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The current REO market requires an expansion of services for business growth

Housing Wire

Tiffany Fletcher: Real Estate Owned (REO), acquired by lenders , banks, or financial institutions typically due to mortgage loan defaults, involves the strategic marketing and sale of existing properties to mitigate losses on outstanding loans. HW: What are the risk management challenges for REO assets?

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In Q1 earnings, Longbridge parent expects reverse mortgage market to improve

Housing Wire

In origination, improved gain-on-sale margins for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) that were driven by tighter HECM yield spreads “were mostly offset by a decline in overall origination volumes,” he added. But Penn is looking ahead with optimism. And so we expect Longbridge to contribute positively to our ADE in the second quarter.”

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Housing coalition publishes recommendations for GSEs’ ‘Duty to Serve’ plans

Housing Wire

And special attention should be paid to Native American housing markets, which would include an increase in “conventional lending on trust land and secondary market sales of trust land mortgages.” mortgage finance system. Additionally, the GSEs should develop “better loan products” to serve the single-family market.

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Arm’s Length or Another Type of Sale? The 7 Sale Types Explained

McKissock

As a real estate appraiser, whether you’re considering the current terms of sale or analyzing previous sales of the subject property or comparable sales, it is imperative to know whether a sale is an arms-length transaction or a different type of sale. Short sale. Court ordered sale.

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Land sales haven’t been this strong in a decade

Real Trends

Land sales saw their best year in nearly a decade in 2021, according to the 2021 Land Market Report from the Realtors Land Institute (RLI) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released on Tuesday. Year over year, land sales rose 6% in 2021, outperforming the pace of acquisitions of other commercial real estate types.

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GSEs completed nearly 60,000 foreclosure prevention actions in Q1 2023: FHFA

Housing Wire

Real-estate owned (REO) inventory also increased by 2% over the course of Q1 to 11,190 units. The number of foreclosure starts increased 6% during Q1 to 19,809, while third-party and foreclosure sales rose 12% to 3,700. Additionally, initiated forbearance plans decreased in Q1 to 34,479, from 47,068 in Q4 2022.

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

Housing Wire

“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 Holding properties as REO becomes even more risky in a slowing real estate environment. These are market-based decisions.”

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