A report from the Wall Street Journal. "Sheila Smith was set to get a mortgage for about $750,000 to buy an investment property in Sedona, Ariz., earlier this year. The lender, a regional bank, offered a starting interest rate of…
A report from the News Press in Florida. "Lee County Property Appraiser Matt Caldwell released his preliminary report on real estate values in Lee County during 2022. Two barrier island communities hit hardest by Hurricane Ian saw sharply falling values,…
A report from Go Banking Rates. "What goes up must come down. The market’s downward shift is most apparent in the properties on the high side of the median. According to Redfin, luxury home sales fell by a record 45%…
A report from CNBC. "Wells Fargo is stepping back from the multitrillion-dollar market for U.S. mortgages. As part of its retrenchment, Wells Fargo is also shuttering its correspondent business that buys loans made by third-party lenders and 'significantly' shrinking its…
A weekend topic starting with the New York Times. "The last time such home price growth occurred was in the years leading up to the housing crash. But even at the height of the bubble in 2006, only about 40%…
A report from CNBC. "'We actually believe the industry is already overbuilding in single-family to normalized demand by roughly 20% and about 10% for multi-family, so we couldn't be on more of an opposite side of where the market is…
A report from Fox 4 South Florida. "Homes are flying off the market Florida real estate market, resembling the years leading to the 2008 housing market crash. Realtor Kayinah Destine with Twin Metro Realty says lenders have stricter guidelines now…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The contours of the ruin caused in New York City are emerging. City unemployment rate climbed to nearly 20 percent in July with nearly a fifth of jobs wiped out, year-to-year. Many…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Mortgage delinquencies showed their sharpest rise in the history of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s delinquency survey. 'There is no way to sugarcoat a 32.9 percent drop in GDP during the second quarter,'…
A report from the Philadelphia Inquirer in Pennsylvania. "Economic uncertainty during the pandemic has led banks to tighten their lending standards. The supply of mortgage credit has fallen by more than 30% from February to June, according to the Mortgage…