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

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Pretium is a real estate investment firm that focuses on single-family rental (SFR), build-to-rent (BTR) and fix-and-flip properties. Mullen explains that in the 1980s, investment firms focused on securitizing small assets to make them available for institutional investors. Mullen shares that the company raised $1.5

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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. Since it can’t be delivered by the builders , these small investors are really filling that gap by finding this vacant inventory.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

International investment is one answer. Foreign investors can help fill the buyer gap Florida remains the top destination for foreign buyers, with 20% of all foreign buyers purchasing in the state, according to the 2024 NAR report. Some external factors do impact international investors’ decision making. homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Real estate investors purchased 26.1% By comparison, investors purchased 13.6% As mortgage rates and home prices have remained elevated across the board, investors have mirrored consumer homebuyers and have shifted their focus toward more affordable homes. I just sold one foreclosed house to an investor for $400,000.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

rental sector has benefitted most landlords in this country, from larger multifamily investors to smaller mom-and-pop owners. Real estate investments have long been a key pathway to wealth in the U.S. Individual investors own about 70% of rental properties in the U.S., The strength of the U.S. In 2023, the total U.S.

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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 That should help to unlock more inventory while also reducing financing costs for leveraged investors.

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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

MAY 31, 2024

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that while institutional investors may have contributed to rising home prices since 2009, the actual impact they have had on homeownership opportunities is more difficult to assess.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

Kiavi , a San Francisco-based lender for residential real estate investors , announced on Tuesday the closing of a $400 million rated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs) in an “oversubscribed” transaction. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 12, 2024

Over the past few years, investors have reduced their homebuying activity, but their activity has continued to outpace the market as a whole. Consequently, even though investors are buying fewer homes, their percentage has increased—according to a new Realtor.com study. Investor participation in home purchases decreased from 13.8%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Bellevue, Washington-based real estate investment firm Legacy Group Capital announced this week that it has acquired fintech company Rook Capital , a provider of home equity investment (HEI) products through its “Shared Value Investment” brand. Legacy is privately owned and terms of the deal were not disclosed. “As

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rates and Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Conference in Tokyo, Japan , addressing Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities (MBS) potential value for investors and the company’s recently expanded social impact and sustainability work. “As McCargo explained that the appetite for such investments extends beyond the borders of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

Single-family home purchase demand by investors remained steady in the fourth quarter of 2022, despite a dip in iBuying and larger investor demand, according to a report released this month by CoreLogic. Broadly speaking, the market cooled for both investment buyers and owner-occupied buyers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2024

Swiss bank UBS Group AG has decided to sell Credit Suisse ’s mortgage servicing company, Select Portfolio Servicing (SPS), to a group of investors led by Sixth Street , HousingWire has learned. Investment firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management is a co-investor.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 31, 2024

a360inc , a technology solutions provider to law firms, title agencies, mortgage lenders and investors, has acquired ProVest , a market-leading service of process and litigation information services provider to the creditors’ rights legal industry. The post a360inc’s Investor Group Acquires ProVest appeared first on MortgageOrb.

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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 loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Roughly 80% of real estate investors surveyed are selling single-family homes at or above asking price after fully renovating the properties to make them habitable, according to a report from real estate marketplace New Western. Other notable markets that grew in the same period included popular Sunbelt investor havens Atlanta and Dallas.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Enterprise Community Partners announced on Wednesday the appointment of Kari Downes to the position of president at its housing credit investments business, effective April 1. Downes, who currently serves as Enterprise Housing Credit Investments EVP, will succeed current president Scott Hoekman who has spent the past 30 years at Enterprise.

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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. Many tenants living in BTR communities may also own a BTR investment property while renting a BTR property themselves.

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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. The firm is also a major investor in Hometap , one of the larger players in the home equity investment space.

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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

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

MARCH 23, 2022

United Wholesale Mortgage ( UWM ), the nation’s largest wholesale lender, announced on Wednesday a new product that will qualify borrowers for investment properties based on the monthly rental income, rather than the their current income. The new product targets real estate investors, a group that represented 16.4%

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 13, 2024

Per the report, the transactions frequently lack regulation, and other sellers and investment groups may lay a number of traps that force homebuyers to live in unusable or inhabitable properties, pay for costly repairs and tax liens, and run the risk of losing both their down money and their residences.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

Through a home equity investment, homeowners can receive cash upfront in exchange for a share of the home’s future value. Hometap is among a handful of companies — including Unison , Unlock , Point and Aspire — that offer home equity investments. The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Redwood Trust and home equity fintech lender Point have closed on a $139 million bond secured by 1,577 home equity investment (HEI) contracts. The two companies issued the first-ever securitization backed entirely by HEIs in 2021, a bet that rising home-price appreciation can benefit consumers in the short-term and investors in the long-term.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Boston-based fintech company Hometap has deployed more than $1 billion in home equity investment (HEI) products since its launch in 2017, the company announced on Tuesday. The HEI provider typically recoups its initial investment and takes a percentage of the home’s future value when the property is sold.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. Several of MAXEX’s existing investors, including J.P. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Private investment firm Rice Park Capital Management reports that its strategic equity investing team has closed RPC Ventures Fund II LP. The committed capital allows Rice Park to make direct investments in early-stage and mid-stage mortgage technology companies to support them through the commercialization phase of growth. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

For fix-and-flip investors, 2023 promises to be a very challenging year. Tack on higher costs for materials, labor and financing, and it’s clear that there’s little margin for error for investors pursuing a fix-and-flip strategy. Even then, investors shouldn’t be waiting for a surge of bank-owned properties to come to market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scott Smith, interim CEO at Optimal Blue , to talk about the right tech investments to make now and how the company plans on keeping its customers for life. We have a pretty strong investment being part of Constellation Software now. Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates your tech?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Cooper has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the investment management firm Roosevelt Management Company, LLC., Its investments started with the most credit-sensitive residential market segments and have evolved to all U.S. the company confirmed on Friday. residential markets over the last decade.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 25, 2024

BLOG VIEW: To help provide needed liquidity, many lenders sell mortgage loans to government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) or other investors to boost capital and balance portfolio risk. This strategy offers liquidity and frees up funds for additional lending, enabling them to originate more loans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Angel Oak Capital Advisors , the investment management arm of non-QM lender Angel Oak Cos., Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company misled investors about the delinquency rates in a 2018 private-label securitization involving fix-and-flip loans. has agreed to pay $1.75

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Residential sale-leaseback platform EasyKnock has acquired the assets of home equity investment firm HomePace , the company exclusively told HousingWire on Monday. Cianciolo will serve as head of business development, Graf as senior vice president of operations and Joerg as chief investment officer.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

homeowners are “house-rich, cash-poor,” home equity investment firm Hometap provides clients with a way to tap into their home equity instead of selling their home or taking out a loan. Hometap, as an investor, provides cash in exchange for a share of their home’s future value. Based on the notion that far too many U.S.

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