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Purchases of new single-family homes increased 1.1% to an annualized 640,000 pace after a 633,000 rate in January, government data showed Thursday.

More banks were on the list and although United Wholesale led by dollar volume in fourth quarter earnings, its loan count for the full year remained lower than Rocket's, an analysis shows.

More hikes are likely as the Board is confident its bid to quell inflation won't deepen a nascent banking crisis.

And in January, all-cash buyers reached their highest share in nine years, at 32.1%, Redfin said.

As application volumes increased, loan sizes also surged, with average purchase amounts now at a 2023 high, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Toms River-based lender was supposedly having liquidity issues, according to unconfirmed reports.

Mortgage professionals are carefully monitoring indicators of whether turbulence in the financial markets will continue to put downward pressure on rates.

The pace of supply coming to market continued its late 2022 slowdown in the first two months of the new year, but greater opportunities may lie in sales of newly constructed properties.

The government-sponsored enterprise took the next step towards allowing lenders to implement its property valuation modernization plans.

Homebuilders are rising as much as 1.7% Tuesday after data showed previously owned home sales snapped a yearlong slide, rising in February by the most since mid-2020.