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A transparent foreclosure marketplace reveals hidden equity

Housing Wire

billion in potential home equity has been uncovered for distressed homeowners facing foreclosure. billion is the amount of surplus funds generated by foreclosure sales on the Auction.com platform between 2016 and 2020. 36,000 Surplus per Sale. Over the past five years, more than $1.2

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Fannie Mae pays $53M to settle recession-era discrimination suit

Housing Wire

Amid protests set off by George Floyd’s death, Fannie Mae ’s CEO issued a public statement about its commitment to racial equity. I told him, ‘We have this serious racial equity issue still pending, and I hope Fannie Mae is serious about it.’” Instead, investors bought the run-down properties in bulk sales.

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Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December

Calculated Risk Real Estate

Yesterday, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December I reviewed home inventory and sales. Low Levels of Delinquencies, Foreclosures and Real Estate Owned Last week, I wrote Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO. House Prices The Case-Shiller National Index increased 3.9%

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Foreclosures in 2022: A Historical Perspective

Broke Agent Media

Our recent homeowner equity report shows that 93 percent of borrowers in foreclosure today have positive equity, which they appear to be leveraging in order to avoid a foreclosure by refinancing their mortgage or selling the property at a profit. Auction — Notice of Trustee Sale and Notice of Foreclosure Sale (NTS and NFS).

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How and When to Buy Foreclosure Property

Realty Biz

This article might be premature because across most of the country home sales continue happening rapidly. However, ATTOM (real estate data) released comprehensive foreclosure data for the first quarter of 2022 showing a total of 78,271 U.S. The REO sales process is much the same as any traditional sales process.

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How to Buy a Foreclosure: Your Go-To Guide to Distressed Properties

HomeLight

They’ll put the house up for auction either in a sheriff’s or public trustee sale (the name depends on what foreclosure process your state follows). Bank-Owned or REO: If a home doesn’t sell at auction, it becomes a real-estate owned home , meaning the bank or lender officially owns it. Short sale.

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In Q1 earnings, Longbridge parent expects reverse mortgage market to improve

Housing Wire

In origination, improved gain-on-sale margins for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) that were driven by tighter HECM yield spreads “were mostly offset by a decline in overall origination volumes,” he added. This also added to Penn’s commentary about where the company expects future ADE growth to come from.

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