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Opinion: More financing options for ADUs are needed

Housing Wire

Heading into 2024, there are continuing and emerging financing options, grant programs and legislation all designed to help homeowners and builders create much-needed infill housing. These will help on the margin, but we still need smart lenders to help create even more robust financing options for ADUs.

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Top markets for affordable renovated housing inventory

Housing Wire

Home sales in August decreased 1.5% Renovated Inventory to the Rescue. Despite the rapidly deteriorating affordability, there is some hope for homebuyers in the form of renovated homes: properties that have been rehabbed into move-in ready condition after being purchased at foreclosure auction or bank-owned (REO) auction.

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Finance of America debuts refi-ADU product

Housing Wire

Finance of America Mortgage (FAM), the multichannel lender, announced today that it is offering a refi product for homeowners with accessory dwelling units (ADUs). ADU sale listings are growing fastest in Portland (+23%), Dallas (+19%) and Seattle, and the top states for ADUs are California, (30%), Florida (12$), Texas (10% and Georgia (5%).

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Fix and flip market struggles as financing costs rise

Housing Wire

In fact, ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales in the nation last year, or 8.4%, involved fix and flip investors — whose strategy is to acquire, renovate (fix) and then resell (flip) the properties. The big thing is the carrying cost that a lot of [smaller] investors don’t realize. “If

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Regions Bank places $1B bet on home renovation market

Housing Wire

Regions, a retail lender with a footprint of over 1,300 physical offices, has dipped into specialty finance sectors before. In 2020 it acquired equipment finance lender Ascentium Capital and a year prior picked up institutional investment firm Highland Associates. “We in 2021 to $433 billion. billion in volume in 2020.

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Could renovated foreclosure resales help solve the nation’s increasingly complex affordable housing puzzle?

Housing Wire

In 2021, McCormick resold two renovated properties that she originally purchased at foreclosure sale on Auction.com in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Most of the renovated foreclosure resales came from local community developers like McCormick who sell a handful of renovated foreclosures a year in communities they care about. “I

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Hard Money Lenders Chicago: Top Choices and Alternative Financing Options

HomeLight

Hard money loans might be a worthwhile financing option to explore. You can then make a strong offer on your next home with no home sale contingency. Hard money lenders use after-repair value (ARV) — the estimated value of a property after renovations and repairs are completed — to determine the loan amount.

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