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Housing Finance Forecast for August available now for 2024/2025
Fannie Mae and MBA published their latest housing finance forecast for August 2024 this week providing estimates of the quarterly purchase and refinance origination volumes for 1st lien, closed-end, single family mortgages in 2024 and 2025. For August, the MBA and Fannie Mae forecasts for 2024/2025 aligned within 5% for both years. MBA lowered 1st…
Top 10 reasons appraisals are here to stay, and critical to US and global markets
This article discusses the critical role of residential appraisals & appraisers in US housing finance and the global fixed income securities markets, and highlights the contributions appraisers make, and why they can be confident about the future of their profession.
More than 1,000 correspondents now using inspection based waivers in July
Lenders delivered $915MM (1.56%) with inspection based waivers in July, down 2.3% on June 2024. A total of 1064 correspondents (excludes GSE sellers) have now exercised offers, compared to 547 direct GSE sellers.
Housing Finance Forecast for July available now for 2024/2025
For July, the MBA and Fannie Mae forecasts for 2024/2025 remain aligned as both lowered 1st mortgage origination estimates ~1.0% for 2024 and raised them 1-2% for 2025 compared to the projections published in June 2024. MBA origination volume is projected at 5.5% higher for 2024 and the same in 2025.
Inspection based waivers and the top 10 reasons to adopt now
Lenders, loan officers and mortgage brokers can take advantage of inspection based waivers and help their borrowers to benefit from these new GSE solutions, stay competitive and reduce their own repurchase risk.
Limited use of inspection based waivers at credit unions an opportunity
Top performing credit unions utilization of inspection based waivers, at 20%, is many times the average credit union. Some lenders like The Golden 1 CU, ENT CU and MidFlorida CU appeared to optimize their use of appraisal and inspection based waivers.