Originations will drop 30% in 2014 from an estimated $1.8 trillion in 2013 in Fannie Mae’s latest forecast, according to Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist.
The projected decline to close to $1.26 billion is a little pessimistic than in
Fannie’s most recent forecast also calls for about a 37% refinancing share, a 1.7% increase in existing home sales and a 20% increase in new home sales. All these percentages are slightly more pessimistic that last month’s.
“We are cautious about the rate rise,” Duncan says.
Institutional purchases of rental housing have subsided, Duncan told editors of this publication at a meeting in New York. The apartment sector should be stable in the coming year, he says.
