Seventy-Five Percent of Consumers Believe It's a Good Time to Sell The Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) decreased 3.9 points to 75.8 in July, as consumers continue to report concerns related to high home prices and a lack of homes for sale. While all...
Year: 2021
New Report From HouseCanary Shows Affordable Properties Remain Out of Reach Due to Tight Supply, Steep Prices
Lack of Housing Inventory Persists – And Number of Affordable Homes Listed Below $200K Continues to Fall Nationwide Supply Shortage Continues to Drive Prices Higher, With Median Closed Price of Single-Family Listings Up 21.3% Year-Over-Year In July, 7.3% Fewer Listings Went Under Contract Compared...

Hard Money Lender Accelerates Past Major Milestone in Lending
Ignite Funding, a hard money lender, crossed the $1 billion dollar mark in funding residential and commercial real estate loans. It was just last year that Ignite Funding announced the milestone of $750 million funded, which puts this new achievement under their belt...
HOMEOWNER EQUITY SURGES ACROSS U.S. DURING Q2
Eight Times More Properties are Equity-Rich Across U.S. Than Seriously Underwater Portion of U.S. Homes Considered Equity-Rich Up to 34 Percent Seriously Underwater Properties Down to 4 percent ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its second-quarter 2021 U.S. Home...
ASA Disappointed with Continued Exclusion of Appraisal Profession from Ongoing Federal Agency Efforts on Valuation Bias
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) held a virtual event looking at bias issues surrounding the home valuation process. Notably, this event was held without any participants from the appraisal profession at the table. This marks the second event of its kind that has excluded...

Cooks With Class!
REI INK at IMN East At the IMN Single Family Rental Forum (East), REI INK and RCN Capital hosted a Latin interactive cooking event at the Real Food Academy. The event was sponsored by Invigorate Finance. About 40 industry executives, clients and friends came together to hone their cooking skills...

U.S. Home Sale Profits Remain High
…But Take Unusual Fall In Second Quarter ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its second-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that profit margins for home sellers took an unusualdip in the second quarter but still were far above where were they were a year...

3D Tours Utilized on Zillow Rentals
Increase SFR Property Leads by 40% … Decrease Dayson the Market by 30% By Kori Covrigaru Most house hunters start their property searches online today and digital tools such as a 3D virtual tour make viewing a rental home remotely even faster and easier. Whether from a smartphone or laptop, 3D...

Investor Profile
**Publisher Note** Scott Sekulow passed away on Thursday, August 12, 2021, just one month after granting this interview. Scott had been hospitalized several days with COVID. John Holman, his Development Agent, said, “Scott was one of the really good guys. He was a leader in the council, always...