Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Real estate investor sentiment rose 16% from the prior quarter and 60% of surveyed investors view the current housing market more favorably than a year ago. But there was a noteworthy divide between short-term fix-and-flip investors and long-term buy-and-hold investors when it came to market sentiment and outlook.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

Single-family rental (SFR) investors are worried about the rising cost of home insurance, but the majority expect to buy more properties in the next year as mortgage rates cool and home-price growth subsides. This is due in part to skyrocketing insurance costs in many parts of the country. home insurance rates jumped 11.3%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Experienced real estate investors often say that there are opportunities in every market — whether prices are rising or falling, whether the trends lean towards a buyers’ market or a seller’s market. The “Big Four” take on the upstarts in title insurance. All these investors need are properties to sell or rent.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

trillion of outstanding commercial mortgages held by lenders and investors will mature in 2025, a 3% increase from the $929 billion that matured in 2024. The MBA reports these findings in its 2024 Commercial Real Estate Survey of Loan Maturity Volumes. The loan maturities vary significantly by investor and property type groups.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

The Metaverse is defined as the simulated digital world that mimics the real world through virtual reality and augmented reality in which users can interact. As the Metaverse expands, its offerings now include “virtual” real estate. But what does virtual real estate mean for real-world mortgage professionals?

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The share of the balance of delinquent commercial mortgages increased for every major capital source during the third quarter of 2024, said Jamie Woodwell, MBAs Head of Commercial Real Estate Research. The metrics that each distinct investor group uses to monitor the success of their loans are taken into account in MBAs study.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

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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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Advocus National Title Insurance Co. has launched a new 1031 exchange service, allowing real estate investors to defer capital gains taxes when selling and reinvesting in like-kind properties.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

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.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Tomo Mortgage on Tuesday announced the closure of $20 million in Series B funding that was led by three existing investors and a new participant. The funding round was led by prior investors Ribbit Capital , DST Global and NFX along with new investor Progressive Insurance.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

John Rogers is a well-known name in the world of mortgage and real estate data analysis. We have amazing data scientists who are building out new models — from reducing premiums on wildfire insurance in California to using image analytics so that an appraiser can capture the appraisal in real time and use it for quality assurance.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

AI-generated image of two lawyers scrutinizing title insurance joint venture agreements. In 1983 Jim Campbell launched what is believed to be the first joint venture experiment between a real estate brokerage and a title and settlement firm. Image was created using MidJourney.

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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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Real estate is an attractive field for experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs alike. The urge to innovate in real estate is only natural — any homebuyer or seller who is a creative problem-solver will notice glaring inefficiencies in the process. There’s been no shortage of effort, in other words. Emotions run high.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Check out these nine downloadable real estate prospecting letter templates to help you make an impression in your neighborhood or zip code. My name is (your name), and I’m a licensed real estate professional with (your brokerage). Please think of me as your go-to resource for all things real estate.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s competitive real estate market, an increasing number of real estate investors are turning to private money lenders to help them close deals faster, enhance property valuations, and increase their returns. Establish a private money lending network for real estate.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

Investor activity in the U.S. year-over-year—the largest increase since mid-2022, according to a new report by Redfin, a real estate brokerage. Investors bought approximately one out of every six homes sold in the quarter, representing $43 billion in transactions, marking a 13.7% increase from a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2024

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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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We Salmanson, CEO of Cherre , a data integration and insights platform serving the real estate market, including institutional owners of single-family rental (SFR) properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The fastest growing brokerage in insurance industry history, Acrisure , announced Wednesday that it has acquired title insurance and settlement service provider Tempo Title , marking its entrance into the real estate services business. Current partners of Tempo Title will continue operating under their own brand names.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ruimy noted that the BPL sector accounts for a significant portion of residential mortgage originations, with large investors increasingly turning to BPL lenders like Dunmor. What does this mean for the residential real estate sector and how business-purpose mortgage lenders are trying to expand?

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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. Data from John Burns Real Estate Consulting shows that student loan debt has increased 100% since 2007, keeping many renters in place. How can investors help with homeownership?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Real estate transactions are rarely stress-free. This holds true for many of the most challenging situations in real estate. Consider the residential client disappointed at the lack of inventory , or the commercial investor with many vacancies in a once-thriving property. Even better?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Evernest already offers services including brokerage , maintenance, renovation, insurance and lending. LL Funds also served as one of Poplar’s investors since the company’s debut in 2014, according to Evernest. Poplar Homes is a leading property manager focused on individual investors and multifamily property owners.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

The column is likely referencing the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) program insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). There are closing costs and other fees, and you’ll still be responsible for maintaining the property and paying the property taxes and homeowners insurance, the column noted.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

But when we say this is the Ultimate Resource Guide for title insurance professionals, we mean it! Associations American Land Title Association (ALTA) ALTA serves as the national trade association and voice for the title insurance industry, representing over 6,000 title insurance companies, agents and real estate attorneys.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2021

The title insurance and settlement services provider was originally bought b y Solutionstar Holdings , an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (Mr. The post Blend breaks into title insurance with latest acquisition appeared first on HousingWire. Cooper’s original name prior to rebranding) in 2015.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

are reshaping insurance premiums and real estate markets, which will inevitably drive up costs and worsen affordability. The soaring price of insurance , the costs associated with reconstruction, and resiliency upgrades related to climate change costs are straining households beyond California.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

In a brightly lit men’s restroom Friday afternoon, adjacent to where the inaugural Crypto & Real Estate Summit was convening, one conference attendee asked another, “Are you a real estate agent?”. Real estate agents, on the other hand, would benefit from blockchain transactions, the company has claimed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2021

Analysis of millions of pieces of disparate data informs nearly every decision made involving residential real estate. For real estate investors, homebuyers, appraisers, insurance companies, mortgage lenders and other financial institutions, a deep understanding of the risks associated with a property and a community is essential.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Mortgage tech startup Staircase says it has launched a tool that enables mortgage insurers to automate the underwriting of non-delegated mortgage insurance (MI) policies for lenders at about half of the typical cost. In the delegated channel, the lender underwrites the loan for mortgage insurance and submits it to the mortgage insurer.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2022

On the heels of completing its first credit insurance risk transfer (CIRT) deal of the year in early March, Fannie Mae has announced that it has executed two additional CIRT deals. . billion of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. “We The newest deals, CIRT 2022-2 and CIRT 2022-3, together transferred $1.8

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Garg explained that Better utilized its marketplace lending model that includes 32 different investors across the mortgage landscape from real estate investment trusts and insurance companies to hedge funds, major correspondent lenders and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” The pool of non-QM borrowers includes real estate investors, fix-and-flippers, foreign nationals, business owners, gig economy workers and the self-employed.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Third-quarter earnings season kicked off with a bang last week with three ( Stewart, First American and Old Republic ) out of the Big Four title insurers reporting their earnings on Thursday. million, a 46% annual decline, as title insurance net premiums and fees dropped 15.2% year over year to $968.1

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