Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Reverse mortgage software solutions and loan origination system (LOS) provider ReverseVision announced on Thursday morning that it has been acquired by a division of Toronto-based Constellation Software , a holding company that bought another mortgage LOS in 2019. Leadership at Constellation Mortgage Services, Inc.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2022

Since then, another nine private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings valued at $4.6 That brings the number of private-label transactions over the first three weeks of January to a total of 19 — backed by mortgage pools valued in aggregate at some $10 billion. billion have unfolded.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

Homes that reach the market sell quickly, bidding wars are the new normal and the investor share of sales continues to rise. Various mortgage finance innovations facilitated larger loans at the same monthly payment to keep up with growing home values – which is one reason why house prices kept going up.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Adding to the global lender’s woes this week was investor speculation on social media questioning the bank’s stability. residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) operations. Oh my, this feels like a concerted effort at scaremongering.” – Boaz Weinstein. We believe the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

His corner of the Atlanta mortgage market – high-value home loans that wouldn’t be bought by the GSEs – was booming. Liquidity had dried up and bond investors were running for the hills. So when that happens, you don’t originate, you don’t lend at par for something at 88. So you stop.”. Everyone bowed out.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

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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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

Nor can we ever have a credit sales boom again with lending standards back to normal. I am not talking about investors; I am talking about primary resident homeowners. The 2005 bankruptcy reform laws and the 2010 Qualified Mortgage laws, once passed, created an expansion that has produced the highest quality homeowners in our lifetime.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Mortgage lenders and real estate investment firms this month entered tight housing markets in the Midwest and the Northwest to better reach prospective homebuyers, despite a challenging mortgage market. Geneva Financial, founded in 2007 by Aaron VanTrojen, has more than 130 branch locations in 46 states, according to the firm.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Investors provide capital necessary for many families to fulfill their aspirations of living in a house whether renting or owning. Data from John Burns Real Estate Consulting shows that student loan debt has increased 100% since 2007, keeping many renters in place. How can investors help with homeownership?

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market is reeling from an unfavorable interest-rate environment, which is expected to suppress private-label securities offerings for at least the rest of the year, a recent market outlook report concludes. The report focuses on so-called “RMBS 2.0

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

As a consequence, the number of real estate, mortgage and general housing tech firms to make the annual Inc. Mortgage origination platform Maxwell , which was in the top 200 last year and a HW Tech 100 award winner in 2021, was ranked No. The past year hasn’t been particularly good for tech or housing. The company was No.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even though mortgage origination volumes are down, we’re experiencing a highly competitive purchase market. From 2007 through mid-2013, approximately 5.5 The mortgage lending industry exists to make home loans, not to repossess them. million households lost their homes to foreclosure. Nor should it be. The bottom line?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

In the first article of this series, I discussed the argument for turning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into public utilities, which would result in more Americans having fair access to mortgage services. Without a national market, local supply and demand for mortgages could become unbalanced. million foreclosure filings. housing market.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Matt Lehnen, chief technology officer at Deephaven Mortgage , to talk about building a tech stack for non-QM loans. That’s a product tailored towards investors and there’s still a lot of investment activity in the market so that product has really taken off.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

One of the reasons that I moved into the “team higher mortgage rate” camp is that what I saw in January, February, and March of this year was so unhealthy that I labeled the housing market savagely unhealthy. housing market, and we should never ease lending standards to try to facilitate demand.

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Appraisal Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

My comments : The big push to cut down on appraisal turn times because of the appraisal shortage is Very Old News since mortgage volume has plummeted. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, real estate market, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Find out why not.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B Varies widely around the country. == Mortgage applications decreased 4.6 billion tax fraud scheme.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At what point will mortgage interest rates peak? While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. When you raise [mortgage] rates to the point they’re at today, it breaks the back of housing.”.

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Patch of Land

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Congress has opportunities to address some of the challenges financial technology firms face in the lending sector. The pace of financial technology innovation in the alternative lending space is nothing short of phenomenal, but it has meant headaches for lenders and vendors waiting for regulation to play catch-up.

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