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Home equity lending opportunities remain despite decline in tappable equity

Housing Wire

Recent home price declines are leading to decreased tappable equity, but there are still opportunities in home equity lending, according to a report published by Home Equity Lending News. Tappable home equity is expected to decrease to a forecasted $18.1 However, given that home-equity originations were less than $0.5

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Home equity loan vs. HELOC – What’s the difference?

Housing Wire

While mortgage rates are high and economic uncertainty looms, there is good news for borrowers who already have a mortgage and may be looking to tap into their equity. Home equity loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) are both loan products that are secured by the equity on a borrower’s home. Read on to find out.

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Home-equity niche will benefit from a private-label lift

Housing Wire

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Better launches ‘Equity Unlocker’ to help Amazon employees buy homes

Housing Wire

Digital mortgage lender and nonbank home loan provider Better.com has launched “Equity Unlocker,” a mortgage innovation that allows employees to pledge vested stock equity as collateral for a down payment without selling their stock. Equity Unlocker is currently available in Florida, New York and Washington state.

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Blend releases new home equity software solution

Housing Wire

Mortgage tech firm Blend launched a software solution for home equity products amid a mad dash from lenders into the space. Lenders using Blend’s home equity product can offer personalized home equity loans and then close in a few days as opposed to multiple weeks it takes through legacy home equity processes, according to the firm.

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Home equity is the bright gem of the housing market

Housing Wire

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. They are saying, ‘Tell me what’s working, how can I stand a program up so I can capture some of this [home-equity] business.”

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Four states and Washington, D.C. record annual home equity declines

Housing Wire

Despite the housing market cool down , homeowners with mortgages , which accounts for roughly 63% of all properties, gained $1 trillion in equity between the fourth quarter of 2021 and the fourth quarter of 2022, according to a report released Thursday by CoreLogic. On average, U.S. This trend looks to be continuing as prices were up 13.4%

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