by Jesse Williams | Mar 17, 2023 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday. –The collapse of two regional banks in California and New York may be good news in the short term for mortgage rates,...
by Jesse Williams | Mar 16, 2023 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Editor’s Note: The Playbook is an RISMedia weekly segment centering on what brokers and agents are doing to ensure they not only survive but thrive in these challenging times. Industry professionals explain the strategies they’re employing and unique ideas they’ve...
by Jesse Williams | Mar 16, 2023 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Housing starts, building permits and completed construction all saw increases of over 9%, according to the latest new residential construction data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The rise in housing starts breaks the previous five-month streak of decreases, from...
by Jesse Williams | Mar 16, 2023 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.60%, a pullback from last week’s fifth-straight week of increases to 673%, according to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) from Freddie Mac released Thursday. This week’s numbers 30-year fixed-rate...
by Jesse Williams | Mar 15, 2023 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Remember back in school when you were taking a big test? You’d be at your desk and very likely knew how you’d do before even starting. If you had studied hard, you were confident that you’d ace it. If you hadn’t, you hoped to get lucky, but knew doing poorly was more...
by Jesse Williams | Mar 15, 2023 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Although high construction costs and elevated interest rates continue to hamper housing affordability, builders expressed cautious optimism in March as a lack of existing inventory is shifting demand to the new home market. Builder confidence in the market for...