Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

Finance of America Companies on Wednesday told investors that it managed to increase in originations in 2021, but a more competitive landscape reduced margins and, consequently, the company’s net income. billion in 2021, up 9% compared to 2020, mainly due to reverse and commercial businesses. Finance of America funded $35.6

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Transactions in the fix and flip market have been booming in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, up 14% over 2021 and up 58% over 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. More investors keep looking to flip homes … but are making less and less in the process “ ATTOM CEO Rob Barber said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Jeanmonod, Regional Vice President of Sales at Angel Oak, about non-QM lending and the outlook for the second half of 2022. There is not a credit issue in the market right now that is causing volatility – non-QM loans are good performing loans issued to credit-worthy borrowers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Non-QM lending is poised for growth in 2021. HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Fierman, managing partner and co-CEO of Angel Oak, about the non-QM lending outlook for 2021 and how Angel Oak’s “originate to hold” model benefits originators. Now, many investors are once again returning to the non-QM space.

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2023

The fix-and-flip market has seen a boom in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, a 14% increase from 2021 and a 58% increase from 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales last year — 8.4% — involved fix-and-flip investors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Go Mortgage sued its former director of capital markets for “corporate sabotage,” alleging computer fraud, violation of trade secrets, breach of contract and tortious interference with a business relationship. Chikonde, who was hired in January 2021, managed Go Mortgage’s warehouse lines, pricing, hedging and loan sales.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. million in 2021. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies?

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

In 2022’s changing market, non-QM has been a hot topic for many. HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years?

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. America’s fix-and-flip short-term property market is estimated to be worth as much as $68 billion a year, according to F2 Finance. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 15, 2021

SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney’s latest digital mortgage operation Figure Lending closed on a $100 million funding facility from JPMorgan Chase this week. In a statement, Figure said the $100 million loan facility represents another push toward growth in mortgage lending. Mike Cagney, SoFi. billion across these deals.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

The housing market has undergone a significant transformation over the past two years. While a booming market kept brokers busy in 2021, the 2022 housing market has been underscored by rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitical turbulence.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

If it finds “a good company,” the lender is willing to pay a premium to the owners, according to Dan Snyder, the fintech’s founder and investor. In November 2023, Lower announced the acquisition of Colorado-based Universal Lending Home Loans , which became a separate division.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs isn’t changing its strategy to survive a shrinking mortgage market, even though a drop in originations is sapping its revenue stream and forcing it to trim its workforce. For investors, a warning: it means that profitability will take some time to achieve. .”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. billion in the fourth quarter of 2021,” a recent market assessment by ATTOM shows. “The

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Although this issuance is much smaller than the typical balance from Deephaven (about $400 million per MBS in 2019 and beginning of 2020), this officially marks its return to the market. Last spring, Deephaven, one of the first lenders in the non-QM market, announced it was laying off all workers and closing all operations. in Q3 2020.

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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. HousingWire: How is the shift from refi to purchase affecting the non-QM market? But it may not be as sensitive as the more traditional refinance market. And investor guidelines are continually evolving.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

KBRA Analytics , an affiliate of Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), has acquired digital-information service Direct Lending Deals , which offers investors and loan originators coverage of deal data, news and analysis in the direct-lending sector. market,” KBRA’s announcement of the deal states.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Newport Beach, California-based Excelerate Capital , a long-time non-QM lender with a growing market presence, finalized its acquisition of Castle Mortgage Corp. 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. .

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors. Anchor Loans was acquired by investment firm Pretium in November 2021.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

Angel Oak, along with the rest of the non-QM industry, has been forced to make rapid adjustments to ensure liquidity during this highly volatile market,” a company spokesperson told HousingWire. . UWM recently rolled out bank statement loans targeting the self-employed as well as investor loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With record origination volume stretching capacity and a fresh infusion of capital from the public markets en route, a slew of big nonbank lenders are shifting strategies and declining to sell their mortgage servicing rights, which they’d previously relied on to fund their operations. In fact, roughly $70.8

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) capitalized on a booming private-label market in 2021 by sponsoring its inaugural securities transaction this past May, a prime jumbo deal involving 508 mortgages with an aggregate principal balance of $351.9 That’s a strong start for a new issuer. “A UWM is riding that wave.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Austin is still the nation’s hottest housing market, as tech workers continue to flock to the Lone Star State’s capital. 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.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Mack Walker, SVP of capital markets at Deephaven Mortgage , about how the year went for the non-QM sector and what’s in store for the industry in 2024. Due to a tightened credit market and other factors, non-QM has been more in demand and the interest among lenders is growing. Census Data.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

million in a seed round, the Miami-based cryptocurrency lending platform announced on Tuesday that it launched a product that allows investors in Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to use their assets to secure funding for real estate purchases. “The use case for crypto has to go beyond investment potential. Six months after raising $3.5

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pacific Western Bank , the wholly owned subsidiary of PacWest Bancorp , announced Tuesday it had acquired Civic Financial Services , a private money lender that caters to real estate investors. Pacific Western Bank hailed the acquisition as a strategic move into specialized areas of the non-QM market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Publicly traded lending software firm MeridianLink has acquired OpenClose , a fintech company that specializes in residential mortgage software solutions for banks, credit unions and mortgage lenders. In April, MeridianLink paid roughly $28 million to acquire StreetShares , which provides lending technology to banks and credit unions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The current market downturn for mortgage lenders may be shorter than the previous cycles, mainly due to the recent rounds of workforce layoffs imposed by nonbanks. Nonbanks have more than 60% market share of mortgage industry production — and they are more likely than banks to move quickly to reduce capacity. billion in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies laid off 20% of its staff and plans to take its profitable lending business public next year, Bloomberg reported. Figures’ lending business hit a record $900 million in origination and generated $2.7 million in revenue, according to a letter from Cagney to investors and partners in July.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Relief from the rate-driven volume reduction afflicting both the primary and secondary mortgage markets is expected to be elusive for some time to come, at least in terms of any renewed refinancing boost. Consequently, the collateral available to support securitizations in both the agency and nonagency secondary markets has also fallen.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tennessee-based mortgage lender Guaranty Home Mortgage Corporation hired Andy Voyles as executive vice president and director of retail lending. Voyles will be responsible for growing the retail division overseeing sales, operations and marketing as well as building on the existing framework, the company said Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2021

While the non-QM market took a hit during the early part of the pandemic, these loans are making a comeback and are expected to continue to grow in 2021. HousingWire: What does the performance of non-QM in the first half of 2021 tell us about the future of non-QM lending? There is ample growth ahead of us.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million. Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the most challenging mortgage market in well over a decade, executives at Impac have opted to pull back on non-QM products , which represent most of the company’s originations. million loss in second quarter of 2021. million loss in second quarter of 2021. Why non-QM lending is not going away. million in Q2 2021.

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