Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

The time-tested resiliency of home values highlights home equity’s importance to American households and its significance for residential real estate investors alike. The convergence of homeowner requirements and investor incentives has resulted in a genuine inflection moment for home equity investments (HEIs).

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Fintech and fractional home-equity lender Point has raised an additional $115 million through a Series C fundraising round led by venture capital firm WestCap. The capital will be used to accelerate Point’s growth in the $25 trillion home-equity market, according to the company’s co-founder and CEO Eddie Lim. Point raised about $30.4

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

If a broker is working with an investor that happens to dabble in non-QM, then they’re not going to get all the best practices we’ve aggregated over the last 12 years. To close the conversation, Davis explores Deephaven’s focus on home equity and new construction products in 2025. That’s where the growth is at.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Digital homeownership company Better.com on Thursday announced a record 400% growth in its home equity line of credit ( HELOC ) and home equity loan businesses. We’re underwriting them for four-plus investors, and I think that allows us to have a much higher approval rate than the other HELOC providers.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired home equity investment platform Balance Homes , the company announced on Tuesday. With this new integration, EasyKnock aims to provide homeowners with additional options to convert their home equity into cash.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This new dynamic has encouraged many investors to look at alternative assets for yield, raising a burgeoning interest in the non-qualified mortgage securitization space. Historically, life insurance companies shied away from investing in residential mortgages. And next year, we predict even more players will be jumping into the game.

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired the assets of home equity investment firm HomePace , the company exclusively told HousingWire on Monday. HomePace, founded in 2020, specializes in helping homeowners access their equity through home equity agreements. Meanwhile, more than 9 million U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Morningstar DBRS previously confirmed its MOR RVO2 residential reverse mortgage originator ranking for FAR,” the company said. The company also mentioned the distribution channels for its reverse mortgage products, including Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) as well as its proprietary HomeSafe loans. “In

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Saluda Grade , an alternative investment firm with a focus on residential real estate finance, announced this week that it hired Jim Boothby as its head of global business development. Boothby has more than 25 years of experience in credit , business development and investor relations. It grew its assets under management from $1.2

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (the subcommittee), was sent to the following companies: Invitation Homes ; American Homes 4 Rent ; FirstKey Homes (owned by Cerberus Capital Management ); Progress Residential (owned by Pretium Partners ); and Amherst Residential.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

Now, roughly 15 months later, two of its hedge fund investors, D.E. and Third Point Investors Ltd., Despite the continued strength of its core business, we believe recent capital allocation decisions have derailed CoStars compounding algorithm, according to a recent investor letter from Third Point. Shaw & Co.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Global asset manager Bain Capital announced Monday that it has acquired a controlling stake in Archwest Capital , a California -based company that offers financing to residential real estate investors. The firm is also a major investor in Hometap , one of the larger players in the home equity investment space.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Technology platform Figure , which powers a liquid, blockchain-based marketplace for financial products, and global investment firm Sixth Street today announced the formation of a new joint venture vehicle in which Sixth Streets asset-based finance platform has committed to invest $200M of equity.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

San Francisco-based Unison is extending its reach in the heartland by expanding its shared-equity loan program to homeowners in Nebraska. billion in equity-sharing agreements with some 9,000 homeowners across 29 states and the District of Columbia. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison, through an REA contract, advances the homeowner a portion of the equity in the property in exchange for a lien position and a share of the home’s future appreciation.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Borrowers everywhere are seeking new ways to tap into their home equity. To help homeowners explore their home equity options, lenders, investors and others in the industry should consider leveraging tech-backed services. But with rising mortgage costs and high interest rates , refinancing doesn’t always make the most sense.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

A group of investors led by the former U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Palo Alto, California-based fintech Point , which offers home-equity investment (HEI) contracts to homeowners, is expanding its services into Nevada and Ohio. Nevada homeowners are sitting on more than $150 billion in tappable home equity, and Ohio homeowners have more than $330 billion,” said Eddie Lim, CEO and co-founder of Point. “The

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2025

Home Equity Investment (HEI) is a relatively new option for private equity real estate investors, and one that carries significant promise. This leaves them with this enormous asset in their home equity, but they have no way of accessing it short of selling their home, which is simply something that many people dont want to do.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

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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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” The pool of non-QM borrowers includes real estate investors, fix-and-flippers, foreign nationals, business owners, gig economy workers and the self-employed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Two new single-family rental (SFR) securitization deals sponsored by large institutional players — often described as “Wall Street” investors — hit the private label market in June, bringing the total deal count so far this year to 10. The Progress Residential SFR platform was launched in 2012 “to capitalize on dislocation in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Pretium’s new fund came on the heels of private equity giant Blackstone’s decision in January to acquire Tricon Residential in a deal valued at around $3.5 But 2024’s deals show investor interest has persisted. Tricon owns more than 37,000 homes and is building about 2,500 more.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2020

The move comes 15 months after Thoma Bravo , a private equity investment firm, announced it would acquire Ellie Mae in an all-cash transaction of $3.7 ICE’s decision to acquire Ellie Mae follows the company’s actions over the last four years to strengthen its hold in the residential mortgage industry. Based in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2024

San Francisco -based private lender Kiavi announced Monday that it has closed another multimillion-dollar securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), bringing its six-month volume of issuances to nearly $1 billion. “This securitization furthers our capital advantage, bringing our half-year issuance to nearly $1 billion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock continues to face scrutiny from state regulators and is now under fire from disgruntled consumers. The CID was in conjunction with a probe “into business practices regarding residential sale-leaseback agreements which may constitute unfair or deceptive acts or practices.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Ascent Developer Solutions , a private mortgage lending platform, announced its launch Friday in conjunction with an equity infusion from Elliott Investment Management. Founder and CEO Robert Wasmund has a deep background in the residential construction and bridge lending industry. “In now known as Rithm Capital.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

After months of uncertainty , CoreLogic announced Thursday that it entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Stone Point Capital and Insight Partners for $80 per share in cash, or an equity value of about $6 billion. The investors dropped their takeover bid on Nov. The investors dropped their takeover bid on Nov.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

At an investor conference last fall, Redwood Trust Inc. The Mill Valley, California-based REIT operates as a specialty finance house that invests in, acquires and securitizes residential loans. Vesta Equity , another blockchain-enabled marketplace for tokenized home-equity investments. “As

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market continues to look bleak for 2023. Interest rate stability offers the best environment for MBS performance, and inflation reduces the demand that investors have for mortgage-backed bonds. RMBS at DBRS Morningstar said in a report.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

Morgan announced that it had settled its first tokenized transaction involving money-market fund shares as collateral — with plans to eventually pursue blockchain-based transactions for tokenized collateral involving equities and fixed-income securities, which include mortgage-backed securities (MBS). You don’t need it.”.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mullen explains that in the 1980s, investment firms focused on securitizing small assets to make them available for institutional investors. Mullen also clarifies that the term RTL, or residential transition loan, is synonymous with the fix-and-flip mortgage. They start by exploring the evolution of the SFR industry over time.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

For fix-and-flip investors, 2023 promises to be a very challenging year. Tack on higher costs for materials, labor and financing, and it’s clear that there’s little margin for error for investors pursuing a fix-and-flip strategy. Even then, investors shouldn’t be waiting for a surge of bank-owned properties to come to market.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Mortgage credit availability declined slightly in August, as investors reduced their offerings of ARM and non-QM loan programs,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. Companies that plan to roll out HELOC products include loanDepot and New Residential Investment Corp.

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