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Hot home-equity market fueling securitization deals

Housing Wire

“All investors in the transaction were first-time participants in securitizations backed entirely by home-equity agreements [HEAs].”. Unlock’s HEA contracts typically feature 10-year maturities and involve a 3% origination fee based on Unlock’s original investment, which is not a loan.

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Home-equity niche will benefit from a private-label lift

Housing Wire

“After that time, HELOC production waned as defaults spiked and home values plummeted, and HELOC securitizations effectively stopped for nearly a decade. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9 from the fourth quarter of 2021.

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What’s influencing the increase in REO acquisitions?

Housing Wire

The good news for homeowners is that home values in most areas remain stable, and inventory levels for homebuyers are still low. How has the foreclosure-related regulatory landscape changed since 2020 and 2021? By September 2021, however, there was still much foreclosure reluctance.

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Home equity is the bright gem of the housing market

Housing Wire

ATTOM , a real estate data provider, reports, however, that the “severe contraction across the lending industry in the fourth quarter of 2022 even hit HELOCs” in terms of origination volume. billion in the fourth quarter of 2021,” a recent market assessment by ATTOM shows. level from the first quarter of 2021.”

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Home price growth slowed further in October

Housing Wire

These declines, of course, came after very strong price increases in late 2021 and the first half of 2022,” Craig Lazzara, the managing director of S&P DJI , said in a statement. The Case-Shiller home price indices for October is a three-month average of closing prices in August, September and October. Month over month, the U.S.

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Title insurance industry volume rises 3.6% in Q1

Housing Wire

Despite rising interest rates , higher home prices and a drop in refinance volume , the American Land Title Association recorded $5.89 The title insurance industry had a record year in 2021 , generating $26.2 premium volume increase compared to the first quarter of 2021,” Diane Tomb, ALTA’s CEO, said in a statement. “A

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Purchases of second homes declined in June

Housing Wire

The allure of owning a vacation home outside the city still exists, but the big second-home boom we’ve seen over the last year is abating.” ” Between February 2020 and February 2021, demand for vacation homes rose a staggering 84% — more than double the demand for a primary home.