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Deephaven’s Tom Davis: ‘Either you take market share, or someone takes yours’

Housing Wire

Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. trillion.

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Tom Davis shares non-QM opportunities to capitalize heading into 2025

Housing Wire

Davis believes that by aligning with the right lender and expanding product offerings, originators can position themselves as valuable partners in a shaky market. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Non-QM opens doors for real estate investors.

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As the lock-in effect eases, the market for new homes is shrinking

Housing Wire

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. This marked the lowest market share for new homes in three years. One year ago, new homes held a 30.5% New construction inventory has grown in recent months.

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Rural America isn’t immune to housing squeeze

Housing Wire

that have long been viewed as a refuge for affordable homeownership are now grappling with rising prices , limited inventory and increasing competition pressures once thought unique to urban housing markets. ” Inventory squeeze, financial access The report found that rural housing markets are increasingly behaving like urban ones.

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HW Media’s strategic expansion into homebuilding news

Housing Wire

The importance of this acquisition The housing market is undergoing a transformation, with new home construction playing a pivotal role. As we analyze aging housing stock, demographic trends and pent-up demand, we see new home construction as a pivotal component of total home sales in the coming decades.

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How non-QM loans boost mortgage originator for success in 2025

Housing Wire

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash. It reflects another pressing issue of imbalanced supply and demand in the housing market.

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Reverse mortgage pros sound off on 2025 HECM limit

Housing Wire

But the new limit is largely seen as positive by reverse mortgage industry participants who spoke with HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD), as well as social media posts from those who reacted to the news online. Others are taking a more nuanced approach to the increase.