Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate will discontinue its third-party wholesale channel, Stearns Wholesale Lending , just one year after it acquired the multichannel lender. In acquiring Stearns, the company sought to boost retail loan originations, scale its JV platform, and develop new multichannel capabilities.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

Fannie said in a press release on Monday that the creation of this role cements its commitment to enabling opportunities for minority and women-owned firms in capital markets and fostering an inclusive workplace. Effective Feb. Before that, she worked at Ballard Spahr in public finance and housing. It will not be her first time at Fannie Mae.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2021

By July 2013, things were going so well that Godin and his wife purchased a lakefront mansion in Winnetka, Illinois, for nearly $13 million , a record for the posh Chicago suburb. The lender originated $10 billion in mortgages in 2013, $5 billion in 2014, $3 billion in 2015 and just $2 billion in 2016 before shutting down altogether in 2017.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2023

Since launching as a call center in 2003, the California lender has expanded into the outside distributed retail model with a target on the purchase mortgage market, serviced its own loans and developed its tech stack in-house. Now that the market has turned, do you see any challenges for your purchase call center agents ?

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2024

As homeowners and renters nationwide continue to struggle with high housing costs, on the for-sale side, millions of potential homebuyers have been priced out of the market by high home prices and interest rates, while the number of renters with cost burdens has hit an all-time high. and abroad.

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Realtor

AUGUST 1, 2018

But under legislation passed in 2013, you can plan on paying that extra money for the life of the FHA loan. “But for the first few years, a buyer is paying mostly interest rather than principal, so the loan amount doesn’t go down for quite a while,” says Robert Harris , owner and mortgage consultant at All in One Lending.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We finally got mortgage rates to rise, and for people like me who have been concerned about how unhealthy the housing market was last year — and it got a lot worse this year — it’s a blessing that was much needed. This sector on an apples-to-apples basis is more expensive than the existing home sales market. The only risk to that 6.2

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) imposed a $12 million penalty on Bank of America (BofA) for violating federal laws by submitting false mortgage lending information for about four years, it announced on Monday. The CFPB claims that the bank identified the practice as early as 2013 but “turned a blind eye for years.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

469 LoanStar Technologies 1,241% 2016 Enabling lenders to connect and lend to customers who are traditionally underbanked or unbanked. 487 LiveEasy 1,204% 2013 Real estate software company changing the way people manage their move and their homes. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose. 4,105 FirstCloseFirstclose.

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Realtor

AUGUST 1, 2018

But under legislation passed in 2013, you can plan on paying that extra money for the life of the FHA loan. “But for the first few years, a buyer is paying mostly interest rather than principal, so the loan amount doesn’t go down for quite a while,” says Robert Harris , owner and mortgage consultant at All in One Lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

When prospective clients operate in highly regulated financial markets, enterprise sales don’t come easy. The IPO gave Blend $360 million, the money needed to grow market share, develop new products and dive deeper into new sectors within fintech — including consumer banking products.

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Simonson Real Estate

JANUARY 23, 2020

Labor costs continue to climb for retailers, both from cities and states raising minimum wage requirements and tight labor market. Often times, the tenant is able to rationalize these locations with part of the costs allocated for marketing. Blackstone and Prologis control 10% of the industrial market nationally. Multi-Family.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

fair lending laws has been on regulators’ radar in recent years. According to the CNBC report, mortgage bankers at Wells Fargo would request pricing exceptions that typically lowered a customer’s Annual Percentage Rate (APR) by between 25 and 27 basis points to help secure deals in competitive markets.

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Appraisal Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Myth #2: Data collectors are going to replace appraisers There’s a lot of buzz right now about PDC possibly replacing traditional property appraisal, but the intent of this service is to fill a gap in the lending process. To plan for the future, I decided never to have a big staff again as I was unwilling to do all the marketing required.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2021

Musalem is chief executive officer, co-chief investment officer, and a founder of Evince Asset Management LP , a company developing portfolio technologies for investors and managing a quantitative global fund. In February , Freddie Mac, with an equity market capitalization around $7.2

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

Department of Housing and Urban Development published a proposal to the Federal Register on Friday that would rescind the department’s 2020 disparate impact rule and restore the 2013 discriminatory effects rule. The state of the housing market for first-time homebuyers and communities of color.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The housing purchase and refinance market has slowed materially, and home prices are dropping in almost every major metropolitan area, although many are still above pre-COVID levels. Treasury in 2013. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2019-2020 and FHA Commissioner to the George W. billion draw on the U.S.

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