Housing Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rule applies existing protections for residential mortgages to borrowers who seek PACE loans to upgrade or renovate their homes through clean energy technology. PACE loans which are often used to finance environmentally minded renovations, like the addition of solar panels have led to financial instability for some borrowers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The real estate sector is constantly evolving, and one technology has emerged as a true game changer: virtual reality (VR). This transformative technology has opened up a new world of possibilities, empowering agents and captivating potential buyers like never before.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

“For a consumer who wants to do a home renovation , a consumer who wants to consolidate debts, or a consumer who wants to take cash out to pay for tuition for their kids, our product serves all of those use cases.” ” How is it so fast? .” ” Recent data from ATTOM revealed that 47.7%

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2024

A series of home healthcare, renovation and senior care experts offer tips on ways to begin in a column published by U.S. Bathrooms are a common target for renovations since it can be easy to slip and injure yourself if you have limited mobility; nonstick mats and additional rails and handles can help mitigate some of this risk.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This AI-driven tool uses computer vision technology to evaluate the current condition of a property and provide a detailed assessment of its current market value and potential value post-renovation. It also uses Revive’s recommendation engine to offer renovation estimates supported by local contractors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Our commitment to empowering borrowers aligns perfectly with Privy’s mission to revolutionize real estate investment through technology and education. Capital Fundings specializes in the purchase, renovation and resale of distressed residential properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This acquisition furthers our long-term plan of developing a full-service commission-free homebuying and financing technology platform powered by our proprietary AI technology and dedicated professionals,” Brent Miller, chief financial officer of reAlpha, said in a prepared statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Smart home technology is not optional Gen Z marks the first generation of true digital natives. This group was raised on technology and expects their homes to be outfitted accordingly. Easy renovations are key For spaces that might not be immediately appealing, Gen Z wants those that can be easily renovated.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

PunchListUSA plans to use the funding to invest in proprietary technology to create instant repair and renovation estimates and open offices, which it aims to expand footprint to more than 30 markets through 2023. . ”We The platform currently holds a five-year exclusive agreement with Pillar to Post , one of the U.S.’s

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2021

Considering how much construction technology, materials, and techniques have evolved, building a new home should be far simpler than it is. We can get to a 10 — I’m confident we will get to a 10 — but it’s unlikely unless we use technology to get there. There are too many obstacles along the way that don’t need to exist.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Movement is the only lender that gives nearly 50% of its profits, manufactures originations at a high level, generates creative content and branding, leverages innovative products and technologies , and has a customer-for-life mentality,” Thompson said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Renovation financing startup RenoFi now offers a fixed-rate home renovation loan, which allows homeowners to borrow as much as 90% of their home’s after-renovation value — a move to target homeowners who don’t qualify for a home equity line of credit (HELOCs).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

An AI assistant called Revana will provide personalized help with renovations, installations and maintenance. At the Federal Housing Finance Agency ‘s 2024 TechSprint event in July, numerous companies made pitches for bringing these technologies to the space. AI has been top of mind for the real estate industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

It also says that Five Brothers will be integrated into MCS to offer property preservation, maintenance and renovation services. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich., These include services for the reverse mortgage industry, marking MCS’ initial entry into the sector.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Presale renovation firm Revive has made its artificial intelligence -powered property valuation tool available to everyone, according to an announcement on Thursday. The tool provides homeowners with actionable reports, allowing them to make informed renovation and selling decisions.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Two companies in the pre-sale home renovation business, BOSSCAT and HouseAmp, agree to work together to streamline services.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

PunchListUSA , a real estate technology platform digitizing home inspection data, has named Stefan Pampulov as its chief product and data officer. The firm is growing rapidly to offer instant repair estimates and scale through process automation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Lower maintenance and utility bills: New homes are built with the latest energy-efficient standards and, in some cases, smart technology. Can renovate over time: Most resale homes are immediately inhabitable, which means owners can renovate or make upgrades gradually, as their budget allows, while still living in the house.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, a mortgage lender must have scalability in its operation, an ability to pivot quickly to meet changing market conditions and client needs, a well-designed technology stack and, above all, a keen sense of what its customers and the marketplace truly want from them. The lender’s role in succeeding by helping its LOs succeed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Whether homeowners want to renovate their homes, consolidate high-interest debt, or secure their financial future, Unison’s Equity Sharing Home Loan offers a versatile and customizable solution to suit their individual needs and aspirations,” Unison President Ryan Downs said in a statement. homeowners have a collective $11.5

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The "Marketing Center" is designed to explain the appeal of pre-renovations to consumers using campaigns that include print and digital messaging as well as case studies from closed sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

The 203(k) program allows for the inclusion of repair or renovation costs within a single mortgage to purchase or refinance a home. The “standard” option is for substantial repairs, while the “limited” option is for more minor repairs or renovations. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2021

“Along with a desire for more space and smart home technology, individuals are looking for a sense of connectedness and belonging when it comes to where they live,” said AJ Barkley, senior vice president of neighborhood lending at Bank of America. Here is a homebuyer’s guide to navigating bidding wars and low housing supply.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Further, Fannie notes, “Leveraging the wealth of big data, the power of advanced analytics, and the speed of technology, appraisers can perform desktop appraisals without physically inspecting the property.” AVMs do not account for upgrades or renovations. ” Amazing, right? What about AVMs?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Amid a higher rate environment when refinances are scarce, Martell said that loanDepot sees opportunities in other products, such as renovation loans and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs). The lender announced a $120 million cost reduction program that will positively impact this year’s financial results, Martell added.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

The role of renovators. It turns out local investors are also more efficient than banks and government agencies at renovating and reselling homes. A deeper dive into the data helps to explain this surprising result. I buy local. But what about the foreclosed properties that don’t end up in the hands of owner-occupants?

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

She added that funds from the new HELOC product can be used by customers for a variety of purposes, such as consolidating their debt to achieve lower monthly payments, including credit card debt; or to renovate their homes to improve their quality of life. He will focus on refining and building out the lender’s technology stack.

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Equity Loan Officer Loans Technology 418

Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

commercial spaces/building and residential homes/townhomes) and inconsistent transactional processes, fragmentation in the market has prevented real-estate from adopting technology as quickly as other sectors – until now. So, what are the technologies and trends iBuyers are using to fix fragmentation in the market?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Curbio, a home renovation startup that specializes in pre-sale work, has agreed to settle fraud allegations made by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. The AG also accused the company of acting as an unlicensed lender and performing subpar renovations. As part of the settlement, Curbio agreed to pay $7.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Many of these seniors are able to defer move-in decisions partly because improvements in healthcare and new technology have made aging-in-place easier, less expensive and less isolating,” the Journal stated. Aging in place has become easier and is often a far less costly alternative to senior living facilities.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

According to Gross, the move to the new company brings “access to improved pricing, technology and marketing to Platinum’s branches.” “In

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. This will result in a major shift in how people use their homes and where they want to live.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Not only does Flagstar offer brokers direct access to seasoned sales, support and underwriting teams, it also provides a product set that includes specialty lending options like Advantage non-agency loan, jumbos, new construction, renovation products and HELOCs, and in the pipeline, loans to foreign nationals, seconds and investor property loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Temporary rate buydowns that lower mortgage rates during the initial period will be products LOs will be pushing for, as well as diversification of mortgage products that include renovation products or construction loans. Instead, they’ll be seeking to renovate their homes.”.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Pre-sale renovation services company Revive has made its artificial intelligence-backed property valuation product, Revive Vision AI, free to all real estate consumers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

The lawsuit claims further that the company “ignored permitting laws to avoid fees and increased taxes as well as to get renovated homes on the rental market as soon as possible.” Invitation Homes (IH) spent about $25,000 on renovations per home for its California SFR portfolio, pleadings in the lawsuit state.

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Inman

JANUARY 30, 2023

million Series A for Freemodel to expand its approach to prepaid, fully managed market preparation renovations, according to an announcement sent exclusively to Inman. QED led a $19.5

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