Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

The winning buyer also waived appraisal and financing contingencies and dropped off cupcakes that matched the interior colors of the house, which was a nice touch because the seller is an artist and the home is unique and colorful.” . “I recently sold a home in Austin that was listed at $565,000 and closed at $715,000,” Dawson said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Roger Stotts: In some respects, our current challenges are the same ones that good servicers have always faced: doing the right thing for the customer, protecting the interests of the investor and doing these things the right way, which means compliantly and in the most cost-efficient manner possible. Treating our people right.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Over the years, we’ve been more focused on organic growth, one loan officer at a time,” said Mike Brennan, who became Movement’s president in January 2021. The company has 1,810 loan officers and 482 branches, Modex data shows. . In total, the company has 15 clients. ” . .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

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. That was just over 45% of the company’s mix, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. The closer, the better.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. Jumbo loan volume increased 3.1% At Finance of America , reverse mortgages have been a ??

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Kidwell said his company is looking for loan processors to identify fraud in non-QM loans, in addition to loan officers. The hiring trend at non-QM lenders stands in sharp contrast to recent layoffs at some consumer-direct lenders, which specialize in conventional refinance loans.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Touchless Lending Asset Analysis will identify, calculate, then determine borrower eligibility and derive qualified income across bank statements based on the investor or program-specific requirements,” Hemanthkumar Jambulingam , director of fintech product management at Tavant, said.

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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. Finance data. In the next few quarters, we should see a more challenging market,” Bose George, mortgage finance analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) , told HousingWire. Investors were nonplussed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But of course, we have a lot of clients that move out of condos once they have kids and get married. They would take a line of credit or an equity loan or a personal loan. The only refis we’ve seen are either late financing type refis or a divorce situation, [and] literally nothing else. I do see that changing, though.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

After that initial period ends, rates adjust periodically based on a benchmark or index, such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, known as SOFR, based on actual transactions in the Treasury repurchase market. It’s not a bad thing for borrowers, lenders, and loan investors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2021

“No one system today can handle pricing across the entire life of the loan,” Soukoulis said. In 2021, SitusAMC, a provider of technology and services to the real estate finance industry, acquired ReadyPrice, a mortgage technology company that connects mortgage loan originators (MLOs) and lenders to streamline loan origination.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). With efficiency metrics and client outcomes like these it’s no surprise that the company continued to attract capital and investor interest.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

OriginPoint will originate mortgages for clients of Compass’s real estate brokerage, as well as any other brokerage, making loans available to a broad consumer audience,” per the release. OriginPoint has a Chicago address, and it is actively looking for loan officers, according to OriginPoint’s website.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Investors asked for higher premiums to invest in these assets amid a flight to quality caused by the expectation of higher U.S. “Even though the market may have priced in some of the rate change already, the volatility is just requiring additional yield to be provided to investors to accommodate for the changes going on.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In his 20 years in mortgage banking, no year has compared to 2023 in terms of difficulty, said Ben Cohen, Guaranteed Rate ’s managing director and a top-producing loan officer. It was another brutal year, pushing loan originators to work longer hours, close loans faster while diversifying their mortgage product offerings.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

HousingWire interviewed a dozen loan officers and mortgage executives about their strategies for 2024, which mortgage products they expect to be in demand, and the magic rate needed to get sellers and buyers back in the market. If they want to know what’s going on with rates, their loan, AI can give them an answer.

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Listing Spark

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They also talk about the different types of financing available and how to structure a successful real estate investment. She has been with the company for 12 years and enjoys helping her clients be successful. Stallion Funding has established relationships with builders, land developers, and investors in the Austin area.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Real estate investment trust Redwood was founded in the early 1990s as the need for more private investors in the mortgage market grew. “We would partner with banks to buy their loans and securitize them so the banks could recycle their capital.” Banks will always serve their best clients.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mortgage lenders are offering discounts on loan pricing to capture borrowers. Mike, a North Carolina-based loan officer, had two loans closing in mid-January. The contrast between the deals was striking. “I have a loan closing today for first-time homebuyers who didn’t really press me on pricing,” he said.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mortgage lenders and loan officers said they are navigating the challenging landscape by going “back to the basics,” which means offering 30-year fixed loans to borrowers with the expectation that they will be able to refinance down the road. to its clients. When asked why U.S.

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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 We took those same investors that are our partners, and we just aligned specific products to them.” year over year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

HousingWire recently spoke to Finance of America Mortgage President Bill Dallas about viable alternative options for homebuyers and the innovative products FAM offers to meet the unique financial needs of today’s modern borrowers. Loan officers and brokers need to reconnect with past clients and show their value.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ishbia is confident his firm can benefit from this trend by cutting prices for brokers and bringing more retail loan officers to its wholesale channel, whose market share currently stands at around 20%. I’m not really focused on the margins for this quarter,” Ishbia told investors in UWM’s second-quarter earnings call. “It’s

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. One of Dicker’s clients this past weekend backed out of a $295,000 houmese purchase in Michigan this past weekend. Though not necessarily to buyers with financing.

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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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Assurance Financial

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A mortgage is a critical tool to have — it allows you to become a homeowner without putting down hundreds of thousands of dollars on the spot, and it lets you pay off your loan over time. About 96% of first-time homebuyers finance the purchase with a mortgage. How do mortgage payments work, exactly?

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

I always made them and never had any complaints from my lender clients. I worked for an assessor’s office in the late 1970s where we were making 2% per month time adjustments upward. They have always been available, mostly for short-term financing and borrowers with poor credit or no credit history.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Fannie Mae will end up creating more instability for the trillions in the bond market – investors will have to process millions of valuations with the physical attributes of the home collected by unlicensed, uninsured, and unprepared individuals getting paid $10-$25 per inspection.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

And so Ribbon offers a suite of tools and technologies for real estate agents to use with their clients, to help them manage and write offers in unique new ways. But we’re building a significant amount of trust, and there’s been a massive demand from our client base for protection. Jeff Allen. That’s very interesting.

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