Real estate investments

While overall investor purchase activity is returning to pre-pandemic norms, interest in condo units dropped to a 10-year low, as insurance and fees surged.

The underlying prime mortgages have an average balance of $358,024, a weighted average (WA) original FICO score of 776, an original cumulative loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of 73.6%.

Buyers face decreased return on investment as home prices and rates remained at challenging levels while economic uncertainty clouded the outlook, Redfin said.

Newfi initially established its partnership with residential transition loan provider Dunmor in June 2024 to help it open up funding capacity and establish its presence in the lending segment.

Activity from smaller mom-and-pop investors dominates the segment, but their impact on overall housing prices might be overstated, Corelogic's research found.

Gross profit returns fell in a range that could easily be erased on renovation, mortgage and tax charges, Attom said.

Investors bought 15.9% of U.S. homes sold in Q3, according to Redfin, a level similar to 2018 and 2019, when the share was around 14%.

Mortgage professionals are focusing on housing policies and the Federal Reserve this November.

Most of the investment community overall showed more favorable sentiment toward one presidential candidate than the other, but a subset of it begs to differ.

Their second quarter pace trailed pandemic highs but still accounted for one of every six homes sold nationwide.