The much anticipated, and long awaited, entrance of Millennials into the home buying market seems to finally be upon us. This generation accounted for about 85% of the volume of home purchase, closed mortgages in January. Not surprisingly, many of these buyers chose low down payment mortgage programs for their financing. In fact, Down Payment Resource, an entity that creates…
Times they are a changing…rates are on the rise, refi’s are going away, house prices are increasing, and buyers are a little different and getting tougher to qualify. To compete in the new mortgage market, lenders need both a full complement of products and services and current technology, with the qualified staff, to make it all work. Everybody is concerned…
According to Lynn Fisher, MBA’s Vice President of Research and Economics, new housing starts should increase about 10% in 2017 and just a bit less in 2018. The effect should be to slow the rising prices for existing housing, helping more consumers realize their American Dream. The MBA forecasts that mortgage debt in the US will increase in 2018 to…
Despite rising mortgage rates and increasing home prices, many consumers are feeling good about housing going into the spring buying season. As evidence, Fannie Mae’s monthly index of homebuyer sentiment rose to its highest level since 2011. That’s great news. Woo-Woo! According to Doug Duncan, Chief Economist at Fannie Mae, Millennials showed strong increases in job confidence and income growth.…
The market has been mostly void of private label securities; securities that are not backed by Fannie, Freddie or Ginnie. There are some of these securities being created like the one recently done by Angel Oak of Atlanta. Angel Oak, having previously issued non-rated, mortgage-backed securities, is issuing its first rated transaction. A pool comprised of 529 non-QM loans valued…
Mortgage lenders are facing challenges in 2017 from rising interest rates, rising home prices and fewer refinances. These add up to result in less business. The big question is should lenders relax credit standards to help qualify more homebuyers for financing? Here we go again. Lenders were blamed for relaxed credit standards that led to the crash of ‘08. As…
