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NY Fed: Americans Expect Home Prices to Keep Rising
The median inflation rate is expected to be 3.3% one year from now, up from 3% in last month’s report. Continue Reading NY Fed: Americans Expect Home Prices to Keep Rising
WFG Taps Dan Hassan at SVP and Southwest Region Manager
Prior to joining WFG, Hassen was national agency manager at National Title Insurance Company. Continue Reading WFG Taps Dan Hassan at SVP and Southwest Region Manager
Mattamy Homes Purchases 49 Acres for North Carolina Community
The Orlando-headquartered homebuilder Mattamy Homes announced the expansion of its presence in Harnett County, North Carolina, with the purchase of 49 acres that will become the site of the upcoming Cardinal Landing community. The new community will consist of 140...
Rudy Wolfs Named Chief Technology Officer at Anywhere Real Estate
The company also said Melissa McSherry will step down as chief operating officer, effective Feb. 26. Continue Reading Rudy Wolfs Named Chief Technology Officer at Anywhere Real Estate
Century 21 System Raised Over $3 Million for Easterseals in 2023
The 2023 total includes the more than $60,000 raised during the brand’s first International Week of Giving last July. Continue Reading Century 21 System Raised Over $3 Million for Easterseals in 2023
8 tips for millennial homebuyers
Source: MSN --- Tips and tricks for buying a new house Preparing to buy your first home is a thrilling time. Dreaming up all the new furniture, routines and life you’ll live inside those four walls is exciting. And it appears that a portion of the millennial...
Tips & Insights from Opendoor Real Estate Expert
Source: ABC Action News --- In the hottest real estate market in a generation, the national inventory of active listings declined by more than 50 percent over last year, creating both challenges and opportunities for buyers and sellers. With homes flying off the...
Ten steps than can improve housing affordability
Source: Pasadena Star News --- I was excited to read about your recent Executive Order on promoting competition across America with the goal of reducing consumer prices. When it comes to real estate, reducing purchase and refinance transactional costs along with...
Millennials’ Real Estate FOMO Goes Haywire
Source: Bloomberg --- Here’s a word to add to your investing vocabulary: Dungers. The term for dilapidated, crumbling houses comes from New Zealand, which is in the grip of a striking property boom. The country topped Bloomberg Economics’ risk radar in June for being...
Biden’s new dilemma: How to slash housing costs for low-income borrowers
Source: Politico --- President Joe Biden’s move to fire the top U.S. mortgage regulator is triggering calls from fellow Democrats to use the agency to expand access to loans for lower-income people, who have struggled to buy homes since the financial crisis. That’s...
Mortgage servicers brace for fallout as Covid bailout comes to an end
Source: CNBC --- The nation’s mortgage servicers are gearing up for the biggest wave of delinquent loans since the subprime mortgage crisis, but this time they say they are ready. The first wave of borrowers to enter the government’s coronavirus mortgage bailout...
Sub-3% mortgage rate streak comes to an end
Source: MPA --- An increase in mortgage rates has ended a 10-week streak of sub-3% rates, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. For the first time since April, the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose above 3%, up nine basis points to 3.02%. Freddie Mac chief economist...
Homepoint unveils new service model for brokers
Source: MPA --- With refinances drying up, brokers are shifting their focus to capturing the booming purchase market. Homepoint – the nation’s third-largest wholesale lender – has launched Homepoint Amplify, a new service model that aims to help brokers do just that....
Fed Officials Debate Scaling Back Mortgage-Bond Purchases at Faster Clip
Source: The Wall Street Journal --- As Federal Reserve officials discuss how to eventually scale back their easy-money policies, they are debating whether to start by reducing purchases of mortgage-backed securities to avoid adding more fuel to the housing boom. The...
The U.S. is the country most vulnerable to a new financial crisis, Nomura warns
Source: Market Watch --- Wouldn’t it be great to know when financial crises are about to happen? That’s the idea behind a new warning model created by Japanese bank Nomura, with the somewhat unfortunate name Cassandra, given the Trojan priestess of Greek mythology was...
