA loan Mortgages 370

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Demand for newly constructed homes continues to remain high as existing for-sale inventory remains historically low. Mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 20.6% MBA’s survey tracks application volume from mortgage subsidiaries of homebuilders across the country. in August on a year-over-year basis.

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New Construction Construction Mortgages VA loan 418

Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2025

Todays new construction report from the Census Bureau showed month-to-month growth in housing starts, but falling housing permits. However, employment for residential construction workers hasnt fallen at all, even with the decline in housing starts and permits. Why haven’t the homebuilders started doing layoffs?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Still, higher new home sales doesnt begin to offset the gap left by existing-home sales, which were at an almost 30-year low in 2024 at 4.06 Home builders were able to offer prospective buyers concessions, including rate buydowns, to entice them to new home communities. Inventory continues to be an issue in the existing-homes market.

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Sales New Construction MLS Mortgages 476

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. HW : We’re seeing an uptick in ground-up construction. Ground-up construction growth will be high to meet the population growth and meet the demand due to limited inventory.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

Zillow Group ‘s new-construction listings will be automatically syndicated to Redfin. The deal between the listing platforms comes as new construction listings form roughly 30% of the housing sales market. New single-family home sales rose 23.8%

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New Construction Construction Brokerage Agents 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

Mortgage and property tax payments are not the only expenses that prospective homeowners need to consider. Compared to existing homes , new homes were much more likely to include HOA fees, In fact, 69.9% of new construction homes required buyers to pay HOA dues, compared to only 38.2% of existing homes.

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New Construction Construction Mortgages Sales 397

Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2025

home sellers offered concessions to buyers in near-record numbers during the first quarter of 2025 as rising housing costs , high mortgage rates and growing economic uncertainty continued to reshape the real estate landscape. According to a new report from Redfin , 44.4% Thats up from 39.3% at the start of 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this week’s episode of the Power House podcast, host and HousingWire President Diego Sanchez chats with Tom Davis , chief sales officer at Deephaven Mortgage. Diego: We’ve kicked off 2025 with mortgage rates that haven’t done much except go a little bit higher. A lot of folks were expecting a decline in 2025.

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New Construction Construction Marketing Equity 338

Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Rich Bradford, broker associate with The Bradford Team at RE/MAX One Realty in Haddonfield, New Jersey, said the results for his local market could be even better if so many potential sellers werent locked in by low mortgage rates. That would definitely help with the sale pricing of new construction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Walker said the prospect of lower mortgage rates is prompting many agents to feel more positive about the 2024 housing market. In Birmingham, ERA King Real Estate agent Anna-Maria Ellison said that even without lower mortgage rates, she is seeing buyers return to the market. “It New construction is backed up,” she said.

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New Construction Construction Agents Development 435

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Since mortgage rates have headed higher again, I was anticipating that today’s housing starts report would be the last decent print before the effects of higher mortgage rates hit the builders, but even this report was disappointing. However, mortgage rates shot up again after the Federal Reserve cut rates on Sept.

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Construction New Construction Residential Mortgages 379

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

loanDepot has signed a new joint venture agreement with Smith Douglas Homes , a top-50 homebuilder with a solid book of business in the Southern states.

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Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages New Construction Lending 305

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. Recently, the “lock-in effect” has kept homeowners with historically low-rate mortgages from selling, but this effect is easing. year over year in September.

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As-is Marketing Construction New Construction 370

Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

Builders are feeling cautiously optimistic as they start 2025, buoyed by an ongoing shortage of inventory of existing homesmany of which are locked up by homeowners reluctant to sell due to elevated mortgage rates. While economists are happy with the level of construction in 2024, they say there is still work to be done.

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Construction New Construction MLS As-is 397

Housing Wire

AUGUST 18, 2020

New home construction continues to climb, as privately owned single-family housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.496 million, a 22.6% jump from June , according to a new report from the U.S. The post New home construction shoots up 22.6% Census Bureau. from last July. million, 3.6%

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Construction New Construction Sales Mortgages 545

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according to monthly data on new residential construction from the U.S. But housing completions rose 14.6% compared to September 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

The resulting housing market crash and the Great Recession led policymakers to overcorrect by tightening mortgage lending standards and limiting funds for new construction.

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Lending New Construction Staging Construction 418

Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Current homeowners who are locked into low mortgage rates and are staying in their homes longer are keeping the supply of existing homes low. New construction has not been able to keep up with demand. It is going to take years before we are back at that level, maybe not even until the 2030s. million, down 13.5%

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Sales New Construction MLS Construction 367

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He also pointed to low mortgage rates as another positive for homeowners. Simonsen: I’ve talked about “the great stay” and how the labor market parallels the housing market, where I’m not leaving my mortgage because I’ve got a good mortgage. But ultimately, the big lever here is mortgage rates.

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New Construction Mortgages Construction Sales 369

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Adding to the potential shortage in years ahead are stubbornly high mortgage rates and tariffs that could slow new construction. A renewed interest in the senior housing market could also spur higher prices and waitlists, two things that lower-income older Americans can ill afford.

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Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Florida housing market is undeniably hot right now, making headlines with a record-breaking $285 million new construction home hitting the market. According to Realtor.com , this ocean-to-lake estate is poised to shatter records as the most expensive new construction single-family home in the country. Absolutely not!

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New Construction Construction Pre-approval Design 98

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Michigan-based lender United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has introduced a construction-to-permanent loan that covers the cost of building a home and then converts to a permanent mortgage once construction is complete. The loan will cover an 11-month maximum build period with a one-month modification.

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Construction Loans Loan Officer New Construction 418

Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

That’s according to the latest Mortgage Monitor report from ICE Mortgage Technology. An early look at March data from the enhanced ICE Home Price Index (HPI) shows that home prices are softening across the country, which ICE says is largely driven by stabilized mortgage rates , which have been holding around 6.6%-6.7%

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FHA loan Mortgages New Construction Loans 290

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

New construction rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,560,000, according to the U.S. Single-family building activity drove November residential construction activity. Single-family building activity drove November residential construction activity. But permits for future construction fell 2.5%

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Mortgages Construction New Construction Residential 459

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With mortgage rates hovering around 7% and home prices still at record highs, buyers across America are calling off the house hunt and finding multifamily apartments. . Some of his would-be buyers are renting apartments until mortgage rates markedly improve. Mortgage rates are more than double what they were at the start of the year.

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Construction Development Mortgages New Construction 482

Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Mortgage applications dropped for the second straight week , this time down 4% for the week ending May 28, 2021, according the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s weekly mortgage applications survey. This week’s data was compared to mortgage applications from the week of Memorial Day in 2020. the previous week.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Mortgages New Construction Loans 543

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Mortgage rates stayed below 7% for the second week in a row, a welcome relief after a 17-week streak of above-7% rates. The 30-year, fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.67% for the week ending Dec. 21, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. This week’s dip is the largest weekly drop since November 2022.

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Mortgages Fixed-rate mortgage MLS New Construction 511

Real Estate News

MAY 20, 2024

With many owners of existing homes hesitant to give up their low mortgage rates, new homes continue to account for an outsize share of the market.

New Construction 312

New Construction Construction Sales Mortgages 312

Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

26 in Dallas, provided valuable insights into the forces shaping the mortgage and housing markets in 2025. Logan Mohtashami, an expert in the mortgage and housing ecosystem and lead analyst for HousingWire, set the tone with this optimistic message. It should be about helping lenders win new business, not just cutting expenses.

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Technology Loan Officer Loans Banks 368

Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

mortgage lender loanDepot announced the promotion of regional sales director Bart Evans to regional vice president for the Southeast region. The new regional vice president brings a bit more to his role than executive mortgage experience. With the heart of an athlete, Evans will bring strong work ethic to his new role.

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Lending New Construction Mortgages Construction 370

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage rates continued to trend up this week and dampen homebuyer momentum. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.94% as of Feb. 29, an increase from last week ’s figure of 6.90%, according to Freddie Mac ’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday.

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Mortgages Fixed-rate mortgage New Construction Construction 493

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mortgage rates dropped significantly in the last few weeks, but the cost of borrowing remains high prompting many homebuyers to wait for even lower rates. The 30-year, fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.29% for the week ending Nov. 22, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

Mortgages 476

Mortgages New Construction Construction Sales 476

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“January marked a surge of people signing contracts to buy new homes. The increase in contract signings can be attributed to a decline in mortgage rates in January after a run-up in rates in October and November ,” Holden Lewis, NerdWallet ’s home and mortgage expert, said in a statement. months in December.

Sales 459

Sales New Construction Construction Mortgages 459

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mortgage demand for new homes jumped in October as the inventory for existing homes remained depleted. Mortgage applications for new-home purchases rose 39.7% FHA applications reached highest share of new-home applications since 2013 In October, FHA applications represented 26.3% Conventional loans made up 63.6%

Mortgages 482

Mortgages VA loan Loans New Construction 482

Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% 12 compared to a week earlier.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Mortgages New Construction Construction 532

Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

loan officer Timothy Potempa has departed Dallas-based multichannel lender OneTrust Home Loans to join E Mortgage Capital , bringing his team of about 40 people and more than $300 million in annual production to the company headquartered in California. 7 loan officer in the country last year with a mortgage production volume of $326.5

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Loan Officer Mortgages VA loan Lending 448