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Black Friday deals on a new home? Here you go

Housing Wire

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. Several areas, including Central Ohio, Greater Austin, Texas, and Charlotte, N.C.,

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FHFA says it prevented 43K foreclosures in Q3, but new cases rose 27%

Housing Wire

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday announced that it initiated 43,459 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter of 2024, bringing the total number of homeowners helped to more than 7 million since the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) entered conservatorship in 2008.

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Trapped by design: Why America’s housing market is stuck — and what the rest of the world can teach us

Housing Wire

homeowners hold mortgages below 4%, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. With current rates hovering near 7%, selling a home today often means trading a historically low payment for one nearly double the size. And while U.S. The scale of the lock-in problem is staggering. Nearly two-thirds of U.S.

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Mortgage rates continue a downward trend in the twilight of 2023

Housing Wire

As we prepare to bid adieu to 2023, mortgage rates this week again stayed below seven percent. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.61% as of Dec. 28, a slight decrease from the 6.67% rate recorded on Dec. 21 according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey released on Thursday.

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Mortgage applications jump as rates plummet

Housing Wire

And the 15-year rate fell to a record low last seen in 1990. Those ultra-low rates naturally resulted in a sharp uptick in refinancing activity. “With over 95% of refinance applications for fixed rate mortgages, borrowers are looking to secure a lower rate for the life of their loan,” Kan said Wednesday.

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Housing industry pleads with Biden administration to narrow the mortgage spread

Housing Wire

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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Mortgage rates creep up slightly to 2.80%

Housing Wire

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%.