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A San Diego data dive shows a market upended by tight supply

Housing Wire

The data examined below represents multiple listing service data and mortgage market analytics for San Diego County, as well as the state of California and the country as a whole from 2019 to 2023. Mortgage data paints a similar picture of the increasing competitiveness of the San Diego market.

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Why industry experts don’t expect mortgage rates to fall

Housing Wire

And with Fed rates expected to rise even further, industry experts and economists don’t expect mortgage rates to stabilize for at least another year. Mortgage rates , which are currently near a 22-year high, declined slightly from last week ahead of the Fed’s sixth rate hike announcement. Tables have turned for some sellers.

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Help Your Clients Save Thousands with a VA Loan Assumption

Lab Coat Agents

VA loan assumptions offer a fantastic opportunity for your clients to save thousands on their mortgage in a rising interest rate environment. What is a VA Loan Assumption? What is a VA Loan Assumption? This can provide significant savings compared to taking out a new loan at prevailing market rates.

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Xactus targets lenders through active listing data

Housing Wire

Verification solutions provider Xactus wants to court more lenders through its active listing data in a tight housing market. Xactus Wednesday announced its new active listing scan program, which will scan residential addresses for changes in listing status and the average number of days on market for a neighborhood.

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Housing Market Tracker: Higher rates crush purchase apps 

Housing Wire

We created the weekly Housing Market Tracker because housing data has been so wild since 2020. The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. In 2021, mortgage rates were low enough to keep demand much higher than it is today.

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Clear Capital’s Kenon Chen on appraisal modernization

Housing Wire

Kenon Chen: The challenge that’s in front of everyone continues to be the market itself, and then housing affordability. With mortgage rates continuing to remain high and home prices remaining high because of low supply, we’ve had another year of a reduced market. SW: What keeps you up at night?

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The housing market is now savagely unhealthy

Housing Wire

You can see why I have been on team higher mortgage rates for some time now because we don’t have any other way to get off this madness. You can’t have the best housing demographics ever, with the lowest mortgage rates and the best loan profiles with falling inventory for eight years, and not be concerned about this during 2020-2024.

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