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

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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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. Investors are selling these flipped homes at an average of 21% below the market sales price, making them an attractive option for buyers.

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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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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

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

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

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 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

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Midwest and Northeast regions seem to be the new hot spots for real estate investors. This week, Realtor.com named markets in Ohio , Michigan , Pennsylvania , New York and Connecticut among the top markets for real estate investment opportunities in 2024. 1 spot among the best destinations for real estate investors this year.

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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

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

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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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

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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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Earlier this month, real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners raised $1 billion to acquire build-to-rent homes, bringing its total investment in the sector to $2.5 But 2024’s deals show investor interest has persisted. Tricon owns more than 37,000 homes and is building about 2,500 more.

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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 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

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

MARCH 14, 2024

Investment returns for single-family rental homes are expected to rise in 2024, buoyed by rent prices that are rising faster than home prices across the country. The average annual gross rental yield for a three-bedroom home is projected to be 7.55% in 2024, up from an average of 7.39% for the same markets in 2023.

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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Mortgage infrastructure provider Pylon received a minority strategic investment from Citi and closed a deal to sell mortgages on its platform through the bank’s mortgage trading desk, the parties announced on Tuesday. Pylon, founded in 2022, has Peter Thiel, the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal , among its investors.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

To get a better idea of what investors might be most closely interested in with these results, along with the outlook for these companies and the industry, HousingWire ’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) sat down with UBS equity research analyst Douglas Harter. They also mentioned the proprietary product suite at their company as a bright spot.

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As low inventory levels, elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices keep the housing industry stagnant, short-term real estate investors — aka fix-and-flippers — faced market turmoil during the third quarter of 2024. On a national scale, 46% of investors reported facing more competition for deals than expected.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Pontiac, Michigan-based company has opportunistically sold mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) with higher coupons to deleverage its balance sheet and invest in the origination business — for example, by offering incentives on some refi loans. UWM Holdings Corp. , ” UWM shares were trading near $8.50

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Capital Fundings , a Florida -based private mortgage lender, has partnered with real estate investment platform Privy , the companies announced on Tuesday. The collaboration will allow Capital Fundings’ borrowers to receive personalized investor insights. It also offers a library of training and educational resources. “Our

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Pretium Partners , a New York City-headquartered investment firm, announced Tuesday that its adding a new senior managing director to lead its business optimization efforts. Visentini recently served as the investment bank’s head of firm strategy for execution and innovation. Pretium confirmed that it also invested more than $2.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Fix-and-flip investors took a hit in the third quarter of 2024 as flipped properties accounted for a smaller share of U.S. Short-term real estate investors saw a 28.7% return on investment (ROI), down from 31.2% home sales compared to the previous quarter. in Q2 2024, according to an Attom report released this week. of all U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners has raised nearly $1 billion for a new fund dedicated to acquiring built-to-rent (BTR) homes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The company led by former Goldman Sachs partner Don Mullen also said in a statement that it has now invested a total of more than $2.5

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