MLO, Ops Jobs; Lender Wanted; Small Business Grant; Ignore the CFPB at Your Own Peril Dec 31 2020, 8:22AM
I still don’t know what I’m wearing to the living room on New Year’s Eve. Heck, I may not even go. Wouldn’t it be nice to be on a cruise? Ever heard of the SS Warrimoo? Me neither until a few trivia-loving readers sent me emails saying that the ship reportedly once navigated to a point that simultaneously spanned two different hemispheres, two centuries, two days, two months, two years, and two seasons. If true, that’s neat. But documentation is lacking, as was the precise navigation 120 years ago. On the other hand, there’s plenty of documentation about demographics as 72 million millennials are snapping up houses right and left. And in a year when some were focused on the yield on the U.S. risk-free 10-year Treasury note ranging from 1.94 percent down to 0.31 percent, others were focused on regulations, since regulators have plenty of d
Christmas Eve: Bus. Dev., MLO, AE Jobs; Verification Tool; Disaster News; What is Build for Rent ? Dec 24 2020, 8:12AM
New Homes Sales tumbled over 11 percent in November. Does that mean no one wants new homes, they’re over-priced, or there aren’t any to buy? One has to look at statistics critically. Housing stats tell us that bigger isn’t always better. Per the Census Bureau, the average square footage of new homes sold in the U.S. dropped from 2,724 in 2015 to 2,518 in 2019. Despite the decline in average square footage, the average sales price of new single-family homes sold in 2019 was $383,900, up from $272,900 in 2010 (not adjusted for inflation). 69% of new single-family houses sold last year were purchased using conventional financing (and other types of financing excluding Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Veteran’s Administration (VA) or cash purchases), up from 58% in 2010. Lest we forget, conventional financing is a mortgage loan
Ops Jobs; Shell Wanted; CRM, POS, Retention, Jumbo Loan, Capital Markets Products; How News Moves Rates Dec 17 2020, 8:16AM
Who would’ve thought that one day we’d be smoking weed at a family gathering, but the illegal part would be the family gathering? For most of us, family matters are critical. The year 2030, 10 years from now, marks an important demographic turning point in U.S. history according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Population Projections. By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. Reverse mortgage lenders are aware that this will expand the size of the older population so that 1 in every 5 residents will be retirement age. The population is expected to grow at a slower pace, age considerably and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Net international migration is projected to overtake natural increase in 2030 as the primary driver of population growth in the United States, another demographic first for the Uni
MLO, Ops Jobs; Broker, Retention Products; Borrower Satisfaction; Primer on How News Impacts Rates Dec 10 2020, 8:00AM
“My ability to remember song lyrics from the 80s far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen.” The Baby Boomers are certainly riding the appreciation wave in housing across the nation. (Speaking of waves, did you know that Hawai’i is last among the states in boat registrations?) And given the rising values of a house, is anyone surprised that the fears of forbearance causing a cratering of the United States real estate market were entirely overblown? Owners will do whatever they can not to give up on the appreciation, and appraised values continue to edge higher. Appraisers love easy to appraise, “cookie cutter” houses and buildings, but these aren’t those. 70+ million people aged 24-39, aka Millennials, sure want to own homes or at least have a place to live. And developers are converting more and more h