Alliant Capital’s 2021 Outlook Reveals Key Insights for Affordable Housing Industry

Alliant Capital, a leading firm focused on tax credit syndication for the development and financing of affordable multifamily rental housing, has released their inaugural Annual Outlook. The report reveals findings about 2020 and insights for 2021 by the firm’s senior leaders – professionals across multiple lines of the affordable housing industry with an average of 25 years’ experience. The outlook brings together data from multiple U.S. Census bureaus and Alliant

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U.S. HOME SELLER PROFITS SOAR IN 2020 AS PRICES SET NEW RECORDS IN SPITE OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Profits on Home Sales Increase in Nine of Every 10 Housing Markets in 2020; National Median Home Price Up 13 Percent From Last Year to $266,250; Homeowners Now Staying In Their Homes More Than Eight Years Before Selling ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its Year-End 2020 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that home sellers nationwide in 2020 realized a home-price gain of $68,843

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VP of Largest Black-Owned Mortgage Lender, Legacy Home Loans, Receives Industry-Wide Recognition

At a time when some real estate finance leaders have questioned the existence of Black talent within the industry, LEGACY Home Loans is starting the year off strong, celebrating the various wins of its Vice President of Operations, Jammie Jelks, who has been accepted into Forbes’ Real Estate Council—an invitation-only community for executives in real estate. Along with this great distinction, Jammie Jelks has also been named a “Visionary” by the National Association of Minority

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Toorak Capital Dedicates $500 million to Acquire Long-Term Rental Investor Loans

Toorak Capital Partners (Toorak), the largest capital provider to the residential bridge real estate lending industry, has announced a major capital commitment to its unique Long-Term Rental Investor Loan program. Toorak will dedicate up to $500 million over the next year to purchase these loans in response to continued strength in the residential rental market and growing demand from investors utilizing ‘fix to rent’ strategies. “Single-family rentals have been one

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Realtor.com® Selects Qualia to Deliver Simplified Digital Home Closings

Realtor.com® and Qualia today announced a new relationship that will give agents and their clients a unique ability to collaborate online in real time with their title provider of choice as part of a fully integrated digital closing experience.  The experience will first launch next month as a pilot test in seven states across the country, followed by a nationwide launch later this year. The seven states are Florida, Maryland, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. “Realtor.com® believes

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Black Knight’s First Look: 2020 Ends With 1.7 Million More Seriously Delinquent Homeowners Than at Start of Year; Foreclosures at Record Low

Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE: BKI) reports the following “first look” at December 2020 month-end mortgage performance statistics derived from its loan-level database representing the majority of the national mortgage market. Total U.S. loan delinquency rate (loans 30 or more days past due, but not in foreclosure): 6.08%Month-over-month change: -3.90%Year-over-year change: 78.93% Total U.S. foreclosure pre-sale inventory rate: 0.33%Month-over-month change: 1.30%Year-over-year change: -27.77% Total U.S. foreclosure starts: 7,100Month-over-month change: 61.36%Year-over-year change: -82.03% Monthly prepayment

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