Housing Wire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With the housing market slowing down from its pandemic-fueled frenzy, wire fraud threats, regulatory challenges and the perennial challenge of an aging workforce, the title insurance industry will have a lot to juggle in the new year. It was too darn hot: the housing market slows down. What happened to the market?’”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Redwood Trust and home equity fintech lender Point have closed on a $139 million bond secured by 1,577 home equity investment (HEI) contracts. The two companies issued the first-ever securitization backed entirely by HEIs in 2021, a bet that rising home-price appreciation can benefit consumers in the short-term and investors in the long-term.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Cooper has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the investment management firm Roosevelt Management Company, LLC., Mr. Cooper expects the deal to close mid-year following regulatory approval, but the plan is to go to market in the second half of 2023. residential markets over the last decade. the company confirmed on Friday.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

Polly , a software-as-service mortgage technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform, integrated with six mortgage insurance providers to streamline the mortgage process for loan officers and mortgage lenders. . When a quote is selected, the user will receive documentation from the applicable mortgage insurance provider.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ICE) and investment research firm Delta Terra Capital announced a partnership to offer climate-adjusted credit risk analytics for residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Our climate risk data can help inform investment decisions of U.S. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The nation’s single-family investment-property sector and the lenders serving those borrowers face some major challenges in 2023 as rent growth is slipping, vacancy rates growing, home-value growth faltering, and a possible recession looms. . of the subject [loan] pool is secured by investment properties,” the presale report states. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2022

On the heels of completing its first credit insurance risk transfer (CIRT) deal of the year in early March, Fannie Mae has announced that it has executed two additional CIRT deals. . billion of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. “We The newest deals, CIRT 2022-2 and CIRT 2022-3, together transferred $1.8

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Publicly traded real estate technology company Doma Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to sell to title insurance underwriter Title Resources Group (TRG) and become a private company. Its most recent endeavor is Upfront Title , launched during the third-quarter earnings call with investors and analysts.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The stock price of Doma Holdings was down 29% on Friday afternoon after the title insurance company posted a $43.7 Executives at Doma on an earnings call Thursday said the company was growing across key metrics and investing heavily in machine learning technology, moves that will pay off in the coming two years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s competitive real estate market, an increasing number of real estate investors are turning to private money lenders to help them close deals faster, enhance property valuations, and increase their returns. Property managers and real estate agents who are interested in working with investors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Experienced real estate investors often say that there are opportunities in every market — whether prices are rising or falling, whether the trends lean towards a buyers’ market or a seller’s market. It’s simply a matter of adjusting your investment strategy to optimize current market conditions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the spotlight again over the role some housing-industry experts say they could play in reducing mortgage rates if they resumed a more active investor role in the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market. As a result of particularly Silicon Valley, the FDIC [ Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Homeownership is a bedrock for the American Dream, in no small part because it is also a durable, reliable long-term investment. The time-tested resiliency of home values highlights home equity’s importance to American households and its significance for residential real estate investors alike. Are home equity investments the answer?

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

In 2022’s changing market, non-QM has been a hot topic for many. HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years?

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

The institutional single-family rental (SFR) market has expanded rapidly over the past decade as an alternative to homeownership, but it is now facing major headwinds in the form of a rapid jump in interest rates and still-high inflation compounded by decelerating home prices and rental rates. of all purchases, according to ATTOM.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. It sets up a domino effect [for market activity].”

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s monetary tightening policy and the recent banking crisis have the potential to change the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market’s dynamics more than anything seen over the last two decades, according to secondary market experts. They are likely to be replaced by money managers as investors.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Veev said at the time that the funding would be used to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development, and expand construction into new markets. Investors featured leading Israeli institutional investors, such as Migdal Insurance , Psagot Investment House , More Investment House , and Shavit Capital.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. Cangemi said in a statement that the bank’s deposit ratings remain “investment grade” at other credit rating agencies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Still, even the single-family rental (SFR) market, including the BFR sector, faces an uncertain future in the year ahead, given the ongoing volatility in interest rates and inflation.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In December 2023, a startling rumor started to spread on social media — that large institutional buyers had purchased 44% of the available homes on the market in 2023, leaving policymakers concerned with the potentially predatory grip of these entities. Choctaw American Insurance was the only lease-to-own company to land on the list.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

American Digital Title Insurance Co. , a Denver-based insurtech title insurance provider controlled by insurance giant Munich Re , has been authorized to underwrite title insurance in California, the second largest title insurance market in the country. Holding Corp.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

The federal government is well aware that mortgage lenders and industry stakeholders are frustrated by the 7% cap on second homes and investment properties that was implemented as part of a broader series of amendments to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘s Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

executives remained positive during their earnings call with investors Thursday afternoon. Overall, the company recorded a second quarter net income, excluding investment gains, of $210.2 With the inclusion of investment income, the firm saw a net income loss of $40.1 million, dropping 4.8% year over year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

AI-generated image of two lawyers scrutinizing title insurance joint venture agreements. The authors also claim that the profit dividends received by the title company and the real estate brokerage are “wildly disproportionate” to their respective investments. Image was created using MidJourney.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

What happens when the Federal Reserve begins pulling back in a serious way from the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market that it has helped to prop up through billions of dollars in bond purchases since the start of the pandemic in 2020 — to the point where it now holds a $2.7 You don’t know what investor demand is going to be.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Executives at both Stewart Information Services and First American Financial bemoaned the challenging housing market environment as they discussed their respective firms’ first quarter 2023 earnings with investors Thursday morning. Given the success of our early testing, we expect to deploy it in two markets within the next year.”

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The nation’s top loan officer Shant Banosian joined the board of directors at Healing Realty Trust , a healthcare-focused real estate investment company. Aiming to take the company public next year, Healing Realty Trust will tap into Banosian’s network of big banks as well as investors to grow its portfolio.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Despite cooling interest rates , the title insurance segment at Big Four title firm Old Republic recorded a 22.8% As we have discussed on previous earning calls, 2023 was a challenging real estate market ,” Carolyn Monroe, the president and CEO of Old Republic National Title Holding Co. decrease for all of last year. million, down 62.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Fractional real estate investment firm reAlpha announced late last week that it is partnering with Title First Agency to provide title and closing services on all of the firm’s property acquisitions. As a perk to investors, they are allowed to vacation at the short term rentals they have invested in.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A number of players in the industry benefit from the risk data, including real estate investors who need additional insights to make informed decisions. For example, if a property is exposed to high climate risk, its market value may decline.

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JULY 18, 2022

Assuming a $250,000 loan was committed on December 31, 2021, your monthly payment was approximately $1,007 exclusive of escrow for real estate taxes and insurance. Naturally, this has forced buyers to seek lower price points or has completely eliminated them from the market. Another trend to be aware of is the days on market metric.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Add Homepoint to the list of lenders entering the non-QM market in 2022 amid a fall in origination volume. . The wholesale lender is preparing to launch two non-qualified mortgage products this year, including bank statement and investor cash flow loans. million. . . million. . .”

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Mashvisor

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In this article, we have chosen the 10 best landlord insurance companies for investors in the US residential real estate market. The Importance of Rental Property Insurance for Investors A…

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

” Republic collapsed after it failed to raise $75 million in capital from investors and exited the mortgage lending space. Fulton is purchasing $6 billion in assets from Republic, including its $2 billion investment portfolio and $2.9 FDIC), the appointed receiver, explained in a statement. billion in loans.

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APRIL 4, 2023

million in a seed round, the Miami-based cryptocurrency lending platform announced on Tuesday that it launched a product that allows investors in Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to use their assets to secure funding for real estate purchases. “The use case for crypto has to go beyond investment potential. Six months after raising $3.5

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