Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2023

The continuous development of loss mitigation tools and practices in the mortgage industry will play an essential part in preventing future foreclosures, but additional safety nets — particularly for those mortgage customers who belong to historically disadvantaged populations — will play a critical role in thinning the racial wealth gap.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Moon Mortgage, a crypto-backed mortgage provider, on Tuesday announced raising a $3.5 The funds will be utilized to finance its lending product, CryptoMortgage. Moon Mortgage’s CryptoMortgages will allow investors to take out loans against their digital assets.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Mortgage rates continued their descent this week to mark their lowest level since May 2023, welcome news for homebuyers who have been waiting on the sidelines for rates to drop. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.6% 12 compared to a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lesley Alli and Andrew Greenberg both joined NMI Holdings to serve as senior vice presidents, announced the parent company of National Mortgage Insurance Corporation Monday in a statement. Prior to this new position, she served as the chief investor and industry relations officer of Home Point Financial Corporation.

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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. The post Guaranteed Rate moves beyond mortgage appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Last month, Northeast regional lender WSFS Mortgage released the results of a survey that measured reverse mortgage product sentiments. To get a better idea of what motivated the survey and its desire to learn more about reverse mortgages, RMD sat down with WSFS Mortgage President Jeffrey Ruben.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nonbank mortgage lender and servicer Pennymac Financial Services issued pink slips to more than 80 employees in November as it faced tough headwinds in 2023. The WARN Notice shows that the workforce reduction includes 10 loan officers , senior app developers and vice presidents of app development, talent sourcing and sales manager.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Ginnie Mae intends to develop a new reverse mortgage-backed security product enabling the acquisition of loans from an HMBS pool above the existing 98% maximum claim amount (MCA) requirement, according to a new announcement.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. Since its foundation in 1997, Proprietary Capital has developed a platform to invest in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Nonbank mortgage originator Change Lending will become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB-SF). Change is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that is certified by the U.S. Last year, Change Lending ranked as the top nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) originator, posting $4.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Despite advances in technology, the mortgage industry still lacks efficiency. Mortgage executives are aware of a problem: despite billions of dollars in technology investments , the mortgage industry still largely looks like it did two decades ago. Bank Home Mortgage. But it’s a challenge.

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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. dollars for mortgage transactions.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Change is five years into its mission as a Community Development Financial Institution ( CDFI), a mission that has seen Change soar to become the nation’s largest non-QM lender. To the buyer of an $800,000 home putting down 20%, the mortgage savings would be roughly $500. JI: The short answers are innovation and education.

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Boston Appraisal

OCTOBER 6, 2023

While there is a myriad of financing options available for those looking to purchase or invest in real estate, today we’ll zero in on two distinct choices: hard money loans and traditional financing. Hard money loans, in contrast, are often financed by private investors or smaller lending companies.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2021

Over the past six months, mergers and acquisitions, huge financing rounds and public offerings have dominated headlines across the real estate and housing finance sector. This level of action is keeping finance executives like Jeremy Collett , Executive Director, Capital Markets at Guaranteed Rate busier than ever.

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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

APRIL 7, 2021

While overall complaints were up 54% year-over-year, complaints against mortgage companies were up just 7.5%, and complaints against mortgage servicers were actually down, by 3.5%. These results are notable considering the sheer speed and impact the pandemic had on the mortgage finance industry.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) completed its acquisition of Black Knight Tuesday, making the combined company the biggest player in the mortgage tech space. I sat down with Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage Technology, a business unit of ICE, to talk about the company’s mortgage automation strategy — and what keeps him up at night.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Industry workers didn’t pull back on investing in professional development, with the majority (51%) spending money to reach potential clients. in events to garner business. About 23.7%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2022

But there’s another threat that Homepoint executives must worry about – United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), the top dog in wholesale, has embarked on a strategy of heavy price cutting, forcing Homepoint and others to limbo to compete for business. Mortgage executives project that number to remain steady or even tick up in the third quarter.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

San Francisco-based fintech Polly has hired Parvesh Sahi, a former executive from ICE Mortgage Technology , as chief revenue officer to scale the business in a highly competitive mortgage environment. Movement Mortgage , First American Financial and FinVC also joined existing investors 8VC , Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending lost its Community Development Fund Institution (CDFI) certification, according to a report from Barron’s. Department of Treasury CDFI Fund to specialized organizations that provide financial services to low-income communities and people who lack financing.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2021

Venture capital-backed mortgage lender Better.com is going international. The company, which is expected to go public later this year, has agreed to acquire United Kingdom-based digital mortgage brokerage Trussle. Trussle’s investors include American bank Goldman Sachs and Amsterdam-based venture capital fund Finch Capital.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

California-headquartered LoanSnap was hit with a temporary order to cease and desist from Connecticut’s Department of Banking for “systemic” unlicensed mortgage loan origination activity. These individuals also received inbound calls from individuals interested in obtaining mortgage loans, the order stated.

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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. KBRA Analytics’ acquisition of DLD closed quietly on Aug.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Less than a week after laying off hundreds of workers and refusing new mortgage applications, First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. According to those sources, FGMC adopted an aggressive pricing strategy to purchase loans from correspondent partners, often paying 20 basis points higher than other investors on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

ConsumerDirect Mortgage rebranded itself to Real Genius and announced the launch of a modern mortgage application platform to simplify a borrower’s experience. Additionally, the lender promises borrowers a “personalized approach” and “access to veteran mortgage professionals.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2021

For the system to work, mortgage-backed security investors need an efficient and verifiable means to know that all loans in their securities comply with this law, and originators and issuers want certainty that they are not running afoul of the Bureau. Even so, it is not the entire ATR rule requirement. Demographics are shifting, too.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Prior to the Great Recession, private label securitizations (PLS) constituted a majority of all residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) issued. Fortunately, MISMO , the real estate finance industry’s standards organization , is here to help market participants navigate any uptick in PLS activity from a data perspective.

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A number of players in the industry benefit from the risk data, including real estate investors who need additional insights to make informed decisions. This may give investors pause as to whether a particular real estate investment is a sound one. If adopted, the rule might have a ripple effect on housing agencies such as the U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Adrian Gastelum, a vice president and branch manager at Nova Home Loans, recently had a prospective borrower apply for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage. The problem is, a mortgage credit reject (MCR) is kind of like your scarlet letter, to be completely honest,” Gastelum said. That changed on September 11.

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