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Ginnie Mae president introduces social bond program to investors

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Rates and Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Conference in Tokyo, Japan , addressing Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities (MBS) potential value for investors and the company’s recently expanded social impact and sustainability work. “As and that the new program updates provide investors with an opportunity they have long sought.

Investors 393
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UWM expands DSCR offerings to real estate investors

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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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Investors are buying more, but spending less

Housing Wire

Real estate investors are buying more properties, but paying less for them, according to a report from RealtyTrac released Thursday based on ATTOM Data Solutions home sales data. In the second quarter of 2021, investor purchases accounted for 15.4% of all home purchases nationwide, compared with 11.5% of the market. of the market.

Investors 545
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ICE and DeltaTerra partner on climate-informed credit risk analytics solutions for MBS investors

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The credit risk analytics will combine ICE’s physical climate risk data and DeltaTerra’s climate analytics, financial risk models, and market data to deliver risk impact estimates for investors in the residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities markets. municipalities, MBS pools, and related fixed income securities.

Investors 242
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Fix-and-flip investors are filling in the gaps in some housing markets: report

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Roughly 80% of real estate investors surveyed are selling single-family homes at or above asking price after fully renovating the properties to make them habitable, according to a report from real estate marketplace New Western. Other notable markets that grew in the same period included popular Sunbelt investor havens Atlanta and Dallas.

Investors 370
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Mom-and-pop landlords stepping in as ‘mega-investors’ retreat from single-family market

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Single-family home purchase demand by investors remained steady in the fourth quarter of 2022, despite a dip in iBuying and larger investor demand, according to a report released this month by CoreLogic. However, this is in general alignment with investor purchase activity during Q4 of both 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Investors 403
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Investors spent a record $63B to buy homes in Q3

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Real estate investors spent a record $63.6 In total, investors acquired 90,215 homes in the third quarter, an 80.2% Redfin defines an investor as any institution or business that purchases residential real estate. In the third quarter, investors purchased more than three-quarters of homes with all cash. year-over-year.

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