Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Investors provide capital necessary for many families to fulfill their aspirations of living in a house whether renting or owning. housing stock; yet, they bring some unique characteristics to the market. How can investors help with homeownership? Let’s switch gears and consider how investors help with home ownership.

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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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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2024

The report further reveals that as the number of homes flipped by investors declined, so did flips as a portion of all home sales, from 8.6% In yet another sign of down times for the home-flipping industry, profits and profit margins also sank on quick buy-renovate-and-resell projects. in 2022 to 8.1%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The retail housing market data, released by Redfin at the end of June, shows the median asking price for newly listed homes for sale in the four weeks ending June 26 dropped 1.5%

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2021

Auction.com buyer and real estate investor Sue McCormick is ahead of the curve when it comes to President Joe Biden’s plan to revitalize underserved neighborhoods while also providing affordable housing for low- and moderate-income homebuyers. “My Markets with Most Qualifying Inventory. of the 2021 estimated market value.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

The first quarter of 2023 proved a tough market for everyone in the housing industry, including institutional buyers of single-family rental (SFR) properties, but there are signs the second quarter of this year has been far more buoyant for these so-called “Wall Street” players. One clue to that resurgence is a $1.5

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 30, 2024

In today’s mortgage landscape, mortgage loan originators (MLOs) must find their way to success through an increasingly complex and difficult market. MLOs that adapt these strategies to their unique local market will be able to provide value to their clients.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Real estate investors purchasing distressed properties at foreclosure auction have been telegraphing a possible housing market slowdown for the last six months. A deeper dive into foreclosure buyer behavior shows which markets are most likely to see a home price correction in the next six months. Price Correction Risk by Region.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

It is counter to a popular and politically potent narrative grounded in the aftermath of the Great Recession, when large institutional investors scooped up thousands of properties at foreclosure auction. The role of renovators. These are local investors buying a few properties in communities where they live and work.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Competition for home buyers is tougher than ever right now, as tightened housing stock supply continues to plague the housing market. Using a 3-month bank statement program, borrowers who would not otherwise qualify due to lost or nontraditional income may be able to buy a new home and place their own on the market. Jumbo products.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

In Economics 101, the increase in interest rates should have been coexisting with a decrease in demand,“ Todman said in an interview with HousingWire this week during the Mortgage Bankers Association ’s (MBA) Secondary and Capital Markets Conference. But they face competition from large institutional investors in the housing market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Sweetwater Private Equity and Morpheus Ventures led the latest funding round with additional investors including Home Depot Ventures , Second Century Ventures and Palm Drive Capital. We are building our team and technology to break down barriers,” said Min Alexander , co-founder and chief executive officer of PunchListUSA.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is a detailed report that helps real estate agents evaluate and determine the market value of a property. A CMA report includes information on similar, comparable properties in the area, including recent sales, active listings and current market trends.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

We are excited to expand our impact and better serve our target market borrowers.” Change Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans, according to its website.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The single-family rental (SFR) sector and its close cousin, the fix-and-flip market , are now essentially treading water in an environment of high interest rates , approaching 8%; high home prices; and a dearth of home-purchase inventory. That’s particularly true for mom-and-pop investors across both market segments.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Tom Davis, chief sales officer, Deephaven Mortgage Today’s market means that more borrowers have higher debt-to-income ratios, limited access to credit and are looking for alternative ways to get qualified for a mortgage. HousingWire: What factors are contributing to borrowers falling out of the Agency market?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. residential mortgage market and housing-related assets. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2020

The upward moves come after the Federal Housing Finance Agency approved a new “adverse market” fee for refinancings to compensate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the additional risk posed by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

The nation’s housing industry has entered a new normal in which the dynamics of the market appear perplexing — marked by high mortgage rates and high home prices, along with shrinking mortgage originations. So, finding those opportunities, rehabbing and returning them to the market solves part of the [inventory] problem,” Carlton said.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

Plunk's repair and renovation analysis tools will serve investors who frequent Xome, which also markets nontraditional listings, such as auctions, foreclosures and other investor-minded assets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. billion in the fourth quarter of 2021,” a recent market assessment by ATTOM shows.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While a number of companies have emerged to assist agents and their seller clients with renovating or updating a home before introducing it to the market, Sundae built its model on the opposite approach — helping consumers sell homes sell as-is to investors.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, innovation-driven transparency is helping to make distressed property auctions more accessible for these owner-occupant buyers as well as for local community developer buyers who, it turns out, sell most of their renovated foreclosures to owner-occupants.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2022

CoreVest provides financing to real estate investors across the country and as of late June boasted more than $15 billion in loans closed and some 125,000 units financed, according to the lender. Redwood executives say Riverbend will be integrated into CoreVest. Over the last 12 months, Riverbend [founded in 2017] has originated over $1.0

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

Low rates and increased demand mean prices are soaring on what stock is available – and what’s available isn’t staying on the market for long. 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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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Another larger player in the space, Progress Residential , recently postponed a securitization transaction due to difficult market conditions. And yet another big force in the market, FirstKey Homes , is pulling collateral out of a 2021 securitization deal.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

I can also provide expert advice about renovations and the potential return on investment — where to get the biggest bang for your buck — or simply answer any questions you have about the market. You’ll want to include the list price, sale price, and days on market. Call or text me with any real estate questions!

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

At least not in the foreseeable future, unless another pandemic would create favorable conditions for the housing market. Whether it be through social media, connecting with real estate agents or going back to old-fashioned ways of knocking on people’s doors, they’ll have to focus on the purchase market going into the new year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As investors recognize the potential these older properties hold and the inventory and profits they could open up in such a red-hot housing market, demand for older, more distressed properties should increase. Acra understands the struggles fix-and-flip investors face when seeking financing. The only problem?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

Atlas Real Estate and DivcoWest declared last week that they will spend $1 billion “acquiring and renovating homes in high-growth states including Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah,” according to a press release. billion equity infusion from investors including Centerbridge and Allianz Real Estate.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As we look forward to 2022, the non-QM market is predicted to grow substantially. The amount of equity in these loans, the underwriting, the guardrails around ATR have proven that this is a real, sustainable product that investors like.”. There are a few market factors contributing to this expected growth for the non-QM sector.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A recent article, “Stop subsidizing Wall Street buying up homes,” perpetuates an uninformed stereotype of single-family rental home companies while revealing a serious neglect for the important contributions industry firms bring to today’s housing market. Rather, large companies own less than 1.5% of the nation’s total housing inventory.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

Offerpad is a six-year-old company founded by its current CEO Brian Bair, a longtime real estate investor. The business started buying homes in a few southern markets such as Orlando, Florida, and Birmingham, Alabama, and recently moved into Midwest markets including Indianapolis. billion market value.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

If anyone knows of anywhere that could be a good fit with my 20+years in maintenance/renovation leadership in multi-family, single family, or senior living, please pass my name along. We will use it to continue to build out our business and continue to invest a bit more in marketing,” Beasley said about SoftBank prior to the funding decision.

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