Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Home equity continued to rise in the second quarter of 2024 as residential properties with mortgages collectively gained $1.3 trillion in equity over the past year. But growth began to slow during these three months, according to the CoreLogic Homeowner Equity Insights report published on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday. Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

Home equity continued to rise in the first quarter of 2024 as residential properties with mortgages collectively gained $1.5 trillion in equity over the past year, according to a CoreLogic report released Friday. home equity over the past year brought total net equity to more than $17 trillion at the end of Q1 2024.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The hits keep coming for now-defunct residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock. The suits accused EasyKnock of using a deceptive and unfair lending scheme to lure homeowners with poor credit, but with significant home equity, into unlawful, usurious loans known as Sell & Stay transactions. Originally filed by EasyKnock in Nov.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2024

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%. homeowners with outstanding mortgages — some 63% of all homes — home equity tied up in properties jumped by 6.8%

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired the assets of home equity investment firm HomePace , the company exclusively told HousingWire on Monday. HomePace, founded in 2020, specializes in helping homeowners access their equity through home equity agreements. Meanwhile, more than 9 million U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

The time-tested resiliency of home values highlights home equity’s importance to American households and its significance for residential real estate investors alike. The convergence of homeowner requirements and investor incentives has resulted in a genuine inflection moment for home equity investments (HEIs).

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. Learn about the tools lenders should leverage to streamline home equity title and closing. The loans are serviced by Rushmore Loan Management Services.”. for 2021-HE2.

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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 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

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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Morningstar DBRS previously confirmed its MOR RVO2 residential reverse mortgage originator ranking for FAR,” the company said. The company also mentioned the distribution channels for its reverse mortgage products, including Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) as well as its proprietary HomeSafe loans.

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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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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The total number of mortgaged residential properties in the U.S. 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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Global asset manager Bain Capital announced Monday that it has acquired a controlling stake in Archwest Capital , a California -based company that offers financing to residential real estate investors. The firm is also a major investor in Hometap , one of the larger players in the home equity investment space.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (the subcommittee), was sent to the following companies: Invitation Homes ; American Homes 4 Rent ; FirstKey Homes (owned by Cerberus Capital Management ); Progress Residential (owned by Pretium Partners ); and Amherst Residential.

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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. . New Residential Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Palo Alto, California-based fintech Point , which offers home-equity investment (HEI) contracts to homeowners, is expanding its services into Nevada and Ohio. Nevada homeowners are sitting on more than $150 billion in tappable home equity, and Ohio homeowners have more than $330 billion,” said Eddie Lim, CEO and co-founder of Point. “The

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Borrowers everywhere are seeking new ways to tap into their home equity. To help homeowners explore their home equity options, lenders, investors and others in the industry should consider leveraging tech-backed services. But with rising mortgage costs and high interest rates , refinancing doesn’t always make the most sense.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Historically, life insurance companies shied away from investing in residential mortgages. But, thanks to the influence of private equity investors, cash-rich insurance companies are increasingly drawn to private debt assets that pay higher premiums due to their illiquidity. Non-QM market share grew from less than 3% of U.S.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2022

Home equity climbed to a historic high of $11.5 trillion in the second quarter, but it could be nearing its peak as major equity-rich markets on the West Coast begin to show signs of decline. Black Knight calculates homeowner equity levels by leveraging loan-level mortgage performance data and its home price index.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Technology platform Figure , which powers a liquid, blockchain-based marketplace for financial products, and global investment firm Sixth Street today announced the formation of a new joint venture vehicle in which Sixth Streets asset-based finance platform has committed to invest $200M of equity.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

The real estate technology company will be aided on this journey by additional capital it has secured from its ownership group, which includes private equity partner Vector Capital , and brokerages Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and Windermere Real Estate , according to an announcement on Friday. MoxiWorks is looking to up its game.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

For the sake of simplicity, I will keep my comments restricted to residential real estate in the US. Offers to refinance, leverage equity, and the like have improved but rarely does AI come into play, though it could help a great deal in targeting, data matching, and prediction. Valuation gets the highest grade and here, AI is a star.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rocket Pro TPO is diversifying its product portfolio by offering home equity loans to brokers by mid-September amid increased competition in the wholesale channel. The move follows Rocket Mortgage ‘s roll out of home equity loans in August as the firm tries to capitalize on Americans’ strong home equity positions. .

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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

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. The leadership is also changing. billion goodwill impairment.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Saluda Grade , an alternative investment firm with a focus on residential real estate finance, announced this week that it hired Jim Boothby as its head of global business development. Saluda Grade added two commingled funds and two separate managed accounts to its credit business last year, while also launching a third growth equity fund.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

home equity based on different estimates its easy to see the potential impact that such a large cohort has on a variety of different businesses, including home inspections. As more older adults state their desires to age in place in their current homes and with baby boomers owning as much as half of all U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Jon Gerretsen, SitusAMC Managing Director of Residential New Originations and Fulfillment Services, about the home buying boom and how lenders can gain market share and drive profitability in a white-hot purchase mortgage market. Overall origination activity in February was down 5.4% over last year.

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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

MARCH 7, 2024

The rating agencies and bond market have recognized the pristine nature of [residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS] and are rewarding that over time with tighter and tighter spreads, which allows for better financing, which then allows for better pricing ultimately back to the borrower,” Warden said. “My

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Among the provisions of the new bill, the relevant section stipulates that [a] foreclosure prevention fee of $80 shall be assessed for each residential mortgage loan originated, excepting only reverse mortgage loans issued to seniors over the age of 61, it says. To that end, NRMLA has requested that the language be changed from age 61 to 59.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Home Equity Investment (HEI) is a relatively new option for private equity real estate investors, and one that carries significant promise. This leaves them with this enormous asset in their home equity, but they have no way of accessing it short of selling their home, which is simply something that many people dont want to do.

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