Fannie Mae Announces Sale of Non-Performing Loans

NPL 2021-1 Includes the Company’s Seventeenth Community Impact Pool Offering Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) announced its latest sale of non-performing loans as part of the company’s ongoing effort to reduce the size of its retained mortgage portfolio, including the company’s seventeenth Community Impact Pool (CIP). CIPs are typically smaller pools of loans that are geographically focused and marketed to encourage participation by non-profit organizations, minority- and women-owned businesses (MWOBs), and

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Home Equity Continues Growing in U.S. During First Quarter of 2021 as Market Remains Resistant to Pandemic

Equity-Rich Properties Outnumber Seriously Underwater Homes by Seven-to-One Ratio; Portion of U.S. Homes Considered Equity-Rich Up To 32 Percent; Seriously Underwater Properties Below 5 Percent ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its first-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that 17.8 million residential properties in the United States were considered equity-rich, meaning that the combined estimated amount of loans secured by those properties was

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U.S. Foreclosure Activity Declines As Government Moratorium Passes One-Year Mark

Foreclosure Starts and Completed Foreclosures Decrease 1 Percent from Last Month, 17 Percent Compared to April 2020 ATTOM Data Solutions, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (www.realtytrac.com), a foreclosure listings portal, released its April 2021 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 11,810 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — down 1 percent from a month

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RCN Capital Surpasses 10,000 Loans Funded

Origination Milestone Confirms Company’s Strength in the Private Lending Industry RCN Capital, a leading nationwide private lender specializing in providing financing for real estate investors, announced that it has funded over 10,000 loans since its inception in 2010, affirming the company as an influential lender in the space. This is the second funding milestone RCN Capital has reached in 2021. RCN, which offers financing for short-term fix & flip projects,

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Redwood Trust Announces Expansion Of Leadership Team

Brooke Carillo To Join As Chief Financial Officer Redwood Trust, Inc.(NYSE: RWT), a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, announced that Brooke Carillo will join Redwood to serve as its next Chief Financial Officer.  Ms. Carillo is expected to start at Redwood in May 2021 and will report to Redwood’s Chief Executive Officer, Chris Abate.  Mr. Abate stated, “We are very pleased to welcome Brooke to Redwood. She brings to us

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Court Strikes Down Eviction Ban

U.S. District Court Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the District of Columbia struck down a nationwide eviction moratorium Wednesday, calling it unlawful. Friedrich’s ruling applies nationwide. The eviction ban was put in place last year by the Trump administration using public health powers granted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during health emergencies. The ban was most recently extended by President Biden through the end of June. In her

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