Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

It is the ballet of our lives being rendered on a stage we can finance thanks to a robust secondary market. Over the past few years, the noisy misdirection of data had us thinking homeownership was cerebral. Its storytelling. You walk in to a new listing with a price and a plan.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday said it will aim to simplify the process of funding affordable housing projects through the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks). The advisory bulletin came in response to comments by sponsors that have called the process too cumbersome.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. just to give an idea of how fragmented it is in terms of the lender,” Christian Faes, founder of F2 Finance, said in an interview with HousingWire. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2022

Finance of America CEO Patti Cook. In February, Finance of America CEO Patti Cook announced her retirement after a successful career in finance that spanned 45 years. We strive to offer the widest breadth of products and services, so we can help our customers at whatever stage of life they’re in. It’s really remarkable.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

’” Each speaker only had roughly 10 minutes of time on the stage, so Hopkins had to make the most of what she wanted to say in alignment with the event’s themes. “I What can we do with this?’ ’ So it started to spark questions like, ‘Hey, let’s have coffee.’”

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

for purchase mortgage origination, and he is taking the stage at HW Annual. Register Weaver spoke with HousingWire to share his excitement for HW Annual and give attendees a sneak peak at the t opics he’ll discuss on stage. More critical than training on skills is training on having a strong mindset,” said Matt Weaver. 1 LO in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Both the weekly new contracts and all the homes in the contract pending stage are below last year. Overall, the number of homes in the contract pending stage is just over 257,000, thats almost 2% fewer than a year ago. Again, the real-time measure is of the contracts pending the stage before the sale closes. When will that be?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

After you build rapport, launch into the first stage of the LPMAMA script: L ocation. Sharing anecdotes about your former clients home search is the perfect way to introduce the next stage of LPMAMA: M otivation. This is why mastering the first three stages of the LPMAMA script is so important.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As permits continue to decline, Redfin predicts that the new-home share of the market will fall further, leaving the door open for existing-home sales to take center stage in the market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. There are now 354,000 single-family homes in the contract pending stage. Home sales are significantly better than they were last year at this time. No one else is reporting it yet, because the traditional data takes so long to reach the headlines.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

1, 2024, when Snyder, the CEO of Lower , steps on to the main stage at the George W. In his session at the HousingWire IMB Summit, Snyder will take the stage with HousingWire Managing Editor James Kleimann and Brett Ludden , managing partner at Sterling Point Advisors. This changes on Oct.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2021

The Federal Housing Finance Agency , which oversees Fannie and Freddie, echoed that its ban will lift at the end of the month. By stage, 9.8% of total loans in forbearance are in the initial plan stage, while 83.2% are in an extension. The remaining 7% are re-entries.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

While they’re one of the best opportunities for an objective party outside the deal to assess a home’s true value, they can also torpedo an asking price or cause a lender to rescind its financing offer. However, their role in the financing process is more important for many buyers. This stage is critical.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

Also, for the sake of simplicity, I will take a complex supply chain and process and reduce it to five stages/processes: 1. Finance: D- Housing finance has not structurally changed in decades. Put simply, AI has not delivered much to the finance process. Valuation 3. Transaction 5.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

RentRedi’s biggest investors include K1 Investment Management, RiverPark Ventures, TIA Ventures and Tribeca Early Stage Partners. In February, Curbio joined the program, offering pre-sale home improvement services and financing. According to Crunchbase , the company raised $12 million in a Series A funding round.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Inside Mortgage Finance first reported on the topic. Cases in the early stages may be transferred to other lenders with an FHA approval. Open Mortgage’s termination is based on the “poor performance” of these loans, HUD stated. HUD’s decision on Open Mortgage will be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

“While the volume of these bonds is small compared with the daily trading activity in the To-Be-Announced MBS market, we also recognize that we are still in the early stages,” Johnson said. Fannie partnered with several lenders on the single-family initiative, including the mortgage finance arms of builders D.R. Horton, Lennar Corp.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is planning to examine innovations in the multifamily housing space following its TechSprint event in late July, which focused on innovative use cases in housing for generative artificial intelligence (gen AI). Pippin spoke on stage during HousingWire ’s IMB Summit held in Dallas on Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Exuma believes that the platform will provide transformative change to every stage of homeownership. “My At the Federal Housing Finance Agency ‘s 2024 TechSprint event in July, numerous companies made pitches for bringing these technologies to the space. AI has been top of mind for the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Let’s see how this has played out in different stages of the economy. This is what happened post 2010: The millennials started to buy homes in 2013 and they finance 90% of those homes. All of these factors set the stage for what happened next. So inventory slowly broke lower and lower as we came into the years 2020-2024.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

However, waiting is not an option for homebuyers in pivotal chapters of their lives—whether starting a family or setting the stage for long-term financial stability. The secondary mortgage market provides billions of dollars in overall funding, making more credit available to borrowers nationwide to promote stable housing financing.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

While they’ve long been the backbone of companies trying to navigate the cyclical nature of the industry, housing finance executives took center stage last year.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

On the construction side, homebuilders as well as land developers found it hard to finance projects because of high short-term interest rates. Given the lack of existing home inventory, somewhat lower mortgage rates will price-in housing demand and likely set the stage for improved builder views of market conditions in December.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

HELOCs have continued to set the stage as flexible, helpful products that provide quick access to financing for a multitude of uses including home renovations, debt consolidations or emergency purchases. Additionally, 65% of the total respondents are currently planning or have plans to renovate their homes within the next two years.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Federal Housing Finance Agency followed suit, announcing it would continue to buy qualified loans in forbearance through Nov. According to the MBA report, an estimated 3 million homeowners are in forbearance plans, with approximately 25.02% of total loans in forbearance in the initial stage and 73.14% in a forbearance extension.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has expanded the eligibility for alternative appraisal methods on purchase loans by increasing the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) requirement. The announcement was made on Monday during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Annual Convention & Expo in Denver, Colorado.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

There are just 252,000 single-family total homes in the contract pending stage. So there were 12% more new listings and 3% fewer sales started. This is a very notable change from late last year. Thats basically unchanged from a year ago. Ive talked about how we expect about 5% home sales gains for the year. That means 4.2

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Joe Davila, president and CEO of Selene Finance , about how servicers can best help homeowners with next steps as they exit forbearance plans. The number of homeowners still in forbearance plans has been declining as foreclosure moratoriums expire. How can servicers prepare to help them with next steps?

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

. “The past four years have placed a series of stressors on the market, which have been exacerbated by long-standing gaps in housing supply,” Adrianne Todman, HUD’s acting secretary, said on stage during Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Secondary & Capital Markets Conference held in New York.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Thursday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will continue to buy qualified loans in forbearance , extending the temporary policy until Dec. However, 3 million American homeowners are still in forbearance plans with an approximate 25.02% in the initial stage and 73.14% in some form of extension.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Whether you’re a year away from selling or hoping to close in a few months, a timeline is important for all parties, especially if your family member needs to sell an existing home, secure financing, and arrange moving details. Discuss financing. Does your buyer need to secure a mortgage ? Are they buying with cash?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

mortgage delinquencies remained near a record low in July, with the share of homes entering that status or progressing to later stages either unchanged or lower,” said Molly Boesel, principal economist for CoreLogic , in a news release. The rate for early-stage delinquencies was 1.3% “Overall U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The talks remain ongoing and are not believed to be in the late stages, sources said. A source also said CrossCountry raised $400 million in debt financing in 2021, which put the company in a better position to navigate a shrinking market than many of its competitors. nine industry sources told HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Federal Housing Finance Agency published the 2021 plans for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to serve the most vulnerable communities through their Duty to Serve plans. Freddie Mac has its own classification names to list its developmental stages: Loan Purchase, Loan Product, Outreach and Investment. “At

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

While Finance of America Companies (FOA) President Kristen Sieffert was the biggest reverse mortgage industry representative to take the stage at the event, other lending professionals who are active in the reverse mortgage business also spoke about why they’re involved in the space and what they believe it can do for their companies going forward.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency introduced new upfront fees on Wednesday for some high-balance and second-home loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Upfront fees for high balance loans will increase between 0.25% and 0.75%, tiered by loan-to-value ratio.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

At this early stage, it’s unclear how such commissions would be paid since buyers could pay their agents out of their pockets or negotiate commissions as a seller concession in the closing costs. “You VanFossen said there are talks about the “mortgage industry figuring out methods to finance the buyers’ real estate agent commission.” “As

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