Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cornerstone Financing , a venture co-founded by former Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF) CEO Craig Corn, has secured $285 million in financing through global investment firms Aquiline Capital Partners LP and Nomura. CHEIFS is currently available in four states: Arizona , California , Florida and Pennsylvania. 31 of that year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In particular it’s created a glut of 30-plus-year-old units on the market, with few takers. Some owners of older condo units have had to list at prices far below what they bought the units for because special assessments are so high (and are difficult to finance).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Nominations for HousingWires 2025 Finance Leaders Award are open now through January 31, 2025. Nominations are still open for the 2025 Finance Leaders award. As we gear up for the 2025 Finance Leader awards, his forward-thinking perspective offers a glimpse into the evolving role of finance leaders in real estate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Reverse mortgage leader Finance of America (FOA) recorded a quarter-over-quarter loss in the fourth quarter of 2024, but still notched a full-year profit. at the close of the market on March 11 to $17.89 But by the markets close that evening, the share price rose to $21.75. at the opening bell on March 12.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

Nonqualified mortgage ( non-QM ) lender Logan Finance Corp. Logan Finance says the suite is intended to close a growing financing gap that impacts millions of creditworthy borrowers who don’t meet the standard criteria for conventional loans. According to the National Employment Law Project , more than 16.75 million at 70% LTV.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

All the housing market data for 2024 is in, and its fair to say that the housing market surprised us again! However, there are two big trends that stand out as we launch into 2025 affordability and sellers in the market. In the last few months, the market finally saw some sales growth over the previous year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2025

Legacy Group Capital on Tuesday at HousingWire’s The Gathering announced the expansion of its suite of consumer financing solutions. Its expanded solutions include: Buy-Before-You-Sell: Enables homeowners to purchase a new home before selling their current one, with flexible bridge financing that removes timing pressure.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2025

In beating its estimates for funded loan volume and by posting a profit in the first quarter of 2025, reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) saw its volume improve by nearly one-third compared to numbers from Q4 2024. Finance of America is setting the standard for how our industry communicates the role of reverse mortgages.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The most positive development in the housing market over 2024 has been the increase in active housing inventory , which is approaching the levels seen in 2019. Although those 2019 levels represent a five-decade low before COVID-19, the market was still functioning better than it did from 2020 to 2023. Weekly inventory change (Dec.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Preparing for the summer season typically a peak period in most real estate markets requires strategic planning and a keen focus on the client experience. Competition can heat up quickly and as a global brokerage, heres how were preparing for a successful luxury summer selling season across the markets we serve and how you can do the same.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Today, the BLS jobs report showed that the labor market is getting softer, but it’s not breaking. However, there is a limit to the downside on mortgage rates until the labor market breaks, or we get more than 1% rate cuts from the Fed. I recently discussed this in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the narrative is more complex in niche markets like the Texas capital of Austin. Social media posts have fueled speculation that Austin’s rental market is in freefall. Gerli told HousingWire in an emailed response that normalizing market conditions would be indicated by a slow and gradual decline in rents.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

HousingWires Marketing Leaders award celebrates the most creative and influential marketing minds of the housing economy. This year 55 honorees were selected.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Volatility is becoming the new norm in today’s commercial real estate market. To help investors survive uncertain times, professionals must understand market trends and develop a game plan for success. His words contain valuable knowledge that investors need to thrive in this market. A change is needed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

housing market remains challenging for prospective buyers as concerns over mortgage rates , home prices and affordability persist in 2025. Many first-time homebuyers are stretching their finances to the limit. I believe the concerns for the market at this point are dramatically related to geographics.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2025

BOK Financial recently announced the launch of its new mortgage finance line of business, a new vertical dedicated to meeting the credit needs of nonbank mortgage originators across the country. The addition of mortgage finance will create a full-service ecosystem tailored to the needs of the company’s client base.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Weve now been in the post-pandemic housing market recession market as long as we were in the pandemic boom. Does the housing market start to get back to normal? The number of unsold homes on the market is finally getting closer to 2019 levels. But, the market change isnt evenly distributed. Two and a half years.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heading into the 2025 housing market, we havent had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. In the last decade, as more and more homebuyers financed their purchases with mortgage rates in the 4s or lower, an interesting thing happened: We held on to these homes longer and resold them less often.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2025

As it aims to appeal to potential clients who may be taking a closer look at tapping into home equity , reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) has debuted a new marketing campaign in concert with its new creative agency to illustrate the lifestyle impacts of its products. Well let the market tell us where to go from there.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. This marked the lowest market share for new homes in three years. market share, while first-quarter 2022 saw a record high of 34.4%. Census Bureau.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

While these borrowers may follow a less traditional route, they play an essential role in the diversity and strength of the housing market. Indeed, it bears highlighting that the Non-QM market is increasingly critical to helping specific segments of the population who do not fit the conventional “box” achieve the American Dream.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

As market conditions evolve, homebuyers demand more than just rate quotes and loan approvalsthey seek guidance, financial literacy, and a trusted partner in wealth-building. Understanding todays mortgage market challenges 1. Mortgage professionals who embrace this shift will thrive in the evolving market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In a housing market shaped by uncertainty, military veterans and service members are emerging as some of the most confident and prepared homebuyers, outpacing their civilian counterparts. This was driven by optimism about the housing market and economy. It also shows up in their personal finances.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The CBO analyzed data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) data in its report. Fannie and Freddie are also legally mandated to follow housing goals that “serve as benchmarks for measuring how the GSEs facilitate the financing of affordable housing for low-income families,” the report stated.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Tom Davis: When you’re working with a professional and you want expertise, you’re going to want to work with someone who is the expert in your market. Davis: Either you take market share or someone takes yours, right? Financing for mid-tier builders has become less liquid or choppy compared to the mega builders, right?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Many of the distressed properties Sandoval encounters are not in good enough condition to qualify for traditional financing. That means the buyer will need to pay in cash or use non-traditional financing such as a hard money loan. After-repair value is the estimated market value of a property in fully repaired condition.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We’ll release the HousingWire 2025 Forecast paper in the next week or so where we’ll lay out our expectations, scenarios, and data to track for the real estate market in the coming year. We’re also at the seasonal decline time for the housing market. We have two more weeks where I expect more inventory of unsold homes on the market.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) this week announced a new final rule establishing affordable housing goals for the loan purchases of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 2025 through 2027. The goals, originally proposed in August , are largely unchanged from the initial draft.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

However, this rapid population growth comes with challenges for the single-family rental market. Remote work flexibility, retiree relocation, and an influx of younger families seeking affordable living have all contributed to Floridas rental market surge. Floridas demographic trends are also shifting.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

Top-five reverse mortgage lender Finance of America (FOA) has enlisted creative advertising agency David&Goliath (D&G) to serve as its new creative agency of record (AOR), following a competitive process including several other candidate agencies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Monday announced that it will raise the 2025 multifamily loan caps for purchases by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to $73 billion each. Since that point, “both Enterprises have seen encouraging growth in this critical market segment,” the FHFA said. “In

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Stats are the fuel to the fire of the real estate market and will make you exude confidence in conversations with potential clientsmaking them feel confident in hiring you to represent them. This proves your expertise to clients and allows you to provide them with knowledge about the real estate market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

California-based personal finance company NerdWallet has struck a deal to acquire brokerage firm Next Door Lending. Chen believes the acquisition “will enable us to build deep and reoccurring relationships with consumers and take more market share while improving mortgage unit economics.” As part of the deal that closed Oct.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

Equity levels remain historically high, and now were seeing the cost of borrowing against the equity drop meaningfully, Andy Walden , head of mortgage and housing market research at ICE, said in a statement. HELOC rates have fallen by 2.5 percentage points in recent quarters and dropped below 7.5% in March, according to ICE.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Americas housing market isnt just cooling its frozen in place. homeowners hold mortgages below 4%, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. With so few homes hitting the market , theyre forced to compete for a shrinking slice of inventory, often at inflated prices. And while U.S. Nearly two-thirds of U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With trading markets currently pricing in two 25 bps [interest rate] cuts — one each in November and December — and continued signs that inflation is waning, it seems that markets are correctly pricing in these cuts,” said Realtor.com Senior Economist Ralph McLaughlin in a statement. in September from 5.2% peak in March 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Rocket Companies is buying Mr. Cooper , America’s largest mortgage servicer, in a market-shattering deal that could reshape the mortgage industry for years to come. Mr. Cooper did about $23 billion in originations last year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance data. billion , is paying an equity value of $9.4

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