Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Heading into 2024, there are continuing and emerging financing options, grant programs and legislation all designed to help homeowners and builders create much-needed infill housing. These will help on the margin, but we still need smart lenders to help create even more robust financing options for ADUs.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training. Agency loans have limitations such as loan amounts, only allowing up to ten financed properties and they don’t accept five to nine units.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

HousingWire is excited to introduce the winners of the 2024 Finance Leaders award, recognizing the top finance executives in housing who are driving financial performance, expanding margins, improving liquidity and helping their businesses access the capital markets. The 2024 Finance Leaders exemplify excellence.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

economy can withstand job losses in the government sector, reduced spending in the economy, and a housing market on the brink of losing residential construction projects. This leads us back to the private sector and residential construction jobs. I recently discussed this in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) have settled on new energy-efficiency standards for the construction of new single-family and multifamily homes. The “Adoption of Energy Efficiency Standards for New Construction of HUD- and USDA-Financed Housing” was published on Friday in the Federal Register, and will go into effect on May 28.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. If you’re a loan officer, you should have a construction product that focuses on builders, developers and Realtors. And, its focusing on areas like construction, non-QM, the fix-and-flip and second lien production.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

New home construction exploded early in the pandemic as soaring home demand squeezed existing inventory nationwide, giving homebuilders a much bigger share of a shrinking pie. Index values for most construction inputs are down from 2022 but remain above pre-pandemic levels. That could set the backdrop for a slower pace of construction.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according to monthly data on new residential construction from the U.S. But housing completions rose 14.6% compared to September 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Achieving [these] goals will also help encourage community banks to expand their construction-to-permanent mortgage lending activity, especially in small towns and rural markets.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Apollo orchestrated this transaction and now our partnership through Newfi provides the financing needed to grow this business and scale it to a higher level. It’s a complete financing solution that helps us ramp up and scale our production in the BPL sector. Could you share how this move puts Dunmor at the forefront of that?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Home construction New home construction ramped up early in the pandemic but moderated as interest rates ticked up and mortgage rates followed. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of homes permitted, started, under construction and completed all remain well above pre-pandemic levels but below the peaks reached in the last three years.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This hybrid summit brings together leaders from the federal government, private sector, and housing industry to discuss the critical role of independent mortgage banks in the housing finance ecosystem. Census Bureau Advance Monthly Retail Sales (Thursday) Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (Thursday) U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

In the address, the president will call for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes; and cost reductions for renters.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is a hangover from the favorable financing conditions of 2021/2022. Diminished Development Capacity: As developers struggle, new construction grinds to a halt. Provide Flexible Financing: We need to offer innovative financing solutions that can adapt to existing market conditions, helping developers weather the storm.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) have announced new residential construction statistics for September 2024. Despite pent-up demand in the housing market, elevated financing costs continue to challenge both buyers and builders,” Kushi noted. Census Bureau and the U.S. below the revised August estimate of 1,361,000, 0.7%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

However, permits for future construction recorded a 4.4% “Slower construction activity in the Northeast could reflect cooler demand as well as challenges builders face in finding availability lots,” she said. Could multifamily construction stall? Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. They were 23.3%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It uses county-level data for single and multi-family permits to gauge housing construction growth in both urban and rural metros. The latest HBGI data continue to show a changing geography for home construction,” Robert Dietz , the NAHB’s chief economist, said in a statement. at the end of 2019 to 12% earlier in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Like many localities across the country, Marin County leaders describe a housing crisis in their area that they hope to alleviate through the construction of more ADUs. It is a notoriously expensive housing market and maintains an estimated population of more than 260,000 people, according to data from the 2020 U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Buyers want affordable new homes, yet new construction listings are still playing catch up with their high-priced counterparts. Finance a loan, and you may lose money. Avoid financing, and you risk missing out on a sales growth opportunity. This loan type offers up to $2 million in financing. Why is that important?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

As we continue our expansion, our focus remains on delivering home financing solutions that put our clients first. The company offers a range of loan products including FHA , VA , USDA, conventional, jumbo, refinance and construction programs. About a year before that, the company began operating in Montana.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

In addition to that, conventional underwriting does not serve the new-age economy such as gig workers, so you are seeing this demand for alternative financing. “And Potential partnerships Home equity investments are likely to become essential to the home finance product marketplace. And that has already started to happen,” Craft said.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The most common way buyers have secured below-market rates is through special financing offers from sellers or home builders. Despite these obstacles, resolute purchasers are coming up with innovative ways to finance their aspirations of becoming homeowners.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Many of the distressed properties Sandoval encounters are not in good enough condition to qualify for traditional financing. That means the buyer will need to pay in cash or use non-traditional financing such as a hard money loan. When this happens, Sandoval works with the owner to provide a graceful exit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Redfin cited the boom in multifamily construction over the past few years as one reason why rents have remained stable. The surge in multifamily construction addressed demand in certain regions, particularly in the Sun Belt states, but builders are now slowing down.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

More than 160 employees from the now-shuttered Finance of America Mortgage have landed at Go Mortgage , a Columbus, Ohio-based lender. When Finance of America announced their closure, we started searching around,” Reich said. ” . “We We specialize in marketing for purchases.”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This means providing expert guidance on first-time homebuyer programs, navigating the mortgage process, and exploring a multitude of financing options that align with their goals. The Sandwich Generation: New Parents Juggling Family and Finances The arrival of a new baby brings joy, excitement, and a whole new set of financial challenges.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Construction was another sector that posted gains in October, adding 8,000 jobs. Residential construction gained 1,300 jobs in October, while residential specialty trade contractors shed 6,600 jobs. Residential construction gained 1,300 jobs in October, while residential specialty trade contractors shed 6,600 jobs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

It is shipped from the Boxabl manufacturing facility in Las Vegas and is “designed to unfold into a fully functional dwelling unit in just a few hours,” reducing construction costs and minimizing environmental impacts, according to a company news release. But some experts believe that financing options for ADUs need to be expanded.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Demand for newly constructed homes continues to remain high as existing for-sale inventory remains historically low. Mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 20.6% in August on a year-over-year basis. Compared to July 2023, applications increased by 4%. This change does not include any adjustment for typical seasonal patterns.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Nonprofits are not just addressing the demand for new housing but are also providing funding to homeowners for ADU construction. Financing ADU construction is another challenge, with nonprofits needing to secure funding from local and state governments, as well as private financial institutions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Under the terms of the investment, Newfi will continue to provide an initial financing facility to expand Dunmors origination capacity. It offers four types of RTL products bridge, fix and flip , ground-up construction and debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

New construction inventory has grown in recent months. Homebuilders have backed off since the pandemic-driven building boom, with high mortgage rates dampening demand; they’re focused on selling the new homes they have on the books rather than constructing new ones,” Redfin noted in the report. year over year in September.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Transitioning to factory building from on-site construction reduces building costs by 20% and significantly improves delivery time; and by using green materials, developers can open up new financing options that, together, turn project economics right-side-up. Energy efficient homes open the door to new and better financing options.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

One key data line that is flagging a path to recession is the loss of residential construction workers. A while back, HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler and I discussed the risk of recession due to a lack of construction labor. Let’s look at today’s residential construction report and see where we are. From the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Michael Gevurtz is an entrepreneur and investor in the real estate and finance industries. He is the CEO and Founder of Bluebird Lending, a national private lender servicing real estate developers and investors with an array of loan products to acquire, construct, and refinance residential and multifamily properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In this executive conversation, Steven Katz, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Residential Financing at Arbor Realty Trust, shares his thoughts on the burgeoning build-to-rent (BTR) market. SK: Construction lending is extremely complex, and in which banks have traditionally been the dominant players.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

of existing supply, with another 38,000 of apartment units under construction (12.2% We believe rates (including financing rates) staying higher for longer will delay any rebound in construction activity in the near term,” he wrote. of existing supply) that will be delivered over the coming months,” Lawrence wrote.

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