The Close

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Simply put, it’s a residential building with more than one unit designed to house multiple families. Multifamily mortgage loans typically require 20% of the property price for a down payment, and there are inevitable maintenance and property management costs. What Is Multifamily Property?

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Rochester Real Estate

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

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Finance

Redfin

JULY 31, 2025

Between finding the right mortgage and deciding what you want in a home, there’s a lot to consider. In this article: Planning and preparing financially Finding the right mortgage House hunting Making the deal What comes next? They cover topics like budgeting, building credit, mortgage options, house hunting, and closing.

Purchase and sale agreement

Redfin

MARCH 4, 2025

This ensures that the homes value is equal to or more than the mortgage loan amount. Your mortgage lender may also suggest you include this contingency to protect yourself. Uniform Residential Appraisal Report (URAR): Shortened to URAR, this is the most common type of appraisal – and one lenders request.

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Marco Santarelli

MAY 20, 2025

The news is out: Rocket Mortgage acquires Redfin, and what this means for the US housing market is a significant move towards a more streamlined, tech-driven, and potentially more consolidated homebuying future. Imagine your favorite online home search tool suddenly joining forces with a mortgage giant that's the scale we're talking about.

Mortgages

HomeLight

JULY 23, 2025

A good time to complete the State of South Carolina Residential Property Condition Disclosure Statement is before listing your home or requesting an offer. These are standards related to the overall condition of a property, which will play a role in the willingness and/or ability of a lender to finance a buyer’s loan.

As-is

The Close

MAY 20, 2025

Loan terms: 15-30 year fixed rate Time to funding: Within 60 days Minimum credit score: 620 Visit Pennymac Conventional commercial mortgage loans SBA 504 SBA 7(a) SBA microloans Business loans and lines of credit Commercial mortgage loan terms: Loan amount: $250,000-$5 million Interest rates: As low as 4.5%

Loans

Redfin

JULY 29, 2025

Difficult to get a mortgage: Securing a mortgage for an LLC is more difficult than the average home buying process. Limited financing: There are fewer loan types available for LLCs as they are not typically eligible for regular mortgages, like FHA loans or conventional loans.

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HomeLight

APRIL 2, 2025

508D statute says, at 508D-4 and 508D-5 , that no one may sell residential real property without signing and dating a disclosure statement within the six months before or ten calendar days after accepting a prospective buyer’s real estate purchase offer. Hawaii Rev.

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AAOA

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Although many people consider a house up to 600 square feet to be a tiny home, the 2021 International Residential Code (IRC) Appendix AQ, stated that tiny houses are dwelling units measuring 400 square feet (37 m 2 ) or less in floor area, excluding lofts. Some tiny homes are actually found in trees.

Due diligence

Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

As 2025 nears its midpoint, mortgage rates have not been as friendly as consumers or housing professionals would like. According to HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center , rates for 30-year conforming loans averaged 7% on Tuesday. Census Bureau will release its May 2025 residential construction data.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the opening month of his return to the White House , President Donald Trump has upended the status quo in the federal government by implementing a hiring freeze and conducting widespread layoffs , including many positions that impact the housing and mortgage industries. Mortgage delinquencies are still low by historic standards.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For the first time in seven weeks, mortgage demand rose as applications were up 0.5% 8, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported Wednesday. Purchase loan demand drove the slight increase in the MBA’s Market Composite Index, which measures loan application volumes. during the week ending Nov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) submitted a formal request to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Monday, asking for the rescission of six rules and revisions to nine others that affect the mortgage industry. Historically, the CFPB has said that this kind of price competition is inconsistent with the rule.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

. “With the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announcement, he could qualify for a conforming loan paying a 5% down payment of roughly $40,000 rather than $80,000 – which could have put him on the sideline. For high-cost areas, the loan limit is $1.149 million.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mortgage demand fell over the holidays despite declining mortgage rates. Mortgage applications decreased 9.4% 29 compared to two weeks earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The share of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan activity decreased to 14.5%

Mortgages

Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Mortgage applications are now at their highest level in more than two years after an 11% jump during the week ending Sept. 20, according to the newest weekly applications survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Purchase loan applications saw more modest increases of 0.4% on mortgages with 80% loan-to-value ratios.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After reaching their highest level since July 2022 , mortgage applications have declined for two straight weeks, counteracting some recent positive signs for a still-sputtering housing industry. According to weekly data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), applications shrank 5.1% up 14 bps, on 80% LTV loans.

VA loan

Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Sky-high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are putting increasing strain on homeowners. That’s the takeaway from two reports released this week showing that foreclosure activity and mortgage delinquencies are rising. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loans. This pipeline of data suggests that more U.S.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 3, 2024

Mortgage applications declined by 2.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ending June 28, according to data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The trade group cited upward movement in mortgage rates as the key reason why. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans accounted for 13.1%

VA loan

Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

The typically busy spring housing market seems to already be at the doorstep despite stubbornly higher mortgage rates. Mortgage applications increased by 9.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ending March 1, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s (MBA) weekly mortgage applications survey.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In second-quarter 2024, high home prices and soaring mortgage rates caused more homeowners to struggle with their loan payments. But data shows a slight recovery as mortgage delinquencies fell in the third quarter. That silver lining comes from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s National Delinquency Survey.

VA loan

Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Country Club Mortgage , a home lender based in California , has decided to lay off over 100 employees due to “facility closures,” documents sent to state regulators show. More than 50 mortgage loan officers were let go. Last year, half of the originated loans were conventional, followed by 35% of FHA loans and 14% of V.A.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. This is a lot different than 2008 where you needed a credit score and a heartbeat to get a mortgage. An additional 21% closed 1.5

Loans

Housing Wire

AUGUST 19, 2021

Delinquency rates for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties shrank across the board to 5.47% in the second quarter, according to a Mortgage Bankers Association survey published this week. The post Mortgage delinquencies shrink in Q2 appeared first on HousingWire.

VA loan

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Mortgage applications increased 3.9% on a seasonally adjusted basis during the week ending July 12, due mainly to borrowers taking advantage of a decline in rates to refinance their home loans, according to data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). As a result, mortgage rates are trending down.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

The recent declines in mortgage rates have been good news for mortgage professionals and consumers alike. But the industry is not yet out of the woods, said Todd Sheinin, the Maryland-based vice president of strategy and development at Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. “As After mortgage rates peaked above 7.5%

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that the mortgage delinquency rate fell to its lowest level since it began tracking this metric 43 years ago, supporting claims the economy is on the cusp of a turnaround. The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started in the second quarter fell by 3 basis points.

FHA loan

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The overall national mortgage delinquency rate rose in the fourth quarter of 2022, due in part to a weaker economy and ongoing inflationary pressures. For the past 15 years, mortgage delinquencies have tracked very closely with employment conditions, Marina Walsh, MBA’s vice president of industry analysis, noted. by the end of 2023.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Origination volume for FHA -insured loans increased by 3% in 2021, growing from $324 billion in 2020 to $332.24 billion, an analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data by Polygon Research application HMDAVision found. billion worth of FHA loans, while wholesale lenders originated $57.64 originating $25.5

FHA loan

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2020

from a year ago, but new home applications decreased from October, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association builder application survey. The average loan size of new homes increased from $355,684 in October to $357,554 in November, according to the survey. Conventional loans composed 71.8%

VA loan

Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

New home purchase applications dropped 12% year over year in June due to higher mortgage rates and economic uncertainty, according to the builder application survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The average loan size dropped to $426,966 in June from May’s $430,855, MBA said. of loan applications.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Are low-FICO, first-time homebuyers better off with a conventional mortgage and reduced LLPA fees, or an FHA loan with none at all? We spoke to multiple loan officers and Washington, D.C.-based In March, FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon made it a little cheaper. based think tank Urban Institute to hear their takes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

The cost of a home mortgage may be going up , but perhaps some good news: Fewer people who already own a home are missing payments. Mortgage delinquency rates dropped for the seventh straight quarter, hitting the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. That translates to 1.62

Mortgages

Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

Refinance applications picked up as mortgage rates fell last week, but purchase loan activity had only a small gain, according to data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MBA’s survey — which covers 75% of all retail residential mortgage applications in the U.S. week over week and 10.6%

VA loan

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

California-based New American Funding (NAF), which recently acquired Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. Last year, she produced about $78 million in mortgages, consisting mainly of Federal Housing Administration (58.8% of the total) and purchase loans (93.5%), according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. were FHA loans.

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