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Planet Home Lending hires Doug Long to expand its retail branch network 

Housing Wire

Long, who brings more than 20 years of experience in the mortgage industry, will be responsible for building Planet’s retail networks and will also have a focus on product development, the company said. Its strategy has focused on acquisitions in both correspondent and retail channels.

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Regions Bank places $1B bet on home renovation market

Housing Wire

EnerBank says it works with 10,000 contractors and develops personalized loan programs for their clients. Regions, a retail lender with a footprint of over 1,300 physical offices, has dipped into specialty finance sectors before. The post Regions Bank places $1B bet on home renovation market appeared first on HousingWire.

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

Housing Wire

The increasing share of owner-occupant buyers is also evidence that extremely tight housing inventory is prompting more retail buyers to take on the additional challenges that come with buying a distressed property at auction. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in August 2022.

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Amazon announces housing affordability pilot program with National Housing Trust

Housing Wire

Retail giant Amazon announced on Wednesday the launch of a new pilot program designed to assist moderate-income families in three different U.S. million into the Nashville area to build and renovate 130 affordable homes, bringing its then-total investment into that community to roughly $100 million.

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Proprietary Capital completes acquisition of AFR, hires new COO

Housing Wire

Since its foundation in 1997, Proprietary Capital has developed a platform to invest in the U.S. We have been working with AFR on the transition plans over the last several months and are excited about the opportunity to build on a great foundation,” Craig Cohen, managing member of Proprietary Capital, said in a statement.

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

Housing Wire

“The foundation would get what was described, in a January 2023 fundraising package, as a ‘prestigious headquarters … [and] site for small scale, but elegant events’ with its ‘voluminous library on American legal and constitutional development’ as a resource for nearby Roger Williams University ‘s law school.”

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As vacant foreclosures increase, so does buyer interest

Housing Wire

“We still have vacancy and blight issues but they are not crippling as they were a decade ago,” said Ian Beniston, executive director at the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC), a nonprofit community development corporation in Youngstown, Ohio. When we began a decade ago there was much more blight.

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