Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

As brokerage firms fine tune how to handle the business practice changes outlined in the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement , which are set to go into effect on August 17 , many are focusing on how their agents will handle compensation on both the buy-side and the sell-side.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The loss was primarily driven by a “decrease in overall funding activities in the mortgage market” that resulted in a “significant” decline quarter-over-quarter of the company’s gain on sale margin. The filing revealed that refi loans made up 85% of funded loan volume for Better.com in last six months, while purchase volume was close to 15%.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

This increased demand is resulting in tighter credit spreads for private label, non-QM RMBS securitizations; increased prices for a broad range of mortgage loans including seconds, home equity agreements, bridge loans, and alternative documentation loans; and strategic transactions between investors and originators.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Zillow said Thursday that more than 50% of its remaining iBuying inventory “has sold, is under contract to sell or has reached agreement on disposition terms.”. As of last month, the firm reported 9,800 homes it purchased but has yet to sell, and 8,200 it is contractually obliged to buy – or a shade under 18,000 total.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

EPOs are intended to guarantee a minimum return for the investor or mortgage aggregator if a loan is paid off in the first few months. Each investor has their own time frame for EPO fees, but they generally range from three to six months. Who will be hit hardest? Loan originators are some of the players most exposed to EPO expenses.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that existing home sales for April came in at 5.41 A real estate investor, on the other hand, doesn’t have that type of shelter relationship with a home, that a homeowner does. month supply at the current sales pace, up from 2.2 The housing nightmare continues. from last year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Fannie Mae has unveiled its third reperforming loan sale of the year, an offering of nearly 10,000 loans valued at $1.57 The offering, dubbed FNMA 2022-RPL3, represents the agency’s 26th sale of reperforming loans since the inaugural offering in October 2016, which involved a pool of 3,600 reperforming loans valued at about $806 million.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2024

Giangrande will also lead negotiation efforts for wholesale brokerage agreements with mortgage companies that seek to partner on EquiFi’s home equity investment (HEI) contract and other products. According to data from DBRS Morningstar , at least nine securitizations involving HEI-type agreements totaling $1.89

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired the assets of home equity investment firm HomePace , the company exclusively told HousingWire on Monday. HomePace, founded in 2020, specializes in helping homeowners access their equity through home equity agreements. Meanwhile, more than 9 million U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In return, Hometap gets an agreed-upon percentage of the sale price or appraised value within a 10-year period. Fintechs involved in homeownership investments have been around for nearly two decades, but it wasn’t until recently that a handful of them have been backed by big investors seeking to take the HEI product mainstream.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2022

Fannie Mae has launched its fourth reperforming-loan sale of the year — an offering of 6,130 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $997 million. The reperforming-loan sale is slated to close by late October 2022, after due-diligence period. The loan offering is being marketed with assistance from Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Amongst the most substantial terms of that agreement is a blanket ban on the requirement that agents subscribe to MLSs to offer or accept compensation for their work. There has been quite a bit of discussion already about how this will impact the traditional residential purchase. Dramatic change is what it means.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2022

ONE Sotheby’s International Realty agent Jessica Adams is under fire after TechCrunch co-founder and crypto investor, Michael Arrington took to Twitter on Tuesday alleging that Adams had leaked information about his purchase of a Miami waterfront mansion to the press, creating security concerns that forced him and his family to relocate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

ONE Sotheby’s International Realty agent Jessica Adams is under fire after TechCrunch co-founder and crypto investor, Michael Arrington took to Twitter on Tuesday alleging that Adams had leaked information about his purchase of a Miami waterfront mansion to the press, creating security concerns that forced him and his family to relocate.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Redfin announced Tuesday layoffs of 121 employees as it shakes up its mortgage department, including purchasing a lending company. The real estate company entered into an agreement to acquire mortgage lender Bay Equity Home Loans for $135 million, two-thirds in cash and one-third in stocks, Redfin said in a press release and public filing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

JPMorgan Chase will buy nearly $2 billion worth of mortgages to grease Banc of California ‘s purchase of PacWest Bancorp , Bloomberg reported. The bank entered into an agreement to buy $1.8 billion in loans or sell them to investors. billion of single-family residential loans at a discount, according to the outlet.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

What happens when the Federal Reserve begins pulling back in a serious way from the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market that it has helped to prop up through billions of dollars in bond purchases since the start of the pandemic in 2020 — to the point where it now holds a $2.7 You don’t know what investor demand is going to be.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s competitive real estate market, an increasing number of real estate investors are turning to private money lenders to help them close deals faster, enhance property valuations, and increase their returns. Property managers and real estate agents who are interested in working with investors.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

But for mortgage industry professionals hampered by fewer sales opportunities since the Fed’s streak of rate hikes began in March 2022, will this be the start of better days? Some real estate agents think interest rate cuts could be offset by a surge of demand that creates more bidding wars and higher sale prices.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The purchase comes amid questions of whether iBuying is a viable business model following Zillow’s announcement Tuesday that the company is winding down its iBuying arm. But some investors see add on services including mortgage as a possible way for iBuyers to eventually turn a profit. Opendoor has $25.4

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

All of the firms denied any wrongdoing in their settlement agreements. As investors, the real estate agents then received profit payments distributed based on their ownership interest. He also noted that many of the investor agents referred less than half of their customers to their affiliated title business.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s called Zillow,” Barton told investors and analysts listening to Zillow’s Q4 2023 earnings call Tuesday evening. The firm attributed the growth of its mortgage revenue to a 105% annual increase in purchase loan origination volume at Zillow Home Loans to $487 million. The law went into effect at the start of 2024.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

The uptick in home sales during the second quarter of 2023 helped Anywhere Real Estate get back in the black. Anywhere, world’s largest franchisor of residential real estate brands and formerly known as “Realogy,” attributed this drop to a steep drop in home sale transaction volume. “We million to 4.3

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The Close

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this “How to Buy a Multifamily Property” guide, I’ll walk you through deciding which type of multifamily property you want to purchase, picking the right lender, and running the numbers to ensure profitability. Purchasing a multifamily property is an excellent way for investors to generate steady income.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Whether you’re a seasoned real estate investor or a first-time homebuyer, it’s a big financial transaction. In what other industry is the preferred method of moving a large amount of money — say, the consideration for the home purchase — a cashier’s check or the wire? There’s really no experience quite like buying a home.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Over the past two weeks, investors have considered Treasures a safe haven amid the banking system turmoil. Borrowing money will be relatively expensive, “including taking on a mortgage borrowing for a home purchase,” Jones said. The recent drop in mortgage rates fueled existing home sales, which rose for the first time in a year.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Incenter Mortgage Advisors was flooded with a surge of mortgage-servicing rights business in January — with bulk MSR sales approaching in one month what the firm normally tallies in an entire year. On average, historically, we’d be selling $100 billion to $125 billion [in MSRs] annually,” Piercy said. “The million to $23.7

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

At that time, the company was valued by its investors at $7.7 But Better’s debut came at a low point in the mortgage market, with mortgage rates at their highest levels in more than two decades and historically low levels of home sales. The agreement reduced SoftBank’s maximum commitment to $550 million.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

.” Hawley’s move follows a December report showing that FICO would start charging one price to all mortgage lenders that access credit reports, regardless of their sales volumes. In 2012, the parties started to renegotiate their license agreement since FICO royalties had been flat for three decades.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2020

million Class A shares (plus an option for the underwriters, Wells Fargo, BofA Securities and JPMorgan Chase, to purchase 1.275 million additional shares). By the looks of it, unnamed investors will be the beneficiaries of the IPO, likely the private equity backers at McCarthy. “All billion in mortgage loans held for sale.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

One of the examples I was researching for this month got a $58,000 partial claim granted,” said Houston-based real estate investor Francois Delille, referring to the partial claim program for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). We didn’t have to file an eviction; we were able to work out an agreement with him.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

The federal government is well aware that mortgage lenders and industry stakeholders are frustrated by the 7% cap on second homes and investment properties that was implemented as part of a broader series of amendments to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘s Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements. The revised PSPAs require that beginning Jan.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Investor expectations will change, and government entities will attempt to coordinate their response. Portals will authenticate identity, validate content, facilitate standard agreements, and ensure timely payments between buyers and sellers of homes and service providers. These essential tools require a collective commitment.

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The Close

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Have a clear investment strategy and long-term goals before purchasing. A well-structured plan will guide your decisions and attract potential partners or investors. Crowdfunding: Real estate crowdfunding is when investors pool resources and invest in projects such as new developments or acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

The Mortgage Bankers Association on Tuesday sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria expressing concern over several amendments to the Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements announced in January , including changes to investment properties.

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The Close

MARCH 13, 2025

Selling a house with tenants in place can add an extra layer of complexity to the sale of an investment property. For a smooth sale, you will want to do all you can to minimize the impact on the tenant while maximizing your profitability during the sale. Knowing the type of lease will help you determine your legal options.

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