Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Many real estate investors were serendipitously ahead of this shift even before the pandemic started, driven by both affordability and an affinity for overlooked markets. Those markets I’m able to put a little bit less money in but also make a comfortable amount of return,” said Bijan Green, a Denver-based real estate investor. “A

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Kiavi reported that the offered notes were “oversubscribed by five times its capacity” as institutional investors showed interest. The deal leaves room for reinvestment via a two-year window, allowing investors to reuse principal payoffs to purchase newlyoriginated loans. Investors in the Class A1 notes that total $246.9

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Finding the 10 best real estate markets for investors is the first step to making that dream a reality. This guide dives deep into ten markets currently showing impressive growth potential for investors, but remember: real estate investment involves risk. High demand translates to higher rental yields, a key factor for investors.

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AAOA

MAY 26, 2025

Real estate typically requires a significant upfront investment, but what if you could buy new construction rental properties with little to no money down? Leveraging Builder Incentives to Reduce Costs One of the most significant advantages of buying new construction investment properties is the incentives builders offer investors.

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BAM Media

MAY 20, 2025

Byron Lazine broke down Zelmans insights in todays Hot Sheet : Read on for a quick overview of Zelmans thoughts on home builder sentiment, new construction versus existing homes, and a NAR-backed bill that could incentivize small landlords to sell. Its policy blind spots and tax barriers that prevent mom-and-pop investors from listing.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2024

You can also create messaging for your investor clients to inform them of possible investment opportunities. For example, your investor clients probably wont be interested in a first-time home buyers checklist, and you most likely wouldnt want to send information about 1031 exchanges to the first-time home buyers in your database. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. It also has a niche in construction and manufactured home loan programs. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The analysis is limited to resale properties and does not include new construction, which means that build-to-rent activity is excluded. New Western , meanwhile, also stood out as a marketplace for real estate investors. Purchase activity peaked in July, driven by a portfolio acquisition completed by Invitation Homes.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Shelter inflation has been coming down slowly since the summer, as new residential construction activity ramped up in 2023,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist for Bright MLS. Even though shelter prices dropped to 0.3% the prior month, they’ve increased 6.7% In comparison, the CPI rose 3.7% in September and 3.7%

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Mortgage rates dropped to 6.78% this week, the biggest weekly decline since mid-March, as investors digested a raft of mixed incoming economic data. Homebuilder sentiment rose for the seventh consecutive month and new construction activity slightly pulled back as the cost of materials picked up.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Housing starts declined 9% in 2023, an indication that homebuyers looking to purchase a new construction home may continue to struggle with the lack of inventory this year. More than 57% of investors have priced in at least a quarter-point cut in March, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

Mortgage rates little changed this week as investors assessed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ’s latest comments on rate hikes. New home sales have rebounded more robustly than the resale market due to a marginally greater supply of new construction. by year-end.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Chinese real estate investments extend beyond their borders and if those investors suddenly need to liquidate those assets to cover losses at home , many countries real estate markets could be negatively impacted. This could make raising capital for new construction projects harder, and more expensive, everywhere. In the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

And if three hikes in the federal funds target come to pass, initial rates on ARMs, HELOCs and construction loans (often linked to the bank prime) will likely increase from one-half to three-quarters of a percentage point. for 30-year fixed-rate loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

Given the rising price of lumber and other construction costs, renovations may sound impractical. New construction is everything – it’s copper, plastic, plumbing, lumber, roofing – but in a rehab, you’re not necessarily doing all that, there’s not a big spend on that,” he said.

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Bigger Pockets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving real estate market, new construction rental properties are emerging as the clear choice for savvy investors. Rising maintenance costs, inflated insurance premiums, and escalating material expenses […]

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The amount of equity in these loans, the underwriting, the guardrails around ATR have proven that this is a real, sustainable product that investors like.”. Purchase mortgage originations in total are expected to grow 9% to a new record of $1.73 Investor-related loans are also seeing an increase, Lind said. Refinance decline.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

But according to him, the firm has invested in new construction, land, and condominiums in a challenging mortgage market. “In wholesale, you can shop and sell the loan to a multitude of investors. Right now, we have 200 different investors.” OneTrust has had some recent leadership changes. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The share is collected monthly in the Realtors Confidence Index and includes buyers who purchased primary homes, vacation homes and investors. At that time, housing inventory dropped to historic lows making the environment ripe for investors. The share of non-primary residence buyers is now at 18% from a high of 22% in January 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Mortgage rates jumped this week as investors grapple with persistent positive economic data and a hawkish Fed. Economic resilience is taking investors aback. By contrast, the 30-year was at 5.30% a year ago at this time. The 10-year Treasury yield was north of 4.0% on Thursday, a threshold not seen since March of this year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This team during my tenure has done the yeoman’s work of really amplifying, collecting and gathering all the loan-level data that is in our securities to be able to disclose that data to investors, so they really understand what’s in the pools that they’re buying and what they’re investing in.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

Large single-family rental investors didn’t have much of an appetite in the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The slowdown in institutional investor SFR purchases? This tracks, as the largest percentages of single-family home sales to institutional investors in the first quarter of 2023 included Georgia (8.4%

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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. It’s also assessing a variety of other products to service a market that is now heavily purchase-focused.

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Propmodo

JUNE 20, 2024

A recent CBRE Global Data Center Survey revealed that 97 percent of investors plan to allocate more funding toward data centers this year, up from 89 percent in 2023. Large institutional investors have a growing appetite for data centers. All these factors are leading to innovations in data center design and construction.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Buyers were likely anticipating further rate increases and locking in at the low rates, and investors added to overall demand with all-cash offers,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. The good news is there are several directions from which more supply may come, said Matthew Speakman, an economist at Zillow.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

All of their material seems more geared toward investor pitches and media buzz generation.”. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. But the company was out of business by 2018.

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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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Take a look below to see the latest from last year’s winning organizations who answered the question: What new products or projects has your company taken on since its last TECH100 win? “Kiavi launched a new construction financing product.

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Bigger Pockets

MAY 17, 2024

This may be the best time ever to invest in new construction. We'll explain why the demand for homebuilding could mean big bucks for investors.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

When we help bring distressed properties back to the market, it’s up to 31% less expensive than a new construction home.”. New Western calls itself “the largest private source of investment properties in the country,” connecting more than 100,000 local investors looking to rehab houses with sellers.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Continuing to add for sale inventory from the new construction industry “is going to be vital to helping stabilize prices and affordability in the long run,” added Zillow senior economist Nicole Bachaud. With fewer buyers, some homebuilders have been selling homes in bulk to investors who plan to rent the properties out.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

This has driven meaningful share gains for new construction,” she added, “with the percentage of new-home listings more than doubling from long-term norms to over 30% of the market.” We believe this lack of existing homes on the market is pushing prospective buyers toward new homes, bolstering sales and construction,” he added.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

Ideally, the costs for a home would rise roughly in line with income growth, which is likely to happen in 2022 as more listings and new construction become available.”. ” Individual investors or second-home buyers, who account for many cash sales, purchased 14% of homes in June, down from 17% in May and up from 9% in June 2020.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

builder confidence, housing starts, homebuilder, builder, lumber, construction costs. Auld said the homebuilder started construction on 24,800 homes this quarter and homes and inventory “increased 30% from a year ago with only 600 unsold completed homes across the nation. per diluted share.” That’s up from $2.53 billion to $36.1

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

Newly constructed homes are selling at a pace reminiscent of pre-pandemic times because of abundant inventory in that sector. Individual investors or second-home buyers, who make up many cash sales , purchased 15% of homes in May, down from 17% in April and 16% the previous year. Unsold inventory is at a 3.0-month

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Not only does Flagstar offer brokers direct access to seasoned sales, support and underwriting teams, it also provides a product set that includes specialty lending options like Advantage non-agency loan, jumbos, new construction, renovation products and HELOCs, and in the pipeline, loans to foreign nationals, seconds and investor property loans.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Meanwhile, individual investors or second-home buyers, who make up many cash sales, purchased 18% of homes in June, up from 15% in May and 16% the previous year. In this market, the lack supply remains the main constraint but new housing construction should help alleviate some of the supply pressures, according to Sturtevant.

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