Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

A private planning firm in California is launching a new tool to help local governments there prepare for a pending law designed to spur more construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Digital tools like the ADU Plans Gallery reduce the time and cost of building ADUs and accelerate housing construction.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

Lenders can also define workflows and business rules for any mortgage product, including construction loans, manufactured home loans, home equity loans and bridge loans. Unlike off-the-shelf POS solutions, Blueprint Builder allows lenders to customize technology that is designed to help improve operations, Maxwell noted.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

“This merger ensures our customers will continue to receive access to the products, services, and technology they need while maintaining the relationship-driven, hands-on service they’ve come to expect,” Dionise said in a statement. Mars Bank held $520.8 million in assets as of June 30, 2023. NexTier Bank produced $50.6

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Andy Miller, who began AARP ’s AgeTech Collaborative to bring technology companies together and offer aging-in-place solutions, spoke about the growing virtues of smart-home technology. Miller is overseeing construction of a new home with wood floors that contain no thresholds, which might cause a tripping hazard in later life.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The technology companies will tether their respective services with the goal of streamlining the process of getting a home ready for sale. The Renovation Sells platform focuses on design and construction, while the loans come from HouseAmp. The new partnership between HouseAmp and Renovation Sells.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

has agreed to buy mortgage servicing rights trading platform Blue Water Financial Technologies for a cool $101 million. The integration of Blue Water into the Voxtur product suite strengthens our technology foothold and places us squarely in the capital markets arena,” said Voxtur CEO Jim Albertelli in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2021

In an earnings call this week, Lennar executive chairman Stuart Miller said the move would maximize the technology investments made through LENx , the company’s primary investment vehicle. Total construction costs are down 0.7% Given the apartment business has ~$1 bln of invested equity today, this suggests at least $1.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2025

Tim Bowler, the president of ICE Mortgage Technology , appreciates a good analogy. Treasury official says that the mortgage technology giant’s integration of Black Knight isn’t dissimilar to building a rail line. But MSP, the flagship servicing technology engine acquired in the $12 billion Black Knight deal, runs on 2.01-meter

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today, modern technology , including Pretium’s platforms, cut out the middleman by allowing firms to invest directly in assets, decide the kind of leverage they want and determine how Pretium will manage the assets over time. Mullen says that Pretium can spring into action within three to 24 hours to start the discussion process.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There are four key barriers to aging in place identified by AARP, including affordability; accessibility; barriers to incorporating more technology into daily life; and a dearth of community resources and readiness to address these challenges. as they seem focused on people with high-cost homes and significant equity.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

The early entrants into the market — including Milo and Figure Technologies — made loans equal to 100% of the borrower’s cryptocurrency value with no down payment required. “The effective use of technology allows us to accomplish this.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2022

Employees on the technology, marketing and human resources teams are on the list. The bank offers conventional loans, FHA , VA , USDA , construction, bridge loan, cash-out refis, home equity, land and mobile home loans, according to its website. 5, according to the document reviewed by HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Affordable Housing Program (AHP) requires that each of the 11 FHLBanks in America contributes 10% of the preceding year’s net income to the purchase, construction, or rehabilitation of homes. million, two-year partnership with the Urban Institute to create a racial equity accelerator program.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The top three opportunities mortgage pros see are new construction (15.3%), first-time homebuyers (14.5%) and cultivating referrals and building new relationships with buyers, builders and agents (13%), according to HousingWire ‘s Q4 2023 LenderPulse survey. About 37% of respondents were spending money in social media and 34.8%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

It has constructed a servicing platform while adding multi-asset originations and asset management capabilities. The company has also established capital-partner relationships and has made a series of technological investments into its platforms, he said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Meanwhile, Opendoor , the OG of an iBuying company with a national presence and patina of technological prowess, was upheld as doing things right. “If Zillow has been pilloried for diving headfirst into iBuying only to announce the money-losing enterprise’s demise in November. wants to start the journey with an Opendoor offer.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, equity gained through homeownership is a primary means for Americans to accumulate wealth—especially for Black households, according to the Urban Institute. Purchasing a home is still more affordable than renting in two-thirds of the country. And, a first home becomes a stepping-stone for first-time buyers to build wealth.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

Homepoint’s “New Build program” connects homebuilders with business purpose construction financing through in-region mortgage brokers, with loan amounts up to $4 million per unit or $25 million per project.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Mortgage demand picked up in recent weeks due to rates declining to 6% levels and a massive backlog of homes under construction, as mentioned by HousingWire ‘s lead analyst Logan Mohtashami in a recent column. It’s positive news for an industry that has recently dealt with a lackluster amount of inventory. Barnes said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion in equity as of the second quarter, plus technology that can close loans faster than most competitors, aggressive pricing is a “multibillion dollar decision investment,” as Ishbia put it. His tangible net worth ratio (a proxy of how much equity you have relative to your total assets) is just under 30%.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

But if we’re going to have an honest discussion about the issue of developers suing pre-construction condo buyers which is only just beginning in Toronto, we truly are going to kick over the hornet’s nest because I have to ask the obvious question: Who is to blame? I have never sold a single pre-construction condo.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For existing homeowners, that’s good news because it means equity accumulation. Kim: The silver lining in the current housing market is an uptick in new construction sales due to a lack of existing-home inventory. Duncan: They have been investing in technology — primarily consumer-facing technologies to get business in the door.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Just this week, I have spent time with successful people in the following pursuits: Technology consulting, software development, real estate sales, building construction and contracting, the law, nuclear physics innovation, advertising, medical sales, and product innovation.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. Hey Clayton …” and a link. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to release Thomvest’s real estate technology market map, which includes more than 240 companies operating within the residential real estate segment. This market map real estate technology companies operating across every phase of the home purchase value chain. Expanding access to home financing options.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Manufacturing production declined to the lowest level since 1946 and new home construction saw the biggest decline in nearly 40 years. Servicers to date have risen to the occasion, investing in technology and hiring thousands of employees. But the real test is yet to come: Most forbearance plans only just began expiring in September.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The direct-to-consumer channel is more home equity and refi-driven; they do some purchases, but it’s primarily that. That’s new construction. We had LDI Digital, which included mellohome, with a component of Realtor [aspects] and also the component technology. So there’s mello technology. It was crazy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

“To my knowledge, we are the only ones who set this up as a traditional wholesale channel, which makes it easier for these third parties to add it as a product in the suite that they already have access to — all of their agency loans, government loans, jumbo, non-QM, construction. This is just one more arrow in their quiver.”

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Propmodo

JUNE 20, 2024

CBRE itself sees so much potential in the sector that have decided to buy a data center service provider from a private equity firm Like warehouses and logistics in the pandemic era, the sky’s the limit for data center development. All these factors are leading to innovations in data center design and construction.

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Real Trends

MARCH 2, 2023

What is the relationship between the single-family real estate market and equity markets? To construct this chart, we used the total estimated value of all single-family residential units built before 2012 and still exist in 2023 (72.2 This avoids incorrectly inflating the SFR with the value of newly constructed properties.

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Realty Biz

MARCH 23, 2022

There is no denying that 2021 has been a historic year for the real estate industry, especially real estate technology. As you think about where you can focus your business development efforts and investment thesis by 2022, keep these two real estate technologies in mind. The world of real estate tech will continue to grow. Blockchain.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Blackbird] then used its proprietary ‘lookback’ technology to access pre-renovation images of the homes from a multiple listing service and compare them with post-renovation images from the rental advertisements.”

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Real Trends

MARCH 29, 2023

Here are a few trends and predictions I see happening with new construction buyers: Don’t expect massive price drops Here’s the reality: We will not see the massive price drop that occurred between 2008 and 2011. The post Opinion: will we see massive price drops in new construction? appeared first on RealTrends.

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AAOA

JANUARY 23, 2025

Demand for luxury multifamily living is strong nationwide, even as financing and rising materials costs can be construction impediments, say the nearly 20 AEC and developer firms that BD+C contacted in July and August to learn what trends are influencing this housing sectors design and construction.

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Propmodo

OCTOBER 31, 2023

“Some debt funds both originate loans and buy notes from other institutions,” said Tim Milazzo, founder of StackSource, an online marketplace for commercial real estate debt and equity. When the lending environment gets bad, large construction loans are often the first on the chopping block.

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Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 8, 2024

As we stand on the precipice of a new decade, the housing market in 10 years promises to be a landscape shaped by technological innovation, demographic shifts, and evolving economic factors. Simultaneously, millennials and Gen Z will continue to shape the housing market as they enter their prime homebuying years.

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