Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With high prices and still stiff competition, those looking to buy a home in today’s real estate market need to consider every opportunity, including the choice between new construction or a resale home. Census Bureau, the median sale price of a new construction home in March 2024 was $430,700.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

Understanding what expenses are required at closing to buy a house will help you budget and save more effectively. In this article, we break down exactly what closing costs are so you’re prepared when you start shopping for a home: What are closing costs? Closing costs are the thousands of dollars associated with buying a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

To classify these sales, Zillow identified sales that were reported pending or closed with at most one day active and with a buyer and seller represented by the same agent or by agents within the same brokerage office, the report stated. Zillow said only this subset of off-MLS transactions was included in the analysis.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters. It is also wary of some of the proposals.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

So that really kind of hinders our actual total sales and total closings. I think that we’ve underbuilt for 13 years in this country and in this state, so definitely, new construction is in order, she said. I wish there was a way that we could make it more affordable for the actual raw materials, the construction materials.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Achieving [these] goals will also help encourage community banks to expand their construction-to-permanent mortgage lending activity, especially in small towns and rural markets.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We are proud to have constructed one of the most durable and high-quality portfolios of MSR in the market and this partnership will allow us to benefit from Rocket’s industry-leading servicing capabilities and retention rates,” said Steve Campbell, Annaly’s president and chief operating officer. In the second quarter, it added $20.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

This is why it’s essential to monitor builders’ forward-looking outlooks closely. range are not as low as the 3.25% to 5% rates we experienced over the past decade, that range should still facilitate the construction of more homes. I discussed this on the HousingWire Daily podcast today. While rates in the 6-6.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $300 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Friday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors. And, its focusing on areas like construction, non-QM, the fix-and-flip and second lien production.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ruehrwein, who became a licensed agent in 2017 after working in the new construction industry for 28 years, serves clients in Rehoboth and surrounding Massachusetts towns, as well as East Providence and the Narraganset area of Rhode Island. “My According to the release, the firm closed more than $350 million in volume in 2022. “We

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Inman

MARCH 21, 2025

Commercial construction technology company BuildOps has arrived at unicorn" status a valuation of $1 billion upon closing a Series C round of funding totaling $127 million.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Global investment bank Cambridge Wilkinson today announced the closing of a forward flow agreement up to $100 million for a private real estate lending platform specializing in short-term bridge , fix-and-flip, construction and land development loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Many Black families moved to these neighborhoods in the 1960s after redlining and interstate construction forced them out of other areas. ” Kalin closed his session with tailored advice for agents who are assisting landlords, buyers, and tenants with wildfire recovery. But as a result of what happened, there will be changes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Buyers want affordable new homes, yet new construction listings are still playing catch up with their high-priced counterparts. Beyond that, Deephaven allows up to 3% seller concessions at closing. Deephavens Equity Advantage Closed End Second is a second mortgage designed for one purpose assisting borrowers in borrowing their equity.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

The data also suggests that the economy is close to peak rent inflation—lower monthly rent prices have been recorded for two consecutive months, and the price growth for new leases is still decelerating. Rent growth will decrease because apartment construction – entry units coming on the market – is already in the pipeline. in 2024.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Private credit now has taken over and replaced the banks in facilitating much faster than bank-closed financing, and providing competitive terms and rates to those borrowers Wolak: Real estate investors are responsible for about one-quarter of all home sales. We still see a more modest advance for new single-family home construction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The conversation closes with Divounguy sharing his framework for tackling the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. What that tells me is that we really need more housing supply coming from new construction. Simonsen: Do you have a take on your forecast for total home sales volume for 2025?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

After Finance of America Companies closed its forward mortgage origination unit in October, a total of 21 FoA retail branches transitioned to Go Mortgage, said Steven Reich, a division president at Go Mortgage and former executive at FoA, in an interview with HousingWire. “Refis are the easier product of the industry,” Reich said. “We

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

However, we need to keep an eye on the housing construction data in this report because it has huge implications for the economic cycle, our recession risk and mortgage rates. The future production of housing units at risk I am bringing this up because economic recessions tend to see residential construction workers lose their jobs first.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In July 2024, Kiavi announced its closing of a $350 million securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), bringing its six-month volume of issuances to nearly $1 billion. It also closed five RTL securitizations for nearly $2 billion and expanded its product suite by launching a new construction financing product.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2024

In addition to promoting denser construction, removing barriers to homeownership that arent related to income credit assistance programs, down payment assistance or help with closing costs, for example would likely improve access to homeownership.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

And then looking at the vast demand or the vast breadth of competitors out there, we kind of looked at where they are doing well and where did we need to kind of jump in there and kind of close that gap. Citi led creative testing throughout the year-long site design and build, and will conduct testing throughout 2025.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While many multigenerational families are living together under one roof, potentially leading to feelings of overcrowding, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have emerged as a practical solution for affordable housing that allows families to stay close while maintaining some separation. Sean Roberts is the CEO of Villa Homes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

But despite rising home prices and stiff competition, a new report from John Burns Research & Consulting (JBREC) says it’s time to close the curtain on the “California exodus” narrative. Another 2,900 units are under construction similar to figures in Nashville and Indianapolis.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

However, demand has construction playing catch-up , as the estimate of new houses for sale at the end of October was just 278,000. Sales are increasingly being driven from homes not yet under construction. And more sales means more construction means more sales: A large share (38.5%, up from 28.5% This represents a supply of 3.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

New construction, resales, refinances and home improvements account for approximately 16% of the U.S. Falling home prices will not only make it more difficult for retirees but will impact existing homeowners that may want to purchase something larger or in a more desirable neighborhood. GDP, roughly $3 trillion.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Cleveland – Demand for residential construction and real estate has stabilized in this District, and contacts attribute this stabilization to the arrival of spring and flattening interest rates. However, fluctuations in mortgage rates have caused buyers to pull back, with pending sales and closed sales both down in this District.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Richards alleged that the lender closed thousands of loans without proper documentation to boost its performance ahead of its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. On Friday, a California jury found loanDepot not guilty on the final remaining claims involving gender discrimination and constructive discharge.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He also offers valuable insights into the appeal of BTR communities and emerging markets to watch closely. SK: Construction lending is extremely complex, and in which banks have traditionally been the dominant players. When you step into construction risk, it’s essential to have a partner that understands the market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Led by Jamison Frost and Valen Lindner, the team has closed more than $1 billion in career sales and is known for representing some of the most exclusive properties in Park City. The move grants them membership in the Christies International Real Estate Masters Circle, an exclusive designation for top-producing agents.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We can see a clear difference between the two markets in the housing construction data. Apartment permits Single family permits We should all be grateful that the builders are paying down mortgage rates and finishing their significant backlog of homes that are under construction or haven’t started construction yet.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And with the ability to buy down consumers’ mortgage rates while still maintaining double-digit margins, new construction grew to comprise roughly 30% of total housing inventory in 2023, more than double a normal year. Let’s look at the new construction forecast for 2024. million new single-family construction units in 2024.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

He notes, “You could really see core inflation down close to target by year end were it not for shelter, were [it] not for primary rents… When you look at the data in terms of cumulative housing starts it looks to be somewhere between one-and-a-half and 4 million short of what is actually necessary.”. The good news.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2022

You always want to be skeptical of any housing starts data that comes in too strong or too negative from the trend, and we had some specific factors in this report that boosted multifamily construction. The real story here in America in housing construction is the long delays in finishing a home which, is very obvious now in the housing data.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

This resulted in the gap between single family home construction and household formation growing to 6.5 Cooling buyer demand and builder confidence led to slower single-family construction and a shift in builder focus to multi-family last year,” Hannah Jones, Realtor.com’s economic data analyst, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

High inflation has reduced consumers’ purchasing power, which has led to weakened sales and construction across all 12 Federal Reserve districts. Housing markets continued to weaken, with sales and construction declining across [all 12 Federal Reserve] districts,” according to the Federal Reserve Beige Book released on Wednesday.

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