Markerr Announces the Launch of RealRent Comps for Multifamily and Single Family Rental Properties

Largest source of publicly aggregated, real-time rental comps covers 28m units and includes floor plan granularity, amenities and concessions  Markerr, a leader in data and AI for real estate, announces the launch of RealRent Comps, a new product delivering unique insight into rental markets for investors, owners, operators and property managers. Integrated within Markerr Data Studio, RealRent Comps provides unprecedented coverage, timeliness and granularity to comps analysis, setting new standards

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CoreLogic: US Homeowners See Equity Increase to Nearly All-Time High in Q1

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released the Homeowner Equity Report (HER) for the first quarter of 2024. The report shows that U.S. homeowners with mortgages (which account for roughly 62% of all properties) saw home equity increase by 9.6% year over year, representing a collective gain of $1.5 trillion and an average increase of $28,000 per borrower since the first quarter of 2023. This brought total

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U.S. HOME-MORTGAGE LENDING DECLINES AGAIN IN FIRST QUARTER, NEARING LOW POINT

Residential Loans Down Another 7 Percent, to Smallest Level Since 2000;  Total Lending Activity Off Almost 70 Percent in Three Years;  Purchase, Refinance and Home-Equity Lending All Decrease ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released its first-quarter 2024 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 1.28 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were issued in the United States during the first quarter,

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Homebuying Sentiment Hits New Survey Low

Citing Unaffordability, 86% of Consumers Say It’s a Bad Time to Buy a Home The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) decreased 2.5 points in May to 69.4 as the component measuring consumer attitudes toward homebuying conditions fell markedly, reaching an all-time survey low. This month, only 14% of consumers indicated that it’s a good time to buy a home, down from 20% last month, while the share believing it’s a

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the Merger of Mynd and Roofstock

The merger gives real estate investors access to a robust technology platform Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) announced the merger of Mynd, the company transforming how investors find, finance, lease, manage, and sell SFR properties, with Roofstock, a leading real estate services and investment platform specializing in the single-family rental (SFR) sector. BGL’s Real Estate & Property Technology investment banking team served as the exclusive financial advisor to Mynd in the

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Supreme Court Asks the Second Circuit to Reanalyze Whether the National Bank Act Preempts State Law Requiring Interest on Mortgage Escrow Accounts

 By T. Robert Finlay, Esq. and Kathy Shakibi, Esq. of Wright, Finlay & Zak, LLP INTRODUCTION On May 30, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) issued its opinion on a matter of far-reaching consequence – whether the National Bank Act preempts a New York State consumer financial law requiring payment of interest on mortgage escrow accounts. Cantero v. Bank of Am., N.A., 2024 U.S. LEXIS 2367. The

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