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Once at the fringes of housing finance, home equity investment companies look to grow their stake

Housing Wire

In return, Hometap gets an agreed-upon percentage of the sale price or appraised value within a 10-year period. In addition to that, conventional underwriting does not serve the new-age economy such as gig workers, so you are seeing this demand for alternative financing. “And The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Home equity products light up a dark housing market

Housing Wire

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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NFT mania and the future of the home sale

Housing Wire

Worldwide sales of non-fungible tokens, better known – of course – as NFTs, catapulted from $94.9 For example, purchasing an NFT of a JPEG of a painting transfers the intellectual property rights of the painting. But Ethereum was the first with a blockchain that enabled NFT sales. That’s when a 70-year-old brick home in the St.

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How proptechs are adapting in a changing market

Housing Wire

Just a couple years ago there was incredible momentum building around alternative ways to purchase, sell and extract value from residential properties. The highly competitive purchase market and bidding wars gave rise to power buyer models to help non cash buyers compete.

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Better’s shares plummet 93% in Nasdaq debut 

Housing Wire

Shares of Better Home & Finance Holding , the parent of digital lender Better.com, collapsed during its debut on Nasdaq Thursday. and created a refi boom for mortgage lenders like Better. The agreement reduced SoftBank’s maximum commitment to $550 million. the prior day. at the closing on Thursday.

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What opportunities will the ICE-Black Knight deal present for lenders?

Housing Wire

Mortgage analysts expect to see consolidation if the deal were to go through, but also forecast that strong players in the servicing and loan origination system side will emerge. The core of what they (ICE) are acquiring with Black Knight is the MSP – the mortgage servicing platform. “The

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Fannie Mae unveils $997M reperforming loan offering 

Housing Wire

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. A reperforming loan is a mortgage that has been or is currently delinquent but has been reperforming for a period of time. million in unpaid principal balance; pool 2 is at $342.5

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