Monthly Archives: June 2022

Roostify partners with Indecomm to court self-employed borrowers

Jun 28, 2022 |

Mortgage technology provider Roostify is hoping to bring in more self-employed borrowers by adding mortgage automation provider Indecomm‘s automated income calculation technology, it announced Tuesday. Indecomm’s IncomeGenius integration into Roostify’s data intelligence solutions will expand Roostify’s existing income calculation capabilities for self-employed borrowers, according to a company statement. The partnership is aimed at reducing the […more]

U.S. home-price growth decelerates for first time since 2021

Jun 28, 2022 |

Home-price growth in the U.S. started to slow in April. A national measure of prices climbed 20.4%, down from the 20.6% gain in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed Tuesday. Craig Lazzara, a managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices, noted that April’s figures were showing initial, but inconsistent, signs of a deceleration in […more]

Fannie Mae finalizes first nonperforming loan sale of the year

Jun 28, 2022 |

Fannie Mae has announced the winning bidder for the final mortgage pool that was part of its inaugural nonperforming loan sale of 2022 — and it’s nineteenth sale since the inaugural offering in 2015. The loan pool, dubbed the Community Impact Pool (CIP), includes 120 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $36.3 million, an average loan […more]

Meriem Bennani reveals first-ever public sculpture on the High Line

Jun 28, 2022 |

“Windy” by Meriem Bennani, co-commissioned by High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary. Image courtesy of the artist, High Line and Audemars Piguet New York City-based artist Meriem Bennani last week debuted her first public sculpture, a captivating kinetic structure that kicked off the summer season of the High Lines Art’s program. Windy, co-commissioned by […more]

Scraggly to Serene – Dallas-Ft. Worth Turnkey Transformation

Jun 28, 2022 |

This week’s Transformation Tuesday is from Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas.  This 90’s ranch-style residence had a lot to offer: a spacious yard, solid brick facade, and well-built cabinets in the kitchen. However, everything in between needed a bit of TLC! 

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach merge

Jun 28, 2022 |

Mortgage fintechs Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach have merged, roughly six months after a Philadelphia-based private equity firm bought a controlling stake in each company. The two companies have been working toward the merger since LLR Partners’ made an investment in each in January. Richard Harris, former chief executive officer at email sending and delivering […more]

Index for Bay Area House Values Ticks up 2.2 Percent

Jun 28, 2022 |

Having jumped a downwardly revised 4.3 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – ticked up 2.2 percent in April for a year-over-year gain of 22.9 percent versus 20.4 percent nationally. At a more […more]

The ultimate guide to Dumbo, a neighborhood that led the way to Brooklyn’s 21st century

Jun 28, 2022 |

Photo credit: Caroline Culler via Wikimedia cc Brooklyn’s 25-block Dumbo neighborhood gets its name from where it can be found: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, which explains not only the neighborhood’s location, but its cultural and residential evolution. The waterfront district’s iconic East River and Manhattan views and its stunning bridge-framed architectural vistas have defined […more]

San Diego Case-Shiller Index, Apr

Jun 28, 2022 |

My guess is we’ll be 400+ at the end of the year, or about the same as February.  A flat-pricing environment is the easiest of all the choices for buyers and sellers – just sell for the same amount as the last guy. San Diego Non-Seasonally-Adjusted CSI changes Observation Month SD CSI M-o-M chg Y-o-Y […more]

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch Up, Drop Year-Over-Year

Jun 28, 2022 |

Having dropped 3.9 percent in April to a near decade low, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, inched back up 0.7 percent in May to 99.9 but was down 13.6 percent on a year-over-year basis. In the words of […more]