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Plunk launches AI-powered home analysis tool

Housing Wire

Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, has introduced a new tool called Plunk Pro that aims to transform the real estate market by offering real-time insights into home valuation, risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities. This content was generated using AI and was edited by HousingWire’s editors.

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Why investors believe CoStar holds a big advantage post-NAR settlement

Housing Wire

Of these eight companies, CoStar and Zillow are by far the largest by market capitalization. The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models. That revenue concentration seems to be what had investors heading for the exits on Friday.

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Bond investor PIMCO bets on home-equity market

Housing Wire

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. As of the end of September, it had some $2.2 trillion under management.

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Reevaluating your origination tools? Here’s where to start

Housing Wire

With the recent downturn in volume of new originations, many lenders are using this time to take inventory of the available tools geared toward risk mitigation and workflow optimization. This does not even include the exacting requirements of regulators and investors. The post Reevaluating your origination tools?

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How the bond market continues to impact mortgage originators and investors

Housing Wire

After months of low rates, there have recently been shocks to the bond market. HousingWire recently sat down with Scott Happ, president of Secondary Marketing Technologies for Black Knight, to discuss the impact this has on mortgage originators and investors. HW: How does this, in turn, impact mortgage originators and investors?

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Investors from 3 Asian nations have heartiest appetite for U.S. MBS

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve ’s (Fed) efforts to beat back inflation with its monetary tools have already shifted the winds in the secondary market for mortgage-backed securities (MBS). trillion MBS portfolio helps fuel widening interest-rate spreads in the MBS market by creating additional MBS supply to be absorbed by investors.

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ICE and DeltaTerra partner on climate-informed credit risk analytics solutions for MBS investors

Housing Wire

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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