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The current REO market requires an expansion of services for business growth

Housing Wire

Tiffany Fletcher, senior vice president of operations support and operational risk for VRM Mortgage Services , offers strategies for doing just that, showing how VRM is growing and changing during these unique times. Tiffany Fletcher, VRM Mortgage Services HW: What does the current market and demand for REO assets look like?

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Financial services firm Consolidated Analytics acquires Real Info

Housing Wire

With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

Housing Wire

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If

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U.S. foreclosure activity ticked up significantly in January: Attom

Housing Wire

“However, other external factors may be at play such as escalating interest rates , inflation , employment shifts , and other market dynamics. properties through completed real estate-owned (REO) foreclosures in January. We remain vigilant in monitoring these trends to understand their full impact on foreclosure activity.”

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Industry supports FHA’s 40-year loan term option — with caveats

Housing Wire

The deadline for the mortgage industry to chime in on the Federal Housing Administration ‘s (FHA) proposed 40-year loan modification rule was at the end of May. Leslie Rouda Smith, president of the NAR, used her own letter to the FHA to explain the trade group has been “concerned” about the pandemic’s impact on the housing market.

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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. Historically it takes a number of years for real prices to return to the previous peak, see House Prices: 7 Years in Purgatory. YoY and mortgage rates at 7.09%, would be $2,792 - an increase of 13%.

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Despite moratoria, foreclosures increase 20% in October

Housing Wire

Sutherland Mortgage Services President Krish Swaminathan discusses the next wave of servicing, how servicers can best communicate with their customers and the technology available to help with compliance, even in a work-from-home environment. How servicers can prepare for potential default wave. Presented by: Sutherland. properties.

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