Yesterday I visited Sacramento to speak to an audience of real estate agents and originators in a joint MGIC/Golden 1 Credit Union event. The mood was good, and much of the discussion was about rent (give or take a little, 50 percent the U.S. is paying 50 percent of their income in rent) and products offered by depositories and portfolio lenders. Attendees also remarked how fast 2022 is moving. We’re fast approaching Memorial Day, marking the unofficial start of summer. Radio stations start playing summer-themed songs (“I thought I knew what love was, what did I know? Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go…”) Time does indeed fly, and it is important to keep things in perspective. Fairway Independent’s Jennifer S. sent over this tweet from Congress. “The median annual pay during the Great Depression was 22 percent of the cost of an average home. Today it’s 14 percent. That means that pay relative to home cost made it easi
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While the market is digesting the implications Rocket’s earnings (the shares are down in pre-market trading), remember when, in March 2020, it was as if someone flipped a switch and suddenly everyone was working from home. Now, however, owners and managers of lenders and vendors across the nation are debating allowing employees to continue working from home, requesting everyone come back into the office, or some type of hybrid. Goldman Sachs, for one, has told U.S. employees to return to the office by mid-June and U.K. workers to return shortly thereafter. We know from experience that our culture of collaboration, innovation and apprenticeship thrives when our people come together, according to an internal memo. Google expects 20 percent back in the office, with 60 percent in a hybrid model. Meanwhile, a segment of workers are embracing