Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has abruptly shut down its operations after facing scrutiny from state regulators and being under fire from disgruntled consumers. After many years of serving consumers, EasyKnock has closed its doors, a message on the companys website states. An acquisition spree followed.

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Real Estate News

JUNE 26, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Shutterstock By the Numbers Pending sales defy expectations, spark hope for a rebound Mortgage rates continued to decline in another positive sign for the market. Pending home sales rose unexpectedly in May, defying forecasts of a year-over-year drop with a 1.8%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

First American Data & Analytics has launched a new product designed to help lenders identify title issues earlier in the mortgage and home equity loan process, with the goal of cutting delays and reducing closing times. VeriTitle is available via an API and can be integrated into widely used loan origination and point-of-sale systems.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Sellers can tap into their current home equity in a bid to buy another property without coming up with cash for a down payment. Buyers are not required to prepare their current home for sale until after they move into the new property. The Trade-In Mortgage — Calque’s most popular program — functions similar to a vehicle trade-in.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

For those who are struggling to repay their mortgages, the process aims to help them avoid foreclosure and retain their home equity. Auction.com has long been a leading platform for bank-owned (REO) and foreclosure sales to real estate investors and others seeking a discount.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Servicing Digital can help customers perform “what-if” scenarios regarding their property, including options to build equity and the benefits or drawbacks of refinancing or paying down their loan. In fact, ICEs Mortgage Monitor data found that as of November 2024, the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2025

The story for the housing market over the past three years has been, “Home sales are down, home prices are up.” Home sales have continued to disappoint through the peak buying season and are only now just showing some growth over last year. So even as price pressures emerge, home sales volumes are starting to show growth over 2024.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2025

. “I have clients that bought three years ago, five years ago, and they might be sitting on, you know, $40,000, $60,000, or $75,000 in that short span of a potential equity gain. ” As for managing past clients’ expectations, Cohen said that he reframes the conversation to focus on the borrower’s equity at hand.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

For mortgage lenders, “the upward move in mortgage rates puts the mini-refi rally we experienced in September on ice for the time being,” Derek Sommers and John Hetch, equity analysts at Jefferies, said in a report on Friday. Origination segment earnings increased 126% quarter of quarter “with any meaningful gain-on-sale margin expansion.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The for-sale market, on the other hand, is offering opportunities for buyers heading into the fall, with more than 1 in 4 sellers cutting prices. Tracking affordability over time With rents climbing and the for-sale market softening, including a rise in inventory , now is a great time to help home shoppers understand their affordability.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Available inventory of homes for sale fell each year as more and more borrowers had this cheap financing. In the Altos Research data, we track every home for sale in the country every week. It also means muted equity increases. had these cheap mortgages. We can see the momentum of these changes immediately.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Though significant, this drop in rates has not yet resulted in a significant uptick in demand and home sales activity, which meant home price growth continued to mellow.” “This month’s release captures the time period during which rates dropped from roughly 7% to 6.35%,” Realtor.com analyst Hannah Jones said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

The weekly pending home sales rate is above last year at this time. There are just slightly more home sales happening now than last year at this time. There are more sellers each week, and there are more sales, but the supply side is growing faster than demand. Thats true of the active listings and the pending home sales.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The hits keep coming for now-defunct residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock. The suits accused EasyKnock of using a deceptive and unfair lending scheme to lure homeowners with poor credit, but with significant home equity, into unlawful, usurious loans known as Sell & Stay transactions. Originally filed by EasyKnock in Nov.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

Inventory grows, sales shrink Redfin said cooler prices stem from a widening gap between supply and demand. Existing-home sales dropped 1.1% Meanwhile, the total number of homes for sale surged 16.7% And the sooner you buy, the sooner you start to build equity. in April compared to a year earlier to reach a six-month low.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

billion in equity. Varun and I see how much better real estate could be when AI guides customers not just through that first step in their search, but all the way home, through the sale, the loan and then a lifetime of accumulating equity and wealth.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Over the last month, home sales have definitely picked up, especially when compared to last years very low levels. Weekly pending home sales counts have been at or above the year-ago levels for four weeks in a row now. more weekly pending home sales than last year at this time. more sales started than the same week in 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2025

Realtors most frequently recommended repainting either the entire home or single rooms and replacing the roof as cost-effective ways to prepare a property for sale. Instead, the substantial housing equity that homeowners have built up over time enables them to invest in transforming their homes while they remain in place.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

The deal involves two of the nations top-four brokerages by sales volume in 2024, according to data from RealTrends Verified. billion across more than 177,000 home sales. billion across nearly 236,000 sales. billion in equity. billion in equity. Compass ranked No. 1 last year with $184.5 HomeServices was No.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced last week that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) limit for 2025 will be $1,209,750. Lisa Moriello, national retail reverse sales manager at loanDepot , also views the new limit as a positive. In general, perspectives shared via social media were also positive.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

Whats frustrating is that home sales had been ticking up in recent weeks. Weekly pending home sales are starting to come in a couple percent above the year-ago levels. So even if home prices crash 20% across the board bigger than 2008 American homeowners will still have a ton of equity. We are underleveraged on our homes.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The 2025 Red Paper from The Agency shows the luxury market making a sharp diversion from the broader existing home sales market, which could clock in near a historic low at fewer than 4 million sales. drop in overall home sales and a 5% rise in median price. The number of homes sold at $1 million or higher rose by 5.2%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Cash-out refis have gained popularity due to record-high home equity levels in recent years. As for the product’s mortgage rates, Elezaj said they are more competitive than HELOCs (home equity lines of credit), traditionally a market dominated by credit unions and depository banks. How much will borrowers pay?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Oregon state senates Committee on Housing Development held a hearing last week on a piece of proposed legislation that seeks to limit the amount of equity a reverse mortgage lender can receive after the sale or transfer of a property. Senate Bill (SB) 534 is positioned primarily as a consumer protection measure.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

Las Vegas is leading the nation in year-over-year spikes in properties for sale — with Altos Data showing a 74.6% Upsizing and opportunities Growing inventory is creating buying opportunities — especially for those with significant home equity. “I ” The Nevada Gaming Control Board’s 2024 fiscal year report showed a record $31.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 29, 2024

My advice for buyers is to focus on finding a house they love and try to negotiate on things they have some control over, like the sale price and home repairs,” Chen Zhao, Redfin’s economist research lead, said in the report. First American also noted the benefits tied to rising levels of home equity. renter population.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2025

Slower sales, rising inventory Real’s Transaction Growth Index — which measures year-over-year changes in agent-reported home sales activity — dropped to 44.2 Other considerations included flexibility (32%), equity ownership (28%) and leadership quality (26%). in May, down from 47.8 A reading below 50 signals contraction.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2025

While some homeowners are looking to cash in on the equity they’ve built up since the pandemic, these same increases in property values are driving up the number of home sales that the capital gains tax would be applied to. The share of home sales subject to the tax has more than doubled in the past few years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Founded in 1976, FirstTeam operates more than 46 offices with 2,200-plus sales agents. billion in sales in 2024 and recruited 512 agents during the year. As part of its expansion, FirstTeam is offering a unique ownership model for agents that aims to “shift them from commission-based roles to business ownership with equity value.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A bill introduced into the Oregon Senate that seeks to limit the amount of equity a reverse mortgage lender can receive after the sale or transfer of a property could potentially halt the availability of proprietary product offerings in the state. Thats just not doable. By 2024, her home was valued at $425,000.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2025

Lenders in other countries who make use of home equity tapping in a similar way can have different perceptions and market activity in their territories and some U.S.-based industrys nonrecourse feature while surplus proceeds from a posthumous sale are passed onto heirs. While reverse mortgages in the U.S. Like a U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

An increasingly popular homebuying strategy looks better than ever If youre a prospective or first-time homebuyer without much equity, or you didnt successfully navigate the stock market, putting in an all-cash offer can feel like a far-fetched strategy, not worthy of consideration.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday. Weve built an incredible foundation and as we focus on each agents personal development and their continual sales growth, we welcome the partnership and backing from the team at Stone Point Capital.

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2025

This is a real achievement considering the difficult environment, with persistent high mortgage rates contributing to ongoing affordability challenges, sluggish home sales, and home prices coming under pressure in some markets.” Bray said home equity products gained momentum during the quarter, supported by two securitizations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

One of the loan options that Cory said makes the reverse mortgage easier to describe to potential partners is the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) for Purchase (H4P). I participate in all of our monthly and weekly sales calls with the leadership team. We maintain a very close relationship here at New American Funding.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

“Today’s home sales are skewed toward higher-end homes, and this means larger down payments from more financially prepared, high-earning buyers as entry-level and lower-earning buyers sit out.” Buyers tapped into accumulated savings and home equity to afford larger payments.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this week’s episode of the Power House podcast, host and HousingWire President Diego Sanchez chats with Tom Davis , chief sales officer at Deephaven Mortgage. To close the conversation, Davis explores Deephaven’s focus on home equity and new construction products in 2025. Diego: Why the push into home equity ?

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