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. is lacking about 320,000 listings valued at the affordable range for middle-income buyers.

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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

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% Investor profits ramped down during the same time frame and now stand at roughly half of the mid-50% market peak in 2016. The Q3 2024 U.S. That represented 7.2%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2021

Investors who acquire and renovate older homes could claim the credit on their federal tax returns, as long as the home is sold to and occupied by an eligible buyer. In order for investors to qualify for the credit, buyers must make no more than 140% of area median income. The renovations would be on a budget, however.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

The collaboration will allow Capital Fundings’ borrowers to receive personalized investor insights. Privy’s real estate investment platform features different services tailored to assist investors. For instance, it can help investors identify real estate deal opportunities and and assess off-market deals efficiently.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

Sweetwater Private Equity and Morpheus Ventures led the latest funding round with additional investors including Home Depot Ventures , Second Century Ventures and Palm Drive Capital. We are building our team and technology to break down barriers,” said Min Alexander , co-founder and chief executive officer of PunchListUSA.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 25, 2024

The report further reveals that as the number of homes flipped by investors declined, so did flips as a portion of all home sales, from 8.6% In yet another sign of down times for the home-flipping industry, profits and profit margins also sank on quick buy-renovate-and-resell projects. in 2022 to 8.1%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In today’s competitive real estate market, an increasing number of real estate investors are turning to private money lenders to help them close deals faster, enhance property valuations, and increase their returns. Property managers and real estate agents who are interested in working with investors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

It is counter to a popular and politically potent narrative grounded in the aftermath of the Great Recession, when large institutional investors scooped up thousands of properties at foreclosure auction. The role of renovators. These are local investors buying a few properties in communities where they live and work.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And while the rate may have declined, home flipper profits ticked upward for investors who buy, renovate and quickly resell homes, and in Q2, investors typically earned a 30.4% It’s not as if profits have shot through the roof and investors are riding a new wave of good times. a year earlier. in Q2 of last year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

This data shows early signs of a slowdown in the retail housing market in June that was anticipated by real estate investors buying properties at foreclosure auction in March. These two key foreclosure auction metrics show a clear shift in March toward more conservative bidding behavior, both in terms of max offers and buy box for investors.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

“It’s oddly enough in states where people are leaving,” said Florida-based real estate investor Paul Lizell of the markets where he is more focused on acquiring investment properties in 2024. Most properties that sell at foreclosure and REO auctions are in need of major renovations, far from being in fully repaired condition.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

The 203(k) program allows for the inclusion of repair or renovation costs within a single mortgage to purchase or refinance a home. The “standard” option is for substantial repairs, while the “limited” option is for more minor repairs or renovations. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

My mom and stepdad went into pre-foreclosure,” said Sandoval, a real estate agent and investor who specializes in working in low-income, often Latino neighborhoods in Southern California. “I anely Sandoval’s calling to be a pre-foreclosure peacemaker started when she was in high school. “My Sometimes the seller wants one month rent back.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this week announced the launch of a new program designed to allow for the purchase, refinance or renovation of manufactured housing under a loan program sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 3, 2024

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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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

Its offerings include small-business loans and lines of credit, real estate investor loans, rehab loans and renovation loans. Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans. Department of the Treasury since 2018.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2024

Headquartered in Southern California , AscentDS will focus on providing customized financing solutions to single-family and multifamily housing developers and investors across the nation. Founder and CEO Robert Wasmund has a deep background in the residential construction and bridge lending industry. “We

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Private equity firm Exuma Capital Partners announced that it is the lead investor for a newly launched, AI-powered homeowner management tool called Property.com. An AI assistant called Revana will provide personalized help with renovations, installations and maintenance.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2021

The average home age in the United States is about 40 years old, so there’s a huge stock of homes that need to be renovated.”. Given the rising price of lumber and other construction costs, renovations may sound impractical. A fix’n’flip loan is designed to cover the costs of purchasing a home and renovating it.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Change Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans, according to its website. The Treasury Department renewed the certification in February following a settlement agreement in November 2023.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

In a landscape marked by limited turnkey housing inventory, significant affordability issues, and relentless competition from cash-rich investors, homebuyers need more than plain vanilla home loans. But, first-time homebuyers can be leery of taking on renovations, especially if they are tight on cash.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 12, 2024

And while the flipping rate followed historical trends, profits turned back downward for investors who buy, renovate and quickly resell homes following a period when their fortunes had been improving. The flipping rate returned to the 7.2% level recorded in Q3 of last year. In Q3, home flipping generated on average a 28.7%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. Acra understands the struggles fix-and-flip investors face when seeking financing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2022

CoreVest provides financing to real estate investors across the country and as of late June boasted more than $15 billion in loans closed and some 125,000 units financed, according to the lender. Redwood executives say Riverbend will be integrated into CoreVest. It also serves professional developers of multifamily properties.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

In fact, ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales in the nation last year, or 8.4%, involved fix and flip investors — whose strategy is to acquire, renovate (fix) and then resell (flip) the properties. More investors keep looking to flip homes … but are making less and less in the process “ ATTOM CEO Rob Barber said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

The programs include MAXEX Sustainable, which allows borrowers to finance green energy renovations into their 30-year fixed mortgage, and allows for residential solar panels and geothermal units to be amortized in the loan at the point of purchase or refinance. The company is also offering a “quicker” version of its base program.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Real estate investors purchasing distressed properties at foreclosure auction have been telegraphing a possible housing market slowdown for the last six months. A deeper dive into foreclosure buyer behavior shows which markets are most likely to see a home price correction in the next six months. Price Correction Risk by Region.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 28, 2024

Investors are still coming in with all-cash offers on homes that need to be renovated. The increase is being influenced by the current market, where higher-priced, turnkey homes in desirable neighborhoods are more likely to sell. It’s also partly due to buyers putting down a higher percentage of the purchase price as a down payment.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 24, 2024

It also stayed within a range that could easily be wiped out by carrying costs that include renovation expenses, mortgage payments and property taxes, ATTOM says. Gross profits on typical flips around the country, meanwhile, increased to $72,375. That remained down from a high of about $80,000 reached in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

One source of added inventory is the fix and flip industry , which is expected to acquire and renovate some 350,000 homes in 2023, according to Kurt Carlton, president of New Western , a private real estate investment marketplace. NAR is advocating for temporarily lower capital gains taxes for mom-and-pop real estate investors [i.e.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 23, 2021

Fix n’ flip loans are ideal for investors and developers looking to purchase a home and renovate it. Through these loans, developers and investors are able to bring new stock to the market that may have been previously overlooked or passed up.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Still, even in this difficult-to-agonizing supply-challenged housing market, SFR and fix-and-flip investors, which both target existing-home inventory, are still finding ways to make a profit — at a thin margin in most cases, but a profit, nonetheless. That’s particularly true for mom-and-pop investors across both market segments.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

presentation to investors in the blank-check SPAC that took the company public in 2020. Offerpad is an instant buyer, or iBuyer, a company that gives sellers cash offers for their homes and attempts to resell the homes for a profit, sometimes after making renovations. “The largest, undisrupted market in the U.S.,”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.

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