Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Compass has a new head of investor relations. On Wednesday, the brokerage firm announced that it has appointed Soham Bohnsle to lead its investor relations division. “His expertise will be fundamental in effectively communicating the Compass story to our investor base and ensuring confidence in our long-term strategy.”

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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. 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. homebuying process.

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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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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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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

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

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

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

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

AUGUST 2, 2024

Santa Ana, California-based mortgage services and data firm Consolidated Analytics announced on Friday that it has acquired the assets of investor claims and loss-analysis company Investor Claim Solutions (ICS). Consolidated Analytics is a private company and terms were not disclosed. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Real estate investors are buying more properties, but paying less for them, according to a report from RealtyTrac released Thursday based on ATTOM Data Solutions home sales data. In the second quarter of 2021, investor purchases accounted for 15.4% of the market. of the market. of all home purchases a year prior.

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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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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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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 trillion under management.

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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. “In

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 19, 2024

Consolidated Analytics CEO Arvin Wijay Consolidated Analytics (CA) , a Santa Ana, California-based provider of comprehensive mortgage services and data analytics, has announced the acquisition of the assets of Investor Claim Solutions (ICS), a firm specializing in investor claims solutions and loss analysis recovery.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2024

Over a quarter (26%) of retired investors continue to pay off their mortgage, and precisely one-quarter of the cohort are continuing to pay down credit card debt, according to a new survey from the Nationwide Retirement Institute. But such investors are also taking further action to shore up their retirement stability.

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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

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 and that the new program updates provide investors with an opportunity they have long sought.

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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

MAY 19, 2021

After three straight quarters of declines, home purchases by investors rose 2.7% Looking to take advantage of the hot housing market and a soaring stock market, investors bought about 1 of every 7 U.S. Looking to take advantage of the hot housing market and a soaring stock market, investors bought about 1 of every 7 U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

After months of low rates, there have recently been shocks to the bond market. HousingWire recently sat down with Scott Happ, president of Secondary Marketing Technologies for Black Knight, to discuss the impact this has on mortgage originators and investors. HW: How does this, in turn, impact mortgage originators and investors?

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

According to a new report from Redfin, real estate investors bought a record 18.4% Although investor market share hit a record … The post Investor Market Share Hits Record High appeared first on DSNews. The post Investor Market Share Hits Record High appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Real estate investors spent a record $63.6 In total, investors acquired 90,215 homes in the third quarter, an 80.2% Redfin defines an investor as any institution or business that purchases residential real estate. In the third quarter, investors purchased more than three-quarters of homes with all cash. year-over-year.

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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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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

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

JUNE 10, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s (Fed) efforts to beat back inflation with its monetary tools have already shifted the winds in the secondary market for mortgage-backed securities (MBS). trillion MBS portfolio helps fuel widening interest-rate spreads in the MBS market by creating additional MBS supply to be absorbed by investors.

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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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Real Estate News

APRIL 9, 2024

A pair of new reports look at the role investors played in the housing market last year and offer insights into their current outlook and pain points.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 13, 2024

The CFPB has found that investors are targeting people of faith with predatory mortgage products that set the borrower up to fail,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra. According to the CFPB, Black, Hispanic, immigrant, and religious communities are frequently the target market for these products.

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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. It’s simply a matter of adjusting your investment strategy to optimize current market conditions.

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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. Individual investors own about 70% of rental properties in the U.S., housing market, generally offering more affordable options while providing investors with a stable income stream.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 26, 2021

Real estate investors in Q2 purchased more homes than ever recorded by Redfin, which has been tracking the metric more than 20 years. The post Analysts: Investors Taking Housing Market By Storm appeared first on DSNews. The post Analysts: Investors Taking Housing Market By Storm appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A new survey has revealed that real estate investors are not viewing the market as favorably as they once did in light of low inventory and rising costs. The post Why Are Investors Souring on the Housing Market? appeared first on DSNews. appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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