Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s going to be competitive — thin margins, little business and LOs getting out of the industry,” Dave Krichmar, banker at Legend Lending Corporation, said of the mortgage industry in 2023. It’s positive news for an industry that has recently dealt with a lackluster amount of inventory.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Larry Steinway, former senior vice president of lending and branch manager at Illinois-based Guaranteed Rate , has taken on a new challenge to expand the Ohio-based Revolution Mortgage footprint in the Chicagoland market. It’s a different approach to lending.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

After two of the most challenging years in recent history, economists and analysts project a shift in the mortgage market toward the end of 2023, Hoff said. “Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. Meanwhile, economists at Fannie Mae expect rates to end 2023 at 6.7%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

HousingWire: What were some of the challenges faced by lenders in 2023, and what is the outlook for 2024? Amanda Phillips: 2023 was a year of trials and tribulations for financial institutions. While the challenge of low housing inventory persists across the country, I have a feeling loan officers will be busier.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

The origination activity will cease effective July 31, 2023, but all outstanding mortgage loans will continue to be serviced in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreements. However, its monthly production declined by a third during this period when the market faced surging mortgage rates and low inventory levels.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates in the 6% range have frozen the housing market, forcing loan officers to find business outside their wheelhouses. Business is at a “dead stop,” said a retail loan officer in Michigan. That’s going to be a new market for me Lonnie Glessner, loan officer at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

When mortgage rates rose and demand for lower-priced mortgages grew, Kirby saw opportunities in the wholesale lending channel. Nothing in the mortgage industry is easy right now (…) With the broker model, you’ve got so many outlets to send these loans to that it’s really easy to find a home for most borrowers.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Lenders point to cost-cutting as their top business priority amid the mortgage industry facing a number of challenges – including high home prices , tight inventory of homes available for sale and interest rate hikes. Surveyed lending executives had a pessimistic outlook toward the economy.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

The company had 227 active loan officers and originated $830 million in the last 12 months. million in Q2 2023, an improvement from the loss of $37.2 Of the total origination volume in the period, purchase mortgages accounted for 82% and refis consisted of 15%, the data shows. million in the previous quarter.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Beret Kechian, loanDepot ’s top producer and branch manager, is joining a slew of mortgage loan originators who are cautiously optimistic about the mortgage landscape in 2023. Combine that with the lack of inventory in New Jersey and bidding wars are back, Kechian said in an interview with HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Mortgage lenders are betting on down-payment assistance programs, buy-down options and renovation products to provide brokers opportunities to win in a market with mortgage rates nearing 8%, a lack of inventory and high home prices. The lender, based in South Dakota, offers conventional, FHA and VA loan products, as well as bridge loans.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall. trillion in new loans in 2020 and $3.9 trillion in 2023.

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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. That offering, Unlock HEA Trust 2023-1, is slated to close this week.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2023

The Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO believes that 2022 and 2023 are equally challenging years, but the market will improve in 2024. What does Ishbia think about surging mortgage rates , lack of housing inventory and monetary and policy pressures ? I think 2022 and 2023 are equally tough years.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

There are now fewer possible borrowers considering refinances due to the increased interest rates, while most potential purchasers are encountering low inventory that has led to multiple bids on properties, cash offers and ongoing searches. Ravi Correa is Chief Financial Officer at Angel Oak Lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. The closer, the better.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“At the end of the day if mortgage rates come down, I don’t just think that’s gonna solve the inventory problem right away,” said Ben Cohen, managing director at Guaranteed Rate. But a combination of factors – high home prices , lack of inventory , elevated rates — temper expectations for even a moderately strong year.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

That dour performance mirrors what’s happening in the primary mortgage market — where origination volume is down drastically year to date in 2023. So, that’s why you’ve see them [IMBs] all cut material amounts of headcount in their origination channels and their loan officers, etc., KBRA projects that 2023 RMBS 2.0

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

What does the top-producing lending officer (LO) in the country have to say to other mortgage lenders? During the Peak Performers sessions, Weaver will share his 10 points to high-level loan originations. HousingWire: What do lending executives need to understand when it comes to supporting top producers? 1 LO in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Most of the publicly traded IMBs cut costs in the first half of 2023, and several pledged to keep sharpening their knives. billion in mortgage loans in the second quarter of 2023 “despite a historic decline in industry-wide origination volume during 2023,” according to CEO Mat Ishbia. UWM originated $31.8

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A top-tier borrower with a 780 FICO score and a 25-30% down payment for a single-family vanilla 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was quoted 6.875% on Thursday, said Larry Steinway, senior vice president of mortgage lending and branch manager of Revolution Mortgage. “We trillion as of Q3 2023, nearing its 2022 peak. “We’ve

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2022

With a deadly combination of low housing inventory, reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation in mortgage tech is expected. With a deadly combination of the tight housing inventory , reduction in refis and surging mortgage rates, consolidation seems to be the natural path.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

We also sought input from industry experts, lenders and loan officers. Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) data shows that First Republic held the jumbo crown in the first quarter of 2023, with $3.7 billion in the first quarter of 2023, down 31.6% IMF data suggests BofA’s production in Q1 2023 was $2.8 year over year.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

The first category is real estate credit, which covers most establishments focused on lending with real estate as collateral. The second category is mortgage and non-mortgage brokers, which includes establishments that facilitate lending by bringing borrowers and lenders together.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Through Aspire, Redwood plans to directly originate HEIs by leveraging the company’s nationwide correspondent network of loan officers and establishing direct-to-consumer origination channels, the company said. We saw banks getting out of risky credit mortgages like option ARMs and some subprime lending happening back then.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Until mid-2022, 65% of Busch’s pipeline were jumbos , conventional loans that exceed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘s purchase standards , as set by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The FHFA’s conforming loan limit was a baseline of $647,200 in 2022, and $726,200 in 2023.) Jumbos represented 22.7%

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Mortgage lending is very, very cyclical. To read more about this topic from the March 2023 newsletter, plus 2+ years of previous issues, subscribe to the paid Appraisal Today. After the economy produced 800,000 jobs in the first two months of 2023, they shifted the forecast to a slight recession during the second half of the year.

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