Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Mortgage rates have surged firmly above the 7% mark, making alternatives such as temporary rate buydowns and down payment assistance programs more popular, according to loan officers. Boise-based loan officer Blake Bianchi, founder and CEO at Future Mortgage , said he noticed an increase in clients choosing 2-1 temporary rate buydown.

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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. The retail lender originated $56.6 The closer, the better. in consumer direct and 2.3% in the broker channel.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Movement Mortgage’s deal to acquire top indie retail lender Mortgage Network marks a shift in the South Carolina-based company’s strategy. “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.

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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. Goldman Sachs ’s analysts wrote in a report to clients on January 6 that, overall, they remain negative on the group of nonbank mortgage originators for this year. Investors were nonplussed. How could they resist?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nearly every loan originator is fixated on going after the purchase mortgage market in 2023 following a brutal 2022 — a year in which even some of the top producers saw their origination volume drop to 20%. That is also the case for Chris Gallo, senior loan officer at NJ Lenders Corp. After dropping from $1.2 Financial advisors?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“And one of our strategic plans for our growth is we’re really bolstering up our retail division in 2022.”. We will be hiring retail guys that carry our flag through the Excelerate branches, but they’re not only in California,” Yoon added. It was kind of a no brainer, just low-hanging fruit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Liquidity had dried up and bond investors were running for the hills. At that point, Dodson was actively working on a jumbo loan for friends of his from church. For eight years they were not able to get a mortgage loan – they could have an 800 credit score, $2 million in the bank. “We And it doesn’t.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It makes for exciting – and uneasy – times for lenders, investors and policy makers, panelists said at HousingWire Annual on Thursday. “This is where the rubber hits the road between the lender, the investor and the policy maker.” “As an investor, you’re looking at all this trying to figure it out,” he said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2022

Local real estate agents, loan officers and appraisers share what characteristics are currently defining their housing markets. Starter homes are virtually non-existent, and there are a lot of investors purchasing homes at the lower price points,” Davis said. Conway, Arkansas.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

We also sought input from industry experts, lenders and loan officers. First Republic’s ascendency in the jumbo market also reflects Wells Fargo’s decision to reposition itself, exiting the correspondent channel and focusing on minority homebuyers through its retail operation. Bank originated $2.7 quarter over quarter and 58.8%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Most retail lenders are desperately seeking high producing loan originators to make up for the losses that occurred in 2022. California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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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

MAY 1, 2023

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Within the past week, one of the nation’s largest retail mortgage lenders, Charlotte-based Movement Mortgage , announced the acquisition of Mortgage Network, a deal that would add $2 billion in annual loan volume, 250 mortgage professionals and 31 branch offices to its network. loan officers] in pods.’”.

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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%. If it wants the loans ‘clear to close,’ borrowers would need to have to wait for their closer to get the package out.

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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.)

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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. The survey covers over 75 percent of all U.S.

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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 are risky for the lender and its investors. from 0.59 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent LTV loans. percent from 5.71

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