Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Retirement investors can now trust that their investment advice provider is working in their best interest and helping to make unbiased decisions,” she said. Retirement investors are best protected by a uniform and protective framework.”

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

The partnership will boost loan officers ’ capacity to deliver personalized, efficient and tech-powered solutions directly to their clients and agents. For instance, SmartView generates real-time mortgage rate listing fliers for lenders, while Quick Quotes pulls accurate, real-time quotes on potential properties for a homebuyer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

Add Moon Mortgage to the list of fintechs offering crypto-backed mortgages. It has to be about how an investor can use it for real-world gains,” Tristan Marino, who co-founded the company with Aaron Nevin in 2022 after their frustration with the lack of digital asset applications, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

Citadel Servicing Corporation (CSC) , one of the country’s largest non-QM lenders , is rebranding as Acra Lending (Acra). Liquidity had dried up and bond investors, which underpin the non-QM market, were running for the hills. Citadel resumed non-QM lending in the summer. The change is effective Monday. “We

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Toronto-based cryptocurrency lending platform Ledn has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round to support the growth of its digital assets lending business, including a new Bitcoin-backed mortgage product. Other investors included Golden Tree Asset Management , Raptor Group , and FJ Labs.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Most recently, he served as the president of Fairway Central at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. In May 2020, Brenning also founded and led Amerisave Wholesale Mortgage Solutions , a technology- and service-driven wholesale lending platform. “I Since 2014, he worked as its senior vice president.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Fierman, managing partner and co-CEO of Angel Oak, about the non-QM lending outlook for 2021 and how Angel Oak’s “originate to hold” model benefits originators. HousingWire: What sets you apart from other non-QM lenders and how does that benefit originators and investors?

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MAY 16, 2022

Originators need it as a source of opportunity not found in another part of the mortgage sector. These issues, and others, have made non-QM a go-to solution for originators to close loans for their clients. Here is where it gets murky – choosing the right non-QM lending partner! Are the lender and end investor affiliated?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Jeanmonod, Regional Vice President of Sales at Angel Oak, about non-QM lending and the outlook for the second half of 2022. We have been out educating the mortgage industry on what non-QM is and how to utilize it since we were founded. They can help with how to market outside of normal channels.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Leading property data and analytics company CoreLogic has acquired Roostify , a digital mortgage technology provider. In its statement, CoreLogic said integrating Roostify ‘s mortgage platform into its own network of data assets and workflow platforms would reduce errors and help streamline the mortgage process.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The complexities of serving borrowers under the CARES Act require lenders, servicers and investors to partner with a mortgage services provider who has the expertise and national network to provide high-touch support to its clients. Our clients have a moratorium on evictions, so we are not actively pursuing these opportunities.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As one of the largest correspondent investors in the country, AmeriHome is focused on being a consistent, reliable partner to its clients. We believe in being a true partner to our clients,” said John Hedlund, chief operating officer of AmeriHome. “We They also moved their client symposium to a virtual format.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amid the expectation of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2023, nonbank mortgage lenders American Portfolio Mortgage Corporation and Town Square Mortgage announced on Wednesday that the companies are merging their operations. This week, Guild announced it has acquired Legacy Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a software-as-service mortgage-technology firm that operates a loan-trading platform , has raised $37 million through a new funding round, its third since launching in 2019 — bringing the total raised from investors to $57 million. Building the next generation of tech: Three ways to digitize home lending.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

Wholesale lending is great for helping serve underserved borrowers. For example, borrowers who are prime and creditworthy but who may not qualify for traditional mortgages, such as the self-employed or those with non-traditional income sources, may benefit from non-QM programs.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Black Knight recently launched a web portal that enables clients, third-party providers and their developers to access the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs) across the mortgage life cycle. Black Knight is preparing to be acquired by ICE, the other mortgage tech giant in the data space.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Guaranteed Rate is looking to diversify its product mix amid the mortgage downturn. The mortgage lender has rolled out its first personal loan product. ” The personal loans could also be a good source of leads for mortgages down the road. .” What opportunities do lenders miss out on by not focusing on credit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital mortgage and fulfillment platform Maxwell has raised $16.3 Other investors included Rotor Capital , The Mortgage Collaborative Emerging Technology Fund , Prudence Holdings and existing investors including Anthemis Group , Route 66 Ventures , and Sovereign’s Capital. mortgage market. mortgage market.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

Non-QM lender Sprout Mortgage is setting up a distributed retail operation, and it’s picked a veteran of Wells Fargo to lead the new division. Johnson, based in Miami, has also worked at PNC Bank during his career in mortgage banking. Sprout does most of its business through mortgage brokers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. Justin Woodward has experienced the best and the worst of the mortgage industry in only 18 months. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Miami-based fintech Milo has closed $10 million in cryptocurrency mortgages since unveiling the product earlier this year, the company announced early Tuesday. The lender’s 30-year crypto mortgage is designed to make it easy for investors to use their digital holdings to acquire homes in the U.S. or pursue refinancing.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Brian Adams, Division President of Due Diligence at Consolidated Analytics , about due diligence in the current mortgage market. Brian Adams: With the steep increase in mortgage rates, we have essentially seen a hard stop in refi activity. Most of our due diligence is done to a securitization scope.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

When industry veteran Michael Strauss abruptly shut down Long Island-based Sprout Mortgage in early July, there was uproar. million mortgage fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to his name, seems to be back in the mortgage business. Shocked employees didn’t receive their last paychecks.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2021

Volly , a mortgage tech company that offers customer relationship management and point-of-sale services for lenders, announced Wednesday the acquisition of mortgage and real estate tech startup Home Captain for an undisclosed amount. The post Mortgage tech firm Volly scoops up Home Captain appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2022

With more hopeful homeowners searching for non-traditional lending solutions, brokers are looking to partner with wholesale lenders that can offer unique options. On the other hand, they’re often worried it may be difficult to learn how to broker non-QM,” said Shelly Griffin, Senior Vice President of Client Development.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures that occurred over the last week have caused even more uncertainty within the mortgage industry. Meanwhile, mortgage lenders are still trying to calm down their investors and business partners. ” The latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) survey proved Deitch right.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

California-based fix-and-flip lender Anchor Loans launched a third-party originator (TPO) channel to serve mortgage brokers, banks, private and non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) lenders and other referral partners whose clients are home builders, developers and investors.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2023

The collapses of Silvergate Bank , Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank , the rescue of First Republic Bank and the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS, brought turbulence to the financial markets that led to a decline in mortgage rates – despite the Federal Reserve hiking federal funds rate by 25 basis point on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2022

Nima Ghamsari, CEO and founder of mortgage fintech Blend Labs. Publicly traded mortgage tech company Blend Labs isn’t changing its strategy to survive a shrinking mortgage market, even though a drop in originations is sapping its revenue stream and forcing it to trim its workforce. And it doesn’t plan to cut prices.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2021

Rocket Mortgage originated more than $100 billion in mortgages for yet another quarter, but profit margins are trending down. And the country’s largest mortgage lender expects a good-sized slowdown in the second quarter of 2021. All told, the Detroit lending powerhouse originated $103.6

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As the Fed pulls out all the stops to stimulate economic activity, mortgage rates have reached record lows. This sounds like great news for lenders, for whom millions of newly refi-eligible mortgages means a lot of new business coming in. Their overarching goal is to help grow happiness — for customers, for clients and for their staff.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Digital mortgage exchange and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Monday it closed an equity investment round and partnerships to expand liquidity amid the recent market volatility. Several of MAXEX’s existing investors, including J.P. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2022

A rising player in the world of crypto-mortgages and blockchain-enabled financing, LoanSnap, plans expand its reach in the market by opening its lending platform to licensed mortgage brokers across the country in the near future. It’s an open platform. We’re not huge, but we’re not small either.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

The California-based lender plans to increase its client base in the bank and credit union segment where Wells Fargo was most active, Abbie Tidmore, senior managing director and chief revenue officer, at Pennymac told HousingWire. It also plans to increase minority home lending through a special purpose credit program it launched last year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

KBRA Analytics , an affiliate of Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), has acquired digital-information service Direct Lending Deals , which offers investors and loan originators coverage of deal data, news and analysis in the direct-lending sector. market,” KBRA’s announcement of the deal 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. With mortgage rates nearly doubling from the start of 2022, the LO, who has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, says it’s painful to see deals simply disappear. “I higher than last year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With 2020 finally coming to a close, several companies wrapped up this unprecedented year for housing with some brand-new mortgage tech for 2021. With that aggregation, Optimal Blue said lenders can more efficiently price and originate mortgage products that can be sold on the secondary market.

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