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Regions Bank places $1B bet on home renovation market

Housing Wire

Regions, a retail lender with a footprint of over 1,300 physical offices, has dipped into specialty finance sectors before. It mostly originated cash-out refis and purchase mortgages in 2020, according to HMDA statistics in Polygon’s database. in 2021 to $433 billion. The space remains dominated by depository banks.

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

Housing Wire

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. 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

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How LOs are dealing with a mortgage rate lockdown

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. I feel bad trying to convince somebody that it’s a good time to buy and get a mortgage. higher than last year.

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Residential construction jobs now 7.6% above pre-COVID level

Housing Wire

Although housing inventory is beginning to increase, demand continues to exceed supply even as mortgage rates have spiked,” Mike Frantantoni, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s SVP, said in a statement. Could renovated foreclosure resales help solve the nation’s increasingly complex affordable housing puzzle?

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Proprietary Capital completes acquisition of AFR, hires new COO

Housing Wire

8. “With the acquisition of AFR, we will build on our already strong mortgage platform. residential mortgage market and housing-related assets. In AFR, it’s adding the New Jersey-based, full-service independent mortgage bank that has direct, wholesale and correspondent lending divisions.

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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. They are able to pay with cash, take on bigger renovations and provide current occupants with a graceful exit.

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Top NJ LO Chris Gallo is getting back to basics in 2023

Housing Wire

Nearly every loan originator is fixated on going after the purchase mortgage market in 2023 following a brutal 2022 — a year in which even some of the top producers saw their origination volume drop to 20%. The name of the game in the industry was purchase mortgages. and Scotsman Guide ‘s fourth-ranked LO in the country.

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