Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Non-QM ripe for the taking Faced with a lack of inventory across the country, lenders have been exploring ways to create new buyers. Target buyers for Cliffco include non-traditional buyers seeking investor loans. The lender has about 80 loan officers and aims to hire up to 100 in states.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

She joined CNBF after more than a decade with Seacoast Bank , where she served as senior vice president, residential lending production manager. Lenders need to be mindful that clients don’t purchase homes often and using acronyms to describe the program, terms or process can create confusion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The company will be headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Stearns said, home of Kind Lending. Unclear is what pressure eXp’s agents may feel to direct their clients to Success.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Lenders and loan officers right now are just in survival mode,” Hoff said in an interview. About 20 loan officers under her leadership produced $116 million in mortgages over the last 12 months, a drop from $223 million in 2022, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. trillion or $1.7

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And many buyers are waiting on the sidelines, paralyzed by low housing inventory and high rates. of the balance of a loan being assumed would be fair to both the borrower and the servicer.” ” Other stakeholders want even higher fees so they can compensate loan officers. Tozer suggested “a fee of 1.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Are low-FICO, first-time homebuyers better off with a conventional mortgage and reduced LLPA fees, or an FHA loan with none at all? We spoke to multiple loan officers and Washington, D.C.-based We also find that FHA mortgages serve minority clients in a higher percentage than conventional mortgages for lower credit scores.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I am in the camp with many that believe the market will continue to feel price pressure, at least until inventory levels begin to return to normal (2019 or early 2020 levels, at least). Why inventory levels matter to appraisers. Inventory levels have an impact on property valuation, at least in the short term.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Combine that with the lack of inventory in New Jersey and bidding wars are back, Kechian said in an interview with HousingWire. But of course, we have a lot of clients that move out of condos once they have kids and get married. While there’s still a lack of inventory, we’re seeing more deals happening.

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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. There’s still demand for homes, loan officers told HousingWire. “I

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Prior to NEO Home Loans, Mettle served as senior vice president, director of physician lending at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. He also is an author, podcast host and professional mortgage and life coach, helping the industry better understand how Physician Home Loans work.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2022

In an effort to counter margin compression and satisfy a new generation of homebuyers, lenders are looking to offer loan options that better fit the average borrower. HousingWire recently spoke with John Keratsis, President and CEO of Deephaven Mortgage, about the potential benefits of non-QM lending in today’s tight housing market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

With intense demand for homes on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, new updates to the QM rule that went into effect on March 1 and growing investor interest in jumbo mortgages – this is the perfect time for the broker community to support their clients with speed and ease. Presented by: Rocket Pro TPO. year over year, to $465,000.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2022

It’s a tough time to be a loan officer. Refinance activity is gone, housing inventory continues to be at record lows and interest rates remain on the rise. Amid all the chaos, loan officers may be pressed to get creative when it comes to generating new business. There are thousands of loan officers out there.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

Builders feel more confident in the market, housing inventory data is positive and buyer demand for mortgages has increased — but don’t be fooled. Brown anticipates more consolidation in the industry on the mortgage production side, as “there’s less than one loan being done by a loan officer per month on average,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

. “It’s obviously not just a flip flop, it’s a pretty big move,” said Luke Johnson, the founder and CEO of Neat Loans. . The surprising surge in rates – up from 3% in January to over 6% in June – breathed new life into ARMs on the demand side, especially for loans with large balances. Not a one-size fits all”.

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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

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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Eppraisal

APRIL 20, 2021

Due in part to the inventory of available homes for sale being historically low, it was low at the end of 2019 and continues to drop. A full pre-approval is when a mortgage loan officer pulls your credit, verifies your employment and income, has your complete application and has all the required documents from you.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Its in-house servicing is helping extend the client life cycle, something that bigger players have used to great effect with refis. Of course, the risk in winning purchase business in a volatile, high-rate environment is that other lenders could snag your client as soon as rates drop just months later.

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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. Of the $387.2

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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. Banks will always serve their best clients. There will be changes.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The wholesale mortgage lending division of Rocket Companies has launched a national mortgage broker directory on its website, providing potential leads to mortgage brokers and also poking at its biggest rival, United Wholesale Mortgage , in the process. There are about 14,000 brokerages on the directory, a spokesperson said.

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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. The last two years have been good to Christian Dicker.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 10, 2024

I have never done an “official” ROV for a lender, but I did not like any lender clients objecting to my values. New FHA ROV Policy By Dave Towne, May 3, 2024 Excerpts: Up until recently, there has never been a standardized policy for mortgage loan related Reconsideration of Value (ROV) requests after an appraisal has been submitted.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

In addition, HousingWire spoke to industry experts, lenders, and loan officers to share their insights on the jumbo market. The California housing market in particular has been extremely slow, with inventory at all-time lows and few home sales. When banks do jumbo loans, they want to have money from the client in the bank.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

We also sought input from industry experts, lenders and loan officers. In a rising rate environment, ARM products are definitely more popular for clients than fixed-rate products because they’re going to take the lowest rate they can, typically an ARM. Bank originated $2.7 billion from January to March, down 34.6%

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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

There is a lot of demand out there, with very little inventory. It may be due to inventory levels continuing to drop. I’m grateful that nearly half of my work these days is not for lending purposes. This is not the only place people are shelling out a lot of bread! . TODAY’S HOME BUYERS ARE LIKE THE CARP.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 12, 2023

Remember what it was like during the crash after 2008, when there were very few loans, and appraisal volume severely declined? Mortgage lending is very, very cyclical. I agree that I would be world-famous and rich if I could predict mortgage lending cycles! If you are reading this, you are a survivor. Those who adapt survive.

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

While that number may seem high to some, in the context of lending and property complexities, that is a 54% improvement in performance cited earlier in this article (from 35% 10 years ago). I have always collected all the money owed from my lender clients using the collection techniques I write about. Client Rating Grid.

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