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Has your banking partner come of age?

Housing Wire

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. DB: Warehouse lending has evolved beyond traditional boundaries.

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Kristen Sieffert leads the reverse mortgage presence at The Gathering

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The reverse lending industry’s most prominent attendee — Kristen Sieffert of Finance of America Companies (FOA), parent company of industry-leading lender Finance of America Reverse (FAR) — offered insights into various topics about the reverse mortgage product category. This year, it’s ‘prevail,’” she said.

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Flagstar Bank and the one-stop mortgage shop

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“Flagstar is an originator and servicer that also provides financing solutions through its warehouse and MSR lending businesses,” Smith said. “We Now, with the three companies under one Flagstar-branded umbrella, the bank can offer its clients an even larger array of products and services.

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UWM goes on the offensive with price-match guarantee

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UWM has been outspoken about capturing the opportunity that it sees in the wholesale market, which it believes can be about one-third of the overall mortgage market by 2025. . “Relocks and changes to program, occupancy or property type will be subject to worst-case pricing,” the lender said in a statement Monday.

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Mortgage lenders facing a dark, cold winter

Housing Wire

I was speaking to someone the other day who said, ‘If you’re in this business [mortgage lending], I can’t see a downside to a recession.’” These are the folks who are buying right now, and I you know because some of them are my clients.” We could be down to 60,000 to 70,000 originators by 2025.”

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The next refi boom’s double-edged sword: EPOs

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“For my clients, if rates do get into the 5s, we’re going to jump in [to originate refis]. And people underestimate how much rates have to move to make that beneficial for the clients,” Brian Brown, Rocket Companies chief financial officer, told analysts during an earnings call in August. trillion or $1.7

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Will new products stop the bleeding for mortgage lenders? 

Housing Wire

The obvious starting place for nonbank lenders looking to capture volume is in jumbo lending, executives and analysts said. The investment we make today will have exponential benefits in 2023, 2024 and 2025 and beyond,” UWM CEO and Chairman Mat Ishbia said during an earnings call. ” Just a little less vanilla.

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