Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

HousingWire’s virtual demo days are designed specifically to help mortgage industry decision makers identify the technology solutions they need to operate efficiently and securely. I expect the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to average 3%, with the Federal Reserve refraining from any rate increases this year,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2021

The low mortgage rates that propelled the housing market throughout the COVID-19 pandemic will rise later in the year, but they’ll do so gradually, Freddie Mac said Thursday in its quarterly outlook. That will give more homeowners a final opportunity to refinance their mortgages. in 2021 and up to 3.7% Growth was 11.3%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation announced on Tuesday a series of reverse mortgage maneuvers designed to increase the company’s investment in the space. The division’s leadership team will now also include Dan Ventura, who has served at Fairway since 2007 and last year was appointed as VP of reverse mortgage operations.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

In 2021, all housing professionals must be focused on the 3 P’s: Process, Profitability and Purchase. PPP may have meant something different in 2020, but this year the 3 P’s are the guiding light to long-term mortgage success and domination. The Pulse of Consumer Shopping Behavior: Mortgage Purchase, Refi & More.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2021

When mortgage and acquisition activity picked up, marketers created new brand unity between companies. They were there, in the middle of everything, to make sure that brand loyalty would last well beyond 2021. First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation. Princeton Mortgage. A&D Mortgage. Mortgage Capital Trading.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Wells Fargo , once the largest mortgage lender in America, was accused of discrimination through the common industry practice of offering mortgage loan discounts to select borrowers, CNBC reported. CFPB’s probe into mortgage lenders The CFPB’s probe into mortgage lenders was shared back in Fall 2021.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Unlike asking a Magic 8 Ball about the future and crossing your fingers that you get the answer you want, this December/January issue was designed to give as much clarity and insight as possible around what to expect in housing in 2022, so you can enter the next year ready to compete. But what about what’s next for the housing industry?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 2021 Women of Influence winners represent 100 of the most influential women in leadership in the housing economy. More than just breaking records in the housing finance space, the HousingWire 2021 Women of Influence are shattering glass ceilings and leaving a legacy for years to come. Head of Product and Design. Briana Ings.

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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. And that’s really what we’re trying to accomplish with all of this in the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

HomeEquity Bank , Canada’s leading reverse mortgage lender and a federally regulated bank, recently announced the hiring of former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news anchor Peter Mansbridge to serve as its strategic communications consultant. industry practitioners at an industry event in late 2019.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI), a composite index designed to track the housing market and consumer confidence to sell or buy a home, increased in March by 5.2 Mortgage applications decreased 2.2%, according to the March 31 report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. points to 81.7.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach announced an API integration between Mortgage Coach and SaaS technology provider Polly on Thursday. Now, lenders can merge the benefits of our high-performance PPE with Mortgage Coach’s ability to multiply borrower conversion,” said Adam Carmel, founder and CEO of Polly, in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mortgage lender Revolution Mortgage has partnered with Tavant, an AI-powered digital lending company, to integrate Tavant’s Touchless Lending product suite into Revolution Mortgage’s platform. The technology is designed to automate and streamline the underwriting and application processes, per the statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Texas-based independent mortgage bank Thrive Mortgage has signed a letter of intent to acquire the Ohio-based lender American Mortgage Service Company (AMSC). The acquisition will strengthen Thrive’s retail channel and bring with it new territories amidst arguably the most challenging mortgage market since the early 1980s. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2023

a mortgage artificial intelligence firm focused on automated mortgage underwriting decisions, has conducted layoffs as lenders rush to cut costs. Candor is executing a change in strategy to address the ever-changing mortgage market and to pivot along with client operations,” Tom Showalter, CEO of Candor , said in an e-mailed response.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wisconsin-based mortgage lender Waterstone Mortgage Corporation appointed Chik Quintans its new director of digital marketing, the company announced Thursday. Quintans’ professional career spans more than two decades in mortgage lending. In 2021, he was a mortgage banker at USA Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. In 2022 and 2023, quickly rising mortgage rates and shrinking volumes sent shockwaves through the industry and prompted massive job cutbacks. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To reach a key financial goal in 2026, Blend Labs plans to diversify far beyond mortgage. On Tuesday, executives from the San Francisco, California-headquartered mortgage tech firm, which has yet to post a profit since going public in July 2021, shared the firm’s vision for growth during its first investor day.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As mortgage rates sta y below 3% for the 17th consecutive week, a Black Knight report released Friday found that the number of “high quality” refinance candidates continues to climb. Looking at current mortgage rates, Black Knight estimates those 19.4 Low mortgage rates fuel the demand for valuation and settlement services.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

One profiled couple in California hired an interior designer for $20,000, and spent another $95,000 on home modifications designed to more easily accommodate natural limitations to mobility that come from aging. T]here’s a lot of disparity,” she said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

When Curtis Mangus of Premier Mortgage Resources in Meridian, Idaho looked into pivoting into reverse after serving decades in the traditional mortgage business, he asked his managing partner at the lender about its reverse mortgage department. You are the reverse mortgage department,” he said. The partner smiled. “

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

It is shipped from the Boxabl manufacturing facility in Las Vegas and is “designed to unfold into a fully functional dwelling unit in just a few hours,” reducing construction costs and minimizing environmental impacts, according to a company news release.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The White House on Monday announced a series of new initiatives designed to boost U.S. homeownership, alongside data detailing housing aid that has been provided since 2021. New initiatives include allowing homebuyers to leverage income from accessory dwelling units (ADUs), expanding mortgage lending for U.S. New data The U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sagent CARE Sagent’s CARE platform is state of the art technology that provides homeowners with the ability to self-serve their mortgages anytime, anywhere. With tools like applying for mortgage assistance and promotional targeted site messages, CARE helps servicers build lifetime relationships with their homeowners! Get More Info

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) found that mortgage lenders violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and its implementing rule, Regulation B, in a variety of ways, according to the most recent release of its Supervisory Highlights report.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some Federal Housing Administration -approved mortgage servicers have routinely flouted the agency’s loan modification program, according to Washington, D.C. 21 letter that a number of mortgage servicers employed by FHA-approved lenders failed to adequately implement loan modification options the FHA introduced in July.

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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. MBA’s spring 2021 market forecast predicts a record-breaking year, with purchase origination reaching $1.57

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke with Keith Lind, Acra executive chairman and president, and Acra CEO Kyle Gunderlock, about the new program and how it will help borrowers in 2021 and beyond. KL: Rates are at an all-time low, but jumbo mortgages are harder to access for borrowers due to ongoing economic downturn caused by COVID-19.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With ongoing liquidity challenges and a continuing lag in Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) case numbers, reverse mortgage business in 2024 started off with a bit of a whimper. New York passed a law in 2021 that allows for proprietary reverse mortgages to be conducted on co-ops, but HECM loans do not qualify.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule is designed to “[protect] the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation,” the FTC said in its announcement of the rule. It’s not common practice in the mortgage and real estate industries to make use of noncompetes. labor force.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2021

Mortgage rates have increased roughly 50 basis points in the first few months of 2021, in no small part due to fears that inflation will rear its ugly head as the economy rebounds. But the Federal Reserve is staying the course, maintaining the low-rate environment that gave rise to the best year for the mortgage industry in history.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

Although many homeowners and renters continue to feel the economic pressure of the pandemic , they’re growing more confident that they can pay their rent or mortgage, according to the latest consumer confidence survey by Freddie Mac. For the year, 45% expressed concern they wouldn’t make the rent or mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2023

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Home Point Capital did not experience the traditional ceremony to ring the Nasdaq Stock Market bell when the company went public in early 2021. It was basically the best company I’ve ever worked at,” a former underwriter, who joined the company in January 2021, said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A recent lawsuit filed by Banc of California is claiming that mortgage lenders and servicers Sprout Mortgage (now defunct) and Planet Home Lending owe $1.5 Mortgage industry veteran Michael Strauss, Sprout’s founder, is also listed as a defendant. million related to the proceeds of two notes it owned and funded.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2022

With a rapid spike in interest rates, inventory at historic lows, home prices rising at unprecedented levels above income, and a purchase market that is both highly anxious and digitally reliant, mortgage and real estate professionals must be strategic to capture the market opportunity today. To view the complete research, click here.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The raft of legislation designed to spur first-time homeownership in America seems to grow by the minute. Another bill joined the fray, and its sponsors propose creating a new 20-year-fixed-rate mortgage program through Ginnie Mae. The post Dems propose 20-year mortgage for first-gen homebuyers appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While the United States may not have been prepared to combat a deadly virus, a quick and robust response from the Federal Reserve , along with changing consumer preferences, created a perfect storm that resulted in a record year for the housing and mortgage industries. Quite the opposite. Sales of new homes spiked 18.6% bond market.

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