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| Feb 8, 2022 | Fannie Mae cues up a $1.3B reperforming loan sale | Fannie Mae this week unveiled its 24th sale of reperforming loans since its first offering in 2016. The current deal is composed of more than 8,000 mortgages with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $1.3 billion.
The sale of reperformi... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Will 2022 be a good year for real estate investors? | This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will pro... |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Citigroup taps into the red-hot reperforming loan market | Global lender Citigroup is capitalizing on a vibrant U.S. market for mortgages that have been dinged up by the pandemic.
The bank, through its residential mortgage-backed securities conduit, Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, has securitized so... |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Investors are buying more, but spending less | 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 f... |
| Mar 19, 2021 | A free-living commune in Tennessee used TikTok to attract new members, but the strategy may have backfired | From left, Amillianze Livingston, TreeisAlive, and Rel Gumson on their TikTok accounts. TikTok/amillandbritt/treeisalive/rocknrelmusic
Since January, TikTok users have seen videos about a commune in Tennessee on their For You pages.
The Gar... |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Property foreclosure website RealtyTrac prepares for growth with rehire of Rick Sharga | ATTOM Data Solutions’ RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listings and search portal, added industry veteran Rick Sharga back into its ranks earlier this month in a move that foreshadows what the company sees for its future. Sharga will oversee Realt... |
| May 5, 2017 | Should servicers still be outsourcing REO disposition? | As the foreclosure crisis continues to shrink in the rearview mirror, many in the mortgage industry are starting to breathe easier. Default rates have been dropping steadily and most forecasters expect that trend to continue. By all account... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | An alternative perspective on neighborhood stabilization | #div-oas-ad-article1, #div-oas-ad-article2, #div-oas-ad-article3 {display: none;}
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| Oct 13, 2016 | Here’s how to capitalize on the single-family rental market | [Update 1: This blog originally referred to Dennis Cisterna as a CEO, he is the CRO.]
In case you have missed the current state of the single-family rental market, it is booming. More and more investors today are taking the step in the buy ... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | Zillow: Rising home values continue to lower negative equity | Negative equity decreased in the second quarter, and underwater homes concentrated more in urban areas than in the suburbs, the Negative Equity report from Zillow shows.
In the second quarter, negative equity, the point where a homeowner ow... |
| Mar 31, 2016 | These are the best and worst markets for buying rentals | A new report put out by RealtyTrac, a source for comprehensive housing data, released its first quarter 2016 Single Family Rental Market Report, showing the best and worst markets to buy rental properties.
The 448 counties with populations ... |
| Aug 12, 2015 | Living near a Trader Joe’s is more beneficial than you think | More On: trader joe's
We’re Trader Joe’s workers and there are some items you should never buy Trader Joe’s employees play a secret, sweet game with customers Motorist, 75, strikes pedestrian and drives into UWS Trader Joe's Supermarket cha... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Buying cheaper than renting in 3 of 4 housing markets | Monthly house payment on a median-priced home is more affordable than the monthly fair market rent on a three-bedroom property in 76% of the U.S. counties included in the analysis, according to the latest report from RealtyTrac.
The report ... |
| Feb 19, 2015 | RealtyTrac: How will new 3% down mortgage products perform? | It is too soon to see the impact of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s 3% down mortgage offerings.
But as the market currently stands, the share of buyers using other low down payment loans has dropped to an 11-year low in 2014, a new rep... |
| Feb 4, 2015 | 87% of properties qualify for down payment assistance | A joint analysis by RealtyTrac and Down Payment Resource shows that 87% of homes and condos would qualify for down payment assistance.
For the report, RealtyTrac looked at 2,290 down payment programs from Down Payment Resource’s Homeownersh... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | Executive Conversation: Ray Brousseau on bringing buyers to the table | Executive Conversations is a HousingWire web series that profiles powerful people in the financial industry, highlighting the operations and the people that make this sector tick. In the latest installment, we sit down with Ray Brousseau, e... |
| Sep 13, 2014 | Foreclosures on the rise in the Northeast | More On: foreclosure
'$500M' Bel-Air mega-mansion sells for steep discount at auction NYC-area homeowners among the most vulnerable to foreclosure in the US: study Dan Bilzerian's abandoned 28,000-square-foot childhood home lists for $6M Re... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Apply Google’s 6 key trends for homebuyers | In my post last Friday, I expanded upon Peter Miller’s article titled “Would you bank with Google or Amazon?” where we looked at the stretch of a tech giant entering the mortgage space, which then led me to touch on what we could learn from... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Mortgages: Has Dodd-Frank failed? | Four years have now passed since Dodd-Frank was enacted and it's fair to ask if Wall Street Reform has been a success or failure.
The general complaints regarding Dodd-Frank can be broken down this way: The legislation is too complex and to... |
| Aug 22, 2014 | What’s Google have to do with mortgages? | As we button up Week 50 until the TILA-RESPA go-live date of Aug. 1, 2015 — the first week of starting project research and budget approval from the Lender Implementation Timeline — let’s take a break and talk about the future beyond TILA-R... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Monday Morning Cup of Coffee: BofA mortgage woes piling up | Monday Morning Cup of Coffee takes a look at news crossing HousingWire's weekend desk, with more coverage to come on bigger issues.
Zillow’s (Z) survey of 104 economists for their home price expectation report show a strong belief that home... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | These are the 20 best and 20 worst markets for being a landlord | A combination of low home prices, interest rates at near-negative levels and climbing home prices and rents means this may be a good time to become Mr. & Mrs. Roper.
After all, there are still a slew of homeowners displaced by a foreclo... |
| Jun 16, 2014 | 5 secrets to maximize profits on rental homes | Individual and small investors are a big swathe of homebuyers these days, moving in and buying up homes with cash even as the institutional investors are taking flight.
RealtyTrac reported that the percentage of all-cash buyers has soared i... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | The top 20 markets for flipping homes to hipsters | Ready your finger mustaches, your ironic t-shirts, your summer-weather scarves and your opportunity-limiting sleeve and neck tattoos – it’s time to market to hipsters.
There’s not enough Pabst Blue Ribbon in all the West to make us want to ... |
| Jan 16, 2014 | 8 ski resort towns where you can buy property for less than $400,000 | If you like to ski — but aren't filthy, stinking rich enough to buy in Snowmass Village (average median list price: $1,104,354) or in Aspen ($2,316,250) — or say you’re rich and a total cheapskate — RealtyTrac has your back.
Sort of.
The pr... |
| Jun 27, 2013 | RealtyTrac launches new renovation loan center | RealtyTrac launched its new Renovation Loan Center powered by loan specialist REbuildUSA to help buyers and homeowners take advantage of one of real estate’s best kept secrets: the Federal Housing Administration’s 203k renovation loan progr... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | First-quarter foreclosure filings plummet to six-year low | The U.S. recorded 442,117 foreclosure filings in the first quarter of 2013, a steep 23% drop from a year ago and the lowest level reached since 2007, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said in a new report.
Foreclosure filings also fell 1% fr... |
| Jan 31, 2013 | RealtyTrac: Foreclosure activity picked up in 120 metros | The majority of metropolitan areas surveyed by foreclosure data firm RealtyTrac experienced year-over-year spikes in foreclosure activity in 2012.
Of the 212 metropolitan statistical areas studied by the California-based research firm, 120 ... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | RealtyTrac reports foreclosure declines in two-thirds of metro areas | RealtyTrac, the online marketplace for foreclosures, reports a yearly decrease in 131 out of the nation’s 212 metropolitan areas.
“Two-thirds of the nation’s largest metros posted decreases in foreclosure activity in the third quarter, indi... |
| Apr 16, 2012 | HGTV’s newest ‘green home’ doesn’t live up to its name | HGTV recently announced its next “Green Home Giveaway.” One lucky winner will get a 2,300-square-foot furnished apartment outside of Atlanta, along with a 2012 GMC Terrain and $100,000.
Sounds great, until you look at how “green” this actua... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | The unique foreclosure needs of Michigan | Mary Townley, the director of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, holds a pretty difficult job. But it seems she’s pretty good at it.
Michigan is one of the states participating in the “Hardest Hit Program,” which provides $7.... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | RealtyTrac: Foreclosure filings fall to 4Q 2007 level | Foreclosure filings dropped to their lowest level in more than four years for the quarter ended March 31, according to RealtyTrac.
The measure — which includes default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and real estate owned properties... |
| May 27, 2011 | Foreclosed Homes Continue to Weigh on Housing Market | Sales of bank-owned homes and those in some point of the foreclosure process accounted for 28 percent of all residential sales according to the Q1 2011 U.S. Foreclosure Sales Report from RealtyTrac.
The percentage is just a slight increase ... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | New RealtyTrac feature lists property equity | RealtyTrac unveiled a new feature on its website Tuesday that enables users going through the home listings to see how much equity each property has. The new feature also tells users if a home has negative equity based on its estimated mark... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Foreclosure Activity at 36 Month Low | According to data from RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings, which includes default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions, declined 14 percent from January and 27 percent from the previous February. With 225,101 properties receiving... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Rhode Island City Set to Roll Out Foreclosure Mediation, Servicer Fines | It’s becoming the latest trend among local municipalities looking to stanch a growing number of foreclosed properties — foreclosure mediation, where a lender/servicer can’t foreclose until the local government says so. Under a new ordinance... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | Foreclosure Activity Rises 25 Percent in October | The effect of new legislation in California may have slowed, but didn’t altogether stop, a growing number of troubled borrowers nationally from defaulting on their mortgages or losing their homes to foreclosure during October. Foreclosure f... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Foreclosures Stalled by Local Legislation in September | Foreclosure filings rose 71 percent during the third quarter, although changes in many state laws regarding the foreclosure process served to temporarily decrease foreclosure activity during September. Default notices, auction sale notices ... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Foreclosures Shown On Scary, Encroaching Heat Maps | If you want to see in stark colors exactly how the mortgage credit crisis is spreading across the country, go to real estate search site HotPads and look at the foreclosure heat maps in your area. These are map mashups that take foreclosure... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | And The Nation’s Highest Foreclosure Rate in 2007 Goes To … | click to see top 50 MSAs
For all of the attention California and Florida have been getting during the recent housing bust — and rightfully so — the nation’s highest foreclosure rate isn’t in either former housing hotspot. It’s in none other... |
| Nov 30, 2007 | Foreclosure Activity Up 94 Percent Versus Year Ago: RealtyTrac | Foreclosure activity nationwide kept increasing during October, rising 2 percent from September to push foreclosures to levels nearly double one year earlier. According to a monthly report released yesterday by foreclosure data provider Rea... |
| Nov 26, 2007 | The Mess that Boyko Made: Pot, Meet Kettle | There has been quite a brouhaha made in the media out of a recent ruling by a federal judge in Ohio — on October 31, Judge Christopher A. Boyko of Federal District Court in Cleveland dismissed 14 foreclosure cases involving Deutsche Bank as... |
| May 7, 2007 | Is the Worst Behind Us? Depends on How You Read Numbers | Foreclosures.com, not to be confused with higher-profile competitor Foreclosure.com, released a report today that said that foreclosure and REO volume nationwide fell off a cliff in April — certainly a good sign that the worst of the housin... |
| Apr 18, 2007 | Foreclosure Filings Rise 47 Percent Nationally | A total of 149,150 foreclosuring filings — including notices of default, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — were reported during the month of March, according to new data released Wedensday by real estate marketplace RealtyTrac. ... |
| Apr 4, 2007 | Yahoo! Real Estate and RealtyTrac Team Up to Launch New Foreclosure Resource Center | RealtyTrac announced Wednesday that it has partnered to power a newly-redesigned Yahoo! Real Estate Foreclosure Center (see http://realestate.yahoo.com/Foreclosures). The new center integrates three key functions: the ability to search for ... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | RealtyTrac to Offer Auction Listings; Partners with Williams & Williams | RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties, said Tuesday it had partnered with Williams & Williams, one of the nation’s largest auctioneers of U.S. foreclosed real estate, to host a national database of bank-owned prop... |
