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TransUnion, Truework add mortgages to income verification tool

Housing Wire

The mortgage addition follows similar integrations for rental screening and auto lending. Liz Pagel, global head of alternative data at TransUnion, said the integration with Truework aims to improve lending efficiency and added that the tools are ready to adapt to ever-changing regulations.

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The Week Ahead: Preparing for 2025

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Stone also served as Vice Chairman of Metrocities Mortgage, and as Chairman of The Stone Group, an Austin, Texas-based tenant-represented brokerage company. Housing Market Supply and Demand: An analysis of housing inventory trends and construction pressures affecting pricing and availability. Dr. Bill Conerly has a Ph.D.

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Investing in tomorrow: Steven Katz is bullish on the build-to-rent market

Housing Wire

The credit profile of the tenant in the BTR space is much stronger. Many tenants living in BTR communities may also own a BTR investment property while renting a BTR property themselves. SK: Construction lending is extremely complex, and in which banks have traditionally been the dominant players.

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A new source of affordable housing inventory: Private seller auctions

Housing Wire

We had to take back some properties where we dont have a large real estate operation, so we didnt want to keep them, said Sims, general partner at Constitution Lending , a Connecticut-based real estate lender providing fix-and-flip and long-term loans to real estate investors.

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First Savings Bank to cut 100-plus mortgage jobs across multiple states

Housing Wire

It has three national lending programs: single-tenant net lease commercial real estate, SBA lending and residential mortgage banking. An entrepreneurial community bank headquartered in Jeffersonville, First Savings operates 15 depository branches within southern Indiana. The bank reported a net income of $2.3

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

Housing Wire

After those government-supported mortgages terminate due to maturity or prepayment, the owners can, and many do, convert their multifamily properties to market-rate rents, or sell them to new owners that are not committed to providing housing that is affordable to struggling low-income rural tenants.

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FHFA appoints inaugural members of affordable housing advisory committee

Housing Wire

It initially sought members with expertise in fields such as fair lending, fair housing, civil rights, capital markets, investments, single-family and multifamily lending, community advocacy, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits , research and more. The FHFA began soliciting applications for the committee in September 2023.

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