San Francisco-based private lender Kiavi announced on Thursday that it has secured $300 million in capital after another securitization of its residential transition loans (RTLs). As the 21st transaction made under the company’s LHOME Mortgage Trust, Kiavi’s total volume of notes offered sits at $5.8 billion since 2019. Kiavi reported that the offered notes were…
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Nationwide housing inventory showed a glimmer of recovery toward the end of 2024. But these new listings aren’t attracting buyers, and pending home sales dropped 4.2% month over month in January. That finding comes from two Redfin reports released on Thursday. Each tell similar stories, albeit from different perspectives. According to the first report, the…
A new analysis from CoreLogic on the Trump administration‘s recently announced tariffs and their potential impact on housing suggests that tariffs could push home construction costs up by 4% to 6% over the next 12 months as material costs adjust to the new landscape. In turn, CoreLogic said that homebuilders could face up to a…
Jonathan McKernan’s nomination to be the next permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) didn’t come out of left field, but it still surprised many housing finance insiders given all that’s happened at the consumer watchdog over the last two weeks. McKernan’s nomination came on the heels of Elon Musk‘s baby-faced DOGE lieutenants…