Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To that end, the CHLA, NAR and ICBA urged that the Federal Reserve shift its policy to maintain its stock of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and suspend runoff until liquidity and the spread between the 30-year fixed rate mortgages and 10-year Treasury stabilizes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

According to Freddie Mac, the 30-year-fixed-rate mortgage was down slightly from last week’s 2.88% (with an average of 0.7 The 15-year-fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.12% last week, a slight decline from the prior week’s 2.19%. A year ago, the average 15-year-fixed-rate mortgage was 2.35%.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

FGMC, controlled by global investment management firm PIMCO, said it had “significant operating losses and cash flow challenges due to unforeseen historical adverse market conditions for the mortgage lending industry, including unanticipated market volatility.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased slightly to 2.80% for the week ending on July 29, halting a streak of weekly declines, according to mortgage rates data released Thursday by Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. A year ago at this time, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.99%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

In light of this, HousingWire sat down with Saleforce’s Global Head for Mortgage and Lending, Geoff Green, to learn how lenders can better turbocharge mortgage for today’s home buyers. Additionally, the report mentioned that the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is expected to be 3.6%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Banks and credit unionsmany of which depend on mortgage activity to fuel lending, gather deposits, and generate fee incomeare facing an extended drought. Mortgage originations have dropped off a cliff. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is a cornerstone of American housing finance, but it wasnt built for flexibility.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In Mississippi, single women on average paid 3.47% on a 30-year, conventional fixed-rate mortgage in 2019. Over the lifespan of the mortgage, the single woman in this instance will have roughly $7,000 more in mortgage payments than the single man. Should lenders look to non-QM when the refi boom slows?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

About 14% of respondents said that mortgage rates will go down in the next 12 months, while 51% stated that mortgage rates will go up. The agency expects the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate in 2023 to rise to 6.3% in the same period.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was stagnant at 2.88% for the week ending Sept. 9, according to mortgage rates data released Thursday by Freddie Mac ‘s PMMS. The week prior , mortgage rates also held steady at 2.87%. A year ago at this time, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.86%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

million residential mortgage originations in the second quarter of 2024, an increase of 23.2% The increase in overall lending in Q2 came amid the Spring homebuying season and lower mortgage interest rates that dipped downward after months of increases, according to Attom ’s Q2 residential property mortgage origination report.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

The market is relying on first-time homebuyer demand, and many first-time buyers do use government lending programs,” he said. The refinance share of mortgage activity decreased to 31.1% The adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) share of activity increased to 6.7% Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loan applications.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

If we’ve learned anything in the past year, it’s that operational flexibility and accurate servicing valuation are key to lending profitability. A year ago at this time, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.81%. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 2.30% last week, up from the prior week, when it averaged 2.23%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Generally, the Fed will adjust its lending rate by a quarter percent, but at times the adjustment has been larger. Homeowners : Depending on the type of mortgage they have and their financial goals, rising or falling interest rates will affect homeowners differently.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Rates for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage are the highest in over 20 years and may stay elevated for some time. In many cases, that product may still be a fixed-rate mortgage. Spelling out the specifics may make some borrowers feel more comfortable taking on a fixed-rate loan at a 7% or higher rate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Perry joined Freddie Mac in 2011 to oversee the company’s fair lending program. Perry brings 25 years of legal experience in the financial services industry, with expertise in fair housing and community development. She previously advised on solutions for complex corporate finance transactions with firms such as JPMorgan Chase.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

The MBA survey shows the average interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) decreased to 6.50% last week from 6.55% the prior week. Rates on jumbo loans (greater than $726,200) decreased to 6.37% from 6.40% on a weekly basis. the previous week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Mortgage rates declined in January, continuing a trend that began in early November 2022,” Kevin McMahon, president of Optimal Blue, a division of Black Knight, said in a statement. Cash-out refinances remain down more than 85% from last year and rate/term refinances are still down more than 88% from the same month in 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2021

The data is based on a representative sampling of the mortgage applications initiated on ICE’s Encompass Lending Platform. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 3.22% in June, down from 3.27% in May but up from 2.93% in December 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

We are bringing together the most robust, powerful and efficient technology ever seen in lending and pairing that with a $25 billion a year loan originator,” Cagney, co-founder and CEO of Figure, said in a statement during the announcement. But things did not happen as expected.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

The financial incentives are simply not there for mortgage companies that want to do more minority lending; therefore, it shouldn’t be a surprise that most banks and mortgage lenders do just enough minority lending to stay out of regulatory trouble but secretly have no desire to do much beyond that.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The dip in rates might have helped to bring some buyers back into the market, but housing inventory is still extremely low and price growth remains elevated.”. Freddie Mac ‘s PPMS Mortgage Survey published earlier this week found that the average 30-year-fixed rate mortgage dropped to 3.09% during the same week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Community financial institutions can originate fixed-rate mortgage loans that are attractive to homebuyers and sell them in the secondary market, thereby reducing the lending institutions’ risk of carrying long-term loans on their balance sheets.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

“Homeownership is central to building wealth but has been out of reach for many minority families as a result of systemic inequalities in housing and finance,” Kevin Reen, head of Wells Fargo Home Lending, said in a statement. Mortgage , and/or Closing Cost Credit. Wells Fargo’s mortgage originations reached $7.8

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, more than 90% of borrowers who closed a loan with fintech mortgage lender Neat Loans opted for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. The surprising surge in rates – up from 3% in January to over 6% in June – breathed new life into ARMs on the demand side, especially for loans with large balances.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2023

Fannie Mae has projected that the recent bank failures may act as the catalyst that tips an already precarious economy into a recession — primarily due to the combination of tighter lending standards by small- and mid-sized regional banks.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, many homeowners refinanced, locking in historically low 30-year fixed rate mortgages. HELOCs allow homeowners to draw funds from their credit lines when they need them and typically offer lower rates than other fixed loan mortgage products and many unsecured consumer lending options.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

The hotter-than-expected inflation figure raised questions about the Federal Reserve ’s appetite to cut rates this year. It also brought the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to an average of 7.21% on Friday, up from 7.15% one week earlier, according to HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center. year over year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

If there’s a bet to be made on the future of the non-agency lending space, it’s that the adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market pivoting to an up-rate environment. It’s a very well-trodden path.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Different lenders have different standards and criteria that they look at when deciding who to lend to,” Channel wrote. It’s for that reason that different lenders can offer such drastically different rates to the exact same people. And, by extension, it’s also why shopping around for a lender can help homebuyers save so much money.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

Industry observers said that, at least in the short term, mortgage rate declines will support home prices but lead to a better outlook for the spring season. Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.60% as of March 16, down 13 basis points from the previous week.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

According to Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, all mortgage rates continue to climb, but the 30-year fixed rate rose for the fifth consecutive week to its highest level since March 2020. The keys to lending in a post-refi boom world.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

I would say a vast majority of LOs have woken up to the fact that it won’t get easier,” said Groves, a branch manager at Synergy One Lending and owner of Consolidated Coaching. There’s growing concern in the mortgage industry that rates could even touch 8% before they fall below 7%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

MBA estimates the average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($647,200 or less) fell to 6.67% from the previous week’s 6.90%. At its recent peak about a month ago, rates reached 7.16%. Jumbo mortgage loans (greater than $647,200) this week also decreased to 6.30% from 6.51%, the MBA said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

It’s caused frustration for FGMC’s lending partners. A West Coast-based lending executive told HousingWire that FGMC said it can’t or won’t honor locks in its correspondent pipeline, even loans that were cleared for funding and underwritten by FGMC. “On Friday, we stopped getting responses via email. .”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Mike Cagney didn’t expect to be releasing a cryptocurrency-backed 30-year fixed-rate mortgage product so soon. The plan was for Figure Technologies to launch such a product only after completing the merger with multichannel mortgage lender Homebridge Financial Services.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A top-tier borrower with a 780 FICO score and a 25-30% down payment for a single-family vanilla 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was quoted 6.875% on Thursday, said Larry Steinway, senior vice president of mortgage lending and branch manager of Revolution Mortgage. “We in 2024, followed by 5.5% in 2025.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Regardless, it’s good for the mortgage industry to know that the average consumer is still relatively optimistic. Comparison of 30-year mortgage to 10-year Treasury rates : The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average in the U.S. is closely related to movement in the 10-year Treasury rate.

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