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Investor Insights: How to Thrive in CRE Amid Challenging Market Conditions

Appraisal Buzz

Let me explain — in 2021-2022, many investors purchased properties at high prices, using 2 and 3-year bridge loans. Meeting their mortgage and investor obligations will be difficult for these aggressive operators. Investors should conservatively underwrite how interest rates will affect their investment.

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The non-QM outlook for 2022

Housing Wire

As we look forward to 2022, the non-QM market is predicted to grow substantially. The amount of equity in these loans, the underwriting, the guardrails around ATR have proven that this is a real, sustainable product that investors like.”. Investor-related loans are also seeing an increase, Lind said. How Acra Lending can help.

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Change Lending to join Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Housing Wire

Change Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans, according to its website. billion in 2022 production volume, per Scotsman Guide. Last year, Change Lending ranked as the top nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) originator, posting $4.1

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Fix and flip market struggles as financing costs rise

Housing Wire

Transactions in the fix and flip market have been booming in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, up 14% over 2021 and up 58% over 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. More investors keep looking to flip homes … but are making less and less in the process “ ATTOM CEO Rob Barber said. “How

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

Housing Wire

We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If Opendoor lost an average of $6,000 on Q4 2022 flips, down from an average gain of nearly $16,000 per property for homes flipped in Q4 2021.

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The share of owner-occupants buying foreclosures has doubled — here’s why

Housing Wire

Meanwhile, innovation-driven transparency is helping to make distressed property auctions more accessible for these owner-occupant buyers as well as for local community developer buyers who, it turns out, sell most of their renovated foreclosures to owner-occupants. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in August 2022.

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Hometap reaches $1B in home equity investments 

Housing Wire

Of the $1 billion total, $730 billion has been deployed since 2022, and the company has issued more than 10,000 HEIs in total as of January. And it boasts a home renovation calculator and home service offerings from Hometap’s partner network.

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