Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Despite the closed title purchase order volume dropping 36% year over year and the number of closed refinance orders dropping 79% compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, Fidelity National Financial still managed to record a strong Q4 in 2022. For the full year 2022, Fidelity’s title segment recorded revenue of $9.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

In early November, 30-year fixed mortgage rates began a nosedive, declining from near 8% to below 7% in a matter of months before once again starting to rise at the start of 2024. at the end of April, according to HousingWire ’s Mortgage Rates Center. Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot be purchased by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Redfin classified purchases as all-cash when transactions had no mortgage loan information on the deed. High mortgage rates are exacerbating inequality between people who own homes and people who don’t,” Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari said. That’s the highest down-payment percentage since June 2022. in April 2023.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

While mortgage rates will likely fall this year, conversations about how to increase accessibility to homeownership are still top of mind — and should be top of mind — across the real estate industry. Accounting for geography, differences in title and settlement costs across groups of borrowers were not “economically meaningful.”

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

When industry veteran Michael Strauss abruptly shut down Long Island-based Sprout Mortgage in early July, there was uproar. There were no severance packages, and even health insurance was canceled retroactive to May 2022, leaving some on the hook for huge medical bills. Shocked employees didn’t receive their last paychecks.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The firm announced Wednesday that it has acquired Denver-based digital mortgage automation and point-of-sales software company Floify. According to Porch, approximately 70% of Floify’s transactions this year were on home purchases, which is expected to increase in 2022. The acquisition cost Porch about $76.5

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs laid off 10% of its workforce amid major headwinds in the mortgage industry. The company, whose white-label technology powers mortgage applications on the websites of major lenders such as Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank , expects to incur about $6.7 million in annualized savings.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last week of the calendar year is usually a slow time for the mortgage industry, but 2022 was something else. Mortgage applications decreased 13.2% That’s because costs for borrowers were higher, reflecting the mortgage market’s response to the Federal Reserve ‘s tightening monetary policy.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

FundingShield’s API driven fitnech services allow lenders, investors, homebuyers and title companies to confirm wired funds are going to intended recipients and transactions are free of impact from cyber fraud, phishing, business email compromise, or title fraud. increase in issues with proof of insurance in Q2.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

Mortgage rates rose slightly this week ahead of the Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee ‘s rate hike. Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, which focuses on conventional and conforming loans with a 20% down payment, shows the 30-year fixed rate averaged 6.81% as of July 27, up from last week ’s 6.78%.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Miami-based fintech Milo has closed $10 million in cryptocurrency mortgages since unveiling the product earlier this year, the company announced early Tuesday. 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. or pursue refinancing.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

San Francisco-based fintech Polly has hired Parvesh Sahi, a former executive from ICE Mortgage Technology , as chief revenue officer to scale the business in a highly competitive mortgage environment. In January 2022, the firm raised $37 million in Series B funding, led by venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Smart Rate Mortgage, LLC is no longer licensed as a residential mortgage company in Illinois. Smart Rate marked Strauss’s return to the mortgage market after abruptly shuttering Sprout Mortgage in July 2022. 3, indicating a voluntary surrender. Strauss’s restriction to do business started Oct.

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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 15, 2023

One day after Signature Bank collapsed , an affiliate of loanDepot moved $225 million of cash balances to a large money center bank, the mortgage company disclosed Wednesday morning. The Company still maintains fully insured custodial deposit accounts at Signature,” the document says. But in 2022, the lender originated just $53.7

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Of the $1 billion total, $730 billion has been deployed since 2022, and the company has issued more than 10,000 HEIs in total as of January. homeowners with outstanding mortgages, or some 63% of all homes, equity tied up in real estate jumped by 6.8% In May 2023 , Hometap launched an online portal called the Home Equity Dashboard.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Thursday was a big day for title firm earnings, with three of the Big Four title insurers reporting their third-quarter 2023 earnings. The day began with Stewart’s Q3 2023 earnings call with investors and analysts. million in Q3 2022 to $14.0 million in Q3 2022 to $14.0 million net income in Q3 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The fees paid to the mortgage-backed security (MBS) investor and lender are next with the accumulated cost of the annual interest payments made to the investor(s) that purchased the MBS bond containing the mortgage, and the lender’s net origination charges at closing plus the accumulated value of the excess interest the lender charges for profit.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2023

For Old Republic , the softer market results in total revenue falling from $2.207 billion in Q1 2022 to $1.759 billion in Q1 2023. The title segment also saw its pretax operating income fall from $81 million during the first quarter of 2022 to $17 million in the first quarter of this year. million, compared to $306.3

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2023

Mortgage executive Michael Strauss and his company, Smart Rate Mortgage , have appealed a decision from an Illinois regulator to suspend their licenses to operate in the state. HousingWire reported in January that Strauss was ready to start a new mortgage company after he registered Smart Rate in Florida.

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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 15, 2024

Established in 2022, the real estate venture carved out a niche focusing on healthcare properties in the $1 million to $15 million price range – including those for behavioral, physical and mental health care. So we’ll look for him to leverage his relationships into access to investors. Shant has an incredible network.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. Mortgage executives project that number to remain steady or even tick up in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

is the latest former business partner to sue Sprout Mortgage in a suit filed six months after the mortgage lender abruptly closed its doors. Loan America, a full-service mortgage company, relies on warehouse loans or lines of credit for loan funding, similar to many other non-QM lenders. California-based Loan America, Inc.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A regulator in Illinois has suspended the MLO license of industry veteran Michael Strauss and the license for his mortgage company, Smart Rate Mortgage, essentially blocking the company from operating in the state, according to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS). Strauss agreed to pay a $2.45

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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 11, 2023

A number of players in the industry benefit from the risk data, including real estate investors who need additional insights to make informed decisions. This may give investors pause as to whether a particular real estate investment is a sound one.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Even with the uncertainty of where the housing market and mortgage rates are headed in the next few months, Nolan said this underlying demand makes him feel cautiously optimistic about the future of the real estate industry as a whole. While the title segment’s revenue dropped 27% year over year to $1.9

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Managing a profitable mortgage business can be challenging in the best of markets. Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) are valuable assets for mortgage lenders when origination business is slow. But lenders must also consider mortgage originator’s loan product innovation. of all mortgage applications.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Dallas-based Comerica Bank has decided to “organically exit” the mortgage banker finance business following the tumult in the banking industry that threatened the nation’s top warehouse lenders. Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) first reported on the topic. These loans are also highly secured and collateralized.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Nonbank mortgage lender and servicer Mr. Cooper has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the investment management firm Roosevelt Management Company, LLC., The private New York-based company, founded in 2008, manages third-party capital on behalf of insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds and other investors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Stocks fell Thursday as Russian troops launched a full-scale attack in Ukraine, and at least in the short-term, the turmoil could lower mortgage rates in the U.S. During large-scale disruptions, investors often flee to safer options, such as U.S. Treasury notes, bonds and mortgage-backed securities. Sponsored Video.

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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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