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Risks of nonbank mortgage sellers and servicers revisited

Housing Wire

I applied a multivariate statistical analysis consistent with the one I used to develop the industry’s first FHA automated underwriting scorecard (known now as TOTAL), and the industry’s first VA scorecard during my tenure at Freddie Mac. These were 2000-2003, 2004-2008Q2, 2008Q3-2011, and 2012-2015. Specifically, the 1.9

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Nearly 40 housing tech firms make the 2023 Inc. 5000 list

Housing Wire

Homelight , a platform for homebuyers and sellers, was No. 403 Homelight 1,444% 2012 Providing a platform that helps deliver better outcomes for homebuyers and sellers. 678 TriusLending 869% 2003 A mid-Atlantic real estate investment firm and financing lender focused on short-term private lending and long-term rental loans.

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Higher rates flip the homebuilders’ fortunes (again)

Housing Wire

Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. If sales are working from an elevated number, like what we saw from 2003-2005, it’s a different subject altogether. percent (±20.4 percent)* above the revised December rate of 625,000, but is 19.4 percent (±13.1 percent) below the January 2022 estimate of 831,000.

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How to write a lead-winning, memorable real estate agent bio (+ examples)

Housing Wire

Both buyers and sellers value the combined benefits of his individual talents along with membership in one of the most respected real estate firms in New York City. Growing up in Savannah, Georgia, as the daughter of a builder and developer, she learned the processes involved in new home construction from her dad.

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How a transparent marketplace provides a proven path to benefit homeowners

Housing Wire

Walking that thin line is becoming increasingly important as more distressed sales are pushed up-funnel into the pre-foreclosure marketplace — a trend that began developing about 10 years ago and has accelerated in earnest over the last two years. But she noted that not all investors operate this way.

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The real danger of releasing the GSEs from conservatorship

Housing Wire

Warren Buffett, one of the biggest investors, divested all GSE holdings between 2003 and 2005. When smaller lenders and nonbank lenders look back to that time, assuming they were active sellers to the GSEs at the time, they all know where the root of the unleveled playing field came from. Then came the “Alliance Agreements.”

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Lamacchia Realty Opens in Fall River and Enters Bristol County Market

Lamacchia Realty

Lamacchia Realty has been serving buyers and sellers in Bristol County for over a decade but has been waiting for the perfect opportunity to open a branch office location. He is a board member of the Redevelopment Authority of Fall River and a Clerk of Bristol County Economic development. They are like family to me.

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