February 2023 – REI INK

The Benefits of Relying on Real Estate to Fuel Your Retirement

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One of the biggest misunderstood strategies for investing is investing with a Self-Directed IRA. In the United States, taxes are one of the biggest things business owners and entrepreneurs try to avoid at all cost. So how can you be smart, and invest legally but avoid taxes? On the episode we bring on John Bowens from Equity Trust Company to give us the breakdown of what Self-Directed IRA’s are and how powerful they can be to an investor. We also go over Traditional IRA’s, Roth IRA’s, Solo 401k’s and other types of investing accounts.

Breaking Down Lease Options and Creative Finance

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John Jackson is considered the nation’s premier authority on real estate lease options, and is often referred to as the “King of Lease Options.” Other nationally recognized real estate educators refer their students to John to learn his lease option systems. John started his lease option company, Leasing To Buy®, in 2003, and has since done over 600 lease option transactions, with his students having done hundreds of lease option transactions as well. John is also the ONLY educator that teaches Texas Lease Options. Real estate attorneys refer to John for education and training on the subject. Connect with John Jackson https://leaseoptionclasses.com/

The Startling Future of Generational Wealth and Rent Cycles

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Lacey Brutschy is one of the most influential real estate investors on social media today. She is a real estate development and residential sales expert based in the DFW area, and she is on the show today to help us better understand what’s happening in today’s market. Listen now to learn more about Lacey, the DFW market, and what we should be expecting based on what’s currently happening in the real estate world! Quotables “The goal that I think people should be thinking of is no longer whether or not the time is to get into the market because the time to get into the market is 3 days ago, it’s today, it’s tomorrow – because that’s the only way you’re going to build generational wealth.” “You just really have to know what you’re looking for, as far as places that we’ll see equity growth, which is really based off of location and whether or not the development has they’re own school system.” “Your goal is really to purchase a house that has as many bedrooms and bathrooms as you can afford, then you house-hack that with your friends.” “The opportunity is again, not in long-term rentals. It’s in mid-term, it’s in short-term, if done correctly.” Links Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/ Instagram: Lacey Brutschy https://www.instagram.com/lacey.compass/ Email: Lacey Brutschy lacey.brutschy@compass.com

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Black Knight, Inc. reports the following “first look” at January 2023 month-end mortgage performance statistics derived from its newly enhanced and greatly expanded McDash loan-level data set representing more than 60% of active mortgages nationwide. Loan-level detail on more than 200M active and historical mortgages has already made McDash the industry’s leading repository of servicer-contributed performance data. The vast population of active mortgages in the data set, now coupled with Black Knight’s eMBS agency securities data, also allow for more precise market sizing to better reflect the evolving mortgage landscape of the past several years – and of that to come. “McDash was already the mortgage and capital markets sectors’ go-to source for loan-level performance metrics on the majority of the market, contributed directly by the nation’s largest servicers,” said Ben Graboske, president of Black Knight Data & Analytics. “Mortgage data in McDash comes from a wide range of servicers, including both Black Knight MSP servicing clients as well as those using other servicing systems of record. Now at over 80 active contributors and counting, we’ve also significantly increased our coverage of nonbank servicers as well as those with smaller portfolios. Prior to this, visibility into these portfolios – representing millions of loans and a dynamic cross-section of the market – simply hasn’t been available at this level of granularity in public performance metrics.” Delinquencies were down across the board in January, with the overall national delinquency rate declining 10 basis points to 3.38% month over month, down 15.1% year over year. The number of borrowers 30-days late decreased by 46K (-4.8%), while 60-day delinquencies also ticked down slightly. Serious delinquencies (90+ days past due) continued to improve nationally (-4K), with such inventories declining in a large majority (44) of states. Florida – still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian – saw another 1.7K loans fall into serious delinquency. Foreclosure starts rose 17% in the month to 33K, marking the fourth consecutive increase, but remain 37% below pre-pandemic levels. Foreclosure was started on 5.6% of serious delinquencies in January, still 48% below the start rate seen in January 2020. Active foreclosure inventory rose by 2.5% in the month, and is now up 48K or 20% since January 2022, but remains nearly 20% below pre-pandemic levels. A total of 7K foreclosures were completed nationally in January, up 15.2% from the month prior, but remain nearly 50% below early 2020 levels. Graboske added: “Given the fundamental changes we’ve seen in the market’s makeup – even before the pandemic – and as the industry and wider economy move ahead into an uncertain future, this additional visibility couldn’t come at a more important time. Our role as a public provider of objective and unvarnished housing and mortgage market data and analysis is something we take very seriously. We’ve been through enough boom-and-bust cycles in the mortgage industry to understand just how critical this role is – to our industry, as well to the public, the media and the wider American economy.” For this month’s full First Look press release, including tables and trendlines, please visit us here. The company will provide a more in-depth review of this data in its monthly Mortgage Monitor report, which includes an analysis of data supplemented by detailed charts and graphs that reflect trend and point-in-time observations. The Mortgage Monitor report will be available online at https://www.blackknightinc.com/data-reports/ by March 6, 2023. For more information about gaining access to Black Knight’s loan-level database, please send an email to Mortgage.Monitor@bkfs.com.

Radian Appoints Sumita Pandit as Chief Growth Officer

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Radian Group Inc. announced that Sumita Pandit has been appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer effective March 6, 2023. Reporting to Radian’s Chief Executive Officer Rick Thornberry, she will join the company’s executive leadership team and lead activities associated with developing and implementing the company’s long-term strategic growth plans. “I am delighted to have Sumita join our team and I look forward to working with her to develop and execute our comprehensive long-term growth strategy. She is a talented executive with a successful track record of helping transformative digital companies achieve their growth plans. Given her broad experience, Sumita is an excellent addition to complement our outstanding team as we continue to focus on accelerating our strategic vision for Radian in a rapidly changing marketplace,” said Thornberry. “In this position, Sumita will be focused on leveraging Radian’s strong capital position and strategic financial flexibility to identify, develop and execute on opportunities to achieve our long-term strategic goals.” “I am excited to join Radian and look forward to partnering with Rick and the rest of the leadership team to drive the company into its next phase of growth,” Pandit said. “Radian is a leader in the mortgage and real estate markets, and its focus on digital transformation puts it squarely in the vanguard of what’s next in those sectors. With strong customer relationships, proprietary data and analytics platforms, and innovative digital products and services, combined with a talented team and capital resources, I believe Radian is uniquely positioned to lead the mortgage and real estate markets into the future and I am excited to be a member of the team.” Pandit joins Radian after serving as the Chief Operating Officer of global digital payment company, dLocal, since 2021. Previously, Pandit was a Managing Director and Global Head of Fintech Investment Banking for J.P. Morgan. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Pandit worked at Goldman Sachs. During her investment banking career, she advised some of the world’s most transformational companies across industry verticals including fintech, proptech, insurtech, financial software and neo-banks. In 2021, she was named to the Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology list by The Financial Technology Report. She serves on the board of Pushpay, a public company that offers donor engagement software to non-profits. Pandit earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Palmer Scholar, and earned her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, India. Media:Rashi Iyer – Phone 215.231.1167email: rashi.iyer@radian.com

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Pending home sales improved slightly, but an ongoing affordability crisis and lack of homes for sale kept many house hunters on the sidelines Pending home sales rose 0.5% from a month earlier in January on a seasonally-adjusted basis, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That compares with December’s revised month-over-month increase of 1.4%, which was the first gain in 14 months. Pending sales fell from a year earlier, but the decline eased for the second month in a row—to 29.4% in January from 32.5% in December and a record 35.5% drop in November. Redfin’s records date back to 2012. “A dip in mortgage rates brought some buyers off the bench in January, but the housing-market recovery was tempered by still-high housing costs and a limited number of homes being listed for sale,” said Redfin Deputy Chief Economist Taylor Marr. “There were fewer new listings in January than at any point on record, with the exception of the start of the pandemic. That hampered demand because it meant that many of the buyers who were still in the market had a tough time finding a home that met their needs. The shortage of homes for sale also buoyed home prices.” Marr continued: “The housing market took two steps forward in December and January but has taken one step back in February. Mortgage rates crept back up this month, which is prompting more buyers and sellers to back off.” Home-purchase applications dropped to the lowest level since 1995 last week as mortgage rates jumped on expectations that the Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates again to combat inflation. The average 30-year-fixed mortgage rate is now 6.5%, up from an average of 6.27% in January and 3.89% a year ago. That has caused the typical homebuyer’s monthly payment to rise more than $500 year over year. Closed home sales fell 1.4% from a month earlier in January and slumped a record 36.6% from a year earlier. In Redfin’s December market report, the company noted that the year-over-year decline in closed sales had eased slightly, but that didn’t continue into the new year. The large drop in closed sales is partly due to the fact that many of the home purchases that closed in January went under contract in the fall, when mortgage rates hit a 20-year high. New Listings Hit Second-Lowest Level on Record as Sellers Held on to Low Rates New listings fell 1.6% from a month earlier in January and dropped 19.9% from a year earlier. While that’s an improvement from the 25.3% year-over-year decline in December—the largest drop on record aside from the pandemic start—listings remained scarce. There were fewer new listings in January than any other month on record aside from April 2020, when the onset of the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt. Many homeowners are reluctant to sell because they don’t want to give up their relatively low mortgage rates. About 85% of mortgage holders have a rate far below today’s level of roughly 6%. Homeowners are also hesitant to put their homes on the market due to soft homebuyer demand that’s forcing sellers to cut prices. The median sale price of U.S. homes was $383,249 in January, down 1.4% from December and 11.5% below the May all-time high. Still, prices were up 1.5% from a year earlier, in part because low supply kept prices afloat. Almost one in every five home listings (17.7%) had a price drop last month. While that’s down from the record high of 22.2% in October, it’s up from 7% in January 2022—the largest year-over-year increase on record. Just 21.2% of homes sold above their final list price, the lowest level in two years. “Nice homes that are priced fairly are selling, but homes that are overpriced or poorly maintained are lingering on the market,” said Shay Stein, a Redfin real estate agent in the Las Vegas area. “A lot of sellers who don’t get the price they had hoped for are taking their homes off the market. Many of them have a rock-bottom mortgage rate and figure they can wait to sell.” The typical home that sold was on the market for 51 days—the highest level since February 2020. That’s up from 27 days in January 2022. Homes are taking longer to sell in part because homebuyer competition has dwindled. Roughly two of every five home offers (42.1%) written by Redfin agents faced a bidding war in January, the lowest level since April 2020. That’s down from 43.1% a month earlier and 68% a year earlier. Pandemic boomtowns including Austin and Tampa saw among the largest declines in competition, as many homebuyers have been priced out. With many homes now lingering on the market, overall housing supply has ticked up. While active listings fell 1.2% from a month earlier in January, they were up 14.5% from a year earlier—just shy of the 15% record year-over-year gain in December. Active listings hit a record low in January 2022, which is one reason the year-over-year increase is so dramatic. Metro-Level Highlights To view the full report, including charts, additional metro-level data on competition and home-purchase cancellations, as well as methodology, please visit: https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-tracker-january-2023.