Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

Investor activity in the U.S. Investors bought approximately one out of every six homes sold in the quarter, representing $43 billion in transactions, marking a 13.7% Investors bought approximately one out of every six homes sold in the quarter, representing $43 billion in transactions, marking a 13.7% year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 30, 2024

A new report from New Western, a national real estate investment marketplace, indicates that local real estate investors are poised to outperform traditional builders in several key markets. The report notes that vacant or uninhabitable homes that have been flipped contribute new inventory comparable to new construction.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In response, multifamily construction has skyrocketed over the last year, hitting a historic high of 841,000 units under construction nationwide in June of this year, according to research from the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models. Last December, Zillow netted 105 million unique visitors, according to Comscore data cited in Zillow’s investor materials. Zillow For years, Zillow has dominated online home listings.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But 2024’s deals show investor interest has persisted. Similarly, construction has slowed but remains elevated. The number of units under construction peaked in the fourth quarter of 2022 at above 53,000 and fell to about 36,500 in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Investors provide capital necessary for many families to fulfill their aspirations of living in a house whether renting or owning. How can investors help with homeownership? Let’s switch gears and consider how investors help with home ownership. But, who are these investors? To be precise, the average U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Many real estate investors were serendipitously ahead of this shift even before the pandemic started, driven by both affordability and an affinity for overlooked markets. Those markets I’m able to put a little bit less money in but also make a comfortable amount of return,” said Bijan Green, a Denver-based real estate investor. “A

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. Davis also highlights Deephaven’s edge in products like their Ground-Up Construction and Fix-and-Flip products, offering originators essential tools and training.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A Rocket Companies ’ investor filed a stockholder derivative complaint on Monday that accuses the company’s chairman of using non-public information to sell stocks and avoid material losses. The lawsuit, first reported by Reuters, was filed in the Delaware Chancery Court by an investor, Christopher Vargoshe. He sold 20.2

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Katz discusses the contributing factors leading to higher occupancy rates in BTR properties, the advantages of BTR financing solutions for investors, and their long-term growth potential. SK: Construction lending is extremely complex, and in which banks have traditionally been the dominant players. We are short millions of homes.

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Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2024

Today’s market conditions help illustrate the case for green, factory building as an effective solution for developers , especially for those who’ve put projects on hold due to rising interest rates and dried up investor pools. The result is a sharp increase in labor costs, and longer construction times. Time is also money.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Fueled by the work-from-home exurb mania which joined forces with the newly minted individual and institutional passive investors, outsized demand was created that defied demographics. Multi-family property construction is the highest since the 1970s amidst an aging demographic, rents are going down and with it, investor appetite.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

About 900,000 units are currently under construction , and 440,000 new units are expected to be completed in 2024, according to the report. Construction completions have already peaked in Chicago, Washington, D.C. For investors, single-family rentals have emerged as a better hedge against slowing rents than apartments in 2023.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Construction started on about 18,000 single-family, built-for-rent homes in the first quarter of 2024, a 20% increase compared to the first quarter of 2023, according to the National Association of Home Builders. In response to this demand for larger rental spaces, the build-to-rent sector is experiencing rapid growth. As the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

The most anticipated economic report of the month showed that inflation cooled down a little in April, bringing relief to investors and housing industry professionals. Record levels of new apartment construction in some markets in 2023 started bringing rents down,” Sturtevant said. Consumer prices in April were up 3.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

Construction starts in the BFR market are being propelled by the ongoing demand for single-family rental units as high mortgage rates and limited for-sale inventory push home-purchase prospects further out of reach of many would-be homebuyers. Redfin defines investors as any institution or business that acquires residential real estate.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $300 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Friday. The deal drew significant interest from institutional investors. billion since it launched its securitization program in 2019.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I recently did a podcast with Downtown Josh Brown that was more catered for investors to try to explain the madness of the housing market in 2023. Housing permits declined, as the 5-unit construction boom ended, negatively impacting the permit data. If we had growth in 5-unit construction, the permit data would look very different.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

If a broker is working with an investor that happens to dabble in non-QM, then they’re not going to get all the best practices we’ve aggregated over the last 12 years. For example, 30% of purchase transactions were new construction last year. New construction has been 33% of all purchase transactions, right?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Veev said at the time that the funding would be used to scale its operations, accelerate its research and development, and expand construction into new markets. Investors featured leading Israeli institutional investors, such as Migdal Insurance , Psagot Investment House , More Investment House , and Shavit Capital.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Global asset manager Bain Capital announced Monday that it has acquired a controlling stake in Archwest Capital , a California -based company that offers financing to residential real estate investors. Its product mix includes fix-and-flip loans, bridge loans and construction loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

Real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners is acquiring thousands of homes from home construction company D.R. The transaction could also signal investors’ re-entry into the housing market after institutional investors shed properties at the end of 2022 following a drop in housing prices nationwide.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

“It’s oddly enough in states where people are leaving,” said Florida-based real estate investor Paul Lizell of the markets where he is more focused on acquiring investment properties in 2024. Tritt, who owns Tritt Realty , said he recently talked to another local investor who purchased a property at foreclosure auction.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Dominion Financial Services , a Baltimore -based private lender with products tailored to real estate investors , has launched a third-party origination program for mortgage brokers, according to an announcement on Thursday. investors are “finding creative ways“ to acquire and redevelop real estate.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

All of their material seems more geared toward investor pitches and media buzz generation.”. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials. But the company was out of business by 2018.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The analysis is limited to resale properties and does not include new construction, which means that build-to-rent activity is excluded. New Western , meanwhile, also stood out as a marketplace for real estate investors. Investors of all sizes purchased 46,419 residential properties in fourth-quarter 2023, according to Redfin data.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Job gains occurred mainly in government, health care, social assistance and construction in December, while transportation and warehousing posted fewer jobs. Construction employment continued to trend up, with the sector adding 17,000 jobs in the last month of 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. It also has a niche in construction and manufactured home loan programs. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In addition, as fears of inflation increase, many investors are purchasing properties as a hard asset. Construction employment is still 201,000 jobs below its February 2020 level, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Investors who acquire and renovate older homes could claim the credit on their federal tax returns, as long as the home is sold to and occupied by an eligible buyer. In order for investors to qualify for the credit, buyers must make no more than 140% of area median income. The renovations would be on a budget, however.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Elevated mortgage rates and limited housing inventory fuel the ongoing demand for single-family rental units, keeping construction starts afloat in the BTR market. Since borrowing costs surged in 2022, investors have developed other ways to buy homes, including directly from builders. rental homes.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Business delinquency rates for five of the biggest investor groupscommercial banks and thrifts, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), life insurance companies, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Macare examined in MBAs quarterly analysis. These groups collectively own almost 80 percent of the outstanding debt from commercial mortgages.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

Non-QM lender Kiavi , which specializes in fix-and-flip and investor loans, has laid off 39 employees, sources told HousingWire on Thursday. Because we are in the hard money space, we don’t have a lot of investors willing to buy our assets because of the rate hikes, is what our CEO told us.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Shelter inflation has been coming down slowly since the summer, as new residential construction activity ramped up in 2023,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist for Bright MLS. Even though shelter prices dropped to 0.3% the prior month, they’ve increased 6.7% In comparison, the CPI rose 3.7% in September and 3.7%

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

real estate investors and affordable homes. From the National Association of Home Builders : Looking at the housing starts report, the numbers came in slightly better than anticipated, driven by multifamily construction. With demand falling, the need for construction labor to build single-family homes will be an economic risk.

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