Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ashley Smith , the company’s senior vice president of brand marketing and strategic communications, said that home equity was a commonly discussed topic during the event. It’s the only closed-end second on the market that doesn’t require monthly payments and checks a lot of boxes for consumers, she said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A well-written property description also allows you to highlight aspects of the home that would not otherwise be readily available via MLS, such as a newly renovated kitchen or a brand-new septic system. Your goal: use the description to sell the property. How to write a listing description Wondering where to begin?

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

By the time the average US homeowner retires, it’s often stated that 83% of their wealth will come from their real estate’s equity, however, the challenge is most homeowners don’t consider their home an asset. In 2020, Buyside clients closed close to $20 Billion in sales through Buyside, averaging over a 3000% ROI.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Our core focus is on creating a modern retirement that centers on home equity, and we will continue to make decisions that strengthen our platform and our ability to deliver for our customers, teammates, and investors,” she said. The news was first reported by National Mortgage News.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

The collaboration with several of the country’s top independent mortgage banks is aimed at getting Figure’s home equity line of credit ( HELOC ) products in front of homeowners who have seen equity grow in recent years. A five business day funding timeline assumes closing the loan with Figure’s remote online notary.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a result, homeowners either must sell their current home and suffer through double moves and short-term rentals to access the equity they’ve accrued, or they have to make contingent offers that require the sale of their current house to close. HW: How has the proptech space evolved in the last 5-10 years?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2021

LoanDepot , backed by private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners, first announced plans to go public in September 2015 but canceled the IPO just hours before pricing, citing adverse “market conditions.” Thanks to our brand investment over time, we are also one of the most recognized brands in the industry today. billion. .

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2021

agreed to form a title insurance underwriter joint venture with a $210 million investment from private equity investment firm Centerbridge Partners , a move sure to shake up the title space. Realogy will maintain a 30% equity interest in Closing Parent Holdco, L.P., The transaction is expected to close in first quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. To that end, Blend plans to use the new capital to invest in product development such as speeding up the release of its digital closing solution.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2021

According to the Urban Institute , the homeownership rate for seniors ages 65 and older is close to 80%. With underfunded retirement savings vehicles, home equity may prove to be one of the most important financial assets for funding a comfortable retirement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

But instead of slashing my commissions, cutting my marketing budget and panicking, I put in the sweat equity to find ways to thrive. How many have significant enough equity gains from the last few years to make trading up to a bigger or better home possible? As a top-producing agent during the 2008 recession, I was unprepared.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“We’ve created a company that is built to serve customers throughout the entire loan transaction, from the onset of the purchase or refinance decision through loan closing and servicing,” Hsieh said in the prospectus. “We Thanks to our brand investment over time, we are also one of the most recognized brands in the industry today.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval. After the transaction closes, Mother Lode Holding and its subsidiaries will continue operating under their existing brands. Today, borrowers expect to close fast. Presented by: ServiceLink .

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We can maintain our boutique culture, brand and heritage while adding the unparalleled scale and resources of eXp Realty. Its agent-centric culture and benefits align closely with ours, and with this transition, we will deliver on our mission to help our agents and teams build successful real estate careers.”

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Housing Wire

JULY 2, 2024

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell by 14.4% Equity takeout” loans — reverse mortgages that are neither purchases nor refinances — dropped by 4.8% Purchase is one we’re watching closely with the recently implemented tweak to closing costs that we expect to open that door more fully.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Marshall will work closely with Sagent’s executive team to achieve that goal as well as oversee the firm’s long-term strategy, according to the firm’s release. Sagent’s appointment of Marshall comes amid the company’s goals to deliver the mortgage servicing industry’s first cloud-native software platform this year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Unfortunately, that meant the correspondent lending channel we were beta testing came to a close yesterday, affecting 10 of our team members.”. With the strategy of acquiring mortgage companies, Celebrity reached 29 different brands. Midwest Equity Mortgage was the first company incorporated in 2018.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The deal is set to close Dec. In 2018, @properties announced that Quad-C , a Charlottesville, Virginia private equity firm was investing in the company, and that @properties would start a franchise network. As for the Christie’s deal, the New York brokerage will retain its branding but have its operations completely under @properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

” The acquisition via SPAC is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Gores’s fund bought Hostess Brands in 2015 through a SPAC and has purchased three other companies using the so-called blank-check companies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, LGI Homes offers entry-level homes and move-up homes under the LGI Homes brand name, and luxury series homes under the Terrata Homes brand. Founded in 2003, LGI closed 3,408 homes in the fourth quarter of 2020, more than they closed in all of 2015.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

2 slot on the leaderboard, and is interestingly the only company within the top 10 to grow its FHA-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume when compared to all other companies within the top 10 threshold, based on RMI data encompassing FHA-approved lenders. Mutual of Omaha Mortgage maintained its position in the no.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

While the majority of the data largely excluded reverse mortgages from trends in the broader mortgage market, the report did include a section dedicated to the origination of Home Equity Conversion Mortgages ( HECMs ). Mutual of Omaha Mortgage was No. 2 behind FAR with a market share of 22.5%, followed by Longbridge Financial with 12.8%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

The HECM for Purchase is not a refinancing tool; it is not akin to a Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ). And after years of advertisements and TV commercials promoting the benefits of better-known reverse mortgage loan uses like continuing to live in your current home while tapping your home equity, 4 who could blame them?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Even in the current interest rate environment, there are clear benefits to purchasing a home and beginning to build equity.” Almost a third of people surveyed reported being ready to give up on having a brand new home, living close to their family, having access to public transportation, or living in a neighborhood with historical charm.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Kardell Vice President of Product Lone Wolf Technologies Aayaam Kapoor Vice President of Product and Agency Real Estate Webmasters Amaly Quiroz Vice President of Transaction Operations eXp Realty Amy Gorce CEO REdistribute Andrew Binkley President Constellation Real Estate Group Ankur Bansal President of HomeLight (..)

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Since closing the AAG deal in April 2023, FOA has made multiple moves to balance its size with its ambitions for reverse mortgages and other retirement solutions. He is featured in three 2-minute commercials that the company said is designed to represent the newly unified brand while “enhancing market visibility and customer recognition.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2021

Building brand equity became first and foremost…we really tried to define at the most granular level what our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats were in order to shape our direction forward.”. A consumer of your content basically has to understand three things within the first five seconds: First, “What do you offer?”

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2023

In this role, Hanson will lead a consolidated marketing team and oversee the development of the brand, digital marketing, and the organic and digital lead generation campaigns, the company said. The lender closed its wholesale channel in Q3 2022 after its origination volume plummeted in the face of increased broker competition.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 2, 2021

The transaction is expected to provide up to $645 million in cash proceeds and a fully committed private investment in public equity (PIPE) of $300 million. Up to $345 million of cash will be held in Capitol’s trust account. ” Doma saw revenues of $179.8 million in 2019 and $189.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

DG: For the past few years, homeowner engagement has been pretty basic — mostly apps focused on home value, home equity and market reports. However, what we typically see is that the focus (albeit important) is primarily on the “lead-gen-to-closing-table” part of the borrower experience.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

RMI publishes Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsement data on a monthly basis, as well as information about Federal Housing Administration (FHA) case numbers, to provide metrics for the industry’s sales performance. Additionally, June 2023 had an increase of 18 in the number of active lenders.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Older Americans are sitting on more than $12 trillion in home equity, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)/ Riskspan Reverse Mortgage Market Index. These homeowners are seeking different retirement solutions to help allocate their home equity and make it more durable over the next 20 to 30 years.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

If approved by the court, the settlement paves the way for a clear path forward for the RE/MAX brand, its franchisees and its agents, removing the uncertainty of ongoing litigation related to these cases. In fact, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That leaves close to 800,000 delinquent loans where a short sale (or a pre-foreclosure equity sale if the property has since recovered equity) could help the homeowner avoid foreclosure. million properties foreclosed on between 2009 and 2019 could potentially have qualified for a short sale from a home equity perspective.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

When assessing December’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) volume data for December 2023, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) used a choice word as the title for its commentary : “thud.” But New View has been warning for virtually the entirety of 2023 that the year’s issuance levels would not come close to those record-breaking levels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Stewart and NotaryCam have been partners for years in the digital and eClosing space, leading innovation and change for real estate closings across the country,” Stewart CEO Fred Eppinger said. Rick will continue to lead the team and the brand will stay separate for now.”. Stewart Information Services Corp.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

Black Knight’s MSP loan servicing system is a single, comprehensive platform used by servicers to support a range of loan products including first mortgages and home equity loans, and lines of credit on a single system. VanDyk, established in 1987, is licensed in 43 states with more than 90 brand offices nationwide.

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