Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday announced that it is making $40.25 Such funding will also directly support the work of housing counseling offering required Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) sessions. Specific to seniors, the demand for reverse mortgage counseling remains high,” she said. “The

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

SimpleNexus , a digital mortgage startup, announced on Tuesday that it picked up $108 million in a Series B funding around. The fund raise comes as the company attempts to increase its marketshare within the eClosing and mobile mortgage segments.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Digital notary platform NotaryCam announced on Wednesday it has been awarded the Remote Online Notarization (RON) Compliance Certification through the Mortgage Industry Standard Maintenance Organization (MISMO) – making it the eighth company to receive the specialized certification. How 2020 continues to impact mortgage closings.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When it comes to housing and mortgage markets this fall, most attention is being focused on the expiration of eviction and foreclosure moratoria and the pending completion of forbearance terms for many homeowners. In June 2020, roughly 8.5% The post What’s behind the sharp decline in mortgage delinquencies?

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

As Chief Operating Officer at First Guaranty Mortgage Corp , Sarah Gonzalez has modernized the FGMC brand, recruited top talent and implemented operational efficiencies that significantly reduce the cost per loan across all production channels. During her third year at FGMC, Gonzalez was recognized by HousingWire as a 2020 Vanguard.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A doubling of 30-year fixed rate mortgage rates, shrinking profit margins and a risk of recession presents a challenging environment for independent mortgage banks (IMBs), but smaller IMBs are better positioned to weather challenges, claimed the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA), a lobby group that represents smaller mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Notarize , a provider of remote online notarization (RON) services in 38 states, and Snapdocs , a California-based digital mortgage closing platform, are partnering, the companies announced Thursday. 5000 list, connects all parties and technologies involved in a mortgage transaction to complete the closing process online.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Hansen told HousingWire that he stepped down to lead a team of software developers and sales staff for upcoming research and development tactics within SimpleNexus. This new role will give him more time to focus on his passion for product and development, he said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2023

Indian Land, South Carolina-based lender Movement Mortgage has agreed to pay $23.75 million to settle allegations that it improperly originated and underwrote mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs. million and Guild Mortgage in October 2020 for $24.9

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

Moving forward, the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization , a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association , will continue to focus on digital closings. Over the final months of 2020, MISMO saw the number of companies with its RON certificate double to a total of eight companies.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Mortgage Champions founder and CEO Dave Vermillion will be speaking on a panel covering operational strategies in the current market at HousingWire’s Spring Summit on March 4. He is the author of Navigating the Mortgage Maze , a guide teaching the simple truths to securing the best possible mortgage, every time.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Notable in light of the current servicing challenges facing the industry, Stavvy’s eClosing technology is designed to facilitate faster borrower communication and closings as servicers work through loan modifications, referrals and forbearance. When we launched Stavvy in late 2019, we had no idea what was in store for the world in 2020.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Mortgage Industry Standard Maintenance Organization (MISMO) announced last week that the organization is looking for participants for an initiative focused on standardizing pre-closing title document data sets. To tackle this challenge, MISMO will form a new development workgroup.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday resolved uncertainty around special purpose credit programs, 45 years after Congress allowed lenders to tailor products to groups that have historically been excluded from homeownership. In a legal memo, HUD stated that SPCPs are allowed under the Fair Housing Act.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Nikolaos Pavlou, product marketing manager at Blend , will sit down with other housing luminaries to discuss what mortgage tech is solving now at HousingWire’s Spring Summit on March 4. Pandemic conditions have provided fertile ground for mortgage tech innovation. The focus of the Spring Summit is The Year-Round Purchase Market.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2021

As a leader in the adoption, implementation and use of digital mortgages Camelia Martin’s breadth of experience has never been more relevant to the industry. A 2020 Woman of Influence , Martin joined Snapdocs earlier this year as Head of Industry and Regulatory Affairs. .

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

When I wrote the America is back recovery model on April 7, 2020, and then retired it on Dec. 9, 2020, I knew one data line would lag the most: jobs! Well, I was off by two months: Today, the BLS reported that 528,000 jobs were created with positive revisions of 28,000, which gave us just enough to pass the February 2020 levels.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Digital mortgage platform Roostify announced on Tuesday it has raised another $32 million in a Series C funding round amid a booming real estate market, bringing the tech startup’s total capital to $65 million. And software and platform developers Qualia and Blend both achieved unicorn status by the end of the year. “I

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. To that end, Blend plans to use the new capital to invest in product development such as speeding up the release of its digital closing solution.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2021

Mortgage servicing, origination and transaction-based services company Mr. Cooper Group announced on Tuesday the sale of its reverse mortgage servicing portfolio – operating under the Champion Mortgage brand – to Mortgage Assets Management (MAM).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2022

Between the recent rate hike from the Federal Reserve , the ongoing war in Ukraine and continued economic recovery following the pandemic, mortgage lenders across the country are managing a volatile housing market. In an effort to cool inflation , the Fed has started rolling back the pandemic stimulus measures put in place beginning in 2020.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Last week’s announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development cleared the way for lenders to adopt targeted lending programs, but so far, they are treading carefully. The pieces are coming together,” said Bob Broeksmit, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association. The first scenario is much more enticing for lenders.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and set off an extraordinary real estate boom, Rocket Mortgage was ready. billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 billion in profit in 2020 and $6.1 Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4 billion in 2021. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2021

Last year’s record-low mortgage rates dipped as low as 2.65% on 30-year fixed-rate loans and ignited an origination boom that had lenders scrambling to manage the high demand. Outsourcing the mortgage origination cycle can streamline lenders’ processes without sacrificing the borrowers’ experience. Outsourcing offers many benefits.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Goldstone is an executive at a mortgage servicer company trying to reach out to homeowners. “We But we’re having a hard time reaching out to them,” he said during a panel at the annual Residential Mortgage Servicing Rights Forum held in New York City in October. We know who the borrowers are. We service their loans. of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The supply-chain bottleneck afflicting the global economy has its own counterpart in the world of residential mortgage-backed securities, also referred to as RMBS. They are in high demand for each stage of the mortgage process, yet they are in seriously short supply in a still-booming mortgage market. billion, compared to $49.69

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The growing wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has yet another major wrinkle, industry sources reveal, and this new problem, if accurate as alleged, threatens to disrupt future merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the mortgage-finance industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 26, 2021

CRT transactions, on the other hand, are typically designed to cover only unexpected losses. A January 2020 white paper for the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies cites five challenges the GSEs are trying to solve by transferring credit risk to private investors: To reduce systemic risk in U.S. The benefits of CRT are numerous.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One area in the mortgage and real estate industry that has been evolving for nearly two decades is digital closings. E-mortgage volume spikes. E-mortgage volume spikes. Earlier this year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac modified their Seller Guides and provided guidance on several policy areas to support mortgage originations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Customer intelligence and mortgage tech firm Polly named Troy Coggiola as its chief operating officer amid the company’s effort to scale. Coggiola will be responsible for Polly’s product, implementation, support and design teams, working toward seamless cross-organization collaboration. before it was acquired by ICE in 2020.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

SW: We have seen an increasing number of cyberattacks on companies in real estate and mortgage, including First American. And what I witnessed is that the difference between a good product design engineering team and a great one is actually exponential. And you always had this “rising tide raises all ships” right into 2020 and 2021.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, payments, insurance and proptech. Consumer loans such as mortgages and other financial documents require notarization. Register for the FinLedger Daily Newsletter.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2020

From the suburban Virginia headquarters of mortgage securitizer Freddie Mac, Catalfo kept tabs on a new virus that the Chinese government was having trouble containing to the city of Wuhan. Her team worked with lenders to lay out policies for mortgage forbearance, if it was needed.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Last month, Freddie Mac announced a plan to begin purchasing single-family closed-end second (CES) mortgages from lenders, a proposal now subject to a public comment review period before adoption. This provides homeowners with a cost-effective alternative for accessing the equity in their homes.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

Last month, Freddie Mac announced a plan to begin purchasing single-family closed-end second (CES) mortgages from lenders, a proposal now subject to a public comment review period before adoption. This provides homeowners with a cost-effective alternative for accessing the equity in their homes.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Behind him, the recent financial crisis still cast a cautionary shadow over new business development, but ahead he saw opportunities for a client-centric, tech-focused family of companies in the title insurance and real estate settlement services industry. Now, at WFG’s 10-year anniversary, this vision holds even more relevance.

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Lamacchia Realty

APRIL 8, 2024

A consistent NCMAR Top Producer since 2000, Laurie has earned President’s Club honors five times, including 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023 , and achieved President’s Club ELITE status in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023 ! Anthony is a member of the 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023 President’s Club.

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