The good news for home buyers: home price growth continued to decelerate, according to reports last week from S&P Down Jones Indices and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The bad news: home price growth maintains double-digit percentage annual growth that appears likely to continue well into 2022.
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The Week Ahead Jan. 3, 2022: Five Things to Know
Good morning; Happy New Year; and welcome back! We hope you enjoyed the holidays. Here are five things to know to help get you back up to speed:
MBA Advocacy Update: 2021 in Review
MBA’s residential policy team hosted nearly 100 meetings across 15 policy committees, subcommittees and working groups, including six Town Hall webinars reaching 4,000 members.
MISMO Winter Summit 2022 in Clearwater, Fla. Jan. 10-13
The MISMO Winter Summit takes place Jan. 10-13 at the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Resort and Spa.
MBA Member Demo Days Jan. 6: Lending Solutions
MBA hosts its next Member Demo Days–an afternoons of specialized programming, live demos and Q&A–this Thursday, Jan. 6, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET.
Call for Nominations: MBA NewsLink 2022 Tech All-Star Awards; Deadline Jan. 21
The nomination period for the MBA NewsLink 2022 Tech All-Star Awards is underway with a new, simplified entry form. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, Jan. 21.
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“Affordable housing strategies that include the preservation of both multifamily and single-family rental housing can be important to increasing access to High Opportunity Areas and the economic mobility that might result.”
–Corey Aber, Senior Director of Multifamily Mission, Policy and Strategy with Freddie Mac, McLean, Va.
Mark P. Dangelo: Foretelling the Stories of ‘Ghosts of Yet to Come’ in 2022
For c-levels, the unknowns of 2022 represent a nightmarish Christmas Carol outcome. From technologies to personnel to regulatory compliance to political alignments to non-traditional competition to comprehensively unique business models, the sustainability challenges for financial services firms have never been greater.
November New Home Sales Up 12.4% After Sharp October Revision
HUD and the Census Bureau reported November new single-family home sales jumped by 12.4 percent in October—but only after significantly revising down October numbers.
Initial Claims Unchanged from Previous Week
Initial claims for unemployment insurance held steady last week as employment—or lack thereof—went into a holding pattern for the holidays, the Labor Department reported Thursday.