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While a growing share of consumers expect housing costs and interest rates to decrease over the coming year, uncertainty is also leading some to see it as an inopportune time for both purchasing and selling, Fannie Mae reported.

The city remains one of the most unaffordable and as tech companies continue to work remotely, there is little appetite to pay millions to live in the area.

July marked the first month this occurred, suggesting that the small reversal in the upward trend of financing costs wasn't enough to change the downward trajectory in homebuyer activity.

The way the Federal Housing Administration is funded and constrained by laws, rules and other operational limitations is analogous to the FHA living in the horse-and-buggy era in an age when we are starting to see driverless cars, writes the executive director of the Community Home Lenders Association.

Late-payment rates are rising at nonbanks that lend to people with lower credit scores. "We're probably entering a stretch where you're going to see a separation between those that are relatively good underwriters and those that are not," one analyst said.

Waning mortgage activity slashed net income 72% in the second quarter to $58.3 million.

The San Francisco-based company recently raised $14 million in Series A funding and closed more than $400 million in sales in the first quarter.

But the overall employment picture was bright in July, returning to a level last seen before the pandemic, the Bureau of Labor Statistics data found.

The company is withdrawing from consumer-direct lending and making other reductions given that widening spreads failed to offset savings from aggressive layoffs and gains in servicing advisory services.

More cost reduction is on the way in the third quarter, but management says it will not layoff staffers, despite having some excess capacity.