This is about the time you stop saying “Happy New Year” to people because you’ve forgotten who you’ve said it to and who you haven’t. Lenders and vendors are not forgetting the second half of 2022 as they plan for 2023, and widespread travel and entertainment cutbacks are standard fare. It is hard to justify spending $3-5k for each person to go to a conference just to “wave the company flag” when you just went through another RIF and you’re hoping to break even in the first quarter. Zillow has not forgotten anything, especially since it has nothing to remember. Zillow doesn’t have to remember what the inside of my house looks like, since it has never set foot in my hovel. But Zillow has a staff to crunch numbers, and tells us that, given the FHFA/Freddie/Fannie conforming loan limit changes for 2023, more than 2 million U.S. homes no longer require a jumbo loan. (Remember that, since jumbo loans don’t have a g-fee, s
The economic calendar remains busy in the days ahead with a bevy of Federal Reserve speakers as well as the October US inflation report (consumer price index).