Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

Dubbed “Investors Flex,” the non-QM product for real estate investors, offered purchase and refinance loans up to $2 million that could be used to finance up to 20 properties by using each property’s monthly rental income to qualify. UWM originated $38.8 billion in mortgage loans in the first quarter of 2022, a 29.7%

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. just to give an idea of how fragmented it is in terms of the lender,” Christian Faes, founder of F2 Finance, said in an interview with HousingWire. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Michael Gifford and David Zvaifler‘s home equity investment company, Splitero , lost its main investor, Redwood Trust , HousingWire has learned. He added that Splitero was looking for other investors and hinted that the company would have some good news to share soon. Personally, I think it’s a great proof point for the space.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

announced on Thursday that the Optimal Blue product, pricing and eligibility engine (PPE) has added investor content from 54 state-based housing finance agencies (HFAs). Optimal Blue , a division of Black Knight, Inc. Black Knight, Inc. Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

National mortgage loan subservicer Cenlar FSB announced on Thursday that it has named the Thomas Donatacci as its investor relations officer. He is expected to strengthen Cenlar’s relationships with stakeholders in this role, including agency investors, shareholders, clients, and rating agencies.

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BAM Media

MAY 9, 2024

Real estate transactions can be complex, especially when traditional financing isn’t the best option. This is where creative financing strategies like seller financing and subject to come into play. Seller Financing: The seller acts as the bank, creating a new financing agreement with the buyer. What is Subject To?

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

In fact, ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales in the nation last year, or 8.4%, involved fix and flip investors — whose strategy is to acquire, renovate (fix) and then resell (flip) the properties. More investors keep looking to flip homes … but are making less and less in the process “ ATTOM CEO Rob Barber said. housing market.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

End-to-end lending and services platform Finance of America Capital is the latest mortgage company to get in on the mushrooming IPO craze. Finance of America, says its collection of companies has originated over $65 billion in loans since 2017. Finance of America operates through retail, wholesale and correspondent channels.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

Fast-rising interest rates hit Finance of America Companies hard in the first quarter of 2022 and the company cut almost 600 jobs compared to one year ago. . “Credit spreads widened on most financial assets, as investors proceeded to increase risk in the market,” said Cook to analysts. billion in Q4 2021 to $1.47

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2021

Finance of America Reverse will soon debut a hybrid product that combines elements of a reverse mortgage with a forward mortgage. The new product, called EquityAvail, funds at closing and requires that the borrower make payments for 10 years but at a reduced amount, Finance of America Reverse said this week.

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HomeLight

MAY 8, 2024

However, “as is” sales often attract investors searching for their next flip or buyers seeking a bargain, perhaps on a home in a great location with lots of potential. However, “as is” sales often attract investors searching for their next flip or buyers seeking a bargain, perhaps on a home in a great location with lots of potential.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

Finance of America on Monday will become the latest lender to make its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. To coincide with the IPO, institutional investors have pledged to make a private investment of $250 million in the company. According to Inside Mortgage Finance, FOA was the 26th largest mortgage originator by volume in 2020.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The credit risk analytics will combine ICE’s physical climate risk data and DeltaTerra’s climate analytics, financial risk models, and market data to deliver risk impact estimates for investors in the residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities markets. Our climate risk data can help inform investment decisions of U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As the pandemic shifts from crisis to chronic, investors, community leaders and housing advocates say they intend to make the most of the chance to permanently elevate the case for affordable housing even as economic metrics are starting to shift. The influx of cash to consumers early in the pandemic kept rent payments flowing, all agree.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

Over the past six months, mergers and acquisitions, huge financing rounds and public offerings have dominated headlines across the real estate and housing finance sector. This level of action is keeping finance executives like Jeremy Collett , Executive Director, Capital Markets at Guaranteed Rate busier than ever.

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HomeLight

JANUARY 22, 2024

Looking to sell a house “as is” in Virginia? Whether you’ve got a fixer-upper or recently inherited a relative’s home, sometimes the goal is to skip repairs, get a fair offer, and move on. It’s the] same as, accounts are low but equity is high, and they want to just sell it as-is to get access to their equity,” he adds.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blackstone Group -controlled Finance of America posted record margins and originations in the third quarter , ahead of its public offering via a blank check company in 2021. After the merger, Finance of America is slated to receive a $250 million investment from institutional investors. Presented by: WFG. billion valuation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2021

Aside from Visa, Plaid’s investors include Goldman Sachs, a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Citi Ventures, American Express Ventures, GV, Index Ventures, NEA and former Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker. The post Plaid unveils Income to aid customer finance appeared first on HousingWire. million in funding. billion merger.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Are you considering selling your home “as is” in Arizona? Whether you’ve got a fixer-upper or recently inherited a relative’s home, sometimes the goal is to skip repairs, get a fair offer, and move on. Why sell your home “as is”? Billings has over 500 transactions in his market, with an average price of $354,000. “If

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Recent cyberattacks at mortgage companies have put the industry in alert mode, executives at top lenders, servicers, tech vendors and investors told HousingWire. Reputational risk Mortgage companies, tech vendors and investors are taking steps to protect their systems. Training their workforce is also crucial, they said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a Bloomberg report, the bank has already started to offer its mortgage assets to investors in order to transfer the portfolio risks. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, reported that NYCB has contacted investors to finance a large portfolio of residential mortgages held by Flagstar Bank. 30 to $4.20

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Investor interest, product offerings When asked about investor interest, Krajewski said that partners are eager about the prospect of more companies entering the reverse mortgage business — especially firms that are well known to them. There is a lot of interest from virtually every wholesaler and investor out there,” Krajewski said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Treasury Department , given to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and others who lack financing options. Change Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans, according to its website.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

If consumers, Realtors and builders know affordable financing exists for potential buyers, more Americans will have the opportunity to get into a new home. We also have been able to educate the capital markets, which helped to scale the financing, gain high rating agency acceptance and create significant investor demand.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This is a watershed moment for many different reasons as now these [HEAs] can start to become more of a mainstream asset class that a significant number of investors will want to participate in. Between the summer of 2019 to date, there have been at least 26 securitization deals backed by home equity products valued in total at some $6.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Valverde said these problems affect homeowners, investors and insurance companies, and Ginnie Mae is “a bridge for all those counterparties.” Effective immediately, issuers of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities must notify Ginnie Mae of any cybersecurity incident within 48 hours of its detection.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This acquisition is the next step on EasyKnock’s clear path to lead the industry as the first platform to offer customers alternative solutions to buy and sell, finance new homes and utilize their equity in one place,” Jarred Kessler, CEO and founder of EasyKnock said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

In the first quarter, we saw normal seasonality in purchase opened orders with sequential improvement coming off the fourth quarter,” Fidelity CEO Mike Nolan told investors and analysts during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call on Thursday. “In The firm’s title segment reported $1.7 Commercial volumes continue to be resilient and consistent.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Amherst Chairman and CEO Sean Dobson said the shrinking margins in the agency MBS sector are a byproduct of an over-supply of paper and a greatly reduced investor balance sheets for absorbing the debt.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

New York-based digital lender Better Home & Finance Holding Company has partnered with information technology consulting company Infosys on a mortgage-as-a-service platform. Better ranked as the 62nd largest mortgage lender in the first half of 2023, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Sagent’s solutions include Loanserv, a servicing system of record powering collections, accounting, escrows, investor management and customer care; Tempo, a default management system of record powering loss mitigation, foreclosure and bankruptcy; and Account Connect, a customer care and retention system. billion in volume, an increase of 19.9%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions , they may bundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market. This ensures their bundle retains its credit rating and market value.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A brewing crisis is emerging around homeowners insurance and thus far the finance and insurance community has not offered any viable solutions. Importantly, this new GSE would be run by property and casualty (P&C) insurance, finance and weather/climate experts. And that’s where policies are available.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

These “have financed 2,800 developments, creating or preserving 200,000 affordable homes nationwide,” The company said. Enterprise Community Partners announced on Wednesday the appointment of Kari Downes to the position of president at its housing credit investments business, effective April 1.

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Norada Real Estate

JUNE 22, 2022

Financing turnkey rental properties is the most difficult question to solve for a buyer with no experience in the real estate market. ” But, if an investor does not have that much cash in hand, finance is required to meet the purchase price of an investment property. What is a Turnkey Rental Property?

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Realty Biz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Real estate investors are buying 45% fewer homes in the second quarter of 2023 than they were in the same period last year, according to a new report from Redfin. In fact, the report found that investors purchased 19% of all homes sold in the second quarter, down from 32% in the same period last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , has been granted summary judgment on the last remaining claim by investors in a lawsuit alleging the government overstepped its authority when it adjusted its stock-purchase agreements with the agencies and allowed net worth sweeps.

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