Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Homeowners 62 and older saw their collective home equity levels drop in the fourth quarter of 2023 by roughly $119 billion to $12.84 This is according to the Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), a measure of senior-held home equity from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) and data analytics firm RiskSpan.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Boston-based fintech company Hometap has deployed more than $1 billion in home equity investment (HEI) products since its launch in 2017, the company announced on Tuesday. homeowners with outstanding mortgages, or some 63% of all homes, equity tied up in real estate jumped by 6.8%

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Chronically distressed properties lost more than $7,000 in total home equity on average while cycling in and out of foreclosure, according to an Auction.com analysis of more than 80,000 properties scheduled for foreclosure auction multiple times in the last three years.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Rising home prices have pushed the third quarter’s tappable home equity amount near its 2022 peak, but interest rates are making homeowners reluctant to extract that wealth. Rising equity levels are also contributing to low default and foreclosure activity. In 2024, roughly 75% of originations expected to come from purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Recent home price declines are leading to decreased tappable equity, but there are still opportunities in home equity lending, according to a report published by Home Equity Lending News. Tappable home equity is expected to decrease to a forecasted $18.1 However, given that home-equity originations were less than $0.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. homeowners saw home equity increase 1.7%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired home equity investment platform Balance Homes , the company announced on Tuesday. With this new integration, EasyKnock aims to provide homeowners with additional options to convert their home equity into cash. EasyKnock received $57 million in venture capital in February 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While mortgage rates are high and economic uncertainty looms, there is good news for borrowers who already have a mortgage and may be looking to tap into their equity. Home equity loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) are both loan products that are secured by the equity on a borrower’s home. Read on to find out.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

While the current climate may be causing existing-home sales and inventory to fall, it’s driving renewed interest in home equity options. And that offers an incredible opportunity for banks and non-banks alike to improve their digital channels to better support home equity lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

homeowners are “house-rich, cash-poor,” home equity investment firm Hometap provides clients with a way to tap into their home equity instead of selling their home or taking out a loan. Kim: There are a handful of home equity investment firms in the market. Based on the notion that far too many U.S. How big is it?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

California-based Pennymac Financial Services ’s broker division, Pennymac TPO , launched a home equity loan product as tappable home equity nears its 2022 peak. A home equity loan — also known as a second mortgage — enables a homeowner to borrow money by leveraging equity in a home. homeowners sit on some $16.4

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Redwood Trust and home equity fintech lender Point have closed on a $139 million bond secured by 1,577 home equity investment (HEI) contracts. While Americans sit on approximately $32 trillion in home equity , only 50% of homeowners can tap into that wealth. Nomura Securities International Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners LLC , a private equity manager based in Texas, completed a debt investment in a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. The Paceline team focuses on private equity, corporate debt and real asset investment opportunities across the country.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

They may also see the equity in their homes as a “financial reserve” and are generally confident in their retirement plans, but they are far less interested in employing their home equity in retirement. By and large, homeowners who are 60 and older love where they live and have a preference to age in place.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

with negative home equity decreased 6% in the second quarter from the prior quarter, according to CoreLogic Homeowner Equity Insights quarterly report. Negative equity applies to borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. million homes) had negative equity as of the second quarter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

California-based home equity investment firm Splitero launched its own real estate brokerage , Splitero Homes, this week. Launched in 2021, Splitero’s main focus is on home equity investments (HEI), which differs from home equity lines of credit (HELOC). Clients must retain a stake of at least 20% in their homes.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

Mortgage tech firm Blend launched a software solution for home equity products amid a mad dash from lenders into the space. Lenders using Blend’s home equity product can offer personalized home equity loans and then close in a few days as opposed to multiple weeks it takes through legacy home equity processes, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

trillion in equity in the second quarter of 2021, a 29.3% The amount of equity for a property is determined by comparting the estimated current value of the property against the mortgage debt outstanding (MDO). In total, homeowners of 163,000 residential properties regained equity in Q2 2021. million homes. billion or 6.6%

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

Soaring home prices continue to serve existing homeowners, with nearly 45% of all property owners now considered equity rich, a year-over-year jump that boosted 13% more homeowners into the prime position. of mortgaged residential properties in the first quarter of 2022 had at least 50% equity in their property, according to ATTOM.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

A recently published CoreLogic report found homeowners with mortgages in the first quarter of 2022 saw their equity grow by 32.2% According to the data vendor, the collective equity gain was $3.8 Patrick Dodd, CEO of CoreLogic, said home equity grew in tandem with home prices, which were up by 20% in March, compared to a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Michael Gifford and David Zvaifler‘s home equity investment company, Splitero , lost its main investor, Redwood Trust , HousingWire has learned. In September, Redwood launched its in-house home equity investment (HEI) origination platform called Aspire. Atalaya committed $250 million while Kingsbridge put up $50 million.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Digital mortgage lender and nonbank home loan provider Better.com has launched “Equity Unlocker,” a mortgage innovation that allows employees to pledge vested stock equity as collateral for a down payment without selling their stock. Equity Unlocker is currently available in Florida, New York and Washington state.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

Home equity levels have been on the decline over the last year, new data shows. Homeowners with mortgage loans saw their home equity levels decline by an average of 0.7% between the Q1 2022 and Q1 2023, the first decline recorded since early 2012, according to CoreLogic ’s Homeowner Equity Report (HER). properties. properties.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

population grows older with each passing year, looking for new and novel ways to fund long-term care for the aging population could include home equity. As the gap between high- and low-income homeowners widens, the equity they’ve built up in their homes could make a difference in the equation. As the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

While home equity can certainly be a beneficial tool for some seniors to deploy, it will not always be a definitive answer for every senior’s needs. “If you could use your home equity to make your life better — to buy hearing aids, for example — maybe that’s a good investment.” ” Molinsky told NextAvenue.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Fintech and fractional home-equity lender Point has raised an additional $115 million through a Series C fundraising round led by venture capital firm WestCap. The capital will be used to accelerate Point’s growth in the $25 trillion home-equity market, according to the company’s co-founder and CEO Eddie Lim. Point raised about $30.4

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers. A group of investors led by the former U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2023

San Diego, California-based startup Splitero , which is focused on home equity investments (HEI), has raised about $12 million in a Series A funding round to expand its operations. . Founded by real estate veterans in 2021, Splitero said it has secured more than $1 billion in equity for homeowners.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Despite the housing market cool down , homeowners with mortgages , which accounts for roughly 63% of all properties, gained $1 trillion in equity between the fourth quarter of 2021 and the fourth quarter of 2022, according to a report released Thursday by CoreLogic. On average, U.S. This trend looks to be continuing as prices were up 13.4%

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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. They are saying, ‘Tell me what’s working, how can I stand a program up so I can capture some of this [home-equity] business.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

Rocket Mortgage , the nation’s largest lender, is expanding its product portfolio to home equity loans amid a significant slowdown in mortgage origination volume. Rocket is targeting American homeowners with high household debt and credit card balances but strong home equity positions. . ” U.S. ” U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Homeowners withdrew $63 billion in equity in the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest numbers from Black Knight , the most in a single quarter in nearly 15 years. There is still $9 trillion in tappable equity, a 37% increase year-over-year. Of homeowners still in forbearance as of mid-August, 98% have at least 10% equity.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2021

The positive: Homeowners in primarily Black neighborhoods earned an average of $59,000 in home equity in 2020, compared with $50,000 for homeowners in primarily white neighborhoods between 2019 through January 2021. That $59,000 gain represents a median home equity increase of 197%. By 2021, that number shrank to $24,000.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

San Francisco-based Unison is extending its reach in the heartland by expanding its shared-equity loan program to homeowners in Nebraska. billion in equity-sharing agreements with some 9,000 homeowners across 29 states and the District of Columbia. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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