HousingWireHousingWire The U.S. housing market remains challenging for prospective buyers as concerns over mortgage rates, home prices and affordability persist in 2025. With affordability shrinking, buyers are taking more risks to secure homes, according to HomeLight’s 2025 Lender Insights & Predictions survey. Findings include 71% of loan officers reporting an…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The public-private partnership that exists between city officials and nonprofit leaders in Dallas is an encouraging sign on how to deal with the homelessness crisis, and it could be worthy of replication on a national level. This is according to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Housing market forecasters projected home prices to rise in 2025 because of limited inventory and the release of pent-up demand as mortgage rates moderate off their highs of the last few years. However, recent data suggests home prices are trending in the other direction. According to Altos, the weekly…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s job is never easy as policymakers must sift through mounds of data to arrive at policy decisions that will never be universally applauded. But the committee’s task has gotten more difficult with the return of Donald Trump to the White House. The president’s…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The national delinquency rate edged up 5 basis points (bps) to 3.53% in February, which marked a month-over-month change of 1.45% and a year-over-year change of 5.69%. That’s according to Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) first look for its February 2025 month-end mortgage performance statistics. Today’s first look at the data…
Continue reading →
