HomeLight

AUGUST 16, 2021

Between searching for, viewing, negotiating , inspecting, and possibly renegotiating on a home, the road to the closing table is rarely a short one. And if the house you’ve landed on is listed as a short sale, you could be in for a long ride. What exactly is a short sale? It’s a long sale.

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CT Homes

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A defining term that emerged shortly after the collapse was the “short sale”. In the years following, short sales were the driving force behind a majority of all total real estate transactions. But what is the short sale process and how does it work? . What is a Short Sale?

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Dwell Real Estate

AUGUST 20, 2021

In Sarasota’s real estate market today short sales are nearly unavoidable. I talk with buyers every day and many of them have questions about how short sales work, how they are different than regular sales, etc. Misconception: A cash offer will make a short sale move faster than an offer with financing.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2020

You may have heard that short sales, foreclosures, or bank-owned properties offer great opportunities for a steal , but what do these different terms mean, and how does the homebuying transaction work for each? What’s the difference between buying a short sale vs. a foreclosure, and where can the best deals be had?

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You see a house you love, but the listing shows that it is an “active pending short sale.”. And just what is a short sale, anyway? Is a short sale home purchase for you? And can you still make an offer on an active pending short sale? Short sales defined . Wait, what?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There will always be a population of borrowers who cannot qualify for a home loan under traditional guidelines. Originators who actively work within the non-QM space are closing additional loans every month. The solution: Bank Statement loans. . Angel Oak’s Bank Statement loan is ideal for the self-employed.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But what if it’s a different kind of sale … for example, how much should you offer on a short sale? Enter the short sale : a solution for the seller, and a special opportunity for a buyer. What’s a short sale? Short sales are unique because they require the approval of the seller’s lender.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

Home forfeiture actions, including completed foreclosure sales, short sales, and deed in-lieu-of- foreclosure actions also grew by 26.8% were “combination modifications,” where interest rate reductions and term extensions are applied to a loan to help bring down a borrowers mortgage payment.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Solutions like active listing scan will help customers “close more loans more quickly,” he added. . In May, the inventory of homes for sale rose 8%, marking the first inventory rebound since June 2019. Xactus, with its mortgage verification suite, aims to close more loans quickly and enhance profitability.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

*Rebates are not available in all markets or where prohibited by law and are subject to lender approval; may not be available for all transaction types, including but not limited to Short Sales, For Sale by Owner (FSBO), New Construction and iBuyer sales. Total credits to borrower cannot exceed actual closing costs.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2023

The Westchester County District Attorney announced on Friday that it has indicted a group of six individuals and a corporation for allegedly stealing property deeds from distressed homeowners, fraudulently accessing mortgage loans, and evading state taxes. They ultimately defaulted on the mortgages, the district attorney claimed.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2021

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans once again made up the smallest share at 2.05% ? while Ginnie Mae loans in forbearance fell 7 basis points to 5.15%. The percentage of loans in forbearance for depository servicers also dropped 3 basis points to 4.16%. resulted in a loan deferral/partial claim. Another 24.1%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

billion is the amount of surplus funds generated by foreclosure sales on the Auction.com platform between 2016 and 2020. Surplus funds are proceeds from a foreclosure sale to a third-party buyer that are above and beyond the total debt owed to the foreclosing lender. 36,000 Surplus per Sale.

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RIS Media

APRIL 21, 2022

The total number of loans currently in forbearance decreased by 13 basis points in the past month from 1.18% of servicers’ portfolio volume to 1.05%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey. million loans), according to the MBA. million loans), according to the MBA.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

However, many of the homes sold during the past three years were concentrated in higher-priced segments, which exaggerated home price growth as prices were rising and is now exaggerating the declines as sales of multi-million dollar homes begin to normalize. This represents a significant differentiating factor from the last housing cycle.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2022

foreign buyers have always been less than 300,000 of total home sales for many years. When you think about our total home sales being between 5-6 million, foreign investment isn’t that much. A lot of mortgage debt went away due to foreclosures and short sales, bringing home prices way down. Here in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2021

To manage a potential wave of foreclosures, the CFPB’s proposed change would permit servicers to offer certain streamlined loan modification options to borrowers with COVID-19-related hardships based on the evaluation of an incomplete application. Pre-foreclosure sales are a promising alternative to foreclosures – here’s why.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2021

Holmes said the new integration enables commercial and private money loan officers using LendingWise to streamline their processes and obtain a business owner’s credit report from Credit Plus – without leaving the LendingWise platform. Download this case study to find out about the integration process and the results it yielded.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

WFG Title Insurance will now offer forbearance, loan modification, and foreclosure information reports as part of its general title and closing services. ” Pre-foreclosure sales are a promising alternative to foreclosures – here’s why.

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Keeping Current Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Investopedia defines it like this: “ Foreclosure is the legal process by which a lender attempts to recover the amount owed on a defaulted loan by taking ownership of and selling the mortgaged property. Loan modification. Short sale. Deed-in-lieu of foreclosure. Deed-in-lieu of foreclosure.

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RIS Media

MARCH 23, 2022

The total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 12 basis points, from 1.3% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior month to 1.18%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey, released last week. The share of other loans (e.g., resulted in a loan deferral/partial claim.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

The National Association of Realtors reported Thursday that existing home sales for April came in at 5.61 This is something that I said would change the tone of housing, and we are seeing that result this year as sales decline and inventory picks up. month supply at the current sales pace. from March and 10.4%

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 11 basis points from 1.41% of servicers’ portfolio volume in the prior month to 1.30% as of January 31, 2022, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey released this week. The share of other loans (e.g., By stage, 26.8%

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Keeping Current Matters

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yanling Mayer, Principal Economist at CoreLogic , recently revealed : “A distributional analysis of forborne loans’ payment status reveals that more than one third (39.1%) of all forborne loans are now 150+ days behind payment, while as many as 1-in-4 (25.5%) are 180+ days past due.”. Though 29.4%

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

they may not be able to modify the loan, sell quickly or whatever else and thus end up foreclosed upon). This will be especially true for lower-income households with FHA loans that started with very little equity to begin with due to the low-down payment requirement. All those missed payments and interest need to be paid back.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

” The report found that close to 330,000 homeowners with delinquent loans exited forbearance at the end of last year with no loss mitigation solution in place. Of that sum, 274,000 were federally backed loans. Of the 8 million borrowers that opted for forbearance, close to 90% have exited, the report stated.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2021

According to the new data, high-equity borrowers are around 40% less likely to lose their homes to involuntary liquidation, such as short sale, foreclosure sale, or deed-in-lieu. A total of 79% of borrowers in forbearance exited the plan by reperforming on their mortgage, paying off the loan, or refinancing for sale.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

” Forbearance allows homeowners to defer mortgage loan monthly payments due to financial hardships, remaining in their homes. Critically, during the pandemic, a share of borrowers in forbearance kept paying their mortgage loans monthly. of its serviced loans were in forbearance as of Dec. As of December 31, 1.3%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It is important to note that in MBA’s NDS, loans are marked as delinquent if payments are not made in accordance with the terms of the mortgage. Thus, even if loans are in forbearance, if the borrower does not make a payment, the loan is counted as delinquent. Source: MBA’s National Delinquency Survey. This represents about 1.5

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Realty Biz

JULY 19, 2022

This article might be premature because across most of the country home sales continue happening rapidly. Many of these will be new investors that don’t have experience with the pre-foreclosures, short sales, and foreclosures, that occurred during the Great Recession. properties with a foreclosure filing. This becomes REO.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, in mid-2022, homeowners switched to using home equity loans (2nd loans) to extract equity from their homes. Note the almost 7 years of declining mortgage debt as distressed sales (foreclosures and short sales) wiped out a significant amount of debt.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2021

My biggest concern for housing in the years 2020-2024 was that if the demographic push in demand picks up and total home sales get over 6. million new and existing home sales combined. This type of sales growth — which couldn’t happen from 2008-2019, as I have often stated — is coming with a hefty price tag.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

MARCH 7, 2024

However, in mid-2022, homeowners switched to using home equity loans (2nd loans) to extract equity from their homes. Note the almost 7 years of declining mortgage debt as distressed sales (foreclosures and short sales) wiped out a significant amount of debt.

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Keeping Current Matters

MAY 26, 2021

According to NAR, the index: “…measures whether or not a typical family earns enough income to qualify for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national and regional levels based on the most recent price and income data.”. It takes these three factors into account and determines an overall affordability score for housing. Bottom Line.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

From the index : I know it seems strange, but existing home sales are falling, and the monthly supply of new homes is at 10.9 months even if the last existing home sales report showed home price growth of near 11% year over year. However, we haven’t had a credit sales boom like the one we saw from 2002-2005.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 1, 2021

A property goes into pre-foreclosure when a mortgage company notifies the borrower that they are in default on their loan. If a homeowner chooses to sell the property to avoid actual foreclosure they are usually ready to negotiate on the sale price of the home. Short Sales . Jordan Matin, Portland Homes for Sale.

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Keeping Current Matters

AUGUST 11, 2021

Here’s the methodology for each data point of the table below: Mortgage Amount : Take the median sales price at the end of the second quarter of each year as reported by the Fed and assume that the buyer made a 10% down payment. P&I : Use a mortgage calculator to determine the monthly principal and interest on the loan.

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