Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

“Following the closing of the [deal], FAM will no longer operate in the business of originating business purpose loans to residential real estate investors. FOA announced its intention to exit the forward mortgage originations business in late 2022 by winding down the operations of Finance of America Mortgage.

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

While other “big four” title insurers discussed the “transitional period” in the housing market during their first quarter 2022 earnings calls with investors, Old Republic International Corp. ’s During the first quarter of 2022 , Old Republic generated a total revenue of $2 billion, up slightly from $1.98

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Nominations for HousingWire’s TECH100 award are now open through Friday, December 23, 2022. Among this impressive list of submissions, companies like 2022 TECH100 honoree Voxtur are working to improve the entire lending lifecycle. Jim Albertelli: We aim to improve every critical touchpoint in the lending lifecycle.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Typically, the company does not hold such loans for more than two weeks, instead selling them to a group of investors – including Sprout Mortgage. “On information and belief, Sprout had become insolvent on or before January 2022 and was unable to meet its obligations toward Plaintiff.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Company still maintains fully insured custodial deposit accounts at Signature,” the document says. “We It is now controlled by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). But in 2022, the lender originated just $53.7 million in cash on hand at the end of 2022, down 24.5% loanDepot share was trading at $1.78

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Accomplice led the round with participation from repeat Orchard investors FirstMark , Revolution Growth , First American , Juxtapose and a syndicate of new investors. It also launched its lending division, Orchard Home Loans, in July. Its rival, Knock , shifted its focus to lending around the same time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2022

Xactus will add flood services to its list of verification solutions with the acquisition of MassiveCert , a software company that provides flood zone determinations for insurance, lending and real estate. Up until now, Xactus obtained data from third parties. Servicers, are you prepared for hurricane season?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

While purchase locks showed significant improvement month over month, the volume is 40% down compared to March 2022. The disproportionate surge in purchase lending pushed the refi share of the market mix down to a current cycle low of just 13%. before dropping to 6.4%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

There were no severance packages, and even health insurance was canceled retroactive to May 2022, leaving some on the hook for huge medical bills. with a start date on August 1, 2022, in Jacksonville, Florida, according to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). Shocked employees didn’t receive their last paychecks.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Struggling digital mortgage lender Better.com is teaming up with secretive big data firm Palantir to create a proprietary loan platform that is says will enable Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and mortgage investors to make “richer and deeper data-driven mortgage capital allocation decisions.”. million profit during the same period in 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

The lender’s 30-year crypto mortgage is designed to make it easy for investors to use their digital holdings to acquire homes in the U.S. The company started rolling out its crypto-mortgage product in April of 2022 and has since added 20 employees, company representatives said, for a total of about 40 employees.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Despite this increase, First American’s newly appointed CEO , Ken DeGiorgio, said on an earnings call with investors that everyone at the company is proud of these achievements. billion in revenue from its title insurance and services segments, a 13% year-over-year increase. The post First American reports record breaking year?

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

It follows a request from the shuttered lender to halt the agreement due to an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed by three creditors. New Wave Lending Group , JMJ Financial Group and EF Mortgage filed on July 5 an involuntary petition against Sprout under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code in a New York court, claiming the lender owes $1.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite 2020’s pause in originations and securitizations, the 2021 outlook for non-QM lending is promising. Investors are returning to the space with more confidence, and new investors like private equities and insurance companies are showing interest. There are also increased opportunities for non-QM originations.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Volatility in the Treasury market, which trades at a shifting spread below that of mortgage rates, also translates into uncertainty among housing market investors. Market observers say this normally leads to investor hesitancy and a tendency to keep more money parked on the sidelines.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Add Homepoint to the list of lenders entering the non-QM market in 2022 amid a fall in origination volume. . The wholesale lender is preparing to launch two non-qualified mortgage products this year, including bank statement and investor cash flow loans. million. . .”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

The obvious starting place for nonbank lenders looking to capture volume is in jumbo lending, executives and analysts said. Homepoint told HousingWire in March that it was considering including bank statement and investor cash flow loans in its portfolio. ” Just a little less vanilla. and Sprout Mortgage.

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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. Industry observers say the first few months of 2022 will represent a transition period to restore the supply and demand equilibrium in the mortgage industry, putting pressure on the stocks of the country’s biggest lenders. “We

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Meanwhile, mortgage lenders are still trying to calm down their investors and business partners. Client funds are held in insured deposit accounts at a mix of money centers and regional banks, the company said. Still, homebuyers took advantage of declining rates provoked by the turbulence and applied for home loans. ”

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

trillion in origination volume and a continuation of tight lending spreads. Then, by late Q1/early Q2 2021, pricing wars were erupting in various channels, margins were falling (rapidly), and the industry was getting ready for a decrease in lending activity in the back half of the year. Entering 2020 the market was expecting <$2.0

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

Two other companies have announced the product since December, including Miami-based digital lender Milo and Toronto-based cryptocurrency lending platform Ledn. Cagney said it is realistic to think Figure will reach between $500 million to $1 billion in origination volume in 2022. The prime jumbo rate is currently at around 5%.).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Switzerland-based global lender Credit Suisse Group AG had a rough start this week after its stock was beaten down by 11%, the value of its riskiest debt fell more than 10% and the cost of purchasing derivatives insuring against the bank defaulting rose sharply. The lender recorded a net loss of nearly $1.9 this year through September. “The

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Listing Spark

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Brandon Smith, who has over 13 years of investing and lending experience, specializes in owner financing and has developed a successful system for sourcing deals and minimizing risk. In this episode, we’ll learn more about his approach, how he finds and closes deals, and best practices for working with banks and private investors.

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most appraisers are experiencing a significant slowdown in mortgage lending work due to rapidly increasing mortgage rates which are slowing down the housing market. I have seen a slowdown in my lending work also. Half my work is non-lending work, and that’s been a blessing. So what can we do?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2022

To boot, one of the first financing transactions on record was made in January 2022 by technology firm TerraZero. Lending is lending. Similar to consumer lending, you may consider a simplified tradeline-level AUS scorecard to deliver an instant decision to applicant(s). It was a $45,000 purchase in Decentraland.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

billion in total assets) — which as of yearend 2022 ranked respectively as the seventh and 14 th largest warehouse lenders nationally based on market share, according to industry publication Inside Mortgage Finance. Even a solid lending line, however, isn’t bulletproofed against a systemic industry shock.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Servicers, lenders and investors dealt with a tsunami of 7.7 Goldstone, who is president of Capital Markets & Lending at BSI Financial Services , estimates that between 20% to 25% of borrowers in BSI’s servicing portfolio have been non-communicative, he told HousingWire. of the U.S. population. An army of door-knockers.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

Non-QM lender Acra Lending is projecting mortgage originations will increase in 2023 to about $2.6 The consolidation in the non-QM lending space, which has allowed Acra to expand its market share. “So, They’re not doing the lending that they were, and I think that is a tailwind for us. billion, up from $2.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We That started in Q4 of 2022, so it’s been about six quarters at this point, and we predicted it would last 24 to 26 months,” Salmanson added. “So,

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

.” According to consumer protection lawyers, advocates, and housing counselors, the expectation is that some state programs will be up and running sometime in the first quarter of 2022. The recent experience with state distribution of rental assistance and unemployment insurance is perhaps a preview of the challenges ahead.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

mortgage lender in 2022, said it enhanced its financial position by accessing additional borrowing capacity from the Federal Reserve Bank and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Its consumer deposits have an average account size of less than $200,000, compared to the standard insurance amount by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of $250,000.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Investors provide capital necessary for many families to fulfill their aspirations of living in a house whether renting or owning. rent of a single-family home is only 21% more than the average rent of an apartment in 2022, according to World Population Review. How can investors help with homeownership? were built before 1980.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Lenders can certainly make any loan product from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, or for that matter any government-insured loan product, available to their borrowers. As we move into 2022, purchase money mortgage loan business will be the only avenue for growth. Meeting borrowers where they are in 2022.

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Listing Spark

OCTOBER 13, 2022

00:02:50] Peaking into the Fall 2022 Austin housing market. The Austin market has cooled down significantly since 2021 and early 2022. 00:08:58] Overview of other major Texas housing markets in Fall 2022—DFW, Houston, San Antonio. The bubble burst last time because we had crazy lending. Episode highlights. It was crazy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Busch is vice president and senior mortgage banker at First Savings Mortgage Corporation , a Virginia-based lender that produced $2 billion in mortgages in 2022, less than half the $4.2 The FHFA’s conforming loan limit was a baseline of $647,200 in 2022, and $726,200 in 2023.) billion in 2022, down 41.3% from June 2022.

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