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High mortgage rates sideline homeowners from tapping home equity: ICE

Housing Wire

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. Indeed, in recent quarters, equity withdrawal rates have been running at less than half their long-run averages. Borrowers withdrew a record $104,000 on average.

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Legacy Group Capital acquires home equity investment fintech Rook Capital

Housing Wire

Bellevue, Washington-based real estate investment firm Legacy Group Capital announced this week that it has acquired fintech company Rook Capital , a provider of home equity investment (HEI) products through its “Shared Value Investment” brand. Legacy is privately owned and terms of the deal were not disclosed. “As

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Home equity remained near historic highs to end 2023

Housing Wire

homeowners with mortgages saw their home equity increase by 8.6% trillion, according to CoreLogic ’s newest homeowner equity report. Net homeowner equity totaled more than $16.6 Rhode Island posted the country’s highest annual equity gains of $62,000, followed by New Jersey ($55,000) and Massachusetts ($53,000).

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Equity surge boosts homeowner net worth by $208K: John Burns 

Housing Wire

Mortgage rate buydowns and a limited supply of existing homes have buoyed housing demand for many months despite elevated interest rates. As home prices rose steadily, homeowners also accumulated significant equity. trillion in home equity at the end of 2023, up from $15 trillion in 2006, the previous peak of the housing cycle.

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Home-equity lending blossomed in 2023

Housing Wire

Home-equity lending overall found its wings in 2023 as a number of independent mortgage banks ramped up product lines over the course of the year — despite a bump in the road in the third quarter when mortgage rates surged past 7%. Market indicators so far appear tentatively promising. from $490 billion in the second quarter.

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NYCB, a struggling $78B resi mortgage servicer, to receive $1B equity investment

Housing Wire

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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Hometap reaches $1B in home equity investments 

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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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