Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” The pool of non-QM borrowers includes real estate investors, fix-and-flippers, foreign nationals, business owners, gig economy workers and the self-employed.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Veteran mortgage executive Bill Dallas has left his position as president of Finance of America Mortgage amid larger changes to the Texas-based nonbank lender’s C-Suite and business lines. His exit was first reported by Inside Mortgage Finance. Presented by: Finance of America. Last year, the lender funded $35.6

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

Dubbed the “Homepoint Cash Compete,” the fintech platform provides home shoppers with the cash needed to compete with investors and other more attractive offers, according to the lender. The firm expects homebuyers to close a cash home purchase loan as fast as 10 business days without an appraisal or financing contingency.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

In fact, ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales in the nation last year, or 8.4%, involved fix and flip investors — whose strategy is to acquire, renovate (fix) and then resell (flip) the properties. A year ago, we were offering to lend 85% loan-to-cost or 90% loan-to-cost, and that’s down to like 75% loan-to-cost.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

announced on Thursday that the Optimal Blue product, pricing and eligibility engine (PPE) has added investor content from 54 state-based housing finance agencies (HFAs). Optimal Blue , a division of Black Knight, Inc. Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2020

End-to-end lending and services platform Finance of America Capital is the latest mortgage company to get in on the mushrooming IPO craze. Finance of America, says its collection of companies has originated over $65 billion in loans since 2017. Finance of America operates through retail, wholesale and correspondent channels.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized the rule on small business lending, which fulfills a mandate from Congress and aims to increase transparency while mitigating discrimination. For decades, the government has assembled data pursuant to Congressional mandates on residential mortgages,” the CFPB said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Finance of America Companies (FOA) has entered into an agreement to sell the operational assets of its Finance of America Commercial vertical to Roc Capital Holdings LLC. Following the closing of the [deal], FAM will no longer operate in the business of originating business purpose loans to residential real estate investors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Tavant , a Silicon Valley-based digital lending solutions provider, is adding a new product called Asset Analysis to its AI-powered digital lending platform, Touchless Lending. Touchless Lending provides straight-through mortgage processing and automated underwriting as part of the end-to-end mortgage manufacturing pipeline.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2021

SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney’s latest digital mortgage operation Figure Lending closed on a $100 million funding facility from JPMorgan Chase this week. In a statement, Figure said the $100 million loan facility represents another push toward growth in mortgage lending. Mike Cagney, SoFi. billion across these deals.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 5, 2022

has completed the previously announced acquisition of Riverbend Funding LLC and its subsidiaries (Riverbend), a private mortgage lender to residential transitional and commercial real estate investors, in an all-cash transaction. Redwood Trust Inc. Riverbend employees and operations will be integrated.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Automated underwriting for agency [ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ] products is definitely much easier because there’s a defined set of scenarios that you have to meet,” says Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending (a non-QM lender formerly known as Citadel Servicing ). And it is growing fast, he added. “We’re

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2021

Finance of America on Monday will become the latest lender to make its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. To coincide with the IPO, institutional investors have pledged to make a private investment of $250 million in the company. According to Inside Mortgage Finance, FOA was the 26th largest mortgage originator by volume in 2020.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

have launched a new digital lending platform powered by machine learning to grow its small balance multifamily lending business. “Multifamily investors want a faster and more transparent borrowing experience,” comments Alison Williams, Walker & Dunlop’s senior vice president and chief production officer.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. The post Simplify complex lending processes with powerful analytics appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. The post Real estate brokerage Radius unveils mortgage-lending arm appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. AFR offers agency, nonagency and government lending products. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Non-QM lending is poised for growth in 2021. HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Fierman, managing partner and co-CEO of Angel Oak, about the non-QM lending outlook for 2021 and how Angel Oak’s “originate to hold” model benefits originators. Now, many investors are once again returning to the non-QM space. in January.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blackstone Group -controlled Finance of America posted record margins and originations in the third quarter , ahead of its public offering via a blank check company in 2021. billion of it coming through its forward-lending arm. The company funded $9.17 billion in the third quarter, with about $8.5 billion valuation.

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Boston Appraisal

OCTOBER 6, 2023

While there is a myriad of financing options available for those looking to purchase or invest in real estate, today we’ll zero in on two distinct choices: hard money loans and traditional financing. Hard money loans, in contrast, are often financed by private investors or smaller lending companies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

HousingWire: How do you view the lending landscape for 2024? If consumers, Realtors and builders know affordable financing exists for potential buyers, more Americans will have the opportunity to get into a new home. The easiest way to build that awareness was to build a robust lending platform. 1 non-QM lender?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, the changes we’ve seen since the advent of the global pandemic are significant enough to serve as a catalyst that will drive all lending digital. The trends and lending requirements I’ve highlighted below became important long before the coronavirus made it to the U.S. Peering into the future of lending.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 29, 2022

has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Riverbend Funding LLC and its subsidiaries, a private mortgage lender to residential transitional and commercial real estate investors, in an all cash transaction. The post Redwood Trust Acquires Riverbend Lending to Integrate into CoreVest appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

KBRA Analytics , an affiliate of Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), has acquired digital-information service Direct Lending Deals , which offers investors and loan originators coverage of deal data, news and analysis in the direct-lending sector. KBRA Analytics’ acquisition of DLD closed quietly on Aug.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions , they may bundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market. This helps attract ongoing investment capital into the housing sector.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Alternative financing company Knock has secured $10 million from Second Century Ventures, the venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors, and Foundry Venture Capital. It's using Wefunder to reach $15 million total.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

CCM claims it is “the first mortgage lender to commit to issuing MBS exclusively based on FICO Score 10 T,” a step for investors at the $12 trillion MBS global market “to familiarize themselves with the new score and realize the promised performance improvement.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The funds will be utilized to finance its lending product, CryptoMortgage. Moon Mortgage’s CryptoMortgages will allow investors to take out loans against their digital assets. The product also takes the investors’ digital assets as collateral and gives 100% financing for investment properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Name Job Title Company Name Aaron Kardell Vice President of Product Lone Wolf Technologies Aayaam Kapoor Vice President of Product and Agency Real Estate Webmasters Amaly Quiroz Vice President of Transaction Operations eXp Realty Amy Gorce CEO REdistribute Andrew Binkley President Constellation Real Estate Group Ankur Bansal President of HomeLight (..)

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Amherst Chairman and CEO Sean Dobson said the shrinking margins in the agency MBS sector are a byproduct of an over-supply of paper and a greatly reduced investor balance sheets for absorbing the debt. Some of them are gone forever, and some of them are basically going to have to rebuild capability,” he said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As investors recognize the potential these older properties hold and the inventory and profits they could open up in such a red-hot housing market, demand for older, more distressed properties should increase. Traditional lending approaches are time-consuming when it comes to fix-and-flip properties. The only problem?

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2023

ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales last year — 8.4% — involved fix-and-flip investors. But increasing costs and the banking crisis this year have meant a fall-off in return on investment for flippers, and for those still interested, it can be more difficult to finance a fix-and-flip or a bridge loan than in past years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation previously announced that it was renewing its efforts in the reverse mortgage industry, having hired industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. We are hearing from everyone interested in getting us on board.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

Homepoint was forced to repurchase 10 separate loans that didn’t conform to the GSE guidelines for delinquencies and misrepresentations from secondary market investors including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , according to suits filed between January and June 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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