Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Heading into 2024, there are continuing and emerging financing options, grant programs and legislation all designed to help homeowners and builders create much-needed infill housing. These will help on the margin, but we still need smart lenders to help create even more robust financing options for ADUs.

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JULY 19, 2024

Headquartered in Southern California , AscentDS will focus on providing customized financing solutions to single-family and multifamily housing developers and investors across the nation. Founder and CEO Robert Wasmund has a deep background in the residential construction and bridge lending industry. “We now known as Rithm Capital. “In

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It is encouraging to see some uptick in apartment construction in some of our larger communities. Underlying issues Despite this progress, Dapice and others are frustrated by the lack of new construction especially starter homes in the state. Its a big deal. They want to attract younger employees, including recent college graduates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

economy can withstand job losses in the government sector, reduced spending in the economy, and a housing market on the brink of losing residential construction projects. This leads us back to the private sector and residential construction jobs. I recently discussed this in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Apollo orchestrated this transaction and now our partnership through Newfi provides the financing needed to grow this business and scale it to a higher level. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector. Apollo has 16 lending platforms in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

“I knew things were going down, but I didn’t know how bad it was until people started knocking on our door.” Now Sandoval, who was featured earlier this year in a Wall Street Journal article , is the one knocking on the doors of homeowners facing foreclosure or other distressed circumstances. There is nothing like that face to face.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. Index values for most construction inputs are down from 2022 but remain above pre-pandemic levels. Index values for December published last week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Redfin cited the boom in multifamily construction over the past few years as one reason why rents have remained stable. Redfin cited the boom in multifamily construction over the past few years as one reason why rents have remained stable. The surge in renter households is outpacing the growth of homeowners in the U.S., That was up 2.7%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according to monthly data on new residential construction from the U.S. But housing completions rose 14.6% compared to September 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters. This would act as an equivalent to reducing the mortgage rate by more than 1.5%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Buyers want affordable new homes, yet new construction listings are still playing catch up with their high-priced counterparts. Finance a loan, and you may lose money. Avoid financing, and you risk missing out on a sales growth opportunity. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. Why is that important?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of homes permitted, started, under construction and completed all remain well above pre-pandemic levels but below the peaks reached in the last three years.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Achieving [these] goals will also help encourage community banks to expand their construction-to-permanent mortgage lending activity, especially in small towns and rural markets.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2025

Global investment bank Cambridge Wilkinson today announced the closing of a forward flow agreement up to $100 million for a private real estate lending platform specializing in short-term bridge , fix-and-flip, construction and land development loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In November 2023, CoreLogic reported a 2.7% annualized increase in U.S. single-family rents. But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. Social media posts have fueled speculation that Austin’s rental market is in freefall. What Austin is seeing is not that,“ he said. 20 — $4 less than the national average.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Like many localities across the country, Marin County leaders describe a housing crisis in their area that they hope to alleviate through the construction of more ADUs. Marin County is situated across the Golden Gate Bridge, north of San Francisco. They especially aim to serve those undergoing life transitions, like seniors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% “Slower construction activity in the Northeast could reflect cooler demand as well as challenges builders face in finding availability lots,” she said. Could multifamily construction stall? Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. They were 23.3%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. The latest HBGI data continue to show a changing geography for home construction,” Robert Dietz , the NAHB’s chief economist, said in a statement. “The of all single-family building in the quarter.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“Homebuilders are still benefiting from very low inventory of existing homes for sale, which has driven more buyers to consider new construction,” Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant said. The seasonally‐adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of August was 436,000. At the current sales rate, this represents a supply of 7.8

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In exchange for providing homeowners a lump sum of cash, they receive a share of the home’s future value or future appreciation. “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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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Under the terms of the investment, Newfi will continue to provide an initial financing facility to expand Dunmors origination capacity. It offers four types of RTL products bridge, fix and flip , ground-up construction and debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Mortgage experts added that struggling lenders — which laid off staff, received cash infusions and were overly enthusiastic about a market recovery after two years of shrinking originations — may be forced to find other options, such as mergers and acquisitions. Last week, the U.S. in March compared to a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Meanwhile, there’s been a surge in the construction of new units: nearly one million new apartment units are projected to be available by 2025, according to a market analysis using data from the U.S. Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of smartphone users use an app to manage their finances. This is a win-win for everyone involved.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

One key data line that is flagging a path to recession is the loss of residential construction workers. A while back, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and I discussed the risk of recession due to a lack of construction labor. Let’s look at today’s residential construction report and see where we are. From the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Transitioning to factory building from on-site construction reduces building costs by 20% and significantly improves delivery time; and by using green materials, developers can open up new financing options that, together, turn project economics right-side-up. And the problem is only getting worse. Time is also money.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In this executive conversation, Steven Katz, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Residential Financing at Arbor Realty Trust, shares his thoughts on the burgeoning build-to-rent (BTR) market. SK: Construction lending is extremely complex, and in which banks have traditionally been the dominant players.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

The report described a scenario with long permit-processing times and prohibitive financing costs, plus landfills getting stuffed with demolished buildings old construction materials. The measure passed overwhelmingly in a vote of 95-2. HB 1757 is sponsored by Rep. A representative for Gov. “Gov. “Gov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

It is shipped from the Boxabl manufacturing facility in Las Vegas and is “designed to unfold into a fully functional dwelling unit in just a few hours,” reducing construction costs and minimizing environmental impacts, according to a company news release. But some experts believe that financing options for ADUs need to be expanded.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

Evergreen Home Loans originates and services a variety of mortgage products, including government-backed loans, conventional loans, jumbo loans and construction financing. Evergreen Home Loans , which is based in Washington state and has a presence in seven Western states, announced a major expansion of its footprint on Friday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

More financing tools and counseling programs can also help preserve the affordable housing stock and ensure that all households live in safe and adequate housing. The industry also relies heavily on immigrants, which accounted for 34% of the construction trades labor force in 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The only viable solution to these problems, as other municipal leaders and housing industry experts have previously suggested, is the construction of more homes. The only viable solution to these problems, as other municipal leaders and housing industry experts have previously suggested, is the construction of more homes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3% Fueling this increase is new construction, according to Divounguy, even though the 1.3% After experiencing a temporary hiccup between July 2022 to January 2023, the U.S. Over the past year, the value of the U.S. rise in the average value of U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to tout the possibilities that 3D printing technology could bring to the construction of affordable housing in the U.S. A key goal for the project includes the deployment of local and sustainable resources for construction materials.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

On Tuesday, Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) Director Bill Pulte announced several policy changes via social media, including the end of special purpose credit programs (SPCPs) and rolled-back enforcement against unfair or deceptive acts or practices (UDAP). The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) also supported the reversal.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

A study released Thursday by fintech and personal finance website SmartAsset delved into Zillow data on new home sales. A study released Thursday by fintech and personal finance website SmartAsset delved into Zillow data on new home sales. was $335,170, compared to $414,990 for new construction homes.” Dallas was No.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Cleveland – Demand for residential construction and real estate has stabilized in this District, and contacts attribute this stabilization to the arrival of spring and flattening interest rates. Residential real estate activity picked up in most Districts despite continued low inventories of homes for sale,” the report states.

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