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SFR and fix-and-flip investors expect a better market in 2024

Housing Wire

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We That should help to unlock more inventory while also reducing financing costs for leveraged investors. million households formed each year.”

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. I thought it was sparse.

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VRM takes a tailored approach to servicing and lending challenges amid uncertainty

Housing Wire

The complexities of serving borrowers under the CARES Act require lenders, servicers and investors to partner with a mortgage services provider who has the expertise and national network to provide high-touch support to its clients. Our clients have a moratorium on evictions, so we are not actively pursuing these opportunities.

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Pennymac looks to capitalize on Wells Fargo’s correspondent exit

Housing Wire

There are a few investors, including Pennymac, that are in a good position to take advantage of that opportunity.”. It also plans to increase minority home lending through a special purpose credit program it launched last year. Connie Kim: How does Wells Fargo exiting the correspondent lending channel affect Pennymac?

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Nearly 40 housing tech firms make the 2023 Inc. 5000 list

Housing Wire

469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. 533 ReBuilt 1,096% 2015 Vertically integrated marketplace helping homeowners sell their unwanted property and real estate investors find great off-market deals. Other established names to make the Inc.

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DataDigest: Office debt is stressing banks. That matters for mortgages.

Housing Wire

The rapid collapse of four regional banks that began last March shocked regulators and investors alike. The banks had courted high-net-worth clients working in speculative tech and crypto startups in Silicon Valley, while also tying up a large portion of the banks’ assets in Treasury securities. By the end of Feb.

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Opinion: Here’s the latest data on what Realtors are witnessing in the housing market

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors Research Group has produced the index since 2008, at a time of turmoil in the real estate market. Another measure the housing market, is whether a Realtor had a client who had a distressed sale in the last month. In 2008, 49% of Realtors had a client with a distressed sale, today it is only 1%.

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