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Here’s where homes virtually sold out in the pandemic
New data confirm what brokers and home buyers have long felt: The pandemic surge in homebuying decimated inventories most...
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Jumbo mortgage lenders invade Fannie and Freddie’s turf
With overnight bank funding rates near zero, investors are flush with cash — liquidity they are using to compete...
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Exhausting other options, buyers flock to fixer-uppers
Even cheap homes have gotten expensive. In ZIP codes where the median home price was less than $100,000 in...
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Mortgage lender Better to go public via SPAC merger
Mortgage lender Better is looking for a big pay day. The company plans to go public via a merger...
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Drop in home refinancing crimps mortgage firms’ profits
The mortgage market is set to lose steam this year. Lenders originated a record $3.83 trillion in home loans...
These were the largest Manhattan real estate loans in April
The 10 largest Manhattan real estate loans recorded in April totaled about $790 million, less than half of March’s...
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Home values are up, but just try getting a line of credit
Remember the financial crisis? Banks do. Lenders are being stingy about granting home equity lines of credit even as...
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Mortgage applications resume decline after one-week surge
The number of mortgage applications is fluctuating but trending downward as buyers try to decide whether now’s the right...
Buenas noticias: Hispanic homeownership soars
Hispanic homeownership had its biggest annual increase last year in two decades. As buyers — younger ones in particular...
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Mortgage rates dip, triggering surge in loan requests
When mortgage rates dropped last week to their lowest levels in two months, buyers pounced. After three weeks of...