Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. billion in 2012 to $2 billion in 2016. But Interfirst’s tech bend has undoubtedly attracted some sophisticated investors.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com is teaming up with secretive big data firm Palantir to create a proprietary loan platform that is says will enable Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and mortgage investors to make “richer and deeper data-driven mortgage capital allocation decisions.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company says it will use the funding to “aggressively” build new products for mortgage lending and banking industries, expand its US operations and scale its staff with a focus on machine learning and data science teams.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Jamie Thornton, director of online mortgage lending at Real Genius, said in a statement that the company has “invested a significant amount of time and resources” into developing technology for customers. Since 2016, we’ve helped more than 51,000 families with their mortgage needs, lending more than $15 billion,” said Thornton.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The lawsuit, brought initially in 2016, alleged that Guild knowingly originated and underwrote mortgages that didn’t meet the program requirements of the FHA. Through Guild Holdings, the lender’s management and the private equity investors planned to issue 8.5 It did not admit to any wrongdoing. Instead, Guild sold just 6.5

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The company said it has already gone through the process of getting four investors onboard.). Growing and investing in relationships and communities in the long term is one of the many opportunities presented by stricter fair lending regulations. Maxwell will provide the platform service for sellers and attract buyers. Learn more here!

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data, artificial intelligence and analytics are all way beyond what we had in 2016 or even in 2019. For investors, we can assist with finding problematic appraisals and evaluating them for a potential putback using the same process. HW: With higher rates, the market for home equity lending continues to grow.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. 533 ReBuilt 1,096% 2015 Vertically integrated marketplace helping homeowners sell their unwanted property and real estate investors find great off-market deals. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Thus, keeping abreast of regulatory and investor updates and trends is vital to maintaining loan quality and compliance. In fact, the critical defect rate for the fourth quarter of 2023 was 1.53%, which ranks amongst the lowest rates we’ve observed since the report’s inception in 2016.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

In fact, ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales in the nation last year, or 8.4%, involved fix and flip investors — whose strategy is to acquire, renovate (fix) and then resell (flip) the properties. A year ago, we were offering to lend 85% loan-to-cost or 90% loan-to-cost, and that’s down to like 75% loan-to-cost.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2016, SoFi announced a partnership with Fannie Mae , which included a new loan option that permitted homeowners to refinance their mortgage at a lower rate and pay down the balance of an existing student loan. Backers include the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar, private equity firm Silver Lake and tech investor Peter Thiel.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2022

Total eClose, DocMagic’s end-to-end eClosing solution provides everything needed for a 100% paperless eClosing including a comprehensive suite of eSolutions leveraging SMART Doc eNotes, Remote Online Notarization, Certified eVault and Investor Delivery technology. Chris Lewis, Director of Enterprise Solutions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

MAXEX has been at the forefront of creating standardized ESG-compliant loan programs with investors paying up as much as 50 basis points for these loans,” states a market-update report published by MAXEX this past December. And so that’s where non-QM lending comes into play.”. building, even after fulfilling program requirements.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The report includes an analysis of essential-findings trends from examinations conducted between 2016 and 2021. The SEC report offers a portrait of the regulatory process ongoing behind the scenes in the rating-agency world, which is a key to maintaining transparency for investors and issuers across a range of markets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage. Mortgage lending has its problems.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

While it is true that many nonbanks entered this downturn with a large war chest of cash and capital, this is more than offset by the impact of warehouse and investor covenants, which are causing lenders to move expeditiously to cut costs,” Jim Cameron, Stratmor Group ’s senior partner, wrote in a report published this week. “In

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2021

Appraisal costs have also soared 24% since 2016, according to the Freddie Mac data. Under this framework, mortgage investors like the GSEs would secure valuable data to inform their critical risk models that keep our housing ecosystem safeguarded. Appraiser shortage. And appraisal waivers would be informed, not blind.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We project Q4 2022 to be the lowest RMBS securitization issuance volume in any quarter since 2016, closing at less than $6 billion. Similarly, we project Q4 2022 to be the lowest RMBS securitization issuance volume in any quarter since 2016, closing at less than $6 billion.”. Analysts at Kroll Bond Rating Agency. MBS challenges.

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Inman

MAY 17, 2023

Investors claimed they were misled about bank's progress in fixing governance and oversight issues that came to light in wake of 2016 "fake accounts" scandal.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Education continued Wednesday for attendees of the 2024 Five Star Conference at the Omni Hotel in Dallas, as investors, service providers, and subject-matter experts took part in the Single-Family Rental Roundtable discussion. She was promoted to VP in 2010, COO in 2013, and CEO in 2016.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 30, 2024

At the Single-Family Rental Roundtable , investors, service providers, and subject-matter experts will explore how volatile factors such as inflation, escalating interest rates, and affordability concerns impact the ongoing growth and investment opportunities in the single-family rental market. Set for Wednesday, September 25 from 1:30 p.m.-4:45

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Clear Capital

MARCH 27, 2024

ClearAVM’s up-to-date and reliable valuations help property investors and asset managers make more informed investment, management and underwriting decisions with confidence. SFR investors also depend on AVMs to evaluate a portfolio of assets, inform leasing and asset sale decisions and ensure due diligence.

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Patch of Land

OCTOBER 26, 2018

But, investors continue to find deals and set records while increasingly tapping the debt markets to finance their flips. This new breed of lender is often found online, where borrowers get introduced to lending platforms that use sophisticated algorithms to determine if a potential borrower is a good credit risk.

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Simonson Real Estate

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, when a build-to-suit Dollar General store in small-town Minnesota is the subject of a valuation assignment, it is evident an overview of the National Net Lease markets is applicable as the buyer pool includes regional and national investors. Market Extraction. The sales closed between January 2020 and December 2020.

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Patch of Land

APRIL 17, 2018

The percentage of flips completed with financing could signal more interest from real estate investors as the lending market for fix-and-flip real estate investors matures with competitive interest rates that more closely resemble buying with cash. single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2017, up 1% over 2016 numbers.

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Simonson Real Estate

JANUARY 23, 2020

1st question from all investors on NNN sales, what are sales revenue for that location? Investors want to have a stronger comfort level with the probability the tenant will renew. Any perceived climate benefits are greatly diminished by the real economic risk to business owners and investors. Industrial. Riches are in the nices!

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The last unit they bought was in mid-2022 as far as I can tell… To read more, plus the 45+ appraiser comments, Click Here Investor Home Purchases Are Down Over 40% in Sun Belt Pandemic. Investor purchases of U.S. year over year in the third quarter to 48,667—the lowest level of any third quarter since 2016. homes dropped 29.7%

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

” This has been a very hot and important topic within the lending space for the last year or so, we’ve talked about it on this podcast before Kenon. And you should not be competing against 25 different investors. My professional background is out of finance and lending. Kenon Chen. And we just stay in that swim lane.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

But that engine could stall if action isn’t taken to increase the supply of affordable housing and expand opportunities for lending to underserved families. Since 2016, legal immigration growth has declined by 40%. Competition favors institutional investors and households with higher incomes and stellar credit. of GDP in 2020.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

Musalem is chief executive officer, co-chief investment officer, and a founder of Evince Asset Management LP , a company developing portfolio technologies for investors and managing a quantitative global fund. In February , Freddie Mac, with an equity market capitalization around $7.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

The CARES Act caused some confusion among servicers when it was first passed, however, Stevens worries that a foreclosure halt could potentially hurt relationships with investors long term. The program expired in 2016. “I was surprised we went all the way to the end game,” Sharga said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

billion by extending an addition to guarantee fees and imposing stricter limits on conforming loan purchase baseline limits, which have been rising since 2016. This follows a separate CBO study from Thursday, which found that the federal government could save $14.7

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Patch of Land

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Congress has opportunities to address some of the challenges financial technology firms face in the lending sector. The pace of financial technology innovation in the alternative lending space is nothing short of phenomenal, but it has meant headaches for lenders and vendors waiting for regulation to play catch-up. In 2016, the U.S.

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