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Reverse purchase financing: The financing option no one is talking about

Housing Wire

But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance. The 6% limit also includes payment of the Up-Front Mortgage Insurance Premium (UFMIP).

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These mortgage lenders are making major job cuts as production plummets

Housing Wire

“This creates a challenging environment for volume-sensitive businesses such as mortgage originators and title insurers.” It affected at least 50% of the staff, positions in operations and loan officers, according to multiple former employees. According to the tech mortgage platform Modex, Prosperity originated $11.2

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These mortgage lenders have cut jobs in 2022

Housing Wire

As of May 27, Iowa Workforce Development lists 49 layoffs at the Wells Fargo campuses in Des Moines and 34 employee reductions in West Des Moine. Layoffs included 17 associate loan servicing representatives and eight loan servicing representatives as well as senior operations processors and senior loan servicing representatives.

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Will new products stop the bleeding for mortgage lenders? 

Housing Wire

During the second-quarter earnings season, executives from publicly traded mortgage lenders detailed their forays into jumbo loans, non-qualified mortgages, reverse mortgages, home equity products and even personal loans. Time and training. ” Just a little less vanilla. ” Tapping that equity. It takes time.

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The ‘double-edged sword’ of dual licensing

Housing Wire

The company recently launched a mortgage brokerage firm that offers a plug-and-play program for real estate agents to become mortgage loan officers, a practice called dual licensing. of the loan amount, with a $5,000 cap, which adds to the typical buyer-side agent commission of up to 3%. For example, Realfinity pays LOs 1.4%

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Help your Borrowers Navigate Recent Home Appraisal Trends

Genworth MI Blog

There is an on-site visual inspection of the property and a suggestion of improvements followed by the research, analysis and development that produces the appraisal report. For traditional products and hybrid, the accurate identification of physical features and location is paramount in the development of a credible value opinion.

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How to Hire the Best Orange County Home Appraiser

Sammco Real Estate Appraisal Group

You might be a home owner, a mortgage loan officer or even an appraisal management company. Most people, including appraisers, use the same templates and website developers to build their websites. This training is expensive and some appraisers skip this education to save money if they are not doing mortgage work.