Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2024

It devolved into a battle about historic facts, old-school MLS listing books, pronunciation corrections and even references to the kid-friendly restaurant chain Chuck E. The hourlong debate began with both participants discussing their motivations for participating.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

30, or roughly 0.13% of the GSEs single-family conventional book of business. The GSEs serious delinquency rate saw a slight uptick in Q3 to 0.53%, but this rate is still lower than those for loans sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration (3.63%) and Department of Veterans Affairs (2.26%), as well as the industrywide average of 1.55%.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Merritt said that many servicers are in a position to capitalize on their existing book of business if rates drop and borrowers look to refinance in greater numbers, just as they did in the fall of 2024. Mortgage companies that have servicing books have been able to weather the volatility that the higher rates have caused.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The credit profile of Fannie’s overall single-family book posted a weighted average mark-to-market loan-to-value ratio of 50% and a weighted average credit score at origination of 753, Halley noted. Single-family acquisition volume was up 3% annually. The single-family benefit for credit losses was $938 million.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

trillion-plus (in unpaid principal balance) at the end of Q3 after you acquired Flagstar’s mortgage operations, or will Flagstar’s book be added to that total? Bray: Flagstar’s book will be added to that. Sanchez: Is the $1.2 It will be over $1.5 trillion in service to over 6 million customers.We were acquiring MSRs.

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Inman

JANUARY 21, 2025

Real estate agents, stay ahead of the TikTok ban with expert advice from Jessi Healey. Explore alternatives like Xiaohongshu and Bluesky's Flashes and learn how tools like YouTube Shorts can help you adapt and grow your marketing strategy.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The spread on mortgage-backed securities (MBS) trouble many industry professionals, and at a recent roundtable discussion, it spurred an interesting discussion on the degree of risk being absorbed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. At policy panels held by the Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) on Monday in Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I often think of the term “Anti-fragile” from the book of the same name by Nassim Taleb. But underneath all the frenzy, I see a genuine opportunity for us to turn this into a positive and come back even stronger than before.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the third quarter, its servicing book generated total pretax income of $223 million, compared to $221 million in the previous quarter. The company’s estimated book value is $2.9 Rithm reported $97 million in GAAP net income from July to September, compared to $213 million in the prior quarter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Loans sitting on the books cost a lender between $500 and $1,500 per day. Novaprime’s product, dubbed “Loan Quality Platform,” would work for any lender who wishes to sell loans to investors more quickly, Petrén said. That adds up. “We want to make sure is that we’re reducing costs as much as possible.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

While the company’s book value may have come in below investors’ expectations when considering the broader health of the credit markets, the reverse mortgage business has trended positively. “In

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Homebuilders have backed off since the pandemic-driven building boom, with high mortgage rates dampening demand; they’re focused on selling the new homes they have on the books rather than constructing new ones,” Redfin noted in the report.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

Analysts say UWM ‘s servicing book totals roughly $230 billion, and the wholesale lender has multiple subservicing partners. trillion servicing book as of Dec. Big opportunity awaits Any lender whose book is subserviced by Mr. Cooper, however, will be aware of its business model. billion deal. Of Mr. Cooper’s $1.6

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Wade Pfau , professor of retirement income at the American College of Financial Services , has spoken academically on the topic of reverse mortgages as part of a retirement plan, including in dedicated books and with HousingWire s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD) on multiple occasions.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

loanDepot has signed a new joint venture agreement with Smith Douglas Homes , a top-50 homebuilder with a solid book of business in the Southern states.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

The acquisition of Houston -based NRL will strengthen UHM’s book of business in Texas and southwest Ohio in particular. Union Home Mortgage (UHM) on Monday announced its acquisition of Nations Reliable Lending , aka NRL Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Marlene was quick to recommend Richard Fentons book, Go for No! The book gave her simple but effective advice that changed her mindset and her career along with it. Even natural introverts can succeed at cold calling. All it requires is a simple mindset shift and a willingness to put in the reps. Here are the cliff notes.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Bekker explained that the companys technology integrates large language models into a visual and interactive experience, comparing its impact to how “movies did for books” by making information more accessible.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Coaching used to mean developing a program or writing a book. Wilkie: When I think about how AI will impact coaching and real estate and beyond, I see that content means nothing anymore. Now what’s really going to matter is the experience that you wrap around that content.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Due to rising mortgage rates that have slowed demand, homebuilders have retreated since the pandemic-driven building boom; they are now more concerned with selling the new homes they already have on the books than with building new ones. Overall U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 31, 2025

After the acquisition, Rockets combined servicing book will be worth a reported $2.1 Detroit-based fintech platform Rocket Companies has announced the acquisition of Mr. Cooper Group Inc. in an all-stock transaction for $9.4 billion in equity value. trillion across nearly 10 million clients, or one in every six mortgages in America.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We’re speaking with a number of large lenders who are attracted to HomeSafe Second because it’s a way to reengage their servicing book and create a revenue stream from a dormant customer segment.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Paul Kennedys 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers examined how dominant world powers reached extraordinary global influence, only to experience significant declines often due to shifting economic conditions.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Around the same time , Rithm also struck a $720 million deal for Computershare Mortgage Services and its subsidiary, Specialized Loan Servicing , which brought $136 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) to Rithms servicing book. Sculptor added another $1 billion in assets during the past year, according to the 2024 earnings report.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

And the trade-off is that they have to write some percentage of their book and business in higher (risk) wildfire zones, he explained. There are some new regulations that just got approved by the California Department of Insurance which allows the insurers to now reprice their risk based on catastrophic models.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

So a house is simply a book with blank pages. Im ok with that. In fact, lets double down on that sentiment. People dont even want a house. They want a place that is theirs to live out the story of their life. Mortgages are the ink in the typewriter. This year, buyers and sellers are ready to get back to writing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Keller Williams Realty has launched a real estate assistant that is powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) and is trained on the company’s proprietary models, systems, books and training resources. “We The first phase of KWIQ’s rollout addresses this opportunity, streamlining content generation for daily use.”

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

He is also an online contributor to Forbes, Chairman of the Board of Cascade Policy Institute, and the author of The Flexible Stance: Thriving in a Boom/Bust Economy (2016) and Businomics (2007), a book about economics for business leaders.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Recognizing this, savvy lenders have been making efforts to both simultaneously build their pipeline with new business and nurture their existing book of business. As a result, many potential buyers, along with current homeowners looking to refinance, are sitting tight in the hopes that rates will eventually drop.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

While most of Shank’s book of business is tied to VA loans, he says he’s seeing an uptick in renovation loans across FHA and VA channels. I can’t say with certainty whether we’re going to go ahead and see a rate drop as optimistic as what people were quoting last year,” he added.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2024

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2023

The Detroit, Michigan-based lender sold about $20 billion in MSRs to JPMorgan Chase in April, following a decline in its servicing book in the first quarter of 2023. Add Rocket Mortgage to the list of companies selling mortgage servicing rights (MSR) in a difficult operating environment.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 31, 2025

With this acquisition, Rocket will bring its industry-leading mortgage recapture capabilities to a combined servicing book of $2.1 trillion across nearly 10 million clients, representing one in every six mortgages in America.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

To start the conversation, Middleman dives into his early career and his book, “Seeing Around Corners.” The pair discuss Freedom’s adaptability-focused business approach, potential market risks in 2025 and how lenders can prepare for long-term success. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Throughout it all, Murphy said, “Books, God and my wife are my triangle of success.” So, I went to Barnes and Noble, and I started buying real estate books, investment books and financial books. I read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “ Who Took My Money ? That book changed my life.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

Additionally, the plaintiffs allege that Team received $10 million in kickbacks, and that Mary Pfluger, Gary Kellers wife, gave Jonathan Dupree, the southwest regional director, an off-the-books check for agreeing to the market cap cut directive given by Gary Keller.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

MIAC Analytics is marketing a large mortgage servicing rights portfolio on behalf of a lender with a big book of business in California. The portfolio consists of $292.91 million in Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae servicing rights.

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