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

MARCH 16, 2022

Interest in residential mortgages fell 1.2% for the week ending March 11 as mortgage rates rose to their highest levels since May 2019, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association ‘s latest survey. “Investors are weighing the impacts of rapidly increasing inflation in the U.S. of total applications.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The decision to exit the forward mortgage business hit Finance of America Companies hard in the third quarter of 2022. FoA announced the shutdown of Finance of America Mortgage , its forward mortgage business, in late October, becoming the largest originator to do so this cycle. HousingWire first reported on the topic.

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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

APRIL 7, 2022

Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. In 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, he landed a job at secretive big data startup Palantir , where he learned that the $10 trillion mortgage industry was still in the Stone Age technologically. It’s a stock that’s in short-term mortgage jail.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“We are excited about how we are set up for 2024 and beyond,” CEO Carrie Wheeler told investors and analysts listening to the firm’s Q4 2023 earnings call on Thursday evening. Indicative of Opendoor’s scaled-back approach to business was the fact that it bought just 11,246 homes in 2023, compared to 34,962 homes in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

Homeowners collectively nationwide now have more than $10 trillion in tappable equity (equity beyond a 20% cushion) tied up in their properties, according to the Black Knight Mortgage Monitor. Eight of those securitization deals have gone to market since 2022, including three so far in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a counterclaim against Jesse Iwuji Motorsports (JIM) last week for allegedly breaching a sponsorship contract. The Atlanta-based mortgage lender is accusing the stock car racing team of breaking the agreement by changing the driver of the car starting in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

California-based Pennymac launched a product that can freeze mortgage rates as many as 90 days, in a bid to attract more borrowers to the market amid volatile rates. Pennymac is the latest mortgage lender to freeze rates for borrowers. The product does not require a property address to guarantee a mortgage rate.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures that occurred over the last week have caused even more uncertainty within the mortgage industry. Meanwhile, mortgage lenders are still trying to calm down their investors and business partners. ” The latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) survey proved Deitch right.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. Northpointe was the 24th largest correspondent lender , according to Inside Mortgage Finance.

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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. rebranded as Rithm Capital ). I think in 2023, we’re going to see rates higher for longer,” Toohig concludes.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The PLS transaction, called UNLOK 2022-1, involves $144 million of unrated senior Class A notes, $18 million of mezzanine Class B securities and $18 million of mezzanine Class C securities. All investors in the transaction were first-time participants in securitizations backed entirely by home-equity agreements [HEAs].”.

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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. Driven by a desire to achieve greater scale and gain access to cheaper capital, nonbank mortgage lenders dove headfirst into the public markets during the Covid-19 boom. Investors were nonplussed. Finance data.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The latest weekly survey data from Freddie Mac shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage decreased four basis points last week to 6.66%, after jumping 40 basis points in the previous week, reflecting volatility due to the ongoing economic uncertainty. For jumbo loans, it went from 6.01% to 6.14% in the same period. All about the spread.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison expects to bring three additional securitization deals to market in 2022, according to a company executive.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market continues to look bleak for 2023. This year, RMBS issuance volumes are expected to contract further from 2022 due to the impact from elevated rates, high inflation and recession possibilities. .

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

And it’s led to several sleepless nights for mortgage loan originators and mortgage executives. Such volatility has triggered turbulence in the mortgage market. The mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market went “no-bid” on Friday. Consequently, mortgage rates leapt like they hadn’t in decades.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Top-producing loan officer Christopher Keelin has taken his 80+person team over to CrossCountry Mortgage to “take advantage” of the lender’s technology while scaling his business. Keeling also previously held the role of branch manager at Advisors Mortgage Group. They (investors) are not scared of interest rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas , Ginnie Mae has filed its response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) saying the warehouse lender lacks standing and discounts the authority the government has to extinguish a lender from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2022

Austin-based mortgage tech platform UpEquity laid off around 10% of its workforce last week, proof that the rising interest rate landscape hurts real estate technology companies, too. . The company then receives monthly payments with interest from the homebuyers, who can avoid going through a bank to get a mortgage. In October, ??the

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Atlanta-based Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) has decided to focus its investments on the wholesale channel amid the most challenging mortgage market in decades. Meanwhile, with competitive pricing, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) reached an estimated 54% market share at the end of 2022. “Wholesale is growing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

And existing home sales crashed in 2022 from a peak of around 6.5 The lack of sellers is also a demand problem and what we saw after June of 2022 is that sellers called it quits earlier and faster in the year than usual, resulting in total existing home sales totaling 5,030,000 to end 2022. The days on market were too low.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

.” Still, he firmly believes it is important to seek out fresh perspectives amid the recent rise in mortgage rates. Like its peers, loanDepot is struggling amid a contracting mortgage market. million loss in the third quarter of 2022, when origination volumes declined to $12.4

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This article is part of our Housing 2022-23 forecast series. The last year has been a completely split housing market — one that started with the lowest inventory NAR has recorded dating back to 1999 and one with low mortgage rates. Due to the recent rise in mortgage rates, homeowners may just stay put.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Delray Beach, Florida-based mortgage lender ResMac, Inc. It’s all part of a strategy to not only survive the most challenging mortgage market in decades, but to come out of it stronger. It’s all part of a strategy to not only survive the most challenging mortgage market in decades, but to come out of it stronger.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Issuance of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is projected to contract significantly over the next two years in the face of a housing-market contraction, but the actual supply of MBS available for purchase in the private market is expected to swell to record levels over that period.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The pace of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issuance in the nonagency market slowed considerably in July and August as rising interest rates and Federal Reserve MBS-purchase policy have combined to dampen the momentum exhibited in the private-label space in 2021 and over the first half of this year. billion over the same period in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2022

That bolt-like spike in rates put many mortgage lenders into crisis mode. 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. Interest rates jumped by more than 2 percentage points over the first quarter of 2021.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

HousingWire: According to ATTOM Data Solutions‘ latest foreclosure market report, bank repossessions climbed 9% in the first half of 2023 compared to the first half of 2022. Michael Chew: First, consider the first half of 2022; some areas were still dealing with or just coming out of pandemic -related foreclosure moratoriums and restrictions.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

June was a rough month for jumbo-mortgage securitizations, with only two private-label offerings brought to market valued at roughly $821 million. The two jumbo-loan deals that did make it out of the gate last month were issued by Rocket Mortgage and J.P. Morgan Chase via the Rocket Mortgage Trust and J.P. million and the J.P.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market took a beating in 2022, nearly stalling as the year came to an end — on the heels of interest rates jumping more than 3 percentage points over the first half of 2022. As we turn the corner into 2023, however, the landscape so far looks brighter for the RMBS market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Meanwhile, investors are taking steps to acquire the business. For instance, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — who recently injected capital into Flagstar Bank ’s struggling owner, New York Community Bancorp — announced his intention to form an investor group to purchase the video app. “In

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

The loan quality of mortgage pools backing private-label securitization (PLS) deals has remained solid this year through the end of June, even as deal volume slowed appreciably between the first and second quarters. . For the final week of June, the conforming 30-year fixed mortgage hovered in the 5.7%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . million in January of 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

What happens when the Federal Reserve begins pulling back in a serious way from the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market that it has helped to prop up through billions of dollars in bond purchases since the start of the pandemic in 2020 — to the point where it now holds a $2.7 You don’t know what investor demand is going to be.

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