Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The stock price of Doma Holdings was down 29% on Friday afternoon after the title insurance company posted a $43.7 “In terms of our plans for 2022, we are taking advantage of the momentum in our business and will focus on broadening the use and coverage of our proven Doma Intelligence platform. million from $143.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Duffy first joined Incenter in February 2022 as its senior vice president of national sales. She will now oversee all aspects of the company’s enterprise development team, which is expanding as Incenter seeks to create new solutions and bolster competitive advantages for its clients. “I

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) noted in a briefing on Tuesday that it managed to record another banner year for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund. We are not announcing a mortgage insurance premium change today,” Gordon said. “I

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2022

After a record breaking year in 2021 , 2022 is off to a slow start for “big four” title insurer First American Financial. The firm generated $2 billion in total revenue during the first quarter of 2022, unchanged from a year ago. The Guide to Accelerating Closings in 2022. Net income, however, was a different story.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Speakers: Haley Parker, Area Business Development Manager, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation Arjun Dhingra, Sales and Business Development, All Western Mortgage Doug Wilber, CEO, Denim Social Chelsea Peitz, Founder, Chelsea Peitz Consulting. 02 HWA The Remix: Westwood Insurance Agency. 01 HWA The Remix: DocMagic.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

Tasked with an endless list of functions, this year’s 2022 Marketing Leaders did it all despite market turmoil. Enact Mortgage Insurance. Area Business Development Manager. The post Announcing the 2022 Marketing Leaders! Eric Kushner. VP, Marketing. VP, Brand Strategy. First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation. Erika Martin.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The following profiles for our 2022 honorees include the origin stories of 100 industry elites who continue to have a major impact on the housing landscape. Congratulations to the 2022 HousingWire Vanguards who continue to improve and shape the housing landscape. Matic Insurance. Chief Business Development. Andy Pollock.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The cost of homeowners insurance has surged in Florida as insurance companies have grappled with significant losses due to an increase in natural disasters. And homeowners insurance costs are three times higher in Florida than the national average.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This article is part of our HousingWire 2022 forecast series. After the series wraps early next year, join us on February 8 for the HW+ Virtual 2022 Forecast Event. share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies. of the market, should be too concerned about the rise of the little guy. “A

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Additionally, the cost of homeowners insurance has dramatically increased in Florida as insurance companies have grappled with significant losses due to an increase in natural disasters. As a result, Los Angeles now has more affordable housing units in the pipeline than in 2020, 2021 and 2022 combined.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2022

By some estimates, origination volume will fall in 2022 to about $2 trillion, about half the volume from the record-breaking years of 2021 and 2020. Wells Fargo , one of the nation’s largest banks, had at least 114 layoffs in its home lending business following a drop in revenue in that division in the first quarter of 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change is a growing problem for insurers and homebuyers in affected areas, particularly California, according to a new report from data provider CoreLogic. CoreLogic said insurers’ models should account for the current risk landscape, including climate change considerations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, innovation-driven transparency is helping to make distressed property auctions more accessible for these owner-occupant buyers as well as for local community developer buyers who, it turns out, sell most of their renovated foreclosures to owner-occupants. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in August 2022.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Did you know that in 2022, both younger and older Baby Boomers made up the largest generation of American homebuyers? According to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), there were only 2,063 HECM for Purchase loans endorsed in 2022 — that’s less than 1/10th of 1% of homes sold last year. What is reverse purchase financing?

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2022

The federal banking regulators responsible for overseeing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) obligations of lenders they regulate have released the 2022 list of distressed or underserved rural census tracts where community-development loans, investments and services are eligible for special CRA consideration.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

This environment requires policymakers to double down on the same philosophy private mortgage insurers embody every day: the dual pursuit of facilitating affordable , sustainable access to homeownership while also ensuring systemic safety and soundness. trillion in mortgages are backed by private mortgage insurance. Today, roughly $1.5

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

HousingWire reported that the Sacramento-based lender instituted a round of layoffs in late November 2022, affecting 72 employees , per a document filed with the state’s Employment Development Department. Sources said the changes at Movement come after a shakeup to the sales team’s leadership.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Prior to joining the brokerage , Wallace worked at some of the leading companies in the industry, such as Rocket Homes , Better.com , Opendoor and Farmers Insurance. 2022 to Oct. 2023, she oversaw business development, back-end operations as well as the partner real estate agent network.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Embedded with Curinos’ comprehensive dataset, Polly is currently in development with a suite of competitive data and analytics that will layer into its end-to-end capital markets platform. Since its launch in 2019, the California fintech company has raised about $57 million in three rounds of funding.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Another “Big Four” title insurer announced its fourth quarter earnings and yet again the numbers reached historic highs. Looking ahead, we expect refinance to decline through 2022, as interest rates rise in the outlook for inflation and the expectation for federal reserve to tighten policy throughout the year,” Nolan said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 9, 2023

The rule allows mortgagees to increase the maximum term of an FHA-insured mortgage loan modification from 360 to 480 months following a default. The FHA permitted public comment from stakeholders between April 1 and May 31, 2022, and it credits the input for the decision to move forward with the new policy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Sahi will be involved in all aspects of the corporate strategy, business development, sales and account management, the firm said Thursday. In January 2022, the firm raised $37 million in Series B funding, led by venture capital firm Menlo Ventures. Ellie Mae was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in September 2020.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As professionals are underwriting loans, servicing them or investing in loan portfolios, there is a big increase in the price of homeowners insurance ,” Gallagher highlighted. “And Started in March 2022, the SEC proposal seeks to amend disclosure law to better account for climate risk among public companies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) counseling program was cited as an example. This program provides counseling to all applicants of the federally insured reverse mortgage program, the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program,” the report stated. “Of

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2023

million to settle allegations that it improperly originated and underwrote mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs. Therefore, lenders must follow FHA and VA rules to ensure only loans that meet credit and underwriting criteria are insured or guaranteed by the government.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

million in pretax income recorded during the second quarter of 2022. I would anticipate that we will have a national roll out probably within the next couple of years, as our development efforts progress,” DeGiorgio said. “I annual decrease in title insurance net premiums and fees generated to $649.6 million and a 68.3%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Lawson will also spearhead the legislative, regulatory and bank or nonbank supervisory processes at CSBS and oversee the development and implementation of policies with a goal of advancing financial regulation at the state level. In that role, Lawson was responsible for coordinating public policy development and advocacy efforts.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

As part of its recently launched “ Newsweek Vault ” subsite, which vets financial products and provides analysis from sources judged to be financial experts, the publication assembled a series of pros and cons about reverse mortgages by assessing things including loan terms, borrowing limits, tax and insurance requirements, and reputational issues.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) in 2022 aimed to assess the state of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program over a 20-year period. A study commissioned by the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

31, 2022, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it would conduct a comprehensive review of the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system. savings and loan associations, savings banks, and cooperative banks) and insurance companies. When the FHLB Act was adopted in 1932, membership was limited to mortgage lenders (e.g.,

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2023

million in the third quarter of 2022. It resulted from a big decline in mortgage banking, title insurance revenues and an impairment related to the Title365 segment. . workforce by 28%, including research and development, sales, marketing, general and administrative functions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Yet as surrounding neighborhoods appreciated in value with increased amenities and services, rising costs pushed out the mostly Black, longtime residents — excluding them from the benefits of development.” the collateral) being insufficient, accounts for approximately 3x the national rate ( HDMA 2022 data).

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Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2024

Mortgage Insurers — sent a letter on Monday to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to express concerns about the FHFA’s intent to publish the VantageScore 4.0 historical dataset. These recommendations for additional data are critical to the successful implementation of the VantageScore 4.0 that use trended credit bureau data.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Conversely, slowing home price appreciation can help accelerate the rate of lost equity as it did in 2022, when distressed homeowners lost an average of $1,453 a month. That’s because the unpaid loan balance continues to grow for delinquent mortgages due to unpaid interest, property taxes and insurance.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2022

The FHFA is seeking members who have a background in financing, development, and/or administrative work related to the government sponsored entities and the FHLBs. The 2022 to 2024 plans are to be updated annually, and will focus on barriers to homeownership in Black and Latino communities.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The company also said it “continues to evaluate new products to reach additional segments of the population facing a retirement gap,” and describes recent reverse mortgage industry consolidation following influential industry changes in 2017 and the 2022 bankruptcy of Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF). “As

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the regulator’s agenda will address issues relevant to the housing industry. The CFPB released a final SBREFA report on May 13, 2022. While only a fraction of the total items on the agenda for the U.S.

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