2022 Contracts Home Value 
Housing Wire
MARCH 20, 2025
While Congress amended the Fair Housing Act in 1988 to explicitly forbid appraisers from factoring in race, gender or other protected characteristics when assessing property values, discriminatory appraisals continue to limit homeownership opportunities particularly among Black and Latino buyers.
Housing Wire
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs).
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Housing Wire
MARCH 29, 2023
Pending home sales rose for the third month in a row in February, but at 0.8%, the uptick over January was less than is typically seen in the run-up to the spring housing market. Month-over-month, contract signings increased in three U.S. Pending home sales decreased in all four regions compared to one year ago.
Housing Wire
JANUARY 2, 2023
These declines, of course, came after very strong price increases in late 2021 and the first half of 2022,” Craig Lazzara, the managing director of S&P DJI , said in a statement. All 20 cities analyzed posted lower price increase in the year ending October 2022 as compared to the year ending September 2022.
Housing Wire
MARCH 29, 2023
“Securitization of HELOCs had been a small part of the RMBS [residential mortgage-backed securities] market in the pre-financial crisis period, but issuance was still relatively commonplace until 2007,” states a fall 2022 DBSR Morningstar report focused on the securitization market for HELOCs. from the fourth quarter of 2021.
Housing Wire
MARCH 10, 2023
Through the market turmoil and volatility that marked much of 2022 — and is still with us today — home-equity lending expanded, however. The Fed report shows HELOC balances nationwide stood at a total of $336 billion at yearend 2022. billion fourth-quarter 2022 volume of HELOC loans was down 17% from $72.3
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 5, 2022
It created a massive demand for home purchases as consumers competed to win a sales contract and get a home with a low single digit interest rate. It means a massive contraction in demand for mortgages, tighter margins, corporate layoffs and “right-sizing,” and concerns about what the future may hold.
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