Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

As part of HW Media’s vision to cover All Things Housing, FinLedger will narrow its focus to proptech coverage, doubling down on a category of fintech that attracted $32 billion in investment in 2021 and yet is oft-overlooked by newsrooms. And now we’re ready for the next stage of FinLedger’s growth.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Borrower education and spreading awareness of the product category has been a key priority for most major reverse mortgage industry players for years. “We It measured “respondents’ financial stability, knowledge and attitudes toward reverse mortgages,” the results stated.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

A national syndicated columnist has taken a closer look at the reverse mortgage product category after reviewing data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about the industry’s advertising practices , and she says that the product can have utility for older Americans as long as a prospective borrower properly understands it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Gareth Borcherds , managing director Ascent Software Group outlines the three categories to be aware of, how appraisal modernization can help scale new initiatives and more in this executive conversation. If we are paying attention to how they talk about it, I think we can categorize their thoughts into three categories.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Unsurprisingly, housing is NAR’s most lobbied category over the last 25 years, according to OpenSecrets. Other policy topics include flood insurance , flood mitigation funding, data privacy, investment incentives for downtowns, and electronic notarizations , among others.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

The proposal also would rejigger the asset categories, adding a new category of “intermediate” banks — defined as $600 to $2 billion in assets — and increasing the asset threshold for small banks to $600 million, up from $346 million. New assessment categories for CRA exams also would be put in place for large banks.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

Giordano cited a survey demonstrating how certified financial planners (CFPs) had some positive attitudes about reverse mortgages as a planning tool, as well as the creation of model guidance language for broker-dealers and investment advisory firms to use in governing a planner’s interactions with reverse mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Investing in tech to save costs and get business in the door has become ever more important in an origination market facing extended headwinds. We work with tech vendors that we believe are the top three in any respective category,” Moon said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

For the most part, it’s the $3 million and under category. So it opens up a whole new avenue for people who fall within that category. Kim: If you have a lot of so-called wealthy borrowers, I would assume a lot would be interested in investment properties. I would say maybe 10 to 15% of the deals are investment property deals.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

The education gap The reverse mortgage industry has long made serious investments in educational programs, particularly when looking at the efforts of current and former major lenders in the space like Finance of America Reverse (FAR), American Advisors Group (AAG) and others.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2022

Put differently, how can people who aren’t in very high-paying jobs, aren’t owners of industry, aren’t affiliated with investment firms, and who might opt-out of the traditional economy still become part of the “American Dream”? The question before those of us in the housing ecosystem is, “how can most Americans avoid the flood?”.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 29, 2024

return on investment, according to ATTOM’s Year-End 2023 U.S. Gross and profit margins were stagnant—still near record levels—but decreased from 2022, which indicates the first decline in each respective category since 2011. During 2023, national homesellers made a $121,000 profit on the typical sale, leading to a 56.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In comparison, the second highest dollar loss category reported to the IC3 in 2021 was investment fraud, with losses of approximately $1.45 According to the report, in 2021, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received BEC-related complaints with claimed losses exceeding $2.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

.” Private Capital In addition to the depository institutions and IMBs working the ropes as MSR buyers and sellers, there is yet another source of growing MSR demand and capital investment that has been helping to fuel the market’s growth in recent years — and is expected to continue fueling MSR market trading in the year ahead.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

However, there are some categories of sellers that could have an impact in their local market. Others who purchased second homes or investment properties during the last few years are looking to cash out amidst projections of a weaker housing market. New listings activity will continue to be very low throughout much of 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Some may require you to activate specific spending categories, so pay attention to bonus offers, and sign up to maximize your rewards. Some investing firms allow you to automatically increase your saving rate by 1% at the beginning of each year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

We continue investing in tech while it’s not that crazy busy. The lender developed its proprietary loan origination software, servicing software, pricing engine and customer relationship management system last year pivoting from using a third-party mortgage tech software systems. “We Rank Company Growth (3-yr Avg.) 5000 – 2023

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you fall into this category, there are fortunately ways to protect yourself—and your investment—in the event of a natural disaster. Just make sure you take extra precautions both in choosing your property and insuring it, and you can protect your investment from whatever unexpected events may come. Here are the top three: 1.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Before you can attract top-tier talent, you must invest in state-of-the-art software. Strategic mortgage tech investments. With new tech solutions and innovative software transforming the mortgage process, lenders need to lean into industry expertise and invest in solutions that will pay off in the long run.

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Realty Biz

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Yieldstreet, a private market investment platform, has officially announced its acquisition of Cadre, an online real estate investment platform catering to institutional and high-net-worth investors. This move further solidifies Yieldstreet's position as a leader in its category. With a combined Investment Value exceeding $9.7

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She said it’s possible that the product category has been contorted too far beyond the conceptions people have about other, more mainstream mortgage products. “I Sieffert offered thoughts on the ongoing challenges that come with positioning reverse mortgages in the minds of both the public and other mortgage professionals.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

FOA did previously have a forward mortgage division but elected to shutter it in 2022 and pivot entirely to the reverse mortgage and retirement financing categories. Even in technology, the things that we would need to invest in to catch up to those peers [presented a challenge].

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 6, 2021

As proof of this, First American broke down the net worth of homeowners and renters by income categories. Here are their findings: Only one income category ($127-192K) has a higher net worth for renters over homeowners. Every other category shows that being a homeowner leads to greater accumulated wealth.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

The agency offered three narrower categories for fintech as it relates to mortgage finance: “mortgage tech,” which includes digital processes applied to mortgage origination, underwriting, servicing and investment; researching, transacting and managing real estate, or “prop tech,” and regulation and compliance, also known as “regtech.”.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2021

ESG stands for environmental, social and governance — three categories of non-financial disclosures that consumers and investors are increasingly interested in. “Fannie Mae’s Single-Family Green MBS transactions are part of our broader ESG efforts,” Arthur Johnson, vice president, single family markets at Fannie Mae, said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

And its investment in technology support and innovation have helped the title insurer deliver consistent service to its customers, he said. Although the purchase category saw a small decrease – dropping by 2,300 orders – falling refinance volume was most responsible for reduced title volume.

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Easy Agent Pro

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There are variables that impact site visitation ranging from how popular you are in your local market, to do you invest in advertising to are you active with other social media platforms. Acquisition categories such as, direct, organic, paid search, social, and email are the most common. Sources Of Real Estate Website Traffic.

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Real Trends

AUGUST 29, 2023

Small teams had highest increase in net margin Teams in every size category saw an increase in Gross Margin (GM), with teams having annualized revenue between $300,000 and $550,000 seeing the largest increase in GM from 72.5% In every size category, these costs as a percentage of GCI declined in a material way. of GCI to 49.3%

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

Most of those workers saw their net worth increase in the past year, and they chose to invest much of that new money into real estate. As Pullin explained, a large number of residents in Seattle and the Puget Sound region work at high-paying jobs like Google , Facebook , and Amazon , to name a few. ” A recent WalletHub study of 179 U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

He added that large issuers, such as big investment banks, “have a dedicated desk at their TPR firm [via contract], and they will sit there and wait for the loans, but they will not put anyone in front of them.”. “It depends on who you are,” Mayhew explained.

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Marco Santarelli

MAY 7, 2024

The state's infrastructure also received high marks, coming in at third place, reflecting the investments made in transportation , utilities , and other critical systems. Despite these strengths, Utah faces challenges in the natural environment category, where it ranks in the bottom half.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The survey evaluates the flood risk across five categories: residential properties, roads, commercial properties, critical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. Changing environmental conditions will put 13.6 million residential properties at risk of flooding in 2051, an increase of 1.2

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This year’s rebranded competition includes new categories meant to highlight innovation borne through the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as sustain anchor businesses in need of funding to weather the uncertainty ahead, according to the company. This year’s competition features three categories: Start, Sustain and Build.

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GeekEstate

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Its Rehab Estimator provides estimated labor and material costs based on the project’s category, type, and quality of materials. The post One Stop Real Estate Investment Software appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. Through PropStream’s marketing features, users can create marketing campaigns and landing pages. Learn More.

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Keeping Current Matters

AUGUST 12, 2021

Let your real estate professional know if you fall in this category. When it comes to renovations, your return-on-investment should be top of mind. They can highlight any recent upgrades you’ve made in your house’s listing. Bottom Line.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Offerpad puts its work with home sellers into two different categories. However, an iBuyer investing any level of resources in its own agents is a new wrinkle. Still, Offerpad’s sales increased 49% compared to 2020, and the company was in 21 markets at the end of 2021, compared to 14 one year earlier.

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