Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have signed onto a memorandum of understanding to formally share information between each other related to nonbank mortgage companies. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 2013. It also entered into a similar MOU with the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

On Tuesday at The Gathering by HousingWire in Scottsdale, Arizona, Guild Mortgage CEO Terry Schmidt sat down with HousingWire editor in chief Sarah Wheeler to talk about the principles guiding much of the lender’s actions in recruiting, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and overall business outlook.

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Appraisal Buzz

APRIL 23, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development. New home sales have generally been strong so far in 2024, despite higher mortgage rates and rising home prices. This will improve the cost of financing for land developers and home builders and enable more attainable housing supply.” “New compared with February and up 8.3% about an 8.3-month

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kevin Laffey has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and business development, at Inlanta Mortgage , an independent mortgage lender with 39 branch offices in 27 states. Laffey has over 30 years of experience in the mortgage business. Previously, Laffey was regional production manager.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is being sued in federal court over accusations that it failed to refund nearly $385 million in mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) to borrowers over a period of more than two decades. The lawsuit was previously reported by National Mortgage News and Law360.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Photo credit: AJ Canaria Reverse mortgages became an unexpectedly prominent topic during certain parts of The Gathering by HousingWire , held earlier this week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Reverse mortgages for purchase are taking up more conversation on the reverse side of the business recently.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 24, 2021

Non-QM residential mortgage loan provider adds 30-year veteran as its new VP of Correspondent Client Development. The post Deephaven Adds Andrew Spicer to Lead Correspondent Client Development appeared first on theMReport.com.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) counseling program was cited as an example. This program provides counseling to all applicants of the federally insured reverse mortgage program, the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program,” the report stated.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

First Home Mortgage Corp. In that context, First Home appointed Chris Channell, a 2022 HousingWire Rising Star , to the position of vice president of business development at the Bethesda location. Previously, Channel worked at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. Previously, Channel worked at Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Office of Policy Development and Research is seeking public comment related to application and origination documents for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, according to a notice published this week in the Federal Register.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Lennar Mortgage , a financial services subsidiary of Lennar Corp. will move its servicing operations to the industry-leading MSP loan servicing system from ICE Mortgage Technology , ICE announced on Monday. It can also be used as a channel for mortgage holders to seek assistance in times of distress.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

New York-based multichannel lender US Mortgage Corporation previously announced that it was renewing its efforts in the reverse mortgage industry, having hired industry veteran Ken Krajewski to serve as managing director and head of reverse mortgage lending. Proprietary product offerings are on the table as well.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. Cincinnati-based First Financial Bank has agreed to direct $2.4 The bank will continue to provide quantitative and qualitative reporting on the plan.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Mortgage pros have closely monitored the commission lawsuit developments since a Kansas City, Missouri jury determined that NAR, HomeServices of America , and Keller Williams conspired to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s so-called Participation Rule.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

From listening to executives at the biggest companies in real estate and mortgage to dedicated panels on growing women in leadership and how to build competitive marketing strategies , you can find inspiration on stage in Austin, Texas. Future-proof your business with this year’s powerful HW Annual agenda.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dark Matter Technologies (DMT) tapped Tony Fox, former director of ICE Mortgage Technology , as its new chief of client engagement. Fox was director of client management at I CE Mortgage Technology for four months after the firm acquired Black Knight in September 2023. He will report to Sean Dugan, chief revenue officer at DMT.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Mortgage rates headed lower this week as the 10-year Treasury yield dropped below 4.3% The 30-year, fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.22% for the week ending Nov. 30, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Bright MLS ’ 2024 forecast indicates that mortgage rates will fall to 6.5% on Thursday.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Friday announced that it has published a new final rule that eliminates a current requirement for lenders to register the branch offices where they conduct FHA Title I or Title II mortgage loan originations. The rule, originally proposed in March 2023 , takes into consideration stakeholder comments.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Longtime reverse mortgage industry professional Tane Cabe has joined C2 Financial ’s reverse mortgage division as a “retirement mortgage expert,” according to an announcement issued by the company this week. Cabe, who most recently served as president of reverse mortgage lending at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.

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Inman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Colony Ridge, the developer of more than 40,000 lots northeast of Houston, says its clients have no opportunity to get a loan from anyone else and dismisses federal lawsuit as baseless.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

360), an online regulated training provider, acquired Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), a mortgage lending training company, both companies announced this week. Approved by the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) since 2009, MEC specializes in online mortgage and financial services professional development.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Guild Mortgage released its fourth-quarter and full year 2023 earnings report this week, showing that it narrowed its focus on purchase originations and increased its market share on the forward lending side, but it still sustained a loss. Guild’s in-house retail reverse mortgage originations reached $49.8 million for the year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

loanDepot CEO Frank Martell expects the current mortgage market cycle to be “longer and tougher than anybody expected.” That’s kind of evaporated,” Martell said on Tuesday morning in a session during The Gathering , HousingWire’s real estate and mortgage conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a lending platform for mortgage brokers built on the foundation of the Floify point-of-sale (POS) platform. is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination and POS system for the mortgage industry. in an $87 million deal in 2021.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Big Four title firm Old Republic is selling its mortgage insurance business to Arch Capital Group Ltd., and its wholly-owned subsidiaries that together comprise Old Republic’s run-off mortgage insurance business. “We are pleased to announce this definitive exit from the mortgage insurance business. million in Q3 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform for lenders. is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination system and POS for the mortgage industry. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

To get a better idea of what prompted the letter and his interest in the reverse mortgage program, RMD reached out to Braun’s office with a series of questions about his perspectives. ‘Red RMF’s failure raised serious red flags,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) In late 2023, the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 22, 2021

ChainLogix Mortgage Solutions has named Tim Moreland senior vice president of operations and strategic business development, focused on meeting the company’s strategic objectives in these areas for ChainLogix’s mortgage business. Moreland has over two decades of experience in the mortgage industry.

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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 13, 2024

Mortgage tech firm TRAiNED Inc. hired two executives as it looks to take the company to its next phase of development. In 2017, Cunningham, de Jong and three others founded Sales Boomerang, an automated borrower intelligence and retention system for the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

To gauge what caught her attention about this space and how reverse mortgages intersect with her work, RMD sat down with Frankowska to discuss how and why she is choosing to become involved in the senior finance space. naturally exposing her more closely to the American reverse mortgage industry. reverse mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Reverse mortgage professionals in Massachusetts will be reliant on their borrowers’ ability to complete their required counseling sessions under the state’s face-to-face mandate following the expiration of a provision temporarily relaxing the standard that expired on April 1. So, I feel a measure of confidence in that regard.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

mortgage lender Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. Fairway promptly implemented the patch after it was released by the developer to rectify the newly identified vulnerability,” Ramsey wrote. Mortgage executives recently told HousingWire that these attacks have put the industry in “alert mode.” Top 10 U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Non-QM lender Deephaven Mortgage today announced that Timothy (Tim) Fisher has joined the company as Vice President, Business Development. The post Timothy Fisher Joins Deephaven as VP of Business Development appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

University Bank ’s reverse mortgage division has added four key hires across different disciplines as it prepares to grow further in the reverse mortgage space. Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year.

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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

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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