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Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently spoke with Barry Coffin, managing director of home equity title/close at ServiceLink , about the ways lenders can capitalize on these trends by revving up their home equity solutions. Barry Coffin : It’s a good time to prioritize home equity transactions for a couple of reasons.

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Online bank Ally launches home grant program

Housing Wire

The upfront lump sum can be applied toward a down payment, closing costs or other expenses related to the homebuying process. Ally Home , the residential mortgage lending arm of Ally Bank , is offering a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers in the select markets of Charlotte, Detroit and Philadelphia, the company announced on Tuesday.

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RenoFi targets homeowners who don’t qualify for HELOCs

Housing Wire

Renovation financing startup RenoFi now offers a fixed-rate home renovation loan, which allows homeowners to borrow as much as 90% of their home’s after-renovation value — a move to target homeowners who don’t qualify for a home equity line of credit (HELOCs).

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Opinion: Here’s what people are getting wrong about real estate commissions

Housing Wire

Any person involved in selling a home knows that you cannot increase the price of your home randomly to cover the cost of commissions and other closing costs. The market sets the price of the home, and it cares little for closing costs — or what the homeowner invested in it — when determining the price for which it will sell.

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Nearly 40 housing tech firms make the 2023 Inc. 5000 list

Housing Wire

LoanStar Technologies , which connects lenders with borrowers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked, also made the list again. 469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. Homelight , a platform for homebuyers and sellers, was No.

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The title insurance industry prepares for battle

Housing Wire

As a result, many title firms have found revenue coming from different sources, including stronger than expected commercial revenue and other mortgage products such as home equity lines of credit (HELOCs). One of the goals they outlined in those plans is a push to reduce closing costs, especially for low-income borrowers.

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Opinion: Can tech and iBuyers fix the real estate market?

Housing Wire

commercial spaces/building and residential homes/townhomes) and inconsistent transactional processes, fragmentation in the market has prevented real-estate from adopting technology as quickly as other sectors – until now. So, what are the technologies and trends iBuyers are using to fix fragmentation in the market?

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