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Once at the fringes of housing finance, home equity investment companies look to grow their stake

Housing Wire

“What if homeowners could tap into home equity without taking on debt?” Through a home equity investment, homeowners can receive cash upfront in exchange for a share of the home’s future value. Hometap is among a handful of companies — including Unison , Unlock , Point and Aspire — that offer home equity investments.

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Two top BHHS teams create one mega team in Las Vegas

Housing Wire

This positions our associates to adapt and thrive in the market from both a business growth and technology innovation standpoint,” Matthew Mullin, principal and founder of The Mullin Blankfeld Group, said in a statement. “It

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Home prices and mortgages keep rising, and it might get worse still

Housing Wire

Prices in nearly half of the nation’s 50 largest markets climbed by 0.75% or more. Purchase loans comprised about 82% of overall mortgage lending in 2023 and ICE forecasts purchase lending to continue to dominate the market through next year.

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Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang unify, launch “TrustEngine” platform

Housing Wire

Roughly a year after Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang were acquired by a private equity firm, they’ve merged their services onto one platform and rebranded to “TrustEngine.” In January 2022, Sam Ryder, principal at LLR Partners, cited the companies’ solutions products as the reason for the capital investment.

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Announcing the 2023 HW Insiders!

Housing Wire

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. Take a look at the full list of winners below to see their accolades and achievements that are helping to move the housing market forward.

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Ginnie Mae rule is the ‘elephant in the room’ for the MSR market 

Housing Wire

Of those issuers already compliant with RBCR, many have ample equity capital to support the acquisition of MSRs that may come on the market.” They will depress it (the market). ” The current MSR market. “The MSR market softened considerably,” said Carnes. multiple market. ” .

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Pop the champagne, Compass hits major financial milestone

Housing Wire

I am pleased to share that in the second quarter we grew market share, grew agent count and grew margin while delivering positive free cash flow and strengthening our cash position,” Reffkin told investors and analysts listening to Compass’ second quarter earnings call Monday evening. for the quarter, up 13 basis points from Q1 2023.

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