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Category: News and Trends
Quote: Sept. 23, 2024
“The spring home-buying season of 2024 brought another sign of hope for home flippers that the rebound in fortunes that began for them last year was more than just a temporary thing.”
–Rob Barber, CEO for ATTOM
MBA Chart of the Week: Target Fed Funds Rate
The FOMC lowered the target Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points at its September meeting and signaled that this is the first cut in a series that is expected to bring the Fed Funds rate down by about 2 percentage points by the end of 2025.
Arrive Home’s Tai Christensen: The House That Built Me
It’s imperative that we continue the conversation about how we as an industry can push for greater innovation — not just because our livelihoods depend on it, but because homeownership is critical to the development of generational wealth.
Builder Sentiment Rises as Rates Fall
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes edged up slightly in September, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.
MBA Applauds Senate Inclusion of Trigger Leads Amendment in Fiscal Year 2025 NDAA
MBA’s President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released a statement after Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) included Senate Amendment 2358, the text of the MBA-supported bill to end the abusive use of mortgage trigger leads (“Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act”), as part of their managers’ amendment to the Senate’s Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Quote: Sept. 20, 2024
“MBA has led a diverse set of coalition partners to help advance needed reforms that would curb trigger lead abuses while preserving their use in appropriately limited circumstances during a real estate transaction.”
–MBA’s President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB
ACES Quality Management: Sharon Reichhardt–What’s Keeping QC Professionals Up at Night? Plenty. [Sponsored Content]
ACES Quality Management’s EVP of Operations Sharon Reichhardt spoke with several QC professionals to gain insight into the obstacles they’re encountering.
Selene Finance: Joey Halligan–The Importance of Portfolio Management Within Client Services [Sponsored Content]
Joey Halligan, Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management at Selene Finance, provides his thoughts on the importance of portfolio management within client services.
MBA Releases Statement on the “ROAD to Housing Act”
MBA’s President and CEO Bob Broeksmit, CMB, released a statement on the “ROAD to Housing Act,” a broad housing bill recently introduced by Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and seven of his Senate Banking Committee colleagues.