Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2022

has terminated a master repurchase agreement and securities contract with Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Capital and Morgan Stanley Bank , according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The post Homepoint shrinks its lending capacity appeared first on HousingWire. Home Point Financial Corp. trillion in 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending will continue to originate non-qualified mortgages ( non-QMs ) for underserved borrowers after it reached a tentative deal with the U.S. Change is proud to be certified as a CDFI and to continue our mission,” Carlos Salas, CEO of Change Lending, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Production declined 25% to $5.49 billion in 2022 from the previous year’s volume of $7.29

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mortgage industry trade group Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) is urging government agencies to begin to have conversations surrounding the impact of the jury verdict and potential court ruling in the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit on lending practices.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A former mortgage consultant who worked for Wells Fargo and ultimately brought a case against the company in a Southern California court over allegedly being fired for complaining about discriminatory lending practices has settled with the company, according to reporting from Los Angeles-based radio outlet KNX News.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Nonbank originator Change Lending and the U.S. A Barron’s investigation found that Change failed to meet its underserved lending requirements in 2022, resulting in the lender being removed from the CDFI Fund’s list of certified program lenders in August.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

As we think about coming out of this first month of the year, we’ve quickly realized this year is going to be anything but planned or what we in the mortgage lending industry are used to. The way we as mortgage lending originators conduct our business has quickly taken on a new form during these times of uncertainty.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. The smart contract presents the borrower’s lending request to the exchange.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

With the increasing regulatory focus on expanding affordable lending programs, mortgage lenders need to have a plan to serve the underserved. Many lenders have historically shied away from offering a robust affordable lending product line, including down payment assistance (DPA) programs and ITIN mortgages. Finding the ‘why’.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

As agencies seek best practices, this is indicative of more specific requirements for banks, lending institutions and entities that have access to sensitive borrower data and recordable instruments. The post Fraud risk continues to rise even as the market contracts appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

HousingWire recently sat down with Steve Meirink, executive vice president and general manager, Compliance Solutions, Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk and Compliance Division, to discuss the impact of digital technology on mortgage and the future of digital lending in an era of accelerated innovation and digital transformation.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over insider-lending allegations brought against the bank and its former top executive, Ronald Paul. The bank, which operates a mortgage-lending unit, along with its holding company, Eagle Bancorp Inc., EagleBank , one of the largest community banks in metro Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Mortgage Contracting Services , a national provider of residential and commercial property services, hired Jason Myers as vice president of business development. Kelly Stewart has been promoted to vice president senior lending officer for banking operations at Gateway First Bank. and as president of SKLD Title Services.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The lawsuit states that Atlantic Trust signed a wholesale broker agreement with UWM in January 2018 but agreed to amend the contract to add the “All-In Initiative” in December 2022. Therefore, we will follow the agreed upon contract and win damages.” UWM on Thursday when filed a lawsuit in a U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 12, 2022

Inventory is contracting. Worsening market conditions are only going to accelerate an already hyper-competitive mortgage lending industry that is still learning to adapt to post-pandemic homebuying behaviors. Mortgage lending is facing the same disproportionate dilemma that technology, in many ways, can make worse.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

TCB’s contract with RMF and the bankruptcy court order also expressly stated that TCB’s right to a lien was subject to GNMA’s extinguishment rights.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

Supreme Court rejected a challenge to its funding mechanism in mid-May, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is now targeting the use of what it deemed ”unlawful or unenforceable” terms and conditions in contracts. On Tuesday, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2024

The market is relying on first-time homebuyer demand, and many first-time buyers do use government lending programs,” he said. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) increased from 7.05% to 7.07%, with points increasing from 0.63 the previous week.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

UWM terminated its contract with the broker and no longer accepts mortgage applications from Okavage customers. Earlier this month, Fairway — the nation’s ninth-largest mortgage originator — announced a 100% business shift to retail lending. for selling loans to rivals Rocket and Fairway despite agreeing to the contract.

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The Robert Weiler Company

JANUARY 2, 2021

Are you familiar with a land contract in Ohio, as well as the state-specific requirements? What is a land contract in Ohio, really? Essentially, a land contract is an alternative financing option if you’re investing in: Farmland or raw land. So, what is a land contract agreement, and how does it work? A home or condo.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2020

We’ve industrialized the process and turned it into more like hiring robots like contract workers,” Bharadwaj said. The post Borrowers want consistency through the lending process – Here’s how to give them that appeared first on HousingWire. To learn more about the automation continuum and Indecomm’s solutions, visit [link].

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Through the market turmoil and volatility that marked much of 2022 — and is still with us today — home-equity lending expanded, however. ATTOM , a real estate data provider, reports, however, that the “severe contraction across the lending industry in the fourth quarter of 2022 even hit HELOCs” in terms of origination volume.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Alleged promises by Ginnie Mae That contention, however, does “nothing to undermine TCB’s claim that Ginnie Mae lacked statutory authority to extinguish TCB’s interest in its collateral, which was not only separate from the servicing rights but also subject to no contract between TCB and Ginnie Mae,” the filing reads.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

A HousingWire analysis of bond-rating report data and information provided by industry experts shows that between 2019 and March 28 of this year, there were at least 17 private-label securitization deals involving HELOCs and/or closed-end second-lien (CES) home-equity loans and separately shared-equity contracts.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

The settlement of the commission lawsuits mandates that buyers now sign a contract to compensate their agents directly before touring homes or even identifying potential properties. This barrier of signing a contract upfront will cause many buyers to delay reaching out to an agent, limiting their access to the information agents provide. “No

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JMV Lending

JUNE 13, 2024

An appraiser came in $9,000 over contract price last week on a $297,000 Texas purchase – so woohoo, right? The post When High Appraisals Hurt; Fannie & Freddie Not The Same appeared first on JVM Lending. It almost killed our deal.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a motion to change the court venue where a case with Texas Capital Bank (TCB) is taking place, arguing that a contract clause has been violated by TCB’s choice to file the case in Amarillo, Texas, as opposed to Dallas. Attorneys representing Ginnie Mae and the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Unlock’s HEA contracts typically feature 10-year maturities and involve a 3% origination fee based on Unlock’s original investment, which is not a loan. In exchange, the homeowner inks a contract providing the company with a slice of the homeowner’s future equity.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The index plunged from record highs seen in late 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression. A decline in the MCAI indicates that lending standards are tightening, while increases in the index are indicative of loosening credit. Department of Agriculture fell by.1%, 1%, MBA said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

HousingWire recently sat down with Tom Hutchens, Angel Oak EVP of production, who shared how non-QM lending could be an effective way for lenders to replace lost business in the event of a refi boom slowdown. The refinance index decreased 3% from the previous week and was 32% lower than the same week one year ago. Presented by: Angel Oak.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a counterclaim against Jesse Iwuji Motorsports (JIM) last week for allegedly breaching a sponsorship contract. The stock car team is also accusing EPM of breaching the contract by failing to make more than $4 million in sponsorship payments following a “margin call” from its investors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2023

The couples initially sued the lender in October 2022 on seven counts, including breach of contract, negligence and fraud. The amended lawsuit now includes four different claims of fraud, negligence, violations of the Truth in Lending Act and violations of the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices Act. of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez sued one of its former executives over multiple allegations, including breach of contract, disclosure of confidential information and unfair competition tied to soliciting several Newrez executives to join a competing lender. 21 in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

During an earnings call on Wednesday, chief financial officer Daniel Perotti said that “Pennymac maintained its dominant position in correspondent lending in the first quarter” as it acquired $18 billion in volume. million in damages tied to a breach of contract claim in a four-year dispute involving the companies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The DOJ also noted that this type of conditional offer is permitted under federal government lending programs, thus requiring no changes to lending regulations. Originally filed in 2020 in U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

Given that HELOC organizations are more streamlined than closed-end lending, there is greater importance for the adoption of electronic closing documents, MISMO said last week, calling for participants to join a new development workgroup (DWG). The volume of HELOC loans declined by 17% to $60.1 Overall, HELOCS accounted for 20.7%

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