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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Lease-purchase arrangements are receiving renewed attention from legislators looking for ways to make homeownership more accessible, and theyre a great way to help buyers who cant qualify for a traditional mortgage or pony up the money needed for a down payment. But that doesnt mean there arent risks involved for potential purchasers.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

After the deal was announced, CEO Varun Krishna told investors that he expects a lift in purchase mortgage growth after the deal closes. Rocket connects with 2 million purchase contracts annually when they explore affordability and mortgage financing. “These are highly valuable buyers and sellers with a strong intent to transact.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Whether you’re an agent, a real estate investor or just love stunning homes, these real estate Instagram accounts are a must-follow. Coffee & Contracts: @coffeecontracts Content style: Creative marketing resources for real estate agents Coffee & Contracts is like discovering a secret weapon for your real estate business.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

When it comes to handling compensation eXp Realty is not mincing its words — it is not sharing its listing fee with the buyer’s broker. However, the firm says this does not mean it is unwilling to work with buyer’s brokers. But it will be their sellers who make the decision on an offer of compensation to a buyer broker.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

The venture capital investment is in addition to $1 billion in separate capital commitments from investors that Point has lined up to help fund what it calls home-equity investment (HEI) contracts. “We Homeowners, in turn, get to cash out a slice of their home equity with no payments due until the contract matures.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2021

“Treasury yields have trended lower over the past month as investors remained concerned about the COVID-19 variant and slowing economic growth,” Kan said. Overall inventory is still low, of course, but a cooling of the market could lead to more would-be buyers and an increase in mortgage applications soon, experts said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Supply growth could also come from more sellers, such as investors or distressed borrowers unloading. During this period, there were fewer sellers and many more buyers. As we look at 2025, it seems there is late year momentum, maybe its from buyers who waited until after the election and are now ready to act? is $384,900 now.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

’ In a presentation for investors , Rocket outlined how its acquisition of Redfin will help the company create a more seamless and affordable way for consumers to transact real estate, showing how it will take consumers from the home search phase all the way through title and closing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Other investors included Next Coast Ventures , BP Capital Management , Alumni Ventures , Gaingels, Launchpad Capital, and Early Light Ventures. Co-founded by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson, the “power buyer” startup enables homebuyers to make all-cash offers to compete with institutional investors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While it’s unclear exactly how home buyers and sellers are reacting to the situation, a startup tech company called Rayse is “pushing back on the settlement” with a new communication platform that allows prospective buyers to track what their agents are doing in real time.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Home prices jump The median price of the homes that went into contract this week jumped to $389,900. It’s the second week in a row with an uptick in the price of the homes going into contract. For example, does late year new listings volume reflect institutional investors ramping up unloading their inventory?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In the first few months of 2022, primary-residence buyers and second-home buyers (investors and vacation buyers) flocked to the market at a frenzied pace under the correct assumption that mortgage rates would rise. The housing affordability crisis has pushed potential buyers to the sidelines.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

“Historically, buyers have had unlimited access to agents without ever needing to compensate them for their time,” Garg said. The settlement of the commission lawsuits mandates that buyers now sign a contract to compensate their agents directly before touring homes or even identifying potential properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Mortgage rates inched back up this week and remain anchored north of 7% as investors focus on the impact of rising headline inflation ahead of next week’s Fed rate decision. On Wall Street and in Washington, investors believe that the Federal Reserve is poised to steer the economy toward a soft landing.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Fed: The Federal reserve is the single biggest buyer of agency mortgage backed securities (MBS) in the world. If the fed continues to slow or stop, something which is inevitable, the supply imbalance will force rates higher as MBS prices drop in search buyers to take up the excess. Click image to expand.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

Led by venture capitalist firm Signal Fire as well as existing seed investors Y Combinator and DN Capital , Accept.inc said it plans to use the funding to scale its platform, double its team size and enter new markets. The home is then sold back to the buyer at the same price that it was purchased for.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2024

On Wednesday evening, during the firm’s Q1 2024 earnings call with investor and analysts, CEO Rich Barton took a contrary view: Zillow is just beginning to unlock its revenue generating potential. “In In a hostile housing market and a noisy industry environment, why is Zillow outperforming?”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2022

there is a mismatch between today’s elevated prices and buyers’ budgets, which has sidelined many buyers in the near term,” Mangold said in a statement. Motivated buyers who are able to stomach the rate increase or who may be buying in cash are encountering a much less competitive buying landscape than earlier this year.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

An EPO penalty kicks in for the originating lender when a borrower pays off their mortgage earlier than the agreed-upon term in the lender contract. EPOs are intended to guarantee a minimum return for the investor or mortgage aggregator if a loan is paid off in the first few months.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

The 10-year Treasury yield went into free fall last week, as investors grew concerned about the rise in COVID-19 variant cases and the potential economic fallout, according to Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. Mortgage applications increased 5.7% from 64.9% the previous week.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

It means sellers’ agents and brokers should prepare to deal directly with the buyer of an REO property whenever possible going forward. Increasingly in post-foreclosure transactions, this is already being initiated by the buyer. Accordingly, it’s time for sellers’ agents and brokers to prepare to deal directly with buyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2022

Today, homes are selling faster than usual because of the shortage of inventory and high buyer demand. Investment homes often take longer to sell because your audience is other investors. If your house is priced too high, it will turn buyers off, but if it’s too low, people may wonder what’s wrong with it. Consider a Short Sale.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition, loan officers said that investors took advantage of a slower market. Investor demand tends to increase at times when most borrowers are waiting for rates to decline, Justin Fullmer, area manager in Idaho for Future Mortgage , told HousingWire. from the week prior. ” Who is jumping into the market? ”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Auction.com , the nation’s largest online platform for distressed real estate sales, recently reported that demand for homes sold at auction began to decline late in the second quarter of 2024 even as the available supply of foreclosed homes also contracted.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Treasury yields fell last week, as investors continue to anxiously monitor if the rise in COVID-19 cases in several states starts to dampen economic activity,” said Joel Kan, the MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. The mix of refis was unchanged from the previous week at 67.3% of total applications.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

From the National Association of Realtors : “The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings, rose 7.5% An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001.” in October. Year-over-year, signings fell 1.4%.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Across the different markets, the agents consistently reported bidding wars amid heightened demand for single-family homes, low inventory and an increase of buyers fleeing big cities. Lovern was actually on maternity leave at that time when open houses and contracts were paused. “In Once COVID-19 caused much of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mortgage analysts are in charge of pre-approving buyers, contract desk employees take in incoming contracts and send it to the underwriting team, and closing specialists process the loans and take over all communication with escrow, real estate agents and buyers to close loans. “In I thought it was sparse.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Buyers were likely anticipating further rate increases and locking in at the low rates, and investors added to overall demand with all-cash offers,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. Homes went under contract in just 19 days on average, down from 21 a year ago. That translates to just 1.6 “While the 6.7

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

Predictive analytics in real estate combines the use of historical data and algorithms to anticipate future market trends and identify potential sellers sometimes even buyers, too. Real estate investors may find this tool to be helpful when researching what properties and neighborhoods to invest in.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In October, HousingWire reported that Freedom Mortgage and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust moved to raise money through debt offerings with high investor demand. million to Black Knight in damages related to a breach of contract claim. For example, Freedom raised $1.3 Other peers would follow suit, analysts said at that time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

“[If] the person is putting 20% down, we’re also having forward education with them that says, ‘As long as the house appraises within 15% of the purchase contract, then you’re at a 95% LTV, the negative is PMI, but we get you into the house are you comfortable,’” Keelin said. Keelin noted.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Our housing market tracker counts weekly active single-family listings, those homes that aren’t in the contract, and the raw available number of homes for sale. This is why the Altos Research numbers we cite are always smaller than the NAR numbers, which accounts for all home types and those in contract.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2022

According to Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, the “war in Ukraine spurred an investor flight to quality, which pushed U.S. The trade group estimates that the average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($647,200 or less) decreased to 4.09% from 4.15% the week prior.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The trade group estimates that the average contract 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for conforming loans ($647,200 or less) increased to 3.75% from 3.72% the week prior. For jumbo mortgage loans (greater than $647,200), rates climbed to 3.59% from 3.56% the week prior. Presented by: Equifax.

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The Robert Weiler Company

JANUARY 2, 2021

In real estate, buyers and sellers must be knowledgeable to make informed decisions. Are you familiar with a land contract in Ohio, as well as the state-specific requirements? What is a land contract in Ohio, really? Essentially, a land contract is an alternative financing option if you’re investing in: Farmland or raw land.

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