Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Attom said that flippers have struggled in comparison to other types of sellers in recent years because they’ve exhibited an “unusual pattern” of timing the market poorly. is down a whopping 26 percentage points compared to its peak in 2016. The typical margin of 30.4%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

If the all-cash offer wins, the home is purchased from the seller and reserved until the loan is ready to close. The all-cash contract signed between Accept.inc and the seller is still contingent on a satisfactory inspection that can be negotiated between the buyer and agent. The trio closed a $7 million seed round in 2019.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2021

If it sells above the set price during that period, the seller keeps the extra. billion homes since launching operations in 2016. People who use Flyhomes to buy a new property will get a guarantee that their old home will sell at an agreed-upon price within 90 days. If not, Flyhomes will buy it.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2023

And there’s another thing that separates the housing market from other markets — the buyer is often also the seller. In most markets, the seller, or supplier, makes their decision about adding supply to the market independent of the buyer, or source of demand, and their decision to buy. years in March 2023, according to recent data.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

In May 2023, the subsidiary launched a new digital MSR exchange , known as eMSR Exchange, which connects buyers and sellers of co-issue flow offerings online and provides 24/7 pricing. Parrish joined the Incenter group in 2016 through its business CampusDoor, a third-party student and specialty loan origination platform.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The firm currently serves buyers and sellers in Essex County, the Merrimack River Valley and Southern New Hampshire. In 2014, Bentley started his team at RE/MAX with Christie and four other agents, by 2016 the team had expanded to 10 agents and in 2018 they transitioned from a team to an independent brokerage, Bentley’s Real Estate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe became an approved seller and servicer for Freddie Mac in 2013, Fannie Mae in 2014 and Ginnie Mae in 2016. Last year, Northpointe expanded its home loan centers in eight states — Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada and Texas, according to a release from Northpointe in October.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2023

California lender New American Funding has partnered with EasyKnock, a New York startup that buys homes and rents them back to sellers, allowing clients to access their home equity through non-traditional means. EasyKnock, which was founded in 2016, operates in 50 states with more than 120 employees and targets middle-class homeowners.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

Homelight , a platform for homebuyers and sellers, was No. 403 Homelight 1,444% 2012 Providing a platform that helps deliver better outcomes for homebuyers and sellers. 469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. 5000 edition.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Fannie Mae also pointed out in its earnings report that new seller servicer requirements, which its conservator the Federal Housing Finance Agency re-proposed in February , would increase liquidity requirements for its non-depository sellers and servicers. The average credit score in Fannie Mae’s portfolio is now 748.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2024

Today, we will examine new listing data more extensively to provide a clear example of a stressed seller market and compare that to where we are today. 2015 81,875 2016 80,293 2017 84,293 2018 98,972 2019 87,278 Now, let me show you what stressed sellers’ data looks like.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2022

Headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on “creating an instant and enjoyable home closing experience for buyers and sellers.” When I founded Doma in 2016, I was met with so many barriers to even enter the space, let alone innovate. HousingWire: What has been your biggest learning opportunity?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says. “As If it’s not moving, change the pricing so it does move.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Shortly after Beasley made that statement, the nation was plagued with a number of issues, including rising mortgage rates, high inflation and a questionable economy, which affected the way buyers, sellers, investors and real estate professionals viewed the industry.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Housing entered 2022 riding high on several superlatives: the highest-ever annual price appreciation, the lowest-ever active inventory and the fastest monthly rise in mortgage rates since 2016. That could keep supply limited even as demand begins to slowly slacken.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 19, 2023

Within the original report, HomeVestors representatives told ProPublica that its reporting “represent[ed] a tiny fraction of the company’s overall transactions, which have totaled more than 71,400 since 2016,” according to the report.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

The exchange, founded in 2016, averages ab out $1 billion per month in non-agency loan-trading volume and counts J.P. This trend is only expected to continue through June as three more MAXEX buyers are adding ARM programs and pricing, offering sellers the opportunity to take advantage of the growing market.”.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Since March of this year, housing demand has been falling more and more, but inventory is still below the 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 levels, which is a nightmare. Home sellers with high equity aren’t as sensitive to higher rates because they bring a more significant down payment. The only way this happens is higher rates.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Six months after raising capital, digital mortgage startup Maxwell announced Tuesday the launch of a trading platform to provide community lenders access to the secondary market, connecting these loan sellers to buyers. Maxwell will provide the platform service for sellers and attract buyers. mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

Home sellers and builders had too much pricing power, pushing prices to the extreme. I don’t need the housing market to have 2012, 2014, orr 2016 inventory levels to be balanced — I just need 2019 inventory data, which is between 1.52-1.93 In the middle of the drama of higher rates, my bigger fear is actually if rates go down again.

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Miller Samuel

JULY 3, 2020

Back in 2016, I unleashed a flurry of commentary criticizing the Appraisal Institute executives who had a plan to take all chapter funds for no justifiable reason. Leslie Sellers was on the board then and was quite upset that he did not get the nomination but was able to vote for himself using this maneuver.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

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

APRIL 16, 2023

Mortgage rate volatility was so wild in the second half of 2022 and even this year that some home sellers are gun-shy in listing their homes, since they will be buying another one. Since the second half of 2022, after mortgage rates reached 6.25%, new listing data has been in a constant year-over-year decline and hasn’t recovered.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

As the principal broker for a RE/MAX franchise in coastal Cannon Beach, Oregon, Alaina Giguiere’s typical responsibilities include marketing homes for sellers, touring homes with buyers, generating new business leads, managing client relationships, and drafting and reviewing contracts with buyers and sellers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

2021: 61,263 2022: 63,746 2023: 55,591 Compare weekly new listing data to previous years: 2015: 86,847 2016: 85,296 2017: 85,765 As you can see from the data above, homeowners aren’t rushing to sell out of panic since they’re in solid shape as the unemployment rate is still historically low. We have natural sellers every year in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2023

We have to remember that a conventional seller is usually also a traditional buyer, so new listings growing toward their seasonal peak throws cold water on the idea that no one will list their homes because they already have a low mortgage rate (the mortgage rate lockdown theory).

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2019 and won class-action status in April, alleges that some NAR rules, including one that requires listing brokers to offer buyer brokers a commission to list a property in a Realtor-affiliated MLS, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act by inflating seller costs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2023

When you consider that a home seller is a natural homebuyer as well, you can see why the housing market broke after mortgage rates went on a roller coaster last year. Mortgage rates went above 6.25%, then declined back to 5% then spiked back to 7.37%. million.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 Time after time, real estate homebuyers and sellers choose to work with a real estate agent. Knock.com offers solutions for both buyers and sellers. For sellers, they offer HomeSwap which is a modern-day bridge loan so consumers can buy a home without selling their other home first. And, why not?

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Appraiserblogs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As I’ve chronicled in the Appraiserville section of my Housing Notes newsletter since 2016, the scale of Appraisal Institute bureaucratic self-dealing of the executive committee and some members of the AI Board of Directors is breathtaking.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2023

The victims targeted can be lenders, real estate agents, title companies and other escrow agents, attorneys as well as homebuyers and sellers. For context, in 2016, the FBI’s IC3 reported that annual losses attributable to BEC scams totaled $360 million. “If Now, everybody’s robbing banks with laptops.” billion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2022

Atlantic Magazine did a sweeping survey of Americans in 2016 and found that 50% of them suggested that they would not be able to find an extra $400 in an emergency. It’s a sellers’ paradise in many cities. About one-third of Americans fully own their homes. Still, vast swaths of the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 1, 2024

MCT, which claims to be the first to integrate with the API, has a long history of empowering mortgage market participants to optimize their business, and these latest integrations increase the granularity of pricing that Fannie Mae provides sellers on MCT Marketplace – the largest mortgage asset exchange for the U.S. secondary market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

rise was the largest percentage gain since October 2016. The few existing homeowner sellers aren’t incentivized to negotiate much, and there’s no reason to think they will for a long while. Get a load of these figures: Privately‐owned housing starts in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.63 million, 21.7% million and 5.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2023

Weekly inventory change (March 10-March 17): Rose from 412,535 to 414,278 Same week last year (March 11-18th): Fell from 247,320 to 245,776 The bottom for 2022 was 240,194 The seasonal increase in inventory means more sellers can also be buyers of homes and fewer bidding wars in certain parts of the country.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Inventory levels: 2019 – 60,453 2020 – 69,464 2021 – 44,533 2022 – 49,324 2023 – 45,918 For more historical perspective, in 2015 and 2016, new listing data for the same week averaged 76,913 with the two years combined, so being at 45,918 is low. A traditional seller is a conventional buyer most of the time.

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