BiggerPockets

MARCH 5, 2024

As insurance premiums climb, property owners need to grasp how economic conditions and natural disasters affect the insurance market. These insights provide practical guidance for real estate investors navigating a dynamic, unpredictable market.

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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 We will use the capital we raised from going public to expand our core machine intelligence-powered title and closing offering into purchase transactions, as well as to capture opportunities in adjacent markets.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The credit risk analytics will combine ICE’s physical climate risk data and DeltaTerra’s climate analytics, financial risk models, and market data to deliver risk impact estimates for investors in the residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities markets. Our climate risk data can help inform investment decisions of U.S.

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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

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 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. NYBC had $83 billion in total deposits as of Tuesday, with 72% of the total insured and collateralized.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

Rate lock volume jumped 43% in March on the back of seasonal tailwinds, falling interest rates and stronger purchase market performance. by the end of the month, Black Knight’s Optimal Blue mortgage market indices showed. Most borrowers are expected to see mortgage insurance premiums (MIPs) reduce to 55 bps from 85.

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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 7, 2023

The effort was intended to decrease systemic risk, but by focusing narrowly on the risk posed by banks, it would likely increase risk in the mortgage market. Nor would banks be able to improve their economics by distributing their mortgages into the mortgage-backed securities market.

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

The portfolio of loans examined included residential, commercial investor and business purpose loans. Q1 was a period where we saw some market improvements and volumes increasing as the winter lull thawed,” Ike Suri, the CEO of FundingShield, said in a statement. “Q1 up 60% compared to non-attorney only states. billion in 2023.

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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 1, 2024

Fintechs involved in homeownership investments have been around for nearly two decades, but it wasn’t until recently that a handful of them have been backed by big investors seeking to take the HEI product mainstream. The market, however, is expected to grow as HEI companies seek to partner with mortgage lenders and real estate brokerages.

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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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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

First reported this week by Bloomberg News , the bonds in question are part of $114 billion in assets the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) recovered when it assumed control over both banks earlier in the year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. So we’ll look for him to leverage his relationships into access to investors. Shant has an incredible network. We have a $25 million open series A funding round right now.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our title business has continued to perform well despite the fall off in mortgage originations due to increasing mortgage rates and housing market headwinds,” Mike Nolan, Fidelity’s CEO, told investors during the firm’s fourth-quarter earnings call mid-morning on Thursday.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If

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BiggerPockets

MARCH 13, 2024

Warren Buffett's annual letter to investors has painted an interesting picture of the housing market: Utilities are down, but insurance is up. What does that mean for the market at large?

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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. The volume almost doubles the acquirer’s presence in the Philadelphia market, with combined deposits of nearly $8.6 FDIC), the appointed receiver, explained in a statement. billion in loans.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

executives remained positive during their earnings call with investors Thursday afternoon. As the market has become more volatile, executives said, the company has shifted from investing in stocks to investing in bonds. Despite drops in revenue and income in the second quarter , Old Republic International Corp. million, dropping 4.8%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That’s nearly as much as it costs to deliver a newborn, on average, even with employer-provided health insurance , and quite a bit more than the $3,900 the average woman earns each month. Profit margin compression and a tight housing market – What’s a lender to do? Presented by: Black Knight.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2023

For Old Republic , the softer market results in total revenue falling from $2.207 billion in Q1 2022 to $1.759 billion in Q1 2023. Looking ahead, Monroe was cautiously optimistic about the housing market outlook for the rest of the year but warned listeners to continue tempering their expectations. million, compared to $306.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

housing market has reached its least affordable point in decades and housing agencies have increasingly rolled out homebuyer assistance programs to tackle this issue. This allows people to become homebuyers as well as investors, a more common strategy in recent years that is known as “house hacking,” the report stated.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Additionally, modern mortgage servicing software and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) automate investor reporting and compliance and create a more efficient workflow, effectively allowing servicers to service loans in-house to maximize their advantages. Late fees and commissions on optional insurance can also increase revenue.

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BiggerPockets

JUNE 1, 2023

The property insurance market is the toughest yet. How can you navigate it as an investor?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The rapidly cooling housing market in 2022 was not kind to Big Four title insurer Old Republic. Despite being down drastically compared to last year’s record-breaking numbers, executives told investors on the firm’s fourth-quarter and year-end earnings call on Thursday that they were in line with expectations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Brian Webster, President of NotaryCam, about how RON can provide a competitive advantage for lenders both in terms of being a digital capstone for customers and a means for attracting and retaining top talent in the current market. .

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Housing Wire

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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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“This acquisition will provide us with an asset management platform to raise third-party capital on an ongoing basis from institutional investors who seek exposure to MSRs and other mortgage assets,” Chris Marshall, vice chairman and president of Mr. Cooper, told analysts during a call on Friday. residential markets over the last decade.

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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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Inman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

teams up with DeltaTerra Capital to translate physical climate risk estimates into financial risk assessments factoring in default risk, asset price depreciation and insurance costs. Intercontinental Exchange Inc.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

While other “big four” title insurers discussed the “transitional period” in the housing market during their first quarter 2022 earnings calls with investors, Old Republic International Corp. ’s As expected, the firm’s title insurance segment did not have the greatest quarter. million down from the $630.6

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