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As mortgage biz suffers, Blend sees unified banking platform as the key to growth

Housing Wire

To reach a key financial goal in 2026, Blend Labs plans to diversify far beyond mortgage. On Tuesday, executives from the San Francisco, California-headquartered mortgage tech firm, which has yet to post a profit since going public in July 2021, shared the firm’s vision for growth during its first investor day.

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Mr. Cooper moves closer to $1 trillion MSR portfolio target

Housing Wire

With the deals, Mr. Cooper has moved closer to its $1 trillion mortgage servicing rights (MSR) portfolio target. Mr. Cooper is paying $324 million in cash and assuming $500 million in outstanding Home Point 5% senior notes due in February 2026. “The of the total). The deal was announced in February.

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UWM’s Matt Ishbia on future of the broker channel

Housing Wire

According to United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO Mat Ishbia, who rallied brokers at the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) Fuse conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, the next year and a half will be a proving ground that will level set the market for brokers, and only some will come out winners.

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UAD Redesign Timeline

Appraiserblogs

Appraisers, to see more about the upcoming new UAD currently in design, read the Updated Timeline link in the message below. My concern at this point is ‘training’ materials will be available in Q4 2024, but actual implementation of the ‘new reporting process’ won’t begin until Q3 2025 with limited production, into 2026.

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The Fed pauses its rate hikes for now, will it last?

Housing Wire

The FOMC also said it would continue to reduce its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities. In fact, mortgage applications picked up in the week leading up to the Fed meeting, signaling a wave of optimism. However, at Mortgage News Daily , mortgage rates were higher on Tuesday, at 7.30%.

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Appraisal Institute Counters Flawed Appraiser Bias Narrative

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, forms to reports modernization, AMCs, earthquake risk, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == == Rare Coastal Contemporary Manchester, MA, for $9M Excerpts: 5 bedroom, 4.5 Mortgage applications increased 3.3 bath, 5,258 sq.ft.

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2024 Updated UAD and URAR – What does It Mean for You?

Appraisal Today

To see the timeline (from 2018 to 2026) PDF, Click Here Too large to include in this newsletter. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on forecasts for economic factors, SFR zoning and more apartments, appraising and rhetoric, opinion, or anecdotal theories, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc.