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Mortgage applications fell another 0.8% last week

Housing Wire

Mortgage applications fell for the fourth consecutive week as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to its highest level since 2001, reaching 7.16%. For the week that ended August 11, mortgage applications fell 0.8% from the prior week , according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. from 13.6%

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Guaranty Home Mortgage hires EVP to expand retail channel

Housing Wire

Tennessee-based mortgage lender Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation hired Andy Voyles as executive vice president and director of retail lending. The mortgage lender hopes to boost volume in the channel. The lender offers a variety of mortgage products, including conventional, FHA, VA, jumbo, rural development loans.

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Interfirst Mortgage raises $175 million

Housing Wire

Chicago-based mortgage originator Interfirst Mortgage Co. Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. The company ceased operations in July 2017 after years of declining volumes.

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Guaranteed Rate’s Larry Steinway makes the jump to Revolution Mortgage

Housing Wire

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. He was the fourth mortgage loan originator to join Guaranteed Rate in 2000.

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Fed must signal that it’s at the end of its rate hikes: MBA

Housing Wire

With 30-year fixed mortgage rates climbing to a 23-year high, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) called on the Federal Reserve to bring some certainty to financial markets. “It to 5% – the highest level since 2001. Some economists forecast that the 10-year Treasury could hit 5% and an 8% mortgage rate does not seem unlikely.

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Interfirst Mortgage to lay off nearly 50 LOs

Housing Wire

Chicago-based Interfirst Mortgage Co. To run the hub, the company hired Casey Nunn, a former Rocket Mortgage and Homepoint executive, as the vice president of wholesale lending. Interfirst was founded in 2001 as a retail originator and then expanded to the wholesale channel and the correspondent channel in 2008 and 2011, respectively.

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After pausing in June, Fed hikes rates to highest level since 2001

Inman

Federal Reserve policymakers keep their options open for another rate hike in September, but futures markets investors and some economists think the Fed is probably done hiking rates.

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