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California will require home insurers to offer policies in high-risk wildfire areas

Housing Wire

Fewer options have led more homeowners to the California FAIR Plan, which is designed to be a stopgap measure rather than a permanent solution. The eight largest wildfires in state history have occurred since 2017, and the worst when measuring the loss of life was the Camp Fire in 2018, which killed 85 people.

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LoanSnap troubles continue as California revokes its lender license

Housing Wire

That policy, which is designed to protect consumers from lender fraud and financial risk, expired in early August. According to a filing from the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation dated Oct. 18, LoanSnap had its license revoked after it failed to renew its surety bond.

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Opportunity Zone Housing Markets Keeping Pace With Nationwide Price Gains

Appraisal Buzz

The third-quarter 2024 study from ATTOM examines eligible low-income Opportunity Zones that Congress designated for economic revitalization under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In this analysis, ATTOM examined 3,857 U.S. zones that had at least five home sales in the third quarter of 2024 and had enough data to analyze.

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New Forecast Pinpoints 2025’s Top Housing Markets

Appraisal Buzz

With mortgage rates likely to ease only modestly next year, these marketsoffering relatively lower-priced homes, more new and existing houses to choose from, and mortgage products designed to give buyers a leg upcould provide some would-be buyers a better chance at entering the market next year. In November, all four U.S. in the West, 18.9%

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EXIT Realty partners with earnest money collection platform

Housing Wire

International and Earnnest , a digital app that handles earnest money collections, announced a partnership on Tuesday that is designed to create more seamless and secure real estate transactions. The Earnnest platform offers a user-friendly and fully digital fund transfer process for home purchase transactions.

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FHA proposes updates to reverse mortgage debenture interest rates

Housing Wire

The draft Mortgagee Letter (ML) “proposes updates to HUD’s calculations for the payment of debenture interest for HECM claims and establishes a process for retroactively adjusting the calculation of debenture interest for claims filed on HECMs that became due and payable on or after September 19, 2017,” FHA said in an announcement of the proposal.

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New planning tool arrives as California prepares for more accessory dwelling units

Housing Wire

A private planning firm in California is launching a new tool to help local governments there prepare for a pending law designed to spur more construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Permit applications for new units in California grew from less than 10,000 in 2017 to an estimated 30,000 in 2022.

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