Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

On Monday, the company announced the addition of two artificial intelligence-powered assistants to help real estate investors and mortgage brokers. Harvey will assist real estate investors while Donna is for mortgage brokers. “Real estate investors operate in a fast-moving environment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Texas and Florida also saw high investor activity, with Dallas standing out as a particularly competitive market where all top 10 buyers had a presence. Real estate investors bought fewer homes in the fourth quarter of 2024, with purchases falling to the lowest level for any fourth quarter since 2016, according to a new report from Redfin.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Real estate investor sentiment rose 16% from the prior quarter and 60% of surveyed investors view the current housing market more favorably than a year ago. But there was a noteworthy divide between short-term fix-and-flip investors and long-term buy-and-hold investors when it came to market sentiment and outlook.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Many investors prefer to close in the name of an LLC.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Are big Wall Street investors really buying 44% of homes this year? Housing inventory is near all-time lows, but big institutional investors like Invitation Homes or BlackRock aren’t to blame. You can see the percentage of home-buying by big investors — those with 1,000 properties or more — is tiny. of market share in Q2.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Real estate investors purchased 26.1% By comparison, investors purchased 13.6% As mortgage rates and home prices have remained elevated across the board, investors have mirrored consumer homebuyers and have shifted their focus toward more affordable homes. I just sold one foreclosed house to an investor for $400,000.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The share of single-family homes sold to investors peaked at nearly 30% at the start of this year, but these types of transactions dropped significantly in the ensuing six months, according to a CoreLogic report released Wednesday. Investor purchases began to decline in March 2024 and by June represented 23.4% of all U.S. home sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

Single-family rental (SFR) investors are worried about the rising cost of home insurance, but the majority expect to buy more properties in the next year as mortgage rates cool and home-price growth subsides. Since it can’t be delivered by the builders , these small investors are really filling that gap by finding this vacant inventory.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Compass has a new head of investor relations. On Wednesday, the brokerage firm announced that it has appointed Soham Bohnsle to lead its investor relations division. “His expertise will be fundamental in effectively communicating the Compass story to our investor base and ensuring confidence in our long-term strategy.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Foreign investors can help fill the buyer gap Florida remains the top destination for foreign buyers, with 20% of all foreign buyers purchasing in the state, according to the 2024 NAR report. This is an interesting statistic to watch because foreign investors face different barriers to buying than their domestic counterparts.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Swiss bank UBS Group AG has decided to sell Credit Suisse ’s mortgage servicing company, Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS), to a group of investors led by Sixth Street , HousingWire has learned. Investment firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management is a co-investor.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

To begin with, market fluctuations are generally unsustainable in the long term and the recent response to the imposition of tariffs has been notably pronounced, indicating a level of preparedness that may have been lacking among investors. This situation led to a significant influx of capital into the bond market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

From wildfires to hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, each crisis tests a servicers ability to manage compliance, borrower support and investor expectations. Investor protection: Transparency and compliance during disaster recovery Servicers also must safeguard their investors interests by delivering timely, accurate reporting.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

It also includes capital from existing investors that include angel investor Andrew Dodge, Related Companiess Christopher Schmidt, and SERHANT. Finally, RLYT Health leverages a partnership with United Healthcare affiliate HealthcareMarkets to provide health benefits. Ventures, SERHANT.s education division.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Optimal Blue on Monday announced three major product releases — the expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant suite, the introduction of Scenario Optimizer, and the free availability of Investor Pricing Insight to investor clients. ” The announcements were made at MBA Annual in Denver. .”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Mortgage technology startup Novaprime is making its public debut with the launch of an AI-powered loan platform that it claims allows lenders to sell loans to investors in just days, instead of weeks, all with a high degree of accuracy. Novaprime is starting with post-close quality control functions and working backwards. That adds up.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Tomo Mortgage on Tuesday announced the closure of $20 million in Series B funding that was led by three existing investors and a new participant. The funding round was led by prior investors Ribbit Capital , DST Global and NFX along with new investor Progressive Insurance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

fell in 2024, continuing a downward trend as real estate investors grapple with tight profit margins. Home Flipping Report, investors flipped 297,885 single-family homes and condominiums last year. The home-flipping industry saw investors shy away even more in 2024 amid the extended period of languishing profits. a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

LL Funds also served as one of Poplar’s investors since the company’s debut in 2014, according to Evernest. Poplar Homes is a leading property manager focused on individual investors and multifamily property owners.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In February 2024, the company closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. Jared Kessler founded the fintech in 2016 and has since raised money from several venture capital firms. In 2018, the company raised $3.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

My mom and stepdad went into pre-foreclosure,” said Sandoval, a real estate agent and investor who specializes in working in low-income, often Latino neighborhoods in Southern California. “I anely Sandoval’s calling to be a pre-foreclosure peacemaker started when she was in high school. “My Sometimes the seller wants one month rent back.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sources told HousingWire that out-of-town investors were among the most interested buyers. In the Asheville metropolitan area — located in the Western North Carolina region that was hammered the most by Hurricane Helene — new home listings sat at 120 on Sept. 20, then bottomed out at 14 on Oct.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As recently as a year ago, the New York-based firm closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. The platform shut down its operations in early December 2024. In 2018, the company raised $3.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

SitusAMC a top-of-the-line provider of investment advice, talent solutions, and digital tools offers a rare opportunity for lenders and investors. SitusAMCs solutions help lenders and investors handle originations, secondary markets transactions, MSR and portfolio management, and valuations without compromising marketplace agility.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The firm has taken heat in recent months from its investors, who felt that the company’s finances were being mismanaged due to its continued losses in quarterly earnings. Its value has dropped from roughly $900 million to $130 million since 2021, according to the Times.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Servicers can automate critical tasks, such as investor reporting and compliance, to streamline workflows and position in-house servicers to win with speed. By adopting advanced mortgage servicing software, lenders can meet investor and regulatory demands while strengthening borrower relationships through faster, more accurate service.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Founded by Karl Jacob and Allan Carroll in 2017, LoanSnap raised $100 million in seed funding from investors such as Richard Branson’s Virgin Group ; former NFL star Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures ; and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

That would not be for the out-of-town investor, said Richards, who purchased the properties via Auction.com s new SmartSale program. The company sometimes takes ownership of properties when investors default on their loans We had 15 single-family (homes) in Montgomery, Alabama I dont imagine how the hell I would have sold (them) on my own.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

Following investor pressure from hedge funds D.E. Shaw and Third Point , CoStar Group , the parent company of Homes.com , is making changes to its board of directors as it looks to put Homes.com on the path toward profitability.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Investors include Kleiner Perkins , Blackstone Group , G oodwater Capital and Dawn Capital , among others. The portal giant has also partnered with Howard Hanna on AI tools for agents. Zumper is a multifamily rental portal launched in 2012. According to Crunchbase, it received its seventh round of funding at the beginning of 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

If a broker is working with an investor that happens to dabble in non-QM, then they’re not going to get all the best practices we’ve aggregated over the last 12 years. 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.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“We have an investor who won’t do any deals in Florida or near major bodies of water.” Provident, run by the Pica family, is known in the industry for its conservative approach and sports a better-than-average delinquency rate in its servicing portfolio, so it’s perhaps not a huge surprise it would exit such a choppy space.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ruimy noted that the BPL sector accounts for a significant portion of residential mortgage originations, with large investors increasingly turning to BPL lenders like Dunmor. Would you say that the majority of these are smaller investors? This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Inman

APRIL 2, 2025

Shares in cloud banking solutions provider hit new all-time low after company posts guidance that revenue from the company's main line of business could shrink by as much as 7 percent this year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Boothby has more than 25 years of experience in credit , business development and investor relations. While Ive seen the broader private credit boom firsthand, investor demand for asset-based credit strategies, specifically, has grown significantly in recent years.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Redfin attributes the decline in cash purchases to a smaller share of real estate investors in the marketplace. Real estate investors stormed the housing market in 2021 once pandemic-driven concerns dissipated. According to a Realtor.com report, investor home purchases ramped up by 52.9%

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