Market Watch

Embrace Home Loans announced that Barry Filderman, Masoud Hosseini and Bill Bray have joined its Rockville, Md., branch as senior loan officers. Branch Manager Elliott Bresler recruited the three mortgage veterans and plans to add more staff to continue building business in the eastern U.S. Embrace Home Loans originates loans in all 50 states.

Is the glass half-empty or half-full?

CapWealth founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Tim Pagliara, also a ForbesBooks author, answers that question and others in his article “Cooling or Collapsing? Key Factors to Consider About the Housing Market.”

Read on to learn more.

The RealtyTrac Investor Purchase Report – Fall 2021 analyzes home sales data from ATTOM Data Solutions to determine the share of real estate investor purchases among all home sales, the median price for investor home sales compared with consumer home sales, and the share of cash sales among investor purchases.

Realty Trac Executive Vice President Rick Sharga reached out to Valuation Review to share this data, which is analyzed quarterly at both the national and state levels.

Read on to learn more numbers.

ForbesBooks author Tim Pagliara recently addressed the issue of the government needing to fill gaps for minorities and the middle class to access mortgages.

We expanded our discussion with Pagliara, founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of CapWealth, to the current market trends that need to be watched.

Read on to learn more.

The personal-finance website WalletHub, in recognizing the number of lives lost during COVID-19, released its report “2021’s Safest States in America” comparing the states across 55 key metrics.

CoreLogic recently announced the completion of its acquisition of all outstanding shares of ClosingCorp.

The acquisition expands the suite of digital solutions to enhance the homebuying experience for millions of homebuyers and sellers. 

Read on for more details.

In a consumer research survey conducted by Freddie Mac, it was found the homeownership goals of single female heads of households (SFHOHs) were disrupted by the pandemic. Many have had their work situation altered, and of those who dropped out of the workforce, 75 percent have yet to return.

The National Association of Realtors Fair Housing Policy & Valuation Director Sehar Siddiqi spoke virtually on a webinar sponsored by Metro-West Appraisal.

The program dealt with some of the biggest factors affecting the real estate industry’s supply chain shortages resulting in the increase of materials adding thousands to the overall costs of new homes.

Valuation Review reached out to Siddiqi for insight on this topic, and others.

The CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights (LPI) Report for July showed that nationally, 4.2 percent of mortgages were delinquent by at least 30 days or more including those in foreclosure.

This represents a 2.3-percentage point decrease in the overall delinquency rate compared with July 2020.

Read on to learn more.

Asking prices of homes increased to an all-time high of 12 percent, according to a Redfin report. However, pending sales were up just 4 percent, the smallest year-over-year increase since June 2020.