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The Similarities Between 2007 and Today

Appraisal Buzz

During the 2007-10 mortgage default meltdown, appraisals were a target of complaints and allegations by lenders, the GSEs, some state appraisal boards, and a few unscrupulous entrepreneurs. We provide a service that helps clients make informed decisions on how to proceed. Appraisers’ jobs are not to facilitate mortgage lending.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time. The goal for the lender is to have half of its production volume come from investment properties in 2023 — up from the current 10 to 15%.

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Opinion: Riding the wave

Housing Wire

All in all, the spring season is heating up and here are five reasons to advise your clients to ride the current real estate wave: Supply and demand dynamics The ongoing imbalance between supply and demand continues to shape a robust real estate market. With only 1.3

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HW+ Member Spotlight: Reina Ramos

Housing Wire

She joined CNBF after more than a decade with Seacoast Bank , where she served as senior vice president, residential lending production manager. Lenders need to be mindful that clients don’t purchase homes often and using acronyms to describe the program, terms or process can create confusion.

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Deephaven CTO on building a non-QM tech stack

Housing Wire

And then there are some areas that are specific to our products in the non-QM lending space where there may not be anything in the market that is pre-built or off the shelf and the only opportunity to actually bring some of our lending products to market or execute on our on our strategies is to build something custom.

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Don’t expect a drastic housing market turnaround in 2023, Fitch Ratings says

Housing Wire

That will be offset by stable insurance in force, driven by increased persistency — a percentage that indicates the number of clients that an insurance company retained, the credit rating agency said in a separate report. mortgage insurance sector,” Christopher Grimes, director of Fitch Ratings, said.

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How LOs are dealing with a mortgage rate lockdown

Housing Wire

LOs interviewed by HousingWire said that most of their past clients don’t have a reason to sell their houses and that prospective buyers are waiting on the sidelines unless life happens — job relocations, marriage, divorce, pregnancy and death. Finding out why people are moving is important, he said. It’s all about relationships.”

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