Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 8, 2024

housing market is rapidly approaching the $50 trillion mark, with the total value of homes across the country hitting a record $49.6 In a decade, the value of U.S. In a decade, the value of U.S. Rural home values rose 7% year over year to $7.8 trillion, outpacing urban areas, where values increased by 6% to $10.3

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MARCH 23, 2021

would give the brokerage a “fully diluted market value of $12.5 Reuters and other outlets Tuesday morning pegged Compass’s hoped-for market value at $10 billion. Presented by: Motto Mortgage. Realogy has more than double Compass’s market share (and endured its own $356 million loss in 2020) but traded at $15.09

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

In its announcement, Splitero said the move aims to combat rising living expenses and inventory shortages in housing markets nationwide. The company’s solutions offer alternative home equity products to homeowners who wish to keep their current mortgage rates. This move follows a mid-November 2024 expansion to Arizona.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and Liberty Reverse Mortgage , reported an overall improvement in its business performance for the first quarter of 2024 — including better reverse mortgage performance attributed to servicing and higher gains on loans held for sale. Ocwen Financial Corp.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

An historic home in Chicago ’s Austin neighborhood designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903 is in serious need of repairs and renovations, but an existing reverse mortgage loan is complicating the process of initiating the work. A couple purchased the home in 1969, but took out a $189,000 reverse mortgage on the property in 1997.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Garg explained that Better utilized its marketplace lending model that includes 32 different investors across the mortgage landscape from real estate investment trusts and insurance companies to hedge funds, major correspondent lenders and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ” How is it so fast?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions , they may bundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market. This ensures their bundle retains its credit rating and market value.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Mortgage production increased at Bank of America (BofA) in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the previous three months, but the bank’s home loan volumes were still lower than those delivered in the same period last year. billion in first mortgages from April to June, up 66.3% from the $3.4 from the $5.9 from the $3.4

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A new ATTOM report examines the present trends in underwater mortgages and homeowner equity, the underlying causes of these trends, and the states most affected. However, there is good news for mortgages that are significantly underwater. At the national level, the share of severely underwater mortgages in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

of mortgaged homes were “equity-rich,” defined as having a loan balance of less than half of the estimated market value of those homes. In addition, the number of homes with a mortgage balance of more than 25% of the property’s estimated market value — or “seriously underwater” — fell from 2.7%

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

1 Financial Accounts of the United States, i.e., the Flow of Funds, show that in the second quarter of 2022, growth of the market value of all owner-occupied real estate in the United States slowed after showed the largest year-over-year percentage gain since 2001 the prior quarter. The market value of owner-occupied real.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2021

“I started as an agent up here in 2009, and I’ve been saying since then the only thing that would slow down the market would be some sort of national or international event,” said Pullin, a managing broker at Skyline Properties. Here’s what to expect in the mortgage application process. Presented by: Citi.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2021

As we enter the second quarter of 2021, it’s time for the mortgage industry to reflect on the past 12 months and think about how to plan for the same period ahead. By October, the market value of Zoom exceeded that of Exxon-Mobile , reflecting the dichotomy of an intransigent society staying at home and working remote.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

The second big mortgage joint venture announcement this week is a meeting of the Glenns. Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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Eyes on Housing

JUNE 11, 2021

1 Financial Accounts of the United States, i.e., the “Flow of Funds”, show that, in the first quarter of 2021, the aggregate market value of all owner-occupied real estate in the United States registered the largest numerical quarterly increase in the last 20 years’ worth of data. The latest results from the Federal Reserve’s Z.1

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The demise of those banks, which had relied in part on friendly terms on jumbo mortgage loans to entice wealthier clients, had lasting effects on the mortgage landscape – as part I and part II of our jumbo series show. 1, the company had lost 45% of its market value. By the end of Feb. ” Days later on Feb.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

As of March 29, the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area was the fourth-hottest housing market in the country. The Bay Area metro had a 90-day average Market Action Index score of 61.19, according to data from Altos Research. Altos considers anything above a Market Action Index of 30 to be a seller’s market.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The retail housing market data, released by Redfin at the end of June, shows the median asking price for newly listed homes for sale in the four weeks ending June 26 dropped 1.5%

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2021

Mortgage applications increased for the second straight week , this time jumping 1.2% for the week ending May 14, 2021, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. of total mortgage applications from 61.3% The FHA share of total mortgage applications decreased to 9.2% the previous week.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

However, an off-market transaction between family members requires careful planning and transparent communication to avoid misunderstandings and ensure a seamless process. Selling your home to a family member is called a controlled transaction, while selling your home on the open market is referred to as an arm’s length transaction.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

With the acquisition , Consolidated Analytics expands its valuation solutions, offering clients tools — from data and analytics to appraisals — to predict market value and access a more comprehensive selection of collateral assessment products, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Christian Mills, head of Financial Advisor Relations at Reverse Mortgage Funding, about the ways a reverse mortgage can create a stable cash flow for homeowners in the midst of a volatile housing market. HW: Some borrowers are under the impression that reverse mortgages are a last resort.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Real estate appraising is a complex practice that requires a diverse range of skills and knowledge, from understanding current market conditions to understanding and interpreting complex legal and financial documents. However, becoming a successful real estate appraiser requires more than mere market knowledge.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

LoanDepot is poised to go public later this year, becoming “Lyft to Rocket Mortgage’s Uber,” according to a new report. The California-based mortgage lender headed by Anthony Hsieh could be worth between $12 billion and $14 billion in an IPO, according to Bloomberg ‘s sources. billion to $2.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Despite significant market volatility, nonbank lender Impac Mortgage Holdings appears to be long on non-QM. In total, Impac originated nearly $700 million in non-QM mortgages in 2021, more than double 2020’s output. The California-based company reported non-QM originations of $382.1 Total net revenue checked in at $14.9

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG securities such as bonds are backed by collateral, like mortgages, that can be defined as meeting environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, or good governance criteria. Digital mortgage platform MAXEX , backed by investment from financial-services giant JPMorgan , sees a bright future in the ESG market.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year. These are market-based decisions.” Kearney’s simple strategy for surviving as a high-volume seller in an environment where demand has dried up: listen to the market and do what it says.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

Amid a tough environment for forward mortgage lending, Finance of America is betting on specialty finance & services products – reverse mortgages, investor loans, commercial loans – which are expected to deliver most of the return this year. Margins in the mortgage business declined from 3.88% in 2020 to 2.86% in 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

The latest non-QM player to feel the pain of the interest rate volatility afflicting the nation’s housing market this year is a Pasadena, California-based real estate investment trust called Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. The REIT lists the fair value of those loans, however, at about $1.19 The dreaded discount.

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Eyes on Housing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

1 Financial Accounts of the United States, i.e., the “Flow of Funds”, show that in the second quarter of 2021 the aggregate market value of all owner-occupied real estate in the United States registered the largest quarterly increase in the last 21 years of data. The latest Federal Reserve Z.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

Likewise, Atlanta-based A ngel Oak Mortgage Inc. , a real estate investment trust focused on nonqualified mortgages, or non-QM, recently announced that it was struggling with red ink — recording a net loss of $52.1 a long-term player in the non-QM mortgage market. Redwood Trust Inc. , The Angel Oak Cos.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The MSR sales market is finishing out 2021 at a robust pace that market observers expect will continue into the new year, propelled by a rising-rate environment and anticipated tax-code changes. In early October, HousingWire reported on the details of two other bulk-servicing packages being marketed by Incenter.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 3, 2025

AssetVal , a valuation company known for delivering high-quality broker price opinions (BPOs), is now integrated with Restb.ai , an innovator in computer vision AI for the mortgage industry a move which will elevate the consistency and accuracy of AssetVals residential BPO offerings. The integration of Restb.ai

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

A homeowner is considered equity rich when they have at least 50% equity in their home, a feat more easily accomplished when skyrocketing home price appreciation widens the gap between what someone owes on their mortgage and the value of their house. The portion of mortgaged homes that were equity rich rose from 41.9%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2021

LoanDepot , backed by private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners, first announced plans to go public in September 2015 but canceled the IPO just hours before pricing, citing adverse “market conditions.” At the time, LoanDepot had sought a market value of $2.4 billion to $2.6 LoanDepot posted net income of $1.47

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

LoanDepot , backed by private equity shop Parthenon Capital Partners, first announced plans to go public in September 2015 , but canceled the IPO hours before pricing due to what the company called adverse “market conditions.” At the time, loanDepot had sought a market value of $2.4 billion to $2.6 billion in its IPO.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Rocket Mortgage has struck a deal to handle the servicing and recapturing activities for a portion of the mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) of real estate investment trust Annaly Capital Management , the companies announced on Tuesday. billion in market value as of June 30. mortgage servicer by owned portfolio in Q2 2024.

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