Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scott Smith, interim CEO at Optimal Blue , to talk about the right tech investments to make now and how the company plans on keeping its customers for life. Scott Smith: I think a differentiator is our position in the market. Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates your tech?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. Mill Valley, California-based Redwood Trust sees the market sector as fertile ground as well. As of the end of September, it had some $2.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. The companies claim they collectively serve more than 500 market participants. Several of MAXEX’s existing investors, including J.P.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison expects to bring three additional securitization deals to market in 2022, according to a company executive.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Capital Fundings , a Florida -based private mortgage lender, has partnered with real estate investment platform Privy , the companies announced on Tuesday. The collaboration will allow Capital Fundings’ borrowers to receive personalized investor insights. It also offers a library of training and educational resources. “Our

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Many real estate investors were serendipitously ahead of this shift even before the pandemic started, driven by both affordability and an affinity for overlooked markets. Currently I’m in some of the Southern markets like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Indianapolis, Ohio. See sidebar for more details on these markets.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Cooper has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the investment management firm Roosevelt Management Company, LLC., Mr. Cooper expects the deal to close mid-year following regulatory approval, but the plan is to go to market in the second half of 2023. residential markets over the last decade. the company confirmed on Friday.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

A couple weeks ago a viral story came out about a fund called BlackRock who was reported to be buying everything in sight and paying 20-50% above market value. Let’s talk about this as well as other institutional investors right now. Market update on […]. This is a longer post, so scroll topics (or digest slowly).

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

ICE) and investment research firm Delta Terra Capital announced a partnership to offer climate-adjusted credit risk analytics for residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Our climate risk data can help inform investment decisions of U.S. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Angel Oak Capital Advisors , the investment management arm of non-QM lender Angel Oak Cos., Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company misled investors about the delinquency rates in a 2018 private-label securitization involving fix-and-flip loans. has agreed to pay $1.75 securities regulations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Chinese real estate investments extend beyond their borders and if those investors suddenly need to liquidate those assets to cover losses at home , many countries real estate markets could be negatively impacted.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Despite slower housing market conditions , Big Four title firms Stewart , First American and Fidelity National Financial all managed to earn profits in 2023. These strategic investments are resulting in cost ratios that are somewhat elevated given we are in a market with historically low transaction volumes,” Eppinger said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

Blockchain-based real estate platform Parcl is betting people want a piece of the real estate pie so badly customers are willing to invest in an emerging, small slice of the market: a digital square foot of real estate. The platform gives users exposure to markets and allows the blockchain to trade. Presented by: Tavant.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A new survey has revealed that real estate investors are not viewing the market as favorably as they once did in light of low inventory and rising costs. The post Why Are Investors Souring on the Housing Market? appeared first on DSNews. appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A new survey has revealed that real estate investors are not viewing the market as favorably as they once did in light of low inventory and rising costs. The post Survey Finds Investors Leary About Current Housing Market appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

ESG investing — that is “environmental, social and governance” money management — goes by many monikers. Some call it “sustainable investing,” others “impact investing.” The United Nations, which coined the term two decades ago in the wake of the Enron and Exxon Valdez scandals, sometimes refers to it as “inclusive investing.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

In 2022’s changing market, non-QM has been a hot topic for many. HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. percentage points in early December, when historically that spread has ranged between 1 to 2 percentage points.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Mortgage companies raising debt in the current high mortgage rates landscape is a sign that market conditions are improving, although a recovery from the downturn may come later than expected, analysts told HousingWire. And recent transactions show that there’s an appetite among investors for debt in the mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Digital title provider Doma has finally gone public, but has already had to pay out nearly $300 million to early investors who redeemed their shares. But investors in Capitol exercised rights to redeem nearly 30 million public shares in the company in connection with the merger. . but projects to be at 5% by 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2021

Better.com has received a $500 million investment from SoftBank that values the digital mortgage lender at about $6 billion, CNBC reports. Better is expected to go public later this year and SoftBank is purchasing shares from Better’s existing investors, sources told the Wall Street Journal. commercial estate sector versus 2019.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Online bank Ally Financial recorded a $136 million impairment related to its investment in struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com , bank executives said Wednesday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Creating a path to success in today’s purchase market. The Securities and Exchange Commission took notice.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. This vision is a big part of why we wanted to put gas on the fire with this investment.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Dubbed “Investors Flex,” the non-QM product for real estate investors, offered purchase and refinance loans up to $2 million that could be used to finance up to 20 properties by using each property’s monthly rental income to qualify.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2023

AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. Investors have been skeptical about Terra Property’s shares value as it’s a non-traded REIT. When announcing the deal with Terra Property, Bonnie Wongtrakool, CEO of Western Asset, said the transaction provides a greater market capitalization for the REIT based on recent trading levels.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s competitive real estate market, an increasing number of real estate investors are turning to private money lenders to help them close deals faster, enhance property valuations, and increase their returns. Property managers and real estate agents who are interested in working with investors.

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Inman

MARCH 18, 2024

Jon Gray described the current market as a "bottoming period" that should inspire investors to get moving on new purchases and said investors who move fast stand to be rewarded once prices recover.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. It sets up a domino effect [for market activity].”

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Investors took a breather when the pandemic hit, pulling back their investments across the board. But now that the pandemic is waning, investors are back on the market and are showing up in record numbers. … The post Investors Are Returning to the Market in Big Numbers appeared first on theMReport.com.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Impact Shares Affordable Housing MBS ETF, also known as OWNS, is an exchange-traded fund with the ambitious mission of seeking to tap the capital markets to address long-standing affordable-housing and racial-wealth gap issues in U.S. million shares outstanding at a market price of $17.80

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The call for smart home technology is coming from inside the house, as it were — but during times of economic pressure, how can investors and property managers justify the effort and expense of upgrading their communities? How does smart home technology benefit investors? Why smart home technology now?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Executives at both Stewart Information Services and First American Financial bemoaned the challenging housing market environment as they discussed their respective firms’ first quarter 2023 earnings with investors Thursday morning. Given the success of our early testing, we expect to deploy it in two markets within the next year.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. Cangemi said in a statement that the bank’s deposit ratings remain “investment grade” at other credit rating agencies.

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Inman

MARCH 12, 2024

Zillow Chief Economist Skylar Olsen said these markets are ideal cities for real estate investors to purchase properties in the coming years.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

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.

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