Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017. Godin made plans to relaunch the business in late 2019 as a tech-forward lender that originated loans across both wholesale and retail channels. 375% below the market.”

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2015, I designed the Market Machine, a technological tool used by appraisers and other valuation professionals. Josh : The course is taken by staff of lending institutions and appraisal management companies and centers on the need for companies to meet or exceed clients’ and regulators’ minimum training requirements.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The process took several years of securing building permits, and the house was completed in 2015. ”… Question 2: does the lending industry owe the appraiser a living? Next is, “Does the real estate mortgage lending industry owe the real estate appraiser a living?” The four-bedroom, 4.5-bath

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In 2015, the family paid $250,000 for a 2,900-square-foot house in Ormond Beach, Florida. According to the Federal Housing Administration, their share of lending to Black borrowers is around 17%, compared to 6% for the rest of the mortgage market. But will end in December.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Excerpts: In the settlement, the DOJ said PNB, headquartered in Newark, Ohio, relied on its branch network, mortgage lenders concentrated in majority-white neighborhoods, and internal referrals to originate home loans in the Columbus lending area. The average contract interest rate for 15-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 5.89

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AmeriMac

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Experts looked at more than 8,500 houses that Fannie Mae had foreclosed upon between 2012 and 2015. The first appraisal was conducted immediately after Fannie Mae took over ownership of the property, and the second appraisal was done after another buyer went under contract for the home.

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AmeriMac

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Experts looked at more than 8,500 houses that Fannie Mae had foreclosed upon between 2012 and 2015. The first appraisal was conducted immediately after Fannie Mae took over ownership of the property, and the second appraisal was done after another buyer went under contract for the home.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Watch a video of an excellent McKissock podcast discussing market changes and many other very practical topics, focusing on residential lending appraisals. But purchase money lending will slip as well, by 3% to $1.53 The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA increased to 6.79

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

The Inevitable Cyclicality of Mortgage Lending. At this point, we’d have to go back to the purchase market doldrums of 2010-2015 to find anything lower (with a few exceptions). The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) increased to 5.40

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The only appraisers who get sued are those performing appraisals for mortgage lending. Truth: The origin of this myth most likely correlates with the significant amount of valuation work performed for lending purposes – the more lending work, the greater the liability risk, the thinking goes. percent from 7.06

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

After two record-setting years of mortgage origination volume, the mortgage industry is contracting, sharply. The first category is real estate credit, which covers most establishments focused on lending with real estate as collateral. By comparison, we are forecasting total volume of about $2.3

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released an analysis showing that appraisal values are more likely to fall below the contracted sale price of a home in census tracts with a higher share of Black and Latino households, resulting in an appraisal gap. MCLEAN, Va. for those in White tracts, leading to a gap of 5.2%.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

He started contracting with home mortgage lenders to appraise the value of the property tied to a loan. “It AMCs business model is to snare contracts from mortgage lenders, and serve as their appraiser middleman. The value add is compliance, more than anything else,” said Shashank Shekhar, CEO of Arcus Lending.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Since Fannie started focusing on UAD analysis around 2015, losing business because of negative market conditions has almost stopped. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on 2024 forecasts for mortgage rates and originations, Private Money lending, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Bradley, SRA, CDEI In September of 2015, FHA revised Handbook 4000.1 The government and those that write the rules also state the purpose of an appraisal is to determine the value of the home/property in its market setting, so an underwriter can make a lending decision. MORTGAGE LENDING IS VERY, VERY CYCLICAL. By Daniel A.

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Simonson Real Estate

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Having worked with many different lending institutions completing new construction and planned renovation assignments, think of this article as a “best practices” reference to be shared with new lenders, credit analyst team members and borrowers navigating the commercial appraisal process for the first time. Prospective Values.

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Simonson Real Estate

JULY 10, 2020

The appraiser’s role is to provide arm’s length, third-party, neutral, and impartial opinions about the value of real property and provide assistance to those who own, manage, sell, invest in, or lend money on real estate. Source: The Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal, Sixth Edition, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 2015).

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

While that number may seem high to some, in the context of lending and property complexities, that is a 54% improvement in performance cited earlier in this article (from 35% 10 years ago). The last one, in September 2015, destroyed nearly 2,000 structures. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs increased to 5.56

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Appraisals in Black and Latino neighborhoods are more likely to fall short of the contracted sale price, a Freddie Mac study of 12 million appraisals found. The research examined appraisals for home purchases the government sponsored enterprise received from 2015 through the end of 2020. That hypothesis, too, led to a dead end.

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