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

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. The top markets had an average vacancy rate of 4.8%

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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. He also offers valuable insights into the appeal of BTR communities and emerging markets to watch closely.

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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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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. Surge in Home Flips In 2023, New Western operated across 42 markets, where there were 185,272 new builds compared to 163,894 home flips.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

This article is part of our 2022-23 Housing Market Forecast series. For fix-and-flip investors, 2023 promises to be a very challenging year. The market shifted abruptly in mid-2022 as soaring mortgage rates pummeled affordability, removing many prospective homebuyers from the market.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

Investor activity in the U.S. housing market saw a significant uptick in the second quarter of 2024, with purchases rising 3.4% 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. increase from a year earlier.

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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. Louis led the nation’s 20 largest markets for a second month in a row at 6.2%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The nation’s single-family investment-property sector and the lenders serving those borrowers face some major challenges in 2023 as rent growth is slipping, vacancy rates growing, home-value growth faltering, and a possible recession looms. . of the subject [loan] pool is secured by investment properties,” the presale report states. .

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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

MAY 21, 2024

In a supply-constrained housing market , even landing a deal at foreclosure auction has become challenging, but those deals tend to be more readily available in markets or neighborhoods that are off the beaten path. It’s very, very market dependent right now. I’m still focusing on those markets with very low (retail) inventory.

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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Data points show it’s a microcosm of these market-cooling trends, yet the state remains a real estate growth leader. International investment is one answer. This is an interesting statistic to watch because foreign investors face different barriers to buying than their domestic counterparts. 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 7, 2024

For investors in the private-label securities (PLS) market, the earlier signal was enough to unleash a boatload of money that had been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the “peak” to arrive, according to several market experts interviewed recently by HousingWire. And future rate cuts mean less return [for investors].

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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. The number of investor transactions decreased by 25.3%

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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. With the U.S.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The call for smart home technology is coming from inside the house, as it were — but during times of economic pressure, how can investors and property managers justify the effort and expense of upgrading their communities? How does smart home technology benefit investors? Why smart home technology now?

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

Of these eight companies, CoStar and Zillow are by far the largest by market capitalization. The opposite trajectories of their stock prices seem to reflect investor appetites for their different business models. That revenue concentration seems to be what had investors heading for the exits on Friday.

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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

MARCH 18, 2022

To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 million ; this is still historically low, but this gives the housing market a breather from the madness that we see today. One of the critical data lines that I want to see improve this year is days on market.

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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% Profit margins only cleared 50% in one-third of these markets in Q3 2024. The Q3 2024 U.S. of all U.S.

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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. Scott Smith: I think a differentiator is our position in the market. Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates your tech?

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. Still, even the single-family rental (SFR) market, including the BFR sector, faces an uncertain future in the year ahead, given the ongoing volatility in interest rates and inflation.

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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 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 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. An index score above 50 indicates market expansion, while a score below 50 indicates contraction. ”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. Chinese real estate investments extend beyond their borders and if those investors suddenly need to liquidate those assets to cover losses at home , many countries real estate markets could be negatively impacted.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

stock market, companies like Finance of America (FOA) and Ellington Financial — the parent of reverse lender Longbridge Financial — have recently released their third-quarter 2024 earnings results. These moves, he said, helped demonstrate to investors that the company had its priorities clearly in mind.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 20, 2024

Understanding the forces creating the market is indispensable for lenders, real estate professionals, developers, and investors. Pouliot’s insights highlight the delicate balance necessary for a healthy market and give a prospective view of what to expect in the future.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

As the housing market continues to be marked by high mortgage rates and record-breaking home prices across many U.S. This rise reflects a growing trend among developers to construct homes specifically for the rental market, catering to those who desire the benefits of single-family living but might not have the means, or desire, to purchase.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Improving and selling or refinancing houses for investment purposes has long been the purview of part-time entrepreneurs looking to earn additional income. As part-time investors move toward dedicating their careers to the home flipping industry, there is growing competition and many factors that contribute to a successful project.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

The institutional single-family rental (SFR) market has expanded rapidly over the past decade as an alternative to homeownership, but it is now facing major headwinds in the form of a rapid jump in interest rates and still-high inflation compounded by decelerating home prices and rental rates. of all purchases, according to ATTOM.

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