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In today’s challenging housing market, buyers are competing for a limited inventory of homes, while at the same time seeing prices continue to climb and mortgage rates increase.

To better understand the current state of home shopping, LendingTree surveyed more than 1,000 homeowners about their buying experiences, and found that the current climate has buyers making offers on homes without even seeing them.

Here’s what they found:

They’re smart, tech-savvy and in the market for housing, and they’re using social media to see what’s trending and who’s selling. Generation Z—defined as the 72 million people born between 1997 and 2012—are not your typical buyers, and that presents both challenges and opportunities for REALTORS® and agents.

The total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 9 basis points from 0.94% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior month to 0.85% as of May 31, 2022, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey, released Tuesday.

According to MBA’s estimate, 425,000 homeowners are in forbearance plans. The share of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans in forbearance decreased 5 basis points to 0.38%.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) have announced a new online toolkit for mortgage lenders interested in developing Special Purpose Credit Programs (SPCPs).