How the winter market creates soft power plays for buyers and sellers

Finance expert Sofia Nadjibi offers insights to help agents successfully position their clients during the December and January market slowdown. Continue reading

How to help senior real estate clients right-size with confidence

Finance expert Sofia Nadjibi, MBA, shares how real estate professionals can transform the downsizing experience for senior homeowners by blending empathy, strategy and smart financing tools. Continue reading

How to win more listings in a locked-in market environment

New Inman contributor and finance expert Sofia Nadjibi offers strategies for overcoming some of the market’s most challenging barriers to helping clients buy their next home.  Continue reading

Why Flyhomes is quitting the real estate brokerage business

The cash offer pioneer is pivoting to a national rollout of its “Buy Before You Sell” bridge financing program. Continue reading

With fresh capital, Knock ups the limit on its bridge loans to $1M

Institutional investors snapped up a securitization of Knock bridge loans, paving the way for the company to scale lending by nearly $1 billion over the next 2 years. Continue reading

Rocket rolls out bridge loan to win more business from homebuyers

New offering lets existing homeowners tap their equity to buy before they sell and make non-contingent offers to better compete with cash buyers in competitive markets. Continue reading

More lenders partner with Calque to offer ‘The Trade-In Mortgage’

EMM Loans, Searchlight Lending join growing list of mortgage lenders who have partnered with Calque to help homeowners tap their equity and buy before they sell. Continue reading

Knock integrating bridge loans into partners’ prequal processes

NFM Lending is the first to take advantage of Knock API integrations, which let loan officers know if homebuyers can tap the equity in their existing home and buy before they sell. Continue reading

Institutional investors are scooping up Kiavi’s ‘fix and flip’ bridge loans

Kiavi upsizes its 16th securitization to $350 million and says largest deal since November 2021 brings total issuance since 2019 to $4 billion. Continue reading

Anywhere vet Simon Chen is new CEO of bridge loan provider Arrival

The San Francisco-based startup lets homeowners tap their equity to obtain bridge loans and submit a “cash-equivalent offer” on their next home. Continue reading