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How non-QM loans boost mortgage originator for success in 2025

Housing Wire

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Key non-QM products for 2025 Before 2025 continues, lenders should arm themselves with the right tools for tackling the market: Investor loans Investing is the vehicle to success for homeowners in the market. These loans go up to $2.5

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FHA updates portal to accommodate expansion of 203(k) loan program

Housing Wire

The 203(k) program allows for the inclusion of repair or renovation costs within a single mortgage to purchase or refinance a home. It covers structural repairs (such as foundations and new roofs), modernization of kitchens and bathrooms, and energy-efficiency and climate-resiliency projects. Updates have been made to both variations.

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How one lender is solving problems in the fix-and-flip space

Housing Wire

The typical house is now 39 years old — a far cry from the modern, move-in ready property that most homebuyers are looking for. As investors recognize the potential these older properties hold and the inventory and profits they could open up in such a red-hot housing market, demand for older, more distressed properties should increase.

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Investor Insights: How to Thrive in CRE Amid Challenging Market Conditions

Appraisal Buzz

Let me explain — in 2021-2022, many investors purchased properties at high prices, using 2 and 3-year bridge loans. Meeting their mortgage and investor obligations will be difficult for these aggressive operators. Investors should conservatively underwrite how interest rates will affect their investment. Some will make it.

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The Role of Appraisal Review in the Risk System – Appraisal Revisions

Appraisal Buzz

Lenders are utilizing more technology for their appraisal processes, with increased usage of modern order management platforms improving communications between lender appraisal desks and appraisers and incorporating both automated and manual processes in their underwriting of appraisals. Appraisal Modernization.

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Why Industrial Space for Rent Is the Hottest CRE Sector in 2021

The Robert Weiler Company

With the emergence of factories, production efficiency, and mass manufacturing, industrial space for rent became the backbone that supports today’s modern cities. Amazon is the iconic frontrunner when it comes to the future of modern distribution and smart warehouses. They include showrooms, laboratories, and office space.

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What About Those Fixer-Uppers? Insights from a Seasoned Appraiser

McKissock

.” The terms “entrepreneurial incentive” and “entrepreneurial profit” are typically discussed in terms of investment property, but the principles involved can also be applied to the many fixer-uppers—whether the buyer is a “purely investor type” or an “owner occupied investor type.”