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New Service is Designed to Help Homeowners Renovate

Appraisal Buzz

The lending and services platform Finance of America has introduced a home improvement financing product offered to consumers through approved contractors. The post New Service is Designed to Help Homeowners Renovate appeared first on DSNews.

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Renovation loans get pandemic boost as homeowners want home offices

Housing Wire

The Federal Housing Administration’s 203(k) rehabilitation mortgage insurance program is designed for borrowers to renovate when they purchase or refinance. For over 40 years with Section 203(k) of the National Housing Act, FHA has been protecting lenders with fully-insured mortgage loans even as renovations are underway.

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Flagstar Bank offers brokers direct access to seasoned specialty lending experts and powerful tech solutions

Housing Wire

Not only does Flagstar offer brokers direct access to seasoned sales, support and underwriting teams, it also provides a product set that includes specialty lending options like Advantage non-agency loan, jumbos, new construction, renovation products and HELOCs, and in the pipeline, loans to foreign nationals, seconds and investor property loans.

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Tapping home equity in retirement has advantages and pitfalls: Harvard researcher

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has shown that it’s paying attention to the emerging housing needs of an older population by creating programs that allow for age-minded home renovations. HUD issued $15 million grants in mid-2022 and early 2023 designed to help with health and safety home repairs for low-income seniors. “By

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How fix’n’flip loans could help expand housing inventory

Housing Wire

One issue is that among the low inventory, there are even fewer homes that are move-in ready, said Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending. “We The average home age in the United States is about 40 years old, so there’s a huge stock of homes that need to be renovated.”.

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Opinion: The role of the LO will soon be very different

Housing Wire

Several historic events over the past few years have brought seismic changes to the way the mortgage lending industry operates. Today, as we face what appears to be the beginning of a modest recovery in the marketplace, we can see the effect of those events in the way mortgage lending has changed forever.

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Rhode Island historian uses a reverse mortgage as an estate planning tool

Housing Wire

The company later told RMD, however, that the loan was within current product lending limits. When asked about the reportedly higher lending limit for this loan, a FOA spokesperson told RMD that the reporting on the loan amount is simply incorrect and that it is “within current HomeSafe lending limits.”

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