Wave of Hispanic Buyers Shores Up U.S. Housing Market

NAHREP Co-Founder & CEO Gary Acosta is quoted in this article covering the massive role Latinxs play in growing the U.S. housing market! Read the original article at the Wall Street Journal. While Hispanics compose only 18% of the U.S. population, the group accounted for nearly 63% of new U.S. homeowner gains over the past decade, according to the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals. New homeowners include people buying first homes and those coming back into the market after a foreclosure.

Mortgage and banking groups express concern over efforts to derail an overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Fifteen mortgage and banking groups expressed concern that there are efforts to derail a comprehensive overhaul of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The groups on Thursday wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, calling on them to help usher through bipartisan legislation in Congress…

Keys to Lending to the Hispanic Market

During the 2017 National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals Housing Policy and Hispanic Lending Conference, experts described the uniqueness in lending to the Hispanic community, HousingWire staffer Kelsey Ramirez reports. “Files can be a bit more paper-heavy as the way Latinos bank and track finances, as well as the cultural family structure, are very…

Lending to Hispanics – a whole new ballgame

This week, Hispanic lenders and those seeking to lend within Hispanic communities gathered together at the nation’s capital to hear about the latest trends from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals. At the 2017 NAHREP Housing Policy and Hispanic Lending Conference, experts explained some of the differences that come with lending to the Hispanic community.