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Opinion: The risk in cutting FHA insurance premiums

Housing Wire

There has been a flurry of recent articles prognosticating a decrease to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance premiums. At least 137,000 of those borrowers have FHA-insured loans. FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund) is there to be the primary buffer against these inevitable shifts in housing and the economy.

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Housing Market Tracker: Spring inventory falls

Housing Wire

Even though the labor market is currently showing signs of getting softer , there is no job-loss recession yet. As you can see in the chart below, there is a big difference between the current housing market and those looking for a repeat of 2008. Mortgage rates in a regular market should be 5.25% today but are at 6.5%.

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Blend places its bets on ‘composable origination’ tech

Housing Wire

For business leaders looking to grow market share, deepen relationships and provide differentiated experience, composable origination provides the agility and speed you’ve always wanted to execute on your product strategies,” Ghamsari said. Founded in 2012, Blend went public in 2021.

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Veteran sales executives part ways with Movement

Housing Wire

Pennington’s departure comes a few months after Brady Yeager , a mortgage executive with over 21 years in finance and mortgage lending roles, joined Movement as national sales director. Schoolfield and Shelton joined Movement in 2012, were promoted as divisional leaders in February 2021, and landed at Summit in July.

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Blend is now worth $4.6B. Now what?

Housing Wire

The IPO gives the cloud-based software company the ammunition to grow market share , develop new products and dive deeper into various sectors within fintech, including consumer banking and auto. Over the last two years, Blend has acquired its own mortgage insurance firm and title insurance firm (the latter in a $422 million deal).

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Blend hopes to be valued at $4B following IPO

Housing Wire

It has raised a total of $655 million since its founding in 2012, according to Crunchbase. The company also stepped in to the title insurance realm in March after Blend announced it was expanding its cloud-based platform thanks to the acquisition of Title365 from the Mr. Cooper Group. That acquisition cost roughly $422 million.

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Opinion: What the ICE-Black Knight merger means

Housing Wire

The capital, capability and content are present to make all real estate markets smarter, faster, safer and connected. Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Consumers, communities and taxpayers are major beneficiaries.