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8 best places to buy real estate leads in 2023

Housing Wire

Real estate agents are always looking for vetted, high-quality leads — and especially so during 2023 market conditions. Below, we evaluated several platforms to find the top eight lead generation providers agents can buy real estate leads from in 2023.

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RMBS market likely to be further weakened by headwinds in 2023

Housing Wire

residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market continues to look bleak for 2023. This year, RMBS issuance volumes are expected to contract further from 2022 due to the impact from elevated rates, high inflation and recession possibilities. . RMBS at DBRS Morningstar said in a report.

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Change Lending loses CDFI certification

Housing Wire

The CDFI certification is a designation given by the U.S. In particular, the CDFI designation exempts lenders from complying with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ’s ability-to-repay rule, which requires mortgage lenders to document a borrower’s income, assets, employment and credit history.

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FHFA announces new multifamily loan purchase caps for GSEs

Housing Wire

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Thursday that the 2023 multifamily loan purchase caps for Fannie Mae and the Freddie Mac will be $75 billion for each government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), for a combined total of $150 billion to support the multifamily market, according to an announcement from the FHFA.

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Home equity products light up a dark housing market

Housing Wire

The home equity products involved include home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), closed-end second mortgages (CESs) and shared-equity contracts. That offering, Unlock HEA Trust 2023-1, is slated to close this week. The 5% overall increase in home prices since February [2023] means that the average U.S.

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Title giant Stewart sues Qualia over software licensing agreement dispute

Housing Wire

24, 2023, Qualia informed Stewart that in an effort to “modernize” the “old legacy contracts” Adeptive had entered, it would be terminating the ResWare licensing agreement Stewart had entered with Adeptive on Jan. The firm estimates that roughly 4,000 Stewart employees use the software on a daily basis.

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NAR Appraiser Survey July, 2023

Appraisal Today

NAR Appraiser Survey July, 2023 In July 2023, NAR Research conducted a survey of all 9,800 appraiser members and 50,000 randomly-selected residential-focused non-appraiser members. The survey results had a comparison of 2022 and 2023, which was very interesting. Updates to AIR and these FAQs were published in August 2023.