Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After hitting a 23-year high of 8% in October, mortgage rates have cooled down to the lowest levels since July. When interest rates hovered around 8%, it really hurt affordability,” Steinway said. HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center showed 30-year conforming rates at 6.998% on Monday.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Homebuyers faced surging mortgage costs, fees and monthly payments in 2022 amid a tightening monetary policy designed to combat persistent inflation. “These trends are likely to continue given further increases in interest rates in 2023.” At Mortgage News Daily , it was at 7.50%. million in 2022. million in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2023

Mortgage rates are surging again due to sustained economic growth and continued inflation, eclipsing 7% on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage on Thursday, March 2 touched 7.10% , up 16 basis points from 6.94 Lower mortgage rates back in January brought buyers back into the market. on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last week of the calendar year is usually a slow time for the mortgage industry, but 2022 was something else. Mortgage applications decreased 13.2% That’s because costs for borrowers were higher, reflecting the mortgage market’s response to the Federal Reserve ‘s tightening monetary policy.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

economy, it doesn’t appear that mortgage rates will be dropping below that mark anytime soon. Purchase mortgages this week averaged 5%, up 28 basis points from 4.72% a week ago , according to the latest Freddie Mac PMMS. A year ago at this time, rates were at 3.13%. Jumbos on Wednesday were locked at 4.69%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Fannie Mae has a rosy outlook for mortgage rates. The government sponsored enterprise is projecting that rates will drop below 6% by the end of 2024, which in turn will boost refi volumes and help thaw the existing home sales market. The ESR group expects the annualized pace of existing home sales to move up to 4.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. rebranded as Rithm Capital ). Toohig said Raymond James finished the year with some $1.1 billion in 2021 to $9.6

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Late last month, Ginnie Mae released a term sheet for one of the most anticipated new developments for the reverse mortgage industry — a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) product referred to as “ HMBS 2.0.” To get a better idea of the potential impact that HMBS 2.0

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Among homeowners who have a mortgage escrow account, only 52% fully understand how the account works, according to survey results released Thursday by property tax services provider LERETA. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers must pay mortgage insurance for the life of their loan regardless of equity levels.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Rocket Mortgage and its wholesale arm Rocket Pro TPO will reduce homebuyers’ monthly mortgage payments by one full percentage point for the first year of their loan. Rocket Mortgage will be covering the difference in mortgage payments in the first 12 months through a special escrow account.

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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 way ARMs work is lenders offer lower mortgage rates for the initial three, five, seven years. The mortgage industry is different from 14 years ago.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Some mortgage rate indices topped 4% on Thursday, blowing past predictions that rates might reach those levels by the end of 2022. Economists had predicted rates would rise as the overall economy stabilized. Other indices put mortgage rates even higher. Randy Howell, president of Mortgage Power Inc.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Interest in residential mortgage loans fell 8.1% for the week ending March 18 as mortgage rates rose to 4.5%, the highest level in years, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s latest survey. The MBA found that the refi share of mortgage activity decreased to 44.8% the previous week. the previous week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. Mortgage executives project that number to remain steady or even tick up in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs). billion in 2021 to $4.6

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Investors are concerned that the central bank will continue raising the funds rate, pushing borrowing costs even higher.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. The Federal Reserve recently signaled plans to slash interest rates three times in 2024, shifting toward the next phase in its monetary policymaking. “It There’s still going to be a lag.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

Doug Duncan , the chief economist at Fannie Mae , believes pressures from fiscal and monetary policy have brought volatility to the secondary mortgage market, creating a “higher-for-longer” scenario in the U.S. economy that mortgage companies should be ready to face. Treasury, which brings the message to “watch for more volatility.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2023

.” Powell’s speech had an immediate impact on the mortgage market. Interest rates on home loans, which were already ticking upward, jumped last week, and it’s adding affordability challenges to the market. Other indexes show rates even higher. Jumbo loans increased to 6.79% from 6.78% in the same period.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. These rates drew a record number of people refinancing their homes, with cash out refinances reaching $1.2 trillion in 2021. homeowners.

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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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Nationwide, the share of homeowners with relatively low rates has fallen modestly from a record high of 92.8% homeowners with mortgages had an interest rate below 6%. To conduct this study , Redfin analyzed data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency ’s National Mortgage Database as of the third quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

A year after issuing its first Single-Family Green Mortgage Backed Security on Earth Day 2020, Fannie Mae has now completed 25 transactions for the program, totaling $167 million in bonds backed by mortgages on newly constructed, energy-efficient homes. but are well-established in Europe. Horton, Lennar Corp. and NVR Inc.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. These rates drew a record number of people refinancing their homes, with cash-out refinances reaching $1.2 trillion in 2021. homeowners.

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Equity Fixed-rate mortgage Principal Loans 397

Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Few things affect the real estate market more than the rise and fall of interest rates , which has a ripple effect that directly influences everything from buyer behavior to market trends. Back then, the FOMC lowered the rate to near zero, where it remained for several years.

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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. TD Bank ’s HELOC Trend Watch survey found that 43% of homeowners who are planning to renovate intend to use a HELOC or home equity loan to finance the project. So, it’s imperative to speak with a lender.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Reflecting the housing industry’s headwinds, just 16 mortgage lenders and brokers made the annual list of Inc. It’s a sharp decline from 2022, when nearly 70 mortgage lenders and brokers were named. The top mortgage lender on the Inc. Founded in 2019, the Virginia-based lender saw a 2,230% three-year growth rate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Much as the Fed was blind to the liquidity crises created by its rapid pace of rate increases, we believe the Fed has also failed to appreciate how severely its actions have imperiled the housing market. In 2021, mortgage originations hit a record high of $4.4 Independent mortgage companies have no such luxury. trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was an extraordinary year for the housing market: mortgage rates at an all-time low, record high annual growth in single-family prices and rents, lowest foreclosure rates in a generation and the largest number of home sales in 15 years. for 30-year fixed-rate loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Home prices growth and mortgage rates have come down from the peaks in 2022, but affordability still remains a challenge. In turn, borrowers who are entering the market are leaning heavily toward buying down their first lien interest rates by paying points up front. rate locks, with cash-out refis making up 13.7%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

When you make a mortgage payment, part of that money goes toward the principal balance. The longer you live there and pay down the mortgage, the greater your stake in the property’s value. Should the property increase in value over time, then you, in turn, will have built up more equity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the reflection, a mortgage executive sees faint images of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. The financial chaos that sparked the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, leading to a government bailout, now haunts the independent mortgage banking market this Halloween season — and beyond.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reverse mortgage loan originators all seem to agree that 2024 is off to a better overall start in business than a tepid 2023 might suggest. EquityAvail was launched in early 2021 , and is a single, fixed-rate mortgage that is fully disbursed at closing with a maximum amount of up to $4 million.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mortgage lenders are preparing for the end of LIBOR , which is set to be phased out by the end of 2021. The most viable replacement is the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) index, which has been recommended by the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) and endorsed by the New York Federal Reserve.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

Fintech lender Figure Technologies and multichannel originator Homebridge Financial Services last August announced a merger that they claimed would usher in monumental change to the mortgage industry. They will also work together to develop new products, such as a home equity line of credit (HELOC) and piggyback products. “We

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