Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2021

would give the brokerage a “fully diluted market value of $12.5 Reuters and other outlets Tuesday morning pegged Compass’s hoped-for market value at $10 billion. Presented by: Motto Mortgage. Realogy has more than double Compass’s market share (and endured its own $356 million loss in 2020) but traded at $15.09

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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. These are market-based decisions.” Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Despite significant market volatility, nonbank lender Impac Mortgage Holdings appears to be long on non-QM. In total, Impac originated nearly $700 million in non-QM mortgages in 2021, more than double 2020’s output. The California-based company reported non-QM originations of $382.1 Total net revenue checked in at $14.9

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 10, 2024

By “equity-rich” ATTOM means that the combined estimated amount of loan balances secured by those properties was no more than half of their estimated market values. of all residential mortgages. The report also shows that the share of properties that are seriously underwater increased slightly from 2.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Christian Mills, head of Financial Advisor Relations at Reverse Mortgage Funding, about the ways a reverse mortgage can create a stable cash flow for homeowners in the midst of a volatile housing market. HW: Some borrowers are under the impression that reverse mortgages are a last resort.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 4, 2022

of mortgaged residential properties in the U.S. were considered equity-rich in Q2, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loan balances secured by those properties was no more than 50% of their estimated market values. The post Share of Seriously Underwater Mortgages Slips Below 3% appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2024

Redfin defined luxury homes as those estimated to be in the top 5% of their metro area based on market value, while non-luxury homes are those with estimated values in the 35th to 65th percentile. High-end buyers tend to be more immune to mortgage rate fluctuations and flock to the luxury housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

The second big mortgage joint venture announcement this week is a meeting of the Glenns. Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

Amid a tough environment for forward mortgage lending, Finance of America is betting on specialty finance & services products – reverse mortgages, investor loans, commercial loans – which are expected to deliver most of the return this year. Margins in the mortgage business declined from 3.88% in 2020 to 2.86% in 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

The latest non-QM player to feel the pain of the interest rate volatility afflicting the nation’s housing market this year is a Pasadena, California-based real estate investment trust called Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. The REIT lists the fair value of those loans, however, at about $1.19 The dreaded discount.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

“I started as an agent up here in 2009, and I’ve been saying since then the only thing that would slow down the market would be some sort of national or international event,” said Pullin, a managing broker at Skyline Properties. Here’s what to expect in the mortgage application process. Presented by: Citi.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Home Equity & Underwater Report for the fourth quarter shows that nearly half of mortgaged residential properties were considered “equity-rich” meaning that the remaining balance of a mortgage was no more than 50% of their estimated market value.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 12, 2022

of mortgaged residential properties throughout the U.S. were considered equity-rich in the first quarter, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loan balances secured by those properties was no more than 50 percent of their homes estimated market values. Mortgages Considered Equity-Rich appeared first on DSNews.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Through this API integration, users can populate MLS and non-MLS rate flyers in a short period of time using “real-time, scenario-specific mortgage offers” delivered through Polly’s cloud-native Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), according to a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

A homeowner is considered equity rich when they have at least 50% equity in their home, a feat more easily accomplished when skyrocketing home price appreciation widens the gap between what someone owes on their mortgage and the value of their house. The portion of mortgaged homes that were equity rich rose from 41.9%

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 12, 2022

of mortgaged residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich in the first quarter, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loan balances secured by those properties was no more than 50% of their homes estimated market values. Home Equity & Underwater Report from ATTOM shows that 44.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

This article is part of our 2022 – 2023 Housing Market Forecast series. These buyers are primarily local community developers who purchase distressed properties and then resell or rent those properties on the retail market following rehab — a process that typically takes six to 12 months. . Paul; and Riverside, Calif.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Prosecutors for the government initially argued that he should owe $69 million to the companies that lent to Live Well and the defunct lender’s estate based on — what was determined in court to be — inflated valuations of interest-only bonds backed by Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

In a shrinking mortgage market, fee pressures are the main challenge for appraisers, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors. Appraisers , however, feel AMCs put pressure on the market by taking a increasing cut of appraisal fees. The top three concerns expressed in the survey were related to AMCs.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

LoanDepot is poised to go public later this year, becoming “Lyft to Rocket Mortgage’s Uber,” according to a new report. The California-based mortgage lender headed by Anthony Hsieh could be worth between $12 billion and $14 billion in an IPO, according to Bloomberg ‘s sources. billion to $2.6

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

During this period of rising rates and general rate volatility, having the cash and credit lines on hand to ride out the rough patches in the market — known as liquidity — can be what separates the winners from the losers in the mortgage industry. The fair market value of MSRs it controls increased by about $1.3

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Appraisal Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In today’s real estate market, the process of obtaining a mortgage can seem complex and daunting. One crucial step that often goes unnoticed by many prospective homeowners is the mortgage appraisal. This step is not just a formality; it plays a pivotal role in determining whether or not you get approved for a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

When the sky is falling in the mortgage industry, generally there is something else that is rising. the parent of United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), what is rising in their favor is the value of mortgage servicing rights (MSRs). UWM, the nation’s largest wholesale mortgage lender, recorded net income of $215.4

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

The research and analysis that a well-trained professional appraiser can provide you with will include important information above and beyond their opinion of the market value of the property they are appraising. MARKET TRENDS As everyone knows, home sales prices over the past few years were increasing rapidly!

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

PFSI), which ranks as one of the top five mortgage lenders nationally, are seeking to raise more than $700 million in the debt markets through the sale of notes secured by mortgage servicing rights. The notes are backed by Ginnie Mae mortgage-servicing rights, according to a presale report by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

LoanDepot , backed by private equity shop Parthenon Capital Partners, first announced plans to go public in September 2015 , but canceled the IPO hours before pricing due to what the company called adverse “market conditions.” At the time, loanDepot had sought a market value of $2.4 billion to $2.6 billion in its IPO.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

As with other lenders seeing huge declines in mortgage origination volume, Finance of America’s traditional mortgage business took a hit due to tumbling refinance volumes and an increase in spreads on both non-agency and agency mortgage products, which resulted in revenue reductions. . In total, FoA funded $6.35

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

June was a rough month for jumbo-mortgage securitizations, with only two private-label offerings brought to market valued at roughly $821 million. The two jumbo-loan deals that did make it out of the gate last month were issued by Rocket Mortgage and J.P. Morgan Chase via the Rocket Mortgage Trust and J.P.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2021

LoanDepot , backed by private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners, first announced plans to go public in September 2015 but canceled the IPO just hours before pricing, citing adverse “market conditions.” At the time, LoanDepot had sought a market value of $2.4 billion to $2.6 LoanDepot posted net income of $1.47

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

LoanDepot , one of America’s largest mortgage lenders, released pricing of its hotly anticipated independent public offering (IPO) on Wednesday. That would give loanDepot a market cap of approximately $6.5 In its S-1, loanDepot revealed that its market share had grown from just over 1% in 2014 to 2.6% and $21.00

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Recently, some of my well-intentioned clients have asked if it is possible to appraise a home, based upon a “normal market”. Let’s talk about the difference between today’s market and the one during the years leading up to the bursting of the housing bubble in the Great Recession of 2008. Granted, mortgage rates were not terrible.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Even with historically low levels of inventory, rising mortgage rates and uneven job growth, experts still believe 2021 will be a record year for home sales. trillion is roughly equal to France’s 2020 gross domestic product , or the combined market value of Amazon and Facebook. How much will be spent on homes? billion. .

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Appraiserblogs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To lighten the load somewhat from discussions about current highly restrictive language use in appraisal reports that tends to circumvent actual reality and truth – which can positively or adversely impact property market value, replaced with only generic, non-offensive words, I present this cartoon. Related Posts: 'Pesky' Words.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

of mortgaged residential properties were considered “equity-rich” meaning that the remaining balance of a mortgage was no more than 50% of their estimated market value. In the third quarter, the portion of mortgaged homes that were equity-rich rose to 39.5%, up from 34.4%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs). billion in 2021 to $4.6

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

1 Financial Accounts of the United States indicates that the market value of households’ real estate assets increased over the quarter. Low existing for-sale inventory helped to increase real estate value after falling for three consecutive quarters. The second quarter of 2023 release of the Z.1 trillion from $42.07

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