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Private equity and insurance companies piling into residential mortgages

Housing Wire

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. Moreover, the prolonged high-interest-rate environment is leading to lower refinancing rates, which extends the duration of cash flows that investors can expect from these assets.

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Fidelity CEO says federal government’s title insurance proposals are ’misguided’

Housing Wire

The firm attributed its stronger results to better performance from both its F&G segment and its title insurance segment. In addition to sharing his thoughts on the housing market and macroeconomic landscape, Nolan also had some things to say about the recent title insurance proposals announced by the federal government.

Insurance 420
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Opinion: How to avert an impending homeowners insurance crisis

Housing Wire

A brewing crisis is emerging around homeowners insurance and thus far the finance and insurance community has not offered any viable solutions. An overhaul of the homeowners insurance market is in order to prevent an impending catastrophe in the mortgage market. And that’s where policies are available.

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Double whammy: Florida condo market grapples with rising insurance costs, milestone inspections

Housing Wire

While it may be easy to attribute the slower market conditions to the state’s well-publicized insurance issues , local agents say there is a perfect storm of factors. “It Insurance is still a major hurdle for many. Altos’ data shows that the 90-day median time on market jumped from 49 days a year ago to 70 days as of mid-July.

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Opinion: The myth of financing buyer agent commissions

Housing Wire

As a salve, a vocal minority of activists say that “simply” allowing the financing of buyer-agent commissions into mortgages will resolve all concerns. For reasons both practical and legal, buyer-agent commissions are not today explicitly financeable with a mortgage. But let’s suppose all that occurs. Would it be worth the effort?

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Investors turn their eyes to affordable housing opportunities

Housing Wire

As the pandemic shifts from crisis to chronic, investors, community leaders and housing advocates say they intend to make the most of the chance to permanently elevate the case for affordable housing even as economic metrics are starting to shift. The influx of cash to consumers early in the pandemic kept rent payments flowing, all agree.

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SFR and fix-and-flip investors expect a better market in 2024

Housing Wire

The risky operating environment has been marked by volatile, high interest rates (with 30-year fixed rates now hovering around 7%), high financing costs and moderating rental rates as an influx of multifamily rental properties continues to come online across the country.

Investors 459