MOST DISTRESSED PROPERTY BUYERS ARE LOCAL INVESTORS REHABBING AND RESELLING TO OWNER-OCCUPANTS

87 percent purchased five or fewer investment homes in 2020 78 percent purchase most investment properties within driving distance 62 percent rent occupied properties back to current occupants Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, released its 2021 Buyer Insights Report, which shows that more than three out of every four distressed property buyers are local investors and nearly nine in 10 buyers purchased five or fewer investment properties

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Top 5 Best Days To Sell A Home Occur In May According To New ATTOM Analysis

Home sales over last ten years prove spring and summer months offer best premiums; Home sellers on average realize 8.8 percent premium above market value ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its annual analysis of the best days of the year to sell a home, which shows that the months of May and June offer the greatest home seller premiums – with ten of the best days

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Black Knight: Inflow of New Mortgage Delinquencies Drops to Record Low in March; April Payment Data Suggests Further Improvement Likely

– 217,000 homeowners became past due on their mortgages in March, the lowest such delinquency inflow of any month on record – At the same time, cures spiked in the month as a variety of calendar and economy-driven factors resulted in the second largest delinquency rate decline ever recorded – The number of loans 30 days past due fell 34% from February and 50% from the same time last year

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LendingHome Loans $219 Million in March, Surpassing Previous Monthly Record

Rising number of real estate investors turn to San Francisco lender for financing needs LendingHome, one of the nation’s largest lenders to real estate investors, announced the company in March surpassed $200 million in funding volume for the first time — eclipsing the previous monthly record. LendingHome funded loans equaling $219 million, including one for $9.3 million with high-profile Pintar Investment Company to refinance a 56-unit rental home community in Florida. March’s total volume

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A Record 1 In 4 Single-Family Homes for Sale In the First Quarter Were New Construction

New construction is taking up a bigger piece of the pie as low mortgage rates and surging homebuyer demand make homebuilding more attractive during the coronavirus pandemic More than a quarter (25.7%) of single-family homes for sale in America during the first quarter were new-construction homes, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. That is up from 20.4% a year earlier and represents the highest share

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Computer Vision Is Changing Residential Property Management

Lanthorn.ai and Uptimo are partnering up to streamline residential property management Lanthorn.ai, a Video Analytics Company, and Uptimo, a Real Estate Management Company, announced a collaboration agreement to bring AI solutions into property management. Property management is an essential service facilitating the balance in the rental housing market. The goal of this collaboration is to increase operating income, by reducing costs, and by increasing tenant’s satisfaction through enhanced experiences. This

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