Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Detroit-based lender’s unmatched combination of name recognition, digital infrastructure and consumer technology enabled it to originate more than $670 billion in mortgages in 2020 and 2021, smashing records in the process. billion in 2021. Its parent Rocket Companies rode the wave to a stunning $9.4

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Non-QM borrowers such as those who are self-employed and real estate investors are generally less rate sensitive. In fact, a growing focus is the real estate investor population. We also continue to keep our eye on any disruption in the warehouse lending space and see as an area of potential focus headed into 2024. Census Data.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Redfin announced Tuesday layoffs of 121 employees as it shakes up its mortgage department, including purchasing a lending company. The real estate company entered into an agreement to acquire mortgage lender Bay Equity Home Loans for $135 million, two-thirds in cash and one-third in stocks, Redfin said in a press release and public filing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

HousingWire: We’ve seen multiple predictions of non-QM lending heating up in 2021. We saw and endured COVID force a pause on the business and had to quickly respond and adapt to continue to lend. Angel Oak made it happen thanks to our close connection with investors who trust our loans and lending standards.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Non-QM lenders Angel Oak Mortgage , Acra Lending and Newfi alone currently have at least 130 openings on jobs listings sites. Kidwell said his company is looking for loan processors to identify fraud in non-QM loans, in addition to loan officers. “The area of focus for us right now is hiring LOs,” Lind said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

As part of the merger, Jim Black, the founder of All Cal, will become chief lending officer of InstaMortgage. Black, a licensed mortgage loan officer and broker, will also lead product development, tech partnerships and sales growth. Magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America in 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. It’s also made a push to hire teachers and first responders to be loan officers. and former U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

If there’s a bet to be made on the future of the non-agency lending space, it’s that the adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market pivoting to an up-rate environment. There’s a lot of different reasons why someone falls outside the agency loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The transaction follows Angel Oak Home Loans slashing 15% of its workforce, or 57 employees, in October. billion in volume in the last 12 months through 156 active loan officers and 39 branches, according to mortgage data platform Modex. Of the total volume, conventional loans accounted for 85.7% The lender originated $2.32

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The stock car team is also accusing EPM of breaching the contract by failing to make more than $4 million in sponsorship payments following a “margin call” from its investors. They founded JIM in 2021 to compete in the Nascar Xfinity Series. The company has 13 branches with 50 active loan officers, the data shows.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. That’s going to be a new market for me Lonnie Glessner, loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

While it is true that many nonbanks entered this downturn with a large war chest of cash and capital, this is more than offset by the impact of warehouse and investor covenants, which are causing lenders to move expeditiously to cut costs,” Jim Cameron, Stratmor Group ’s senior partner, wrote in a report published this week. “In million.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

will lay off 77 employees in its Charlotte, North Carolina office come January 2022, a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice filed by the company reveals. Among those getting a pink slip are 49 loan officers, 10 national account managers, seven retail sales managers and seven transaction coordinators.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. Much of this volume was securitized in the 68 deals that came to market in 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. billion in Q2 2022, a 7% increase compared to Q1 2022 and 56% compared to Q2 2021. and Sprout Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

in early 2021 as part of a larger plan to expand its origination reach beyond California — with the goal of creating a national lending footprint. . That plan is now in full motion and, if successful, will double the lender’s origination volume this year, compared to 2021 — most of it in the non-QM space.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

In 2021 alone, 1,440 Austin homes have sold for between $100,000 and $299,999 above asking price, and 72 have already sold for $300,000 or more above asking price, per a recent study from Redfin. In 2020 and 2021, it became especially popular for remote tech industry workers looking to move from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, in California.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall. trillion in new loans in 2020 and $3.9 Labor Department.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Beret Kechian, loanDepot ’s top producer and branch manager, is joining a slew of mortgage loan originators who are cautiously optimistic about the mortgage landscape in 2023. It’s still a volatile market for mortgages, but the goal for Kechian is to get back to the purchase mortgage sale levels in 2021, which were at about $460 million.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, more than 90% of borrowers who closed a loan with fintech mortgage lender Neat Loans opted for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. “It’s obviously not just a flip flop, it’s a pretty big move,” said Luke Johnson, the founder and CEO of Neat Loans. . Not a one-size fits all”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). With efficiency metrics and client outcomes like these it’s no surprise that the company continued to attract capital and investor interest.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

In today’s market, mortgage originators are forced to intertwine different software and technology to support the lending process from start to finish. Because of this, originators are having to mimic technology companies instead of focusing on buying and selling, underwriting credit risk and servicing loans. SitusAMC & ReadyPrice.

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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. At that point, Dodson was actively working on a jumbo loan for friends of his from church. We have the bank statement program, jumbo loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2021

Rocket goes to real estate agents directly and helps them to get licensed to be a loan officer and says ‘we’ll pay you a fee if you don’t send to brokers’… that’s not good for brokers. “Our investors understand our history of growing in all markets. I don’t like that.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. He hit a record $2.47

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

By the end of 2021, the firm said it had invested in 20 proptech companies and its venture investments had produced $355 million in gains. The man spearheading these venture investments is Paul Hurst, who was promoted to chief innovation officer at First American earlier this month. As of Sept.

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Mortgage Real Estate Investing Technology 370

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage lenders are offering discounts on loan pricing to capture borrowers. Mike, a North Carolina-based loan officer, had two loans closing in mid-January. The contrast between the deals was striking. “I have a loan closing today for first-time homebuyers who didn’t really press me on pricing,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With interest rates hitting all-time lows, lenders doubled their origination volume to more than $4 trillion in both 2020 and 2021, hired more staff and ramped up investment in technology to close loans faster. A handful of vendors made strategic acquisitions and acquisitions for capitalization in the fall of 2021.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2021, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO Mat Ishbia set a three-year goal to make UWM the No. 1 and we’re going to do that,” Ishbia told HousingWire in 2021. “I 1 and we’re going to do that,” Ishbia told HousingWire in 2021. 1 lender in the country. I don’t have on my board my goal is to be the No.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Hunsaker said the interest rate that IMBs need to charge the borrowers “in order for them to securitize [loans through the agencies] and make a profit has to be pretty darn high, to the point where it’s going to drive down volume.” “So, because their cost structure has to shrink,” Hunsaker said. “So,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The truth is there are more and more tech elements out there that help real estate investors, be it potential homebuyers, cash-only buyers or iBuyers. HW: How can real estate agents and loan officers collaborate to foster strong relationships with clients despite rising rates? In 2021, Percy.ai At our heart, Percy.ai

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

trillion in loans, about half of 2021’s $4.4 For the homebuilders he is representing, Hale said acquiring a mortgage-lending operation is a smart way to take advantage of “low-hanging fruit,” among other drivers for such an acquisition. loan officers] in pods.’”. trillion to $1.7 trillion. “The

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. About 40% of his business came from refis in the summer of 2021 even when his focus was on purchase mortgages his entire career. The last two years have been good to Christian Dicker.

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