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Mortgage refinance fee dropped by regulator, lowering costs for borrowers

Mortgage refinance fee dropped by regulator, lowering costs for borrowers

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dropping a fee on mortgage refinances that was instituted during the pandemic, lowering costs for borrowers, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said Friday.

Fannie and Freddie were charging lenders a 50 basis-point fee for all loans that were delivered to the two mortgage giants. The fee, designed to cover losses projected as a result of the pandemic, was being passed on to borrowers.

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Mortgage refinance fee dropped by regulator, lowering costs for borrowers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dropping a fee on mortgage refinances that was instituted during the pandemic.

Examining Buying, Selling Behaviors of LBGTQ+ Homeowners

Examining Buying, Selling Behaviors of LBGTQ+ Homeowners

Homebuyers who identify as LBGTQ+ reportedly tend to purchase older, smaller homes than their non-LBGTQ+ counterparts. This demographic also report planning to live in their new homes for 10 years, an average of five years less than buyers who identify as cisgender and/or straight. These findings come from the 2021 Profile of LGBTQ Home Buyers and Sellers from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), whose research team also found that LGBTQ+ buyers and sellers were more likely than non-LGBTQ to be single men and unmarried couples and were more likely to identify as male than as female. Also, buyers and sellers who identified as bisexual were more likely than other groups to be younger, be first-time homebuyers or sellers, and report lower incomes.

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https://themreport.com/daily-dose/06-14-2021/examining-buying-selling-behaviors-of-lbgtq-homeowners

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Examining Buying, Selling Behaviors of LBGTQ+ Homeowners Homebuyers who identify as LBGTQ+ reportedly tend to purchase older, smaller homes than their non-LB...

Ex-Zillow execs promise revolution in lending - HousingWire

Ex-Zillow execs promise revolution in lending

Seventy million dollars in seed funding is a colossal investment for an unproven tech startup, even one that promises to fully disrupt a relatively low-margin, traditional industry like mortgage lending. But this is no ordinary mortgage startup. Venture capital investors including Zillow founder Spencer Rascoff and Trulia co-founder Pete Flint, believe that Tomo has the potential to topple the legion of lenders that have increased market share, invested heavily in technology and lapped up record profits in recent years.

Tomo, founded by former Zillow executives, is built on the premise that homebuyers need to gain an edge, especially in a market largely defined by limited inventory and fierce bidding wars.

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Ex-Zillow execs promise revolution in lending - HousingWire Tomo is a new mortgage platform backed by ex-Zillow executives Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong. Seventy million in seed fund was raised.

Cash Is King in the Housing Game

Cash Is King in the Housing Game

A new analysis of home sales by Redfin has found that nearly one-third (30%) of U.S. home purchases this year were paid for with all cash, up from 25.3% during all of 2020, and representing the largest share since 2014, when 30.6% of homes were purchased with all cash.

"I've never seen more cash in Boise's housing market than I've seen in the past year," said Shauna Pendleton, a Redfin Real Estate Agent in Idaho. "I just sold a $700,000 home to a cash buyer last week. The entire $700,000 came from his E*Trade account."

Remote work has allowed homeowners in expensive cities—including San Francisco and New York—to sell their homes and move to less expensive areas, where they can often afford to buy properties in cash.

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https://dsnews.com/daily-dose/07-16-2021/cash-is-king-in-the-housing-game

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Cash Is King in the Housing Game A new analysis of home sales by Redfin has found that nearly one-third (30%) of U.S. home purchases ...

Home sales are beginning to stall as buyers hit their limit - HousingWire

Home sales are beginning to stall as buyers hit their limit

Home sales fell 1.2% from May to June, the largest drop at this time of year on record since at least 2012, according to a new Redfin study released this week.

The national median home-sale price hit a record high of $386,888, up 25% year over year, but a slight decline from the record of 26% in May. The number of homes for sale fell 28% year over year from 2020, and the typical home sold in just 14 days — a record low and down from 39 days in June 2020.

Homes sold for their highest prices and at their fastest pace on record, but measures for market speed and competition seem to be at or near peak levels for this year, said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist.

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Home sales are beginning to stall as buyers hit their limit - HousingWire Home sales fell 1.2% from May to June, the largest drop at this time of year on record since at least 2012 per a new Redfin study.

Harsher rules, more enforcement: What to expect from Chopra's CFPB

Harsher rules, more enforcement: What to expect from Chopra's CFPB

Soon after he was inaugurated as president, Barack Obama famously quipped to congressional Republicans that “elections have consequences.”

One of the consequences of Obama’s election was the passage of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which, among other things, established a new federal agency known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The brainchild of then-Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, the bureau wielded broad authority to define what consumer lending practices are unfair and punish companies that offered them.

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Harsher rules, more enforcement: What to expect from Chopra's CFPB Rohit Chopra, President Biden’s pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is expected to be the type of aggressive leader the agency had at its inception. Is that what consumers need?

FHFA Director Addresses Underserved Markets

FHFA Director Addresses Underserved Markets

As part of its Duty to Serve (DTS) program, the Federal Housing Finance Agency hosting a series of Listening Sessions focusing on various underserved markets. The DTS program requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs) to facilitate a secondary market for mortgages on housing for very low-, low-, and moderate-income families in three underserved markets: Manufactured Housing, Affordable Housing Preservation, and Rural Housing. The DTS program requires the GSEs to prepare Plans detailing specific objectives and activities they plan to implement to fulfill the DTS mandate.

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FHFA Director Addresses Underserved Markets As part of its Duty to Serve (DTS) program, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) hosting a ...

Missed housing payments pile on for homeowners, renters

Homeowners and renters continue their gradual recovery from the historic job losses of 2020. But for many, the ability to make their housing payments remains out of reach.

In March 2021, 7.7% of U.S. non-subsidized rental households were one or more payments behind on rent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

While this is still higher than a typical month, the share of renters with missed payments has declined fairly steadily since peaking at 11.1% in April 2020.

Throughout the pandemic and recession, roughly one-in-four rental households have missed a payment, with the majority able to catch up within the one-to-three months following the first missed payment. For homeowners, one-in-seven — or 14% — have missed payments at some point during the 2020-2021 recession.

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Missed housing payments pile on for homeowners, renters

Homeowners and renters continue their gradual recovery from the historic job losses of 2020. But for many, the ability to make their housing payments remains out of reach.

In March 2021, 7.7% of U.S. non-subsidized rental households were one or more payments behind on rent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

While this is still higher than a typical month, the share of renters with missed payments has declined fairly steadily since peaking at 11.1% in April 2020.

Throughout the pandemic and recession, roughly one-in-four rental households have missed a payment, with the majority able to catch up within the one-to-three months following the first missed payment. For homeowners, one-in-seven — or 14% — have missed payments at some point during the 2020-2021 recession.

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https://journal.firsttuesday.us/missed-housing-payments-pile-on-for-homeowners-renters/78092/

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Refinancing a mortgage now could save a homeowner $293 a month, new data says

Refinancing a mortgage now could save a homeowner $293 a month, new data says

As it threw economies into chaos last year, COVID-19 ushered in the lowest mortgage rates ever seen — and the days of ultra-low rates aren't over yet.

Thirty-year mortgage rates climbed earlier this year as the vaccine rollout had investors feeling confident about the recovery. Now, with the Delta variant on the rampage, rates are falling again.

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Refinancing a mortgage now could save a homeowner $293 a month, new data says A recent drop in mortgage rates has given close to 14 million an incentive to refi.

Pending Home Sales Losing Momentum

Is the housing market beginning to see a slowdown?

According to Redfin’s latest housing market update, home purchase applications have been tailing off since late March, and are now 7% below their average levels in January and February 2020, despite low mortgage rates and easing access to credit.

The cooling market is also reflected in a four-week decline in pending sales, and a drop in Redfin's demand index, which was down 12% from its late-March peak.

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Pending Home Sales Losing Momentum

Is the housing market beginning to see a slowdown?

According to Redfin’s latest housing market update, home purchase applications have been tailing off since late March, and are now 7% below their average levels in January and February 2020, despite low mortgage rates and easing access to credit.

The cooling market is also reflected in a four-week decline in pending sales, and a drop in Redfin's demand index, which was down 12% from its late-March peak.

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https://dsnews.com/.../pending-home-sales-losing-momentum

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Working From Home Is Exposing Us To Another Type Of Virus: Cybercrime

Working From Home Is Exposing Us To Another Type Of Virus: Cybercrime

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – We locked down. We masked up. And we worked from home.

But, while we did everything we could protect our health, most all of us exposed ourselves to another type of viruses- cybercrime.

“This is all happening because someone like me is working from home?”

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https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/05/06/working-home-exposes-texansto-virus-cybercrime/

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Working From Home Is Exposing Us To Another Type Of Virus: Cybercrime According to the FBI’s internet crime report, complaints rose 69% from 2019 to 2020. Money loss jumped around $700 million, from $3.5 billion to $4.2 billion.

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407 Elmwood St, Islip Terrace, NY 11752 | 18 Photos | MLS #3328874 - Movoto For Sale: Single Family home, $485,500, 3 Bd, 2 Ba, 1,625 Sqft, $299/Sqft, at 407 Elmwood St, Islip Terrace, NY 11752

Winners and Losers: Where Homeownership Increased—and Decreased—Most Since the Pandemic

Winners and Losers: Where Homeownership Increased—and Decreased—Most Since the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bit of a blessing—and of course, a curse—for homebuyers. Record-low mortgage interest rates suddenly put more expensive homes within reach. But a shortage of properties for sale and fast-rising prices made it a challenging market for buyers in just about every corner of the country.

Some would-be homeowners were priced right on out of the market, or couldn’t find residences that met their needs. Other enterprising buyers, particularly those who could work remotely during the pandemic, were able to shift their searches to more affordable, smaller cities and farther-out suburbs and exurbs that they may not have previously considered.

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https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/where-homeownership-rose-and-fell-the-most-during-pandemic/

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Winners and Losers: Where Homeownership Increased—and Decreased—Most Since the Pandemic Realtor.com found the metropolitan areas that have seen the largest increases and decreases in homeownership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perspective | Keep or toss? Homeowner asks what to do with pages and pages of documents.

Keep or toss? Homeowner asks what to do with pages and pages of documents.

Always keep all your papers from any type of closing; whether the transactions was either Refinance or a Purchase. These papers contain vital financial and documentation information that you may need in the future. You may receive documentation after closing, print and save as well. Old fashion paper never goes out of style.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/30/keep-or-toss-homeowner-asks-what-do-with-pages-pages-documents/

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Perspective | Keep or toss? Homeowner asks what to do with pages and pages of documents. REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Today, most (if not all) documents from financial institutions like mortgage companies will be delivered to you electronically, and if you have physical documents leftover from long ago, you can scan them into your computer as well.