Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2020

from 2015 to LTM Q2 2020, positioning us as the third largest correspondent producer.” billion valuation in the fourth quarter. And on the same day that AmeriHome’s S-1 hit the wires, it was reported that Texas-based lender Caliber Home Loans could go public next week at a valuation north of $2 billion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The volume of MSR trading over the past three years has hovered around $1 trillion per year, nearly twice the volume of trading from 2015 to 2020, when the average was around $535 billion each year, Smith points out. Mike Carnes, managing director of the MSR valuation group at Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The research is based on 12 million appraisals for purchase transactions submitted to Freddie Mac between 2015 and 2020 through the Uniform Collateral Data Portal. “An We’re uniquely positioned to investigate potential gaps and provide data-driven research like this to advance solutions that promote equity across the valuation process.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. 533 ReBuilt 1,096% 2015 Vertically integrated marketplace helping homeowners sell their unwanted property and real estate investors find great off-market deals. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose.

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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. Wilen, for example, has an outstanding balance as of Sept.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

But they did not become key players in the home valuation industry until the recent housing bubble.”. The outcome was a settlement, the Home Valuation Code of Conduct, or, as appraisers swiftly dubbed it, havoc. That’s at least what the AMC trade group, the Real Estate Valuation Advocacy Association , contends.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Founded in October 2020 by former Zillow executives who envisioned a way to accelerate the mortgage approval process, the Tomo notched a valuation of $640 million after raising $40 million in Series A funding in March. I suspect the ever-rising valuation of fintech companies is over for a while.”. Halbrook said. “I

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Excerpts: …the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), is known throughout the valuation community for respecting the work of appraisers and maintaining reasonable fee schedules. The questions: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are making desktop appraisals a permanent fixture in their valuation offerings. To read more, click here.

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DataMaster

JUNE 15, 2023

Note: This blog post about short-term rentals was originally posted on Class Valuation’s site on May 11, 2022. also known as short-term rentals (STRs) — to claim STR income as part of the borrower qualifications side of the lending decision. This is creating significant friction in the lending environment.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

That has enormous implications for the risk profile of these firms and for the broader housing finance system as they lend and service not just Ginnie Mae loans but also GSE-eligible mortgages. Unlike depositories, nonbanks do not face the same level of safety and soundness scrutiny as federally regulated depositories.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“The market remains underserved in the sense that the mortgage lending market has changed so quickly that everyone is still trying to keep up,” Stone said. Another important landmark in 2015 was the addition of WFG Board Member Steve Ozonian as president and CEO.

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Appraisal Today

JUNE 10, 2022

Here we consider how these “frictions” will behave as appraisal demand has dropped, just as each of the five forces have found ways to reduce or “eliminate” the need for valuation expertise. The Inevitable Cyclicality of Mortgage Lending. This blog considers how each friction will respond to this “excess” of appraisers.

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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.

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DataMaster

JUNE 15, 2023

Note: This blog post about short-term rentals was originally posted on Class Valuation’s site on May 11, 2022. also known as short-term rentals (STRs) — to claim STR income as part of the borrower qualifications side of the lending decision. This is creating significant friction in the lending environment.

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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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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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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Bradley, SRA, CDEI In September of 2015, FHA revised Handbook 4000.1 His law practice is dedicated to valuation issues. Back in the day, this protected the lender from lending more than the home/property is worth. MORTGAGE LENDING IS VERY, VERY CYCLICAL. How does the FHA define appliances? By Daniel A.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The research examined appraisals for home purchases the government sponsored enterprise received from 2015 through the end of 2020. 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.

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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. Is there room for more improvement?

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Clear Capital

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

billion in November, which is half of the valuation, of course of Smart Rent, which we’re just talking about. They are a digital lending platform. So I built a company in Europe that I sold in 2015. Yeah, they just sold for $1.2 But still a chunk of change. But that’s mobile first. Daniel Mishin .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A spokesperson for HUD said the agency could not discuss investigations or strategy of fair lending enforcement, but said that fair lending is a priority of the Biden-Harris Administration and HUD. In August, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge signed an agreement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency to strengthen fair lending enforcement.

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