Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Illustrating the potential value of the reverse mortgage product category and other offerings from FOA were focal points of the presentation, along with the company’s ability to serve as an entity to effectively meet evolving consumer needs. Performance of long-term assets has been positive, Engel said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2023

Small teams had highest increase in net margin Teams in every size category saw an increase in Gross Margin (GM), with teams having annualized revenue between $300,000 and $550,000 seeing the largest increase in GM from 72.5% of GCI to 49.3% of GCI to 29.0% of GCI, or a decline of 23.1% from Q1 to Q2. of GCI to 29.0% from Q1 to Q2.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

“I don’t think it’s anything about [what] the companies themselves [are doing], it’s strictly related to things like the health of the bond market, rates and our ability to invest [correctly] in the short term.” In such instances, it becomes important to focus on what the companies can control, he explained.

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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. We have a pretty strong investment being part of Constellation Software now. Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates your tech? 1 provider.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

As part of HW Media’s vision to cover All Things Housing, FinLedger will narrow its focus to proptech coverage, doubling down on a category of fintech that attracted $32 billion in investment in 2021 and yet is oft-overlooked by newsrooms. And now we’re ready for the next stage of FinLedger’s growth.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Borrower education and spreading awareness of the product category has been a key priority for most major reverse mortgage industry players for years. “We It measured “respondents’ financial stability, knowledge and attitudes toward reverse mortgages,” the results stated.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

A national syndicated columnist has taken a closer look at the reverse mortgage product category after reviewing data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about the industry’s advertising practices , and she says that the product can have utility for older Americans as long as a prospective borrower properly understands it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Gareth Borcherds , managing director Ascent Software Group outlines the three categories to be aware of, how appraisal modernization can help scale new initiatives and more in this executive conversation. If we are paying attention to how they talk about it, I think we can categorize their thoughts into three categories.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Unsurprisingly, housing is NAR’s most lobbied category over the last 25 years, according to OpenSecrets. Other policy topics include flood insurance , flood mitigation funding, data privacy, investment incentives for downtowns, and electronic notarizations , among others.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In an interview with HousingWire, Ginnie Mae President Alanna McCargo explained that this represents Ginnie’s first social bond label in the investment space. It’s laying down a marker for impact investing. This is really about just furthering the specifics around Ginnie Mae’s social impact story,” McCargo said. “We’re

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

The proposal also would rejigger the asset categories, adding a new category of “intermediate” banks — defined as $600 to $2 billion in assets — and increasing the asset threshold for small banks to $600 million, up from $346 million. New assessment categories for CRA exams also would be put in place for large banks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Giordano cited a survey demonstrating how certified financial planners (CFPs) had some positive attitudes about reverse mortgages as a planning tool, as well as the creation of model guidance language for broker-dealers and investment advisory firms to use in governing a planner’s interactions with reverse mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

“This acquisition is aligned with our strategy of investing organically and through M&A, to shift our portfolio toward high-value and faster-growth categories,” said Dave Flitman, President and CEO of Builders FirstSource.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Investing in tech to save costs and get business in the door has become ever more important in an origination market facing extended headwinds. We work with tech vendors that we believe are the top three in any respective category,” Moon said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

The education gap The reverse mortgage industry has long made serious investments in educational programs, particularly when looking at the efforts of current and former major lenders in the space like Finance of America Reverse (FAR), American Advisors Group (AAG) and others.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Those who design their lives tend to be more strategic in their property investments , market analysis, and their operational and networking efforts. Real estate professionals must invest time and effort in refining their skills and knowledge. To excel in this industry, continuous learning is essential.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The bulk of the violations, which were uncovered during mandated annual SEC examinations, fell into three categories as follows: internal supervisory controls, 42.3%; adherence to internal policy, procedures and rating methodologies, 30.6%; and conflicts of interest, 11.5%. From 2016 to 2021, the large NRSROs had an average of 8.2

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

For the most part, it’s the $3 million and under category. So it opens up a whole new avenue for people who fall within that category. Kim: If you have a lot of so-called wealthy borrowers, I would assume a lot would be interested in investment properties. I would say maybe 10 to 15% of the deals are investment property deals.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Put differently, how can people who aren’t in very high-paying jobs, aren’t owners of industry, aren’t affiliated with investment firms, and who might opt-out of the traditional economy still become part of the “American Dream”? The question before those of us in the housing ecosystem is, “how can most Americans avoid the flood?”.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 29, 2024

return on investment, according to ATTOM’s Year-End 2023 U.S. Gross and profit margins were stagnant—still near record levels—but decreased from 2022, which indicates the first decline in each respective category since 2011. During 2023, national homesellers made a $121,000 profit on the typical sale, leading to a 56.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

.” Private Capital In addition to the depository institutions and IMBs working the ropes as MSR buyers and sellers, there is yet another source of growing MSR demand and capital investment that has been helping to fuel the market’s growth in recent years — and is expected to continue fueling MSR market trading in the year ahead.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In comparison, the second highest dollar loss category reported to the IC3 in 2021 was investment fraud, with losses of approximately $1.45 According to the report, in 2021, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received BEC-related complaints with claimed losses exceeding $2.4

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The universe of non-QM single-family mortgage products is broad and difficult to define in a few words, but the definition matters because a huge slice of the borrowers in this non-QM category represent the heartbeat of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Investment property/second home offerings —eight deals valued at $4.17 For the month, JPMorgan sponsored the largest deals in both the jumbo and investment-property categories — with its $2 billion jumbo offering and a separate nearly $740 million deal backed by investment properties. billion, KBRA data show.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

However, there are some categories of sellers that could have an impact in their local market. Others who purchased second homes or investment properties during the last few years are looking to cash out amidst projections of a weaker housing market. New listings activity will continue to be very low throughout much of 2023.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

At the highest level, tax reforms can be placed in one of three categories: tax increases, tax cuts, or revenue-neutral “fundamental” tax reforms. Clearly, actual proposals can be combinations of these categories and the labels can sometimes be in the eye of the beholder. More detailed language is likely to be provided shortly.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

We continue investing in tech while it’s not that crazy busy. The lender developed its proprietary loan origination software, servicing software, pricing engine and customer relationship management system last year pivoting from using a third-party mortgage tech software systems. “We Rank Company Growth (3-yr Avg.) 5000 – 2023

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Some may require you to activate specific spending categories, so pay attention to bonus offers, and sign up to maximize your rewards. Some investing firms allow you to automatically increase your saving rate by 1% at the beginning of each year.

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Realty Biz

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Yieldstreet, a private market investment platform, has officially announced its acquisition of Cadre, an online real estate investment platform catering to institutional and high-net-worth investors. This move further solidifies Yieldstreet's position as a leader in its category. With a combined Investment Value exceeding $9.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Certain categories of borrowers, like reverse mortgage customers and first-time buyers who stretched to buy homes during the recent run-up in prices, may have an elevated risk of default when taxes or insurance costs rise. Servicers may want to discuss these and other options with their tax service providers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you fall into this category, there are fortunately ways to protect yourself—and your investment—in the event of a natural disaster. Just make sure you take extra precautions both in choosing your property and insuring it, and you can protect your investment from whatever unexpected events may come. Here are the top three: 1.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before you can attract top-tier talent, you must invest in state-of-the-art software. Strategic mortgage tech investments. With new tech solutions and innovative software transforming the mortgage process, lenders need to lean into industry expertise and invest in solutions that will pay off in the long run.

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Inman

JUNE 20, 2023

With a focus on the single-family rental (SFR) category, Picket calls itself a provider of integrated technology and services for residential real estate investing, management and resident experience.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2021

During her confirmation hearing , Yellen told lawmakers that she believes now is the time for a big stimulus package, saying record low interest rates would allow Americans to invest more to better their futures in the long term. It’s about a 43% homeownership rate.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

They grouped pandemic-era home price growth into four categories for metros: Boom-Bust, Boom-No Bust, No Boom-Bust, and No Boom-No Bust. We can break out all top 50 markets into 4 categories. People will put up with high taxes in exchange for great cities with top quality services made possible by public investment. Take a look.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Experts in both those housing-market sectors say smaller investors are leading the charge now in an inventory-depressed market, in part, because they have a more flexible return-on-investment threshold. in the second quarter. “… The latest investment return (ROI) for home flips certainly isn’t great, [however].

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