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CFPB warns consumers about home equity contracts, comparing their features to reverse mortgages

Housing Wire

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this month published an issue spotlight that takes a closer look at home equity contracts, or what the industry refers to as home equity investments (HEIs) that offer a lump sum payment to clients in exchange for a stake in their home equity.

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HUD rescinds appraisal review policies

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). A December 2022 study by the Brookings Institution found that homes in majority-Black neighborhoods are nearly twice as likely to be appraised below the contract price compared to homes in predominantly white areas.

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How to become a luxury real estate agent

Housing Wire

If you’re known in your market as the expert who successfully sells properties between $1 to $3 million, how do you start getting clients looking for homes valued at $10 million+? How do you convince the sellers of $15 million homes to work with you? Visit Coffee & Contracts 2.

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Dave Stevens on understanding this housing market

Housing Wire

In fact, it was the skills I developed selling loans that helped develop my ability to influence policy leaders and others in industry during my time as Federal Housing Commissioner and as CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association. economy, especially the mortgage and housing sector. Potential homebuyers want to buy.

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Supreme Court orders review of recession-era class action against Rocket

Housing Wire

But they claim that Quicken Loans influenced appraisers to raise their home values and originate higher loans. According to the lawsuit, the Aligs, for example, estimated their home was worth $129,000, and provided the information to Quicken Loans. .” Messages left with plaintiffs’ attorneys were not returned.

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Build-for-rent is a bet on the ‘new normal’ housing market

Housing Wire

The two SFR companies, among the largest operators in the space, announced this past summer that they have thousands of build-for-rent homes planned for development or already in the construction pipeline — some 12,000 on a combined basis. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Numerically, that means that approximately 1.5

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Where Are Home Prices Heading Over the Next 24 Months?

Appraisal Buzz

The panel’s latest estimates of national home price growth are higher than last quarter’s expectations of 4.3% Terry Loebs , Founder of Pulsenomics, said: “Despite robust home value growth in the first half of 2024, our panelists anticipate a slowdown in price appreciation for the remainder of the year and beyond.