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Home equity products light up a dark housing market

Housing Wire

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. homeowners saw home equity increase 1.7%

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Home equity could make a difference for long-term care funding (but there’s a catch)

Housing Wire

population grows older with each passing year, looking for new and novel ways to fund long-term care for the aging population could include home equity. As the gap between high- and low-income homeowners widens, the equity they’ve built up in their homes could make a difference in the equation. As the U.S.

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Tapping home equity in retirement has advantages and pitfalls: Harvard researcher

Housing Wire

While home equity can certainly be a beneficial tool for some seniors to deploy, it will not always be a definitive answer for every senior’s needs. “If you could use your home equity to make your life better — to buy hearing aids, for example — maybe that’s a good investment.” ” Molinsky told NextAvenue.

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AI could improve racial equity in homeownership, but there’s work to be done

Housing Wire

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to grow amid higher origination costs and greater competition, but without correcting the underlying causes of bias in data, AI models can embed racial equity inequality on a larger scale, a recent report from the Urban Institute concluded. “It

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MAXEX lands equity investment, partnership to expand liquidity

Housing Wire

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ” The company also announced that it expanded its bulk- and forward-trading loan programs.

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Blend launches housing equity program

Housing Wire

Digital lending and cloud banking startup Blend Labs has launched Blend Impact , a program focused on increasing access and equity in housing and financial services with Blend’s nonprofit partners. The post Blend launches housing equity program appeared first on HousingWire.

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Tax & flood vendor Lereta acquired by private equity firms

Housing Wire

Private equity firms Flexpoint Ford and Vestar Capital Partners have bought Lereta LLC , a provider of real estate tax and flood solutions for mortgage servicers, the companies announced this week. ” Flexpoint Ford is a private equity investment firm that has raised more than $5 billion in capital.

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