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Developing a lending strategy for rising mortgage rates

Housing Wire

When concern about the economy is high, investors gravitate toward safe-haven investments like Treasury bonds and mortgage bonds, pushing bond prices higher but the yields on those bonds lower.”. In fact, the recovery from the COVID pandemic is in stark contrast to that of the 2008 Great Recession.

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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. After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. I thought it was sparse.

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What happens when borrowers have more control of the lending process?

Housing Wire

Yet borrowers have had limited agency in the lending process to date. FormFree, the ATP fintech led by HousingWire Tech Trendsetter Brent Chandler , is launching a blockchain-based exchange for consumers to take control of the lending process. ” How it works. A bigger vision. “We’re

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Non-QM lender Athas Capital Group ‘bows out like gentlemen’

Housing Wire

Industry veterans Alim Kassam, Brian O’Shaughnessy and Kevin O’Shaughnessy founded Athas Capital Group and its in-house financing arm Rama Capital when the financial crisis hit the country in 2008. Since 2008, it has funded over 14,000 loans, reaching $5.5 Since 2008, it has funded over 14,000 loans, reaching $5.5

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IMBs have a duty to serve lower-income communities

Housing Wire

Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending. It extends to their checking and savings accounts, small business and community development debt and equity financing, bank branch locations, financial literacy, grantmaking and more. We recognize that a duty to serve applied to IMBs may require a flexible approach.

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Nearly 40 housing tech firms make the 2023 Inc. 5000 list

Housing Wire

469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. 533 ReBuilt 1,096% 2015 Vertically integrated marketplace helping homeowners sell their unwanted property and real estate investors find great off-market deals. Other established names to make the Inc.

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F2 Finance wants to capitalize on a fragmented fix-and-flip market

Housing Wire

So fix-and-flip lending is directly helping that supply and demand issue in terms of creating new housing stock or upgrading what would otherwise be dilapidated housing stock,” Faes said. We are able to essentially lend against the asset and move very quickly,” Faes said. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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