Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

housing market slowed down in the third quarter due to rising home prices and higher mortgage rates , investor purchases also ramped down, according to a new report by Redfin. The Seattle-based brokerage found that real estate investor purchases dropped by 2.3% Investors purchased $38.8 of investor purchases.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The stock market is a funny game. Not the kind of game that the rookie Game Stop investors are used to playing, but a real-life, action-packed, form of entertainment that toys with millions of Americans’ emotions and finances every day. Investing in real estate. A homebuyer’s guide to a competitive housing market.

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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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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 3, 2024

The market backdrop It’s a hard time out there for real estate. That has resulted in credit standards tightening and fewer transactions happening in the market (according to CBRE, commercial real estate volumes were down 54% through Q3 2023 ). When this happens at a large scale across the market, it is called deleveraging.

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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

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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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

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

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 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

APRIL 28, 2022

The pace of purchase-loan originations as well as transactions in the private-label securities market started to slow by the second quarter of this year as interest rates continued to spike, according to mortgage industry experts. in 2021 were bought by institutional investors,” Lind said.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Rising home prices continue to fuel the growth of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar home-equity market, a fact not lost on behemoth investment-management firm PIMCO. Mill Valley, California-based Redwood Trust sees the market sector as fertile ground as well. As of the end of September, it had some $2.2

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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 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 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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Many real estate investors were serendipitously ahead of this shift even before the pandemic started, driven by both affordability and an affinity for overlooked markets. Currently I’m in some of the Southern markets like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Indianapolis, Ohio. See sidebar for more details on these markets.

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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

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

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

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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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

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. The companies claim they collectively serve more than 500 market participants. Several of MAXEX’s existing investors, including J.P.

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Sacramento Appraisal Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

A couple weeks ago a viral story came out about a fund called BlackRock who was reported to be buying everything in sight and paying 20-50% above market value. Let’s talk about this as well as other institutional investors right now. Market update on […]. This is a longer post, so scroll topics (or digest slowly).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

Institutional real estate investors — often mammoth operators with ties to Wall Street — gobbled up record amounts of inventory in almost every corner of the pandemic-induced fever dream that was the 2021 housing market, with one notable exception: distressed properties sold at foreclosure auction. We’re taking a house and gutting it.

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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

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

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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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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