Wells Fargo & Co. said it’s weighing the size of its mortgage business in the face of a “dramatically smaller originations market” as home buyers retreat from higher interest rates and lending capital grows more scarce.
The housing market is slowing as higher mortgage rates sideline many prospective homebuyers. With competition declining, the house hunters who are still in the market are enjoying newfound bargaining power, a striking contrast from just a few months ago, when buyers often had to pull out every stop in order to win.
In the face of a declining mortgage market and heightened regulatory scrutiny, Wells Fargo, the country’s largest depository mortgage lender by volume, is planning for a smaller footprint in correspondent lending and third-party servicing business.
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Builder sentiment in the market for single-family homes fell into negative territory in August, as builders and buyers struggle with higher costs.
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While Wall Street celebrated the slight cooling of inflation in July, Statista’s Felix Richter points out that the latest reading won’t be enough to ease the financial pressure on millions of households in the United States in face of rising costs of living.
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Buying a home in the US is the least affordable it’s been in 33 years as mortgage rates soar this year and home prices hit record highs.
It sure is looking like the public pension ponzi is going to be even harder to sustain than over the last few years… That’s because data released by Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service this week showed that public pension funds fell a median 7.9% for the year ended June 30. It marks their “worst annual performance since 2009,” according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal.
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Renters across the country are feeling the brunt of housing inflation. Nearly 60% of renters said their rent increased in the past 12 months, according to a Freddie Mac survey of 2,000 Americans conducted in June and given exclusively to Yahoo Money.
The growing rental crisis in the U.S. has shown no signs of stopping. That was the topic of a new Bloomberg report this week that highlighted the stories of numerous Americans struggling to meet their rental obligations.
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While the annual pace of inflation in the United States eased slightly in July, a deeper dive into the numbers reveals that some of the categories that hit everyday Americans especially hard in the pocketbook have soared, with the price of groceries jumping to the highest level since 1979.