Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia Properties recently announced that Teresa Palacios Smith, current Vice President of Business Development for the company, was installed tonight as the new President of The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP). The gala event was held at the esteemed Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C. Among the distinguished guests were…
By AIMEE L. BROWN Mortgage Daily With recent regulatory policies and implementation deadlines taking hold, several industry conferences and workshops are geared towards helping lenders manage a successful business in the age of compliance. Appraisals, banking and reverse mortgages are among other topics being covered at upcoming events. The 2015 Housing Policy and Hispanic Lending…
The FINANCIAL — A diverse group of housing industry stakeholders participated in a credit access symposium on April 1 to discuss how alternative credit scoring models could expand access to mortgage credit for responsible borrowers who may have thin credit histories or extenuating circumstances like medical debts. The event, co-hosted by the National Association of…
Gains in Owner Households, Jobs, Income & Education Make Latinos Homeownership-Ready and Poised to Drive First-Time Homebuyer Sales if Homes were Available SAN DIEGO/MIAMI – Hispanics lead the growth of U.S. owner households and many more are credit-ready to buy now if homes were available, according to the 2013 State of Hispanic Homeownership Report published…
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — A diverse group of housing industry stakeholders participated in a credit access symposium today to discuss how alternative credit scoring models could expand access to mortgage credit for responsible borrowers who may have thin credit histories or extenuating circumstances like medical debts. The event, co-hosted by the National Association…
Credit accessibility continues to dog marginal homebuyers By Trey Garrison Several real estate trade groups spent Wednesday discussing the challenges that credit standards pose for access for some would-be borrowers and alternatives to traditional credit scoring. The event, co-hosted by the National Association of Realtors, the Asian Real Estate Association of America and theNational Association…
2012 President Gerardo Jerry Ascencio speaking to Buenos Dias DC on Univision with Silvana Quiroz about NAHREP
Organization aims to increase demographic’s homeownership rate by 50 percent in 10 years by Teke Wiggin In the wake of a housing downturn that pummeled Hispanic wealth, the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) has released a plan for tripling the demographic’s wealth in the next 10 years… View Original Article
The Foundation of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) has released its strategy aimed at tripling U.S. Hispanic household wealth in the next 10 years, a plan NAHREP calls the Hispanic Wealth Project Blueprint. Hispanic household wealth dropped by 66 percent between 2005 and 2009, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Median…
A new report reveals that although homeownership in the U.S. Hispanic community increased in 2014, the growth rate slowed down in respect to previous years. On Monday, the State of Hispanic Homeownership Report published a study showing that the rate of homeownership among Hispanics fell from 46.1 percent in 2013 to 45.4 percent in 2014.…