Month: February 2025

Mortgage Lending to Real Estate Investing

Mortgage Lending to Real Estate Investing

Focus on Honesty and Customer Service Dean Bendall/Bendall Properties, LLC is an independently owned and operated franchise business owner with HomeVestors® of America, Inc. (HVA) in the Metro Atlanta market. He started his franchise, Bendall Properties, in 2019, but earnestly began working the...

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Secure Your Investments

Secure Your Investments

4 Strategies to Help Mitigate Title Issues by Radian Title Services Don’t let title problems slow you down. While title challenges may hold some people back from reaching their investment goals, you do not have to be one of them. Mastering the art of resolving title issues may be your key to...

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Hedging Loan Commitments with Eris SOFR

Hedging Loan Commitments with Eris SOFR

Capital Market Innovations Make Swaps Available to Anyone by Geoffrey Sharp As lenders experienced in Q3-Q4 of 2024, locking rates on loan commitments results in the assumption of interest rate risk that can adversely impact the final profitability of those loans: If interest rates rise after a...

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Understanding Residential Transition Lending

Understanding Residential Transition Lending

A Double-Edged Sword by Radian Real Estate Management Residential Transition Loans (RTLs), also known as fix-and-flip mortgage loans, are short-term bridge, construction or renovation loans designed to help real estate investors looking to purchase and renovate properties.  The primary...

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Home Prices Are Rising in Every Major Metro…

Home Prices Are Rising in Every Major Metro…

… for the First Time Since 2022 by Lily Katz, Redfin Home prices rose from a year earlier in all 50 of the most populous U.S. metropolitan areas in December — the first time that has occurred since May 2022, when the pandemic homebuying frenzy caused prices to skyrocket. By comparison, home prices...

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Home Selling Profits Slide Again in 2024

Home Selling Profits Slide Again in 2024

National Median Home Price Climbs to $350,000 by ATTOM Staff ATTOM released its Year-End 2024 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that home sellers made a $122,500 profit on typical sales nationwide in 2024, generating a 53.8% return on investment. But even as both measures remained near record...

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Key Insights into the Single-Family Rental Industry

Key Insights into the Single-Family Rental Industry

Consumer Price Index, Government Affairs, Labor Market Update by David Howard The National Rental Home Council (NRHC) serves as the trade association for the single-family rental (SFR) home industry. NRHC members include owner-operators, builders, vendors, and service providers of single-family...

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