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First Financial Bank to invest $700M by 2028 in affordable mortgages

Housing Wire

billion in the next five years for lending and investments to low- and moderate-income (LMI) clients and census tracts, with 30% of the total tied to mortgage lending. First Financial Bank’s plan also includes investments in small-business lending and donations to organizations that create and preserve affordable housing.

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Patriot Bank to pay $1.9M to settle DOJ’s redlining accusations

Housing Wire

In addition, Patriot Bank is required to have at least two mortgage loan officers to serve majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Bank’s service area and employ a director of community lending – responsible for development of lending in communities of color.

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Regions Bank places $1B bet on home renovation market

Housing Wire

Regions Bank is looking to make a big dent in the home improvement lending space , striking a deal to acquire EnerBank USA for $960 million in cash. billion as of March 31, 2021 and is one of America’s largest specialized home improvement lenders. billion in home improvement projects.

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FAR parent updates investors on AAG integration, business performance

Housing Wire

Last July, the company sold its title insurance business to Essent Group , followed by strategic changes in September including a transition of its offshore-based operations to a team in the Philippines and the sale of “certain operations” of its home improvement lending business to Aqua Finance.

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Why Diversify? Multiple Streams, Multiple Dreams!

Appraisal Buzz

Developing multiple streams of income personally, as well from within your business, should always be a priority. Of course, the primary source of business for most residential appraisers has traditionally been the lending industry: refinances, HELOCs, and mortgages for the purchase of a home.

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Home equity is the bright gem of the housing market

Housing Wire

Through the market turmoil and volatility that marked much of 2022 — and is still with us today — home-equity lending expanded, however. ATTOM , a real estate data provider, reports, however, that the “severe contraction across the lending industry in the fourth quarter of 2022 even hit HELOCs” in terms of origination volume.

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Some lenders won’t survive the purchase mortgage market of 2022

Housing Wire

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending. “I had not done first mortgage lending before, but I was familiar with the basics of real estate lending.

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