Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

I am humbled to join Mike and this extremely talented team that is setting a new standard for the finance industry and look forward to leading Figure into its next phase of growth.” Tannenbaum boasts more than 15 years of experience in financial technology and financial services.

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Finance of America (FOA) announced Thursday that its indirect subsidiary Incenter closed the sale of its title insurance businesses. The company previously announced that it would be selling its title insurance businesses in early February. for $100 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Our 1st Gen loan program is a game-changer, designed to bridge the gap and pave the way for underserved communities to build generational wealth through homeownership.” PMG offers platforms for human resources, finance, technology , legal and compliance services to its group of lenders.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Department of the Treasury on Tuesday announced a series of new initiatives designed to increase the supply of affordable housing across the country. The third provision is an extension of the support from the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) for “a risk-sharing initiative between the U.S. There are three core provisions of the plan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

This is according to experts who spoke to personal finance website Bankrate about the concept of taking on a new mortgage in retirement. Reverse mortgage industry advocates say that this helps insulate retirement resources from traditional mortgage payments. 30-year mortgages were never meant to be for them.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The result is that safe and affordable financing is out of reach for tens of thousands of credit-ready homebuyers looking to purchase a manufactured home. Demand for home-only financing is strong; in 2019, there were more than 200,000 home-only loan applications. Yet help might be on the way.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) on Wednesday announced two new home-affordability mortgage products designed to help underserved borrowers become homeowners. The programs are key to the GSEs’ equitable housing finance plans.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

The CDFI certification is a designation given by the U.S. Department of Treasury CDFI Fund to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and people who lack financing. At least 60% of a lender’s financing must target low- and moderate-income borrowers or customers in underserved communities.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Six federal agencies have requested comment from the public on a newly-proposed rule that is designed to “ensure the credibility and integrity of models used in real estate valuations.” And the design and development of the models and algorithms can reflect the biases and blind spots of the developers.”

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Inman

JANUARY 15, 2024

A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a company that owns, operates or finances income-generating real estate. These trusts are designed to allow investors to access real estate markets without directly buying, managing, or financing properties.

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GoForrmz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Equip your finance team with the tools they need to be more efficient and productive GoFormz is the leading mobile forms and data capture platform that keeps your finance team happy. Here are a few ways that GoFormz mobile forms can improve the lives of accountants and finance teams.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

A proprietary reverse mortgage from Finance of America Companies (FOA) now secures the home of Rhode Island ’s honorary historian laureate after the property was returned to the owner after attempts to bequeath it to a nonprofit historical society he founded. This is according to reporting from The Providence Journal.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sue Haviland has also joined the division as a loan officer, coming off of a roughly three-year stint as Finance of America Reverse (FAR)’s national sales trainer in learning and development. Michael Weltman has also joined the division as an area manager, coming to the company from One Trust Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Bill Dallas , president of Finance of America Mortgage , will speak at engage.marketing on the panel: Winning in a red-hot purchase market. In 2018, Skyline was purchased by Finance of America and today Dallas leads the combined business. Not a member?

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

CHLA also seeks pay scale comparability, a flexibility it says is enjoyed by other federal agencies including the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. CHLA added in a statement that the release of these recommendations is designed to coincide with relevant news.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

DART is a mortgage processing product designed to offer the industry an alternative to offerings from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), with this latest move ostensibly designed to expand the reach of Figure’s own ecosystem.

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GoForrmz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Keep finances at your fingertips with digital forms Digital forms have modernized the way accounting businesses work. In our easy-to-use form builder , forms can be designed to collect different types of information, such as expenses and income. They provide a convenient and efficient alternative to traditional paper-based forms.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with David Bernard, senior managing director of Specialized Mortgage Services at Western Alliance Bank , Member FDIC, about warehouse lending and how the warehouse sector and mortgage finance have progressed and continue to evolve. HW: How has mortgage finance changed in the last few years?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Freddie Mac will launch a new fee-based repurchase alternative pilot program for performing loans in 2024, designed to improve the quality of performing loans through a potential replacement of its current repurchase policy for defective performing loans.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Leading players At the top of the list once again is Finance of America Reverse (FAR), which took nearly 37% of total market share in HMBS issuance last year. billion, or about 31% of all outstanding HMBS,” New View Advisors said in December , referring to the former RMF portfolio’s designation. 1 position.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2023

Treasury and introducing new technologies to the housing finance system. The bridge bank structure is designed to “bridge” the gap between the failure of a bank and the time when the FDIC can stabilize the institution and implement an orderly resolution. The public review is scheduled to be released by May 1, according to the Fed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The CDFI certification is a designation given by the Treasury Department CDFI Fund to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and people who lack financing. At least 60% of a lender’s financing must target low- and moderate-income borrowers or customers in underserved communities.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Lender and servicer Guild Mortgage has introduced a new mortgage option designed to make it easier for medical professionals to buy their first home.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2024

UWM’s TRAC+ announcement comes as the federal government pushes title insurance alternatives designed to save consumers money. Department of Veteran Affairs (V.A.) loans but only for refinances. 0% down During UWM Live!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Intentional design for equity, carefully studied pilot programs and regulatory guidance are three areas the report recommends policymakers, regulators and developers to focus on to ensure AI equitably expands access to mortgage services.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) Fannie Mae announced on Wednesday that it will launch new programs and resources designed to tackle the homeownership gap experienced by the Latino community , designed to “to provide responsible access to housing and long-term sustainable homeownership opportunities.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

At the same time, “human beings are not perfect creatures,” and AI is tracking human interactions as well. “The systems are designed with that dual feedback,” Krishna added. ” In 2021, Rocket acquired personal finance app Truebill for $1.275 billion in cash.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to charge a new 50 basis-point fee for certain structured-finance offerings that use co-mingled agency securities as the underlying collateral. . The fee will apply to securities issued through structured-finance offerings known as Supers, and separately, real estate investment conduits (REMICs).

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2023

The decision is part of UBS’s strategy to focus more on financing mortgage originators , the outlet said, citing an anonymous source discussing non-public information who asked not to be identified. “We Mortgage-backed securities in the U.S. are generally traded on a TBA basis.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

I recently attended the Going to Extremes conference in DC on April 18-19, which focused on how climate change is affecting the US housing and finance industries. According to Mehlomakulu, ICON’s homes are 350% stronger and are designed to outlive the traditional spec home by nearly triple their life expectancy.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

.; Northern Virginia and Maryland (DMV) area; the city and county of Baltimore; Fairfield County, Connecticut; the Hawaiian Islands of Honolulu, Maui, Hawaii and Kauai; and Houston and Laredo, Texas, will retain their GTO designation. real estate market to launder money.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Rocket Pro TPO , the wholesale arm of Rocket Mortgage , on Monday raised agency conforming loan limits to $750,000, ahead of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) decision expected in November. Companies are pressured to launch new initiatives to attract brokers and land more purchase businesses due to high mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Industry-leading lender Movement Mortgage will become an “early adopter” of FICO Score 10 T, the updated credit scoring model designed to take advantage of trended data information to help expand mortgage approval rates. a competing model that also incorporates trended credit bureau data.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings is repositioning itself as a mortgage brokerage and voluntarily giving up its seller-servicer designation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Impac, whose stock is under threat of being de-listed on the New York Stock Exchange , expects to be a third-party originator to support its broker model as needed.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2023

HUD also recently hosted a virtual event on the topic designed to illustrate the potential opportunities and challenges these conversions may bring, Greene added. “The NOFO provides up to $860,000 to compile case studies of conversion projects that have taken place since the start of the pandemic,” HUD said in its announcement of the NOFO.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2023

Our one-stop insurance shop model is designed to give homeowners peace of mind and protect their investment, no matter what life throws their way.” NAF offers numerous home financing options including conventional, jumbo , non-QM, as well as others. In 2023, The Agency ranked as the No.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

VA loans offer a 100% financing option for qualifying military service members and veterans, and don’t require mortgage insurance. These clients are typically low on funds, which is why they need this type of financing. It would be a disaster for FHA and VA homebuyers,” Evan Potter, branch production manager at Revolution Mortgage.

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