Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

By contrast, many European countries have a centralized, government-managed land registration system, which requires government review before property transfers are effective. Once the parties have closed, it is only then that we place the transfer document (deed) in the government land records. Nor are the land records authoritative.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

This bodes well for those hoping to see a soft landing, and for those hoping for lower mortgage rates. So, let’s look at where we are today with all the labor data and why mortgage rates are still high while the labor market is getting softer. Instead, I have focused on jobless claims data. is more in their comfort zone.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Many of these laws target specific types of real estate deemed crucial to national security, such as farmland or property near military installations, while other laws apply more broadly to all types of land. Laws should mandate that authorized state agencies record relevant documents and court orders in local land records.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

For instance, at Lone Star Landing in Montgomery, Texas, M/I Homes is offering discounts ranging from $7,500 to $20,000 on specific properties. Buyers using this incentive can qualify for either a 3/2/1 rate buydown on a 30-year FHA Fixed-rate Mortgage or a 3/2/1 rate buydown on a 30-year conventional fixed-rate mortgage.

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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. million units. The sales pace was down 3.5%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

But what does virtual real estate mean for real-world mortgage professionals? Actual” real estate is defined as property consisting of land or buildings, and everything that is permanently attached to the land. Today, the law is not yet clear on whether or not virtual land in the Metaverse is “actual” real estate.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Why are mortgage rates rising? The jobless claims data is my key 2023 economic data line for the bond market and mortgage rates because I don’t believe the Fed will pivot until the four-week moving average of jobless claims gets above 323,000. Land the plane, folks, land the plane!

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mortgage banking executive and industry mergers & acquisitions advisor Rick Roque has taken a new executive position at NFM Lending. ” Roque’s arrival at NFM comes just a few months after he joined Sierra Pacific Mortgage as executive vice president of retail. . “Looking forward to seeing what we can do together.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

In these contracts – also known as “land contracts” or “bond for deed” –the seller retains the legal title to a home until the borrower completes all the payments, leading to some “traps,” according to the CFPB. Mancini – who is testifying during a CFPB field hearing on land contracts on Tuesday in St. among subprime loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The housing market got some much needed relief in the fall when mortgage rates began to drop, but it was short lived. Despite two interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, mortgage rates rose again and remain stubbornly high. It’s just become a more common theme.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Title theft occurs when a criminal impersonates a property owner and sells or takes out a second mortgage on the owners property. In the worst-case scenario, the home goes into foreclosure and/or is deeded to a new purchaser.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

Another year of slow home sales resulted in a further decline in title insurance premium volume, according to the American Land Title Association (ALTA)’s Market Share Analysis report released Thursday. The other top 10 companies for Q3 2024 were Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. In 2024, the title industry generated $16.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Active listings landed at 212,437 at the end of January, a staggering 19.4% However, mortgage rates staying stubbornly around 7% are preventing many would-be buyers from entering the market. At 172,209 homes, its the highest reading of any month dating to when Redfin started keeping records in 2012. year-over-year jump.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As the 21st transaction made under the company’s LHOME Mortgage Trust, Kiavi’s total volume of notes offered sits at $5.8 San Francisco-based private lender Kiavi announced on Thursday that it has secured $300 million in capital after another securitization of its residential transition loans (RTLs). billion since 2019.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mortgage rates remain high and for-sale inventory remains low, while an overwhelming majority of baby boomers (78%) stated in a survey from Redfin that they have no intention of moving out of their current homes. . “There’s a lot of people in the middle, homeowners included, who are stuck.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Can we have a soft landing in the economy? Mortgage rates fell aggressively down to 6.20%, putting us at more than 1% below the highs of 2022. This is why Friday’s data is exciting to see and why the bond market sent mortgage rates to 6.20% and yes — we are back on 5-handle mortgage rate watch. Job report.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2025

New-home sales have been a bright spot in housing markets across the country that have been struggling for years with high mortgage rates and low inventory. Houston , which has fewer land-use regulations than most cities, ranked first in both permits and sales of newly built homes at 11,047 and 1,314, respectively.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A decline in mortgage rates since November helped end four months of declines in builder confidence. According to NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz, the peak in mortgage rates for this cycle is behind us, which should help “to spur buyer demand in the coming months.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2025

In an environment of high home prices and elevated mortgage rates , older homeowners taking a closer look at less expensive areas to make their money go further is not an isolated phenomenon. Real estate agent Lisa Di Pasquale described her success in such a scenario in a previous interview with HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Kevin Peranio , chief lending officer for Paramount Residential Mortgage Group (PRMG), lives in the Orange County area and said hes witnessed the effects of being displaced by the wildfires. Peranio is also an investor in Pacaso , a second-home co-ownership company, and said that the company is mobilizing its network to help those in need.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

In an era of high mortgage rates and stagnant home sales , a real estate transaction model is making waves by reintroducing and standardizing a once-popular financing method. Seller financing spans residential, commercial and land transactions, with residential making up 63% of all deals over the past three years, Note Investor reported.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

More than 160 employees from the now-shuttered Finance of America Mortgage have landed at Go Mortgage , a Columbus, Ohio-based lender. In the coming months, more former FoA employees are expected to “trickle in” to Go Mortgage’s retail division, which will bring the total number to 200. Go Mortgage originated $753.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

The HECM Tool a software platform designed to serve as a reverse mortgage sales conversion tool announced this week that it has integrated the proprietary reverse mortgage offering from Smartfi Home Loans into the platforms existing visualization and comparison capabilities.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) this week announced a new product proposal for government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) Freddie Mac that would allow the agency to purchase certain single-family, closed-end second mortgages. FHFA Director Sandra Thompson explained that such options are needed in the current mortgage rate environment.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With mortgage rates still hovering around 8%, mortgage applications decreased 1% for the week ending Oct. 20 compared to the week prior , according to weekly mortgage application data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. the week prior while the share of Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan activity decreased to 0.4%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Construction employment showed a small gain, as builders continue to work to add to housing supply given the ongoing shortage,” Mike Fratantoni, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s chief economist, said in a statement. Overall, for the past year, the construction sector has added an average of 19,000 jobs per month.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

The American Land Title Association is making it clear that it won’t have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau making drastic changes to title insurance without first at least hearing the trade groups thoughts on the issue. In a 15-page letter sent to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Mike Hardy, a Los Angeles-based managing partner for Churchill Mortgage , is concerned about the preexisting housing shortage in LA. And then on top of it, there’s going to be billions of dollars of infrastructure improvements that will need to be made as well. The population is much greater than the homes available for sale or rent.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

But while a fraud attempt targeting such a famous structure and family would easily make national news, the vast majority of title theft and mortgage fraud schemes do not. An alternative scam is to submit a mortgage application in your name to get cash out of the house.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Rocket Mortgage , the third largest U.S. mortgage lender, has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Consequently, the borrowers got a mortgage from another lender on less favorable terms and higher interest rates. billion in mortgages in Q1 2024. Rocket originated $20.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A slight cooling in mortgage rates wasn’t enough to keep mortgage applications from sinking to a 28-year low. Freddie Mac‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 7.12% as of Sept. 7, down from last week ’s 7.18%.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The jobs report today which should move mortgage rates lower, demonstrates why it’s time for the Federal Reserve to land the plane. As I write this article, the 10-year yield is at 4.53%, and mortgage rates are heading lower! We had a solid job openings print this week and jobless claims are still near historic lows.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The grant funds will be primarily deployed to bolster infrastructure, construction or renovation of community buildings, housing rehabilitation, land acquisition and economic development for the American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday announced the disbursement of $72.6

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2025

reported its Q1 2025 earnings Thursday, touting a turnaround as its financial losses narrowed, deal pipeline strengthened and it landed major clients while sharpening its focus to become “software-first.” Blend Labs, Inc. ” SEC filings show that Blend’s platform revenue for the first quarter came in at $26.8

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

The federal judge overseeing the case brought by reverse mortgage lender Longbridge Financial against market leader Mutual of Omaha Mortgage over allegedly deceptive advertising practices has ruled that some of Longbridges claims warrant limited injunctive relief, finding that the law and facts clearly favor some of Longbridges claims.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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