Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Through the market turmoil and volatility that marked much of 2022 — and is still with us today — home-equity lending expanded, however. ATTOM , a real estate data provider, reports, however, that the “severe contraction across the lending industry in the fourth quarter of 2022 even hit HELOCs” in terms of origination volume.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

All investors in the transaction were first-time participants in securitizations backed entirely by home-equity agreements [HEAs].”. Unlock’s HEA contracts typically feature 10-year maturities and involve a 3% origination fee based on Unlock’s original investment, which is not a loan.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Redwood Trust CEO Christopher Abate laid out a bold vision of growth for the real estate investment trust at an investor conference in New York City last month. That is done via what is called a home-equity investment contract, or an HEI. This content is exclusively for HW+ members.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Betley, who has more than a decade of experience helping first-time and move-up buyers, joined NFM Lending as a loan officer in 2021. Meanwhile, investors are taking steps to acquire the business. ban of the short-form video app. million ‘likes’ on TikTok. The bill is now in the Senate, where the outcome is unknown.

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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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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

Interest rates jumped by more than 2 percentage points over the first quarter of 2021. Lenders saw the value of agency loans made at lower rates — in the 3% range — in 2021 and early January 2022 drop precipitously over the course of the first quarter. That bolt-like spike in rates put many mortgage lenders into crisis mode.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

This means we don’t have enough housing inventory available because with lending standards back to normal we can’t replicate the credit demand we saw in housing from 2002-2005. The Federal Reserve did not like the homebuying atmosphere during COVID-9, especially the non-contingent buying contracts. from November but up 10.2%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Investors have largely shunned nonbank mortgage stocks, and analysts believe the hard times are still ahead. In an earnings call with investors, CEO Anthony Hsieh said loanDepot was “fishing from a lot more pond” than its biggest competitors – more diversified in its channel mix, able to generate tens of millions of top-of-funnel leads.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The majority of lenders easily lost half of the volume last year that they originated in 2021, and LOs who have their own databases to tap into are highly sought after. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. I thought it was sparse.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

“UWM is closing loans in 16-17 days…In a purchase market you can’t miss the contract date. He also said that the company’s investors (after its public debut in January) understood the value of UWM’s long experience in the mortgage industry. ’ I always say, ‘What got us here will get us there.'”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Black Knight data shows that roughly 450,000 forbearance plan expirations are expected to occur through the end of 2021, representing more than a third of active plans. in November 2021, down from 14.8% billion at its peak in February 2021. “They’ve had a manageable budget due to mortgage forbearance.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The last unit they bought was in mid-2022 as far as I can tell… To read more, plus the 45+ appraiser comments, Click Here Investor Home Purchases Are Down Over 40% in Sun Belt Pandemic. Investor purchases of U.S. ”… Question 2: does the lending industry owe the appraiser a living? homes dropped 29.7% percent from 7.37

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2022

In other words, it flattens out the space between the primary and secondary markets, allowing mortgages to essentially be originated and securitized nearly instantaneously across a distributed computer network that is accessible to authorized investors. “It It [promises to] completely remove, or disintermediate, the higher market,” he added.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

In the mortgage space, warehouse lending is a very lucrative business for the banks, so in general they’ll want to keep warehousing lending, maybe over other types of lending,” said Brian Hale, founder and CEO of consulting firm Mortgage Advisory Partners. It’s just a matter of to what degree.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

For the sector of the mortgage market engaged in non-QM lending, the volatile rate environment is a particular challenge. Those entities can help to buy or warehouse loans for their non-QM lending affiliates for a time to deal with a liquidity challenge. Ca rVal Investors ’ David Pelka. You have to sell at some point.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Refinancing’s represented nearly two-thirds of mortgage loan originations in the first three quarters of 2021, and total refi volume for the year was projected to reach north of $2.2 Lenders will have to “manage expenses and improve customer service in a purchase market,” Tom Wind, executive vice president of consumer lending with U.S.

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Appraisal Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Managing Investments: For investors who own multiple properties, desktop appraisals provide rapid updates on property values. But if for lending, it might be rejected on review by GSE computers or humans. In 2021, local developer Stuart Price snapped up the five-bedroom, four-bath home for $2.5 percent from 0.5 percent from 6.91

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

How the housing market affects the rest of the economy How to approach the current housing market as a seller Final advice for buyers in the current housing market Are buyers pulling out of contracts at the last minute? The Austin market has cooled down significantly since 2021 and early 2022. “If Key takeaways. [00:02:50]

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

And yet another big force in the market, FirstKey Homes , is pulling collateral out of a 2021 securitization deal. KBRA reported last month that FirstKey Homes exercised a so-called “excess collateral release” [ECR] feature for a securitization deal dubbed FirstKey Homes 2021-SFR1.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

5 The time period covered, the third quarter of 2018 through the fourth quarter of 2021, includes all the UAD data available to FHFA when the analysis began. Click here Private money lending – no AMCs, UAD, computer “reviews”, low fees, etc Many appraisers don’t want to do non-lender work such as divorces.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Lenders want a compliant document that allows the loan package to be sold as quickly as possible, while investors want an appraisal that allows for securitization or resale to another downstream buyer. We recently scanned millions of appraisals from 2021 – 2022 for subjective terms. To read more, click here. percent from 6.41

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Will Springer Realtor

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That, in turn, can often weaken the confidence of builders, consumers and investors amid a looming recession. Facebook (Meta) is evolving its office arrangements, leaving space in Seattle and Bellevue and contemplating additional contraction while opening a new lab (Frank Gehry-designed Building X) in Redmond later this year.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 14, 2021

What did we see in 2021 Seattle/King County homeowners that were on the ball likely timed their sales at one of the highest temperatures of market hotness in recent years. days (November 2021). =. Buyers will continue to outstrip sellers by a significant margin but less extreme than in 2021. established at the start of 2021.

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 11, 2023

After nearly a year, the housing sector’s contraction is coming to an end,” notes Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors® chief economist, speaking about the U.S. Existing-home sales, pending contracts and new-home construction pending contracts have turned the corner and climbed for the past three months.” 

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Will Springer Realtor

APRIL 6, 2021

Most other banks sell off the mortgage to others – such as Fannie, Freddie or investors – to clear their ledger and sell more loans. Conventional loans on established places like Insignia or Emerald in Seattle are typically insured by government entities or deep-pocketed investors and run 15, 20 or 30 years. Additional rules apply.

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Will Springer Realtor

JULY 13, 2023

Moody’s Investors Service noted that banks hold approximately half of the $6T in commercial real estate debt, with the largest share maturing within the next three years, according to Reuters. It is lack of labor, land/lots, lumber/materials, lending for builders and land developers and ever-costly legal/regulatory costs,” he said.

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Will Springer Realtor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Economists and investors have been upbeat about how the employment picture has remained mostly resilient in the wake of economic headwinds. These figures pale in comparison to recent years, when, for example, 6.12M sales were recorded in 2021 during the pandemic push for homes and historically low rates.

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Will Springer Realtor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The number of homes going under contract – known in the industry as Pending sales – fell to 2340, an August figure not seen in King since 2010 when there were only 1580 in the heart of the housing crisis. homes in 2021, for comparison. Scary, indeed, but are these signs of a pending housing recession? Bigger Picture The U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While investors of mortgaged securities help dictate their interest rates, the Federal Reserve is behind the scenes influencing the overall lending environment. Seriously though, there must be a ceiling to rising rates that have all but extinguished a robust housing market. higher compared with last year. from this time last year.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2022

Investors will need to quantify and charge for the risk that they will be held accountable for [with respect to] the acts of third-party servicers …,” he said. “It District Court judge in the case, Stephanos Bib as , states in a ruling lodged in late December of 2021. There could be allegations of predatory lending, for example. “.

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