There are so many mortgage companies closing their doors and filing bankruptcy. Never in history have so many loan officers quit so fast due to skyrocketing mortgage rates. Besides the surging rates, housing inventory is low. Many homeowners who got mortgage rates at 2.5% two years ago are not budging on selling their homes. I heard in the beginning of the year 2023, there were 150,000 mortgage loan officers in the United States. A few weeks ago, the number of loan officers left in the United States was somewhere in the 70,000. I have researched this matter with hundreds of loan officers, mortgage company owners, processors, support and operation mortgage professionals, real estate agents, underwriters, wholesale mortgage account representatives, builders, and anyone directly or indirectly in the housing and mortgage industries. Please share your thoughts.

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Will the 2024 housing market crash forecast be worse than the 2008 Financial Crisis and Housing Market Crash Forecast? What goes up comes down right? Why are housing market experts and economists saying the 2024 housing market crash forecast will be worse than the 2008 housing crash? Interest rates have skyrocketed from 2.0% to 7% in twenty four months. The sudden increase in mortgage rates and skyrocketing home prices as well as surging inflation have put a halt in home affordablility among millions of potential home buyers. Unemployment rates have surged and many people are becoming homeless or are in the verge of being homeless. Please take a look at this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0d-RKtYaQ&ab_channel=Econofin