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'...
Year: 2021
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...
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...
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...
OWNING A HOME MORE AFFORDABLE THAN RENTING IN NEARLY TWO THIRDS OF U.S. HOUSING MARKETS
ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its 2021 Rental Affordability Report, which shows that owning a median-priced three-bedroom home is more affordable than renting a three-bedroom property in 572, or 63 percent of the 915 U.S. counties analyzed for...

Investor Profile
Vince and Noelle Mora ACHIEVING WORK-LIFE BALANCE Achieving a “work-life” balance is a basic human need and desire that everybody strives for, but few ever achieve. For Vince and Noelle Mora, that is the very reason they started VinLex Ventures LLC, an independently owned and operated HomeVestors®...

A True Team Player
Home Depot’s Frank Blake Will Never Stop Building by Carole VanSickle Ellis Frank Blake will be the first to tell you he’s extremely grateful for his team. In fact, that is the mantra you will hear over and over in conversation if you speak with him for any length of time. “You are only as good as...

November Foreclosure Filings Dip from October
Foreclosure Moratorium Extended to 2021 ATTOM Data Solutions, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (realtytrac.com), a foreclosure listings portal, released its November 2020 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of...

Connect the Dots to More Seller Leads
Utilizing Technology and Data to Optimize Marketing Performance by Robert Rakowski Lead generation and financing are likely the two most challenging aspects of real estate investing. HomeVestors®, the We Buy Ugly Houses® people, is America’s #1 Homebuyer and generates more motivated seller leads...