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Bankrupt AmeriFirst Financial wants court to green light private sale of loans  

Housing Wire

Bankrupt retail lender AmeriFirst Financial is seeking approval for a private sale of loans from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to pay off two warehouse lenders and fund restructuring costs. If approved, AmeriFirst’s retail and commercial loans worth more than $5 million will be sold to a non-QM lender Oaktree Funding Corp.,

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There’s more blood on the tracks in the non-QM market

Housing Wire

billion in assets, has a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate assets. A closer look at WMC’s books, however, shows that as of June 30 its residential whole loan portfolio, nearly all of which is comprised of non-QM loans, was underwater by some $44 million. WMC, with some $2.8 The dreaded discount.

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Redwood Trust, Angel Oak Mortgage awash in red ink in Q2

Housing Wire

a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Mill Valley California that has residential operations focused on nonagency jumbo loans, recently reported a second-quarter 2022 net loss of $100 million, after recording a net gain of $31 million in the prior quarter. Redwood Trust Inc. , Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. ,

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Passive Income Ideas: 25 Ways To Earn More Money In 2020

Marco Santarelli

Instead, we’re suggesting you loan money to other real estate investors through crowdfunding sites. You can diversify your holdings, loaning several hundred or thousand dollars to each would-be investor. The crowdfunding platform takes a slice of every loan issued. However, they also administer the loan payments.

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Sarasota real estate booms: A timeline

Dwell Real Estate

It was torn down to make way for a bank. The First Bank & Trust at Five Points, the El Vernona Hotel, the Hotel Sarasota, the American National Bank (it went broke two years later and became the Orange Blossom Hotel, then apartments, then condos) and the Terrace Hotel are the first “high-rises” in downtown.

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The appraisal industry’s hidden hand

Housing Wire

He started contracting with home mortgage lenders to appraise the value of the property tied to a loan. “It Appraisers would overvalue homes, and lenders would then originate loans, knowing mortgages would be ushered to their seats by government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It fit well. Rickard never got paid.

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Dearth of Credit Starves Detroit’s Housing Market

Realtor.com

Detroit is making a comeback after years of decline that led to a bankruptcy filing in 2013. The dearth of credit is largely a consequence of battered property values plus a commercial reality that depresses them further: Lenders can’t earn money on tiny mortgages , so they don’t make them. On the west side, it is hardly worth trying.