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

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

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. We believe our past experience investing in the mortgage industry previously enabled us to move quickly and provide certainty of closing.”

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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. Read on for Hometap’s business model and areas of potential partnerships with other players in the housing industry.

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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. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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RIS Media

APRIL 25, 2024

Ryan Davis, vice president of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), has evolved into a leader that over 1.5 million members across over 1,000 state and local REALTOR® associations turn to for strategy and guidance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Reverse mortgage industry veteran Tane Cabe recently left his position at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.’s Cabe has similar feelings as his colleagues in different parts of the country, and he is generally optimistic about the state of the industry in early 2024. “I I think things have definitely picked up,” he said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to grow amid higher origination costs and greater competition, but without correcting the underlying causes of bias in data, AI models can embed racial equity inequality on a larger scale, a recent report from the Urban Institute concluded. “It

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

HousingWire’s Rising Stars award recognizes housing professionals 40 years old and younger who are making a major impact on the industry. Meg Parker Young: Climate and racial equity work will have to get closer and closer together. You cannot address climate risk without addressing systemic and pervasive equity issues.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As the mortgage industry faces the realities of rising interest rates, savvy lenders are shifting gears towards the potential profitability of home equity lending. Paul Harris : Home equity lending can look different for many reasons. HW: Automation has been reshaping the mortgage industry over many years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

The refi boom is in our rearview mirrors and the road ahead looks promising for home equity volume. Who knows how high that volume could go, considering tappable equity is at a historic high of $11 trillion and total home equity at a record $27.8 How do you identify the right home equity partner? Excellent turn times.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The companies claim they collectively serve more than 500 market participants.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

Digital lending and cloud banking startup Blend Labs has launched Blend Impact , a program focused on increasing access and equity in housing and financial services with Blend’s nonprofit partners. The post Blend launches housing equity program appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

I have been in the mortgage industry for more than two decades and have been working with reverse mortgages for about 12 of those years. This created a win-win for my parents and is a common reason older homeowners use a reverse mortgage: to leverage their home equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison, through an REA contract, advances the homeowner a portion of the equity in the property in exchange for a lien position and a share of the home’s future appreciation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

The private mortgage insurance industry also supported $600 billion in mortgage originations. The mortgage insurance industry also updated its guides and processes to align with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the GSEs’ policies to implement nationwide forbearance programs. The result was approximately $1.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Joel Kan, associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, at the Mortgage Bankers Association said rates could head even higher in 2022. “If Few industries are as impacted by market fluctuations as housing. But two categories are not as susceptible to higher interest rates: cash-out refis and home equity lines of credit.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2021

Private equity firms Flexpoint Ford and Vestar Capital Partners have bought Lereta LLC , a provider of real estate tax and flood solutions for mortgage servicers, the companies announced this week. ” Flexpoint Ford is a private equity investment firm that has raised more than $5 billion in capital.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The goal is to help drum up business for lenders during an extremely challenging time in the industry. . Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach merged in June, six months after private equity firm LLR Partners invested $80 million in both firms.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The day after Labor Day, the nation’s top housing regulator announced that its regulated entities, which control half the nation’s $11 trillion housing market, would have to come up with plans to address racial equity. The post FHFA’s equity plan: Too much or not enough? This content is exclusively for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

Lovell Minnick Partners , a private equity firm that acquired ATTOM Data Solutions in 2019, announced Wednesday morning that it’s diving further in to the housing space with the acquisition of UniversalCIS. Steve Ozonian, an advisor to Lovell Minnick and an industry veteran, will also join the board.

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Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2021

This is according to Shelley Giordano, head of enterprise integration at Mutual of Omaha Mortgage and co-founder of the Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “So, Our industry has never, ever recovered from not being able to sit shoulder-to-shoulder at bank branches and share clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

During Q3 2021, the title insurance industry generated $6.8 billion in title insurance premium, marking the industry’s best quarter on record. Total operating income for the industry was up 53.3% Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. The industry has paid out $352.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

As home prices continue to rise, one growing point of interest for many homeowners are reverse mortgages, with older Americans sitting on a record $10 trillion in home equity, according to data from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association. Older Americans are sitting on a record $10 trillion in home equity.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Keri Stichler, Divisional Vice President at Rocket Pro TPO, about why female leadership is crucial in the mortgage industry and how companies can advocate for inclusivity. HousingWire: How common is female leadership across the industry? HW: Why is female leadership vital to the mortgage industry?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Pro-competitive, pro-consumer local MLS broker marketplaces ensure equity, efficiency, transparency and market-driven pricing options for home buyers and sellers,” Mantill Williams, NAR’s vice president of communications, wrote in an email to HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Despite record-high home prices, home equity may not save some borrowers in forbearance from foreclosure, according to a Black Knight ’s report published Monday. Since 2010, around 10% of borrowers with more than 120 days in delinquency were referred to foreclosure, regardless of their equity.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

These trends have exacerbated industry overcapacity, leading to continual layoffs. The resizing of the housing industry will continue as mortgage lenders work to adjust to the new origination environment, said Shampa Bhattacharya, Fitch director of non-bank financial institutions. And don’t expect the layoffs to stop anytime soon.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Redfin put the real estate industry on notice Monday morning, announcing that it will require agents to cancel their National Association of Realtors membership where possible. So far, Rath said the response from the industry to Redfin’s choice has been respectful.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Shelley Giordano In 2019, the group exited the American College and reformed as the Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning at the UIUC. The group will continue under the auspices of Mutual of Omaha, which currently stands as the second-largest lender in the reverse mortgage industry behind Finance of America Reverse (FAR).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported that CoStar Group and a private equity group led by Warburg Pincus are currently competing for the data provider, though it is unclear if either have made an offer yet. The post CoStar and private equity group battle for CoreLogic appeared first on HousingWire. Presented by: Black Knight.

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RIS Media

MARCH 25, 2024

On a mission to move the MLS industry forward and put the power back in the hands of brokers, REsides is riding the wave of momentum that was set in motion with the launch of its revolutionary equity-ownership model for members.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Point, a shared equity reverse mortgage firm that gives homeowners the ability to sell a small fraction of their equity, recently announced that it has raised over $1 billion in new capital commitments from real estate and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) investors. Co-founder on working with the reverse mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

Cost to originate a loan: In the manufacturing industry, it’s common to analyze standard costs. In addition to KPIs, there should be a healthy focus on financial metrics such as debt to equity, tangible net worth, liquidity ratios, etc. Driven by data. To this end, conducting a DuPont Analysis could prove helpful.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As we approach 2022, some concerning headwinds confront the mortgage origination industry. This includes focusing on capital/equity to ensure the foundation is strong, covenants are met and operational flexibility is maintained. The post Headwinds confronting the mortgage industry in 2022 appeared first on HousingWire.

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