Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The transaction follows Angel Oak Home Loans slashing 15% of its workforce, or 57 employees, in October. billion in volume in the last 12 months through 156 active loan officers and 39 branches, according to mortgage data platform Modex. Of the total volume, conventional loans accounted for 85.7% The lender originated $2.32

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

It’s amazing how many loan officers miss this, don’t return the call quickly, and lose their race before it’s even underway. In industries where the government is just waiting for someone on your team or extended team to make a mistake, this doesn’t work as well. It’s the sprint that can really set lenders apart.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2022

Non-QM lenders Angel Oak Mortgage , Acra Lending and Newfi alone currently have at least 130 openings on jobs listings sites. Kidwell said his company is looking for loan processors to identify fraud in non-QM loans, in addition to loan officers. “The area of focus for us right now is hiring LOs,” Lind said.

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Simonson Real Estate

AUGUST 24, 2020

Since then, market uncertainty has caused commercial investors to increasingly worry whether their commercial appraisal analyses are accurate. . It was here that I had the opportunity to moderate the Banking and Construction Lending Update discussion with Patricia Gnetz of U.S. We had a great discussion!

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2022

As the market shifts, interest in non-QM lending from traditional lenders and brokers has increased. We recently spoke to Bao Huynh, Director of Business Development at LoanScorecard, about these changes and the challenges of originating non-QM loans. And investor guidelines are continually evolving.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

Between significantly fewer refinances, rising mortgage rates and housing inventory nearly cut in half since 2020, loan officers (LOs) and brokers face a pivotal time where adaptation is a must for success. With higher-risk loans like non-QM, the need for optimization needs to be underscored from the outset to avoid costly mistakes.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Consolidation in the mortgage industry is likely in 2022, analysts and lending executives said. A seasoned retail and commercial banking salesman in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the 39-year-old Woodward joined Interfirst Mortgage as a loan officer in October 2020 after a recommendation from an old college friend. The closer, the better.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

in early 2021 as part of a larger plan to expand its origination reach beyond California — with the goal of creating a national lending footprint. . With the Castle acquisition and tech integration now completed, our intent is to lend nation nationwide in the non-QM market. It was kind of a no brainer, just low-hanging fruit.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

His corner of the Atlanta mortgage market – high-value home loans that wouldn’t be bought by the GSEs – was booming. Liquidity had dried up and bond investors were running for the hills. At that point, Dodson was actively working on a jumbo loan for friends of his from church. We have the bank statement program, jumbo loans.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). With efficiency metrics and client outcomes like these it’s no surprise that the company continued to attract capital and investor interest.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 24, 2021

As the market moves into a post-refi-boom era, loan officers face tough competition for purchase loans. HousingWire recently spoke with William Tessar, president of Civic Financial Services , about the private lending space and how LOs can benefit from serving real estate investors. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

HousingWire interviewed a dozen loan officers and mortgage executives about their strategies for 2024, which mortgage products they expect to be in demand, and the magic rate needed to get sellers and buyers back in the market. A successful loan officer in this market needs a very capable qualified assistant.

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Miller Samuel

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Miller said that real estate investors should stop trying to perfectly time the market (both with rate and supply vs. demand). Perfect timing is a concept that was born out of the housing bubble, he said, when investors viewed housing as a highly liquid stock, instead of in its proper context.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Real estate investment trust Redwood was founded in the early 1990s as the need for more private investors in the mortgage market grew. “We would partner with banks to buy their loans and securitize them so the banks could recycle their capital.” Abate: There are a couple of things investors care about.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

Among them are Geneva Financial , a mortgage lender headquartered in Arizona, which opened a branch location in Chicago, and New Western , a real estate investment firm, which also launched its first office in Chicago, marking its expansion with its 43rd office location in its 19th state. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Assurance Financial

JUNE 15, 2023

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two government-sponsored entities (GSEs) that play a significant role in the United States housing market by providing liquidity to the mortgage market. Freddie Mac works with a network of lenders across the country to purchase conventional mortgages and package them into securities that are sold to investors.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Purveyors of very complex financial instruments, sold to risk-averse investors under the careful oversight of government regulators, have given us a process that must conform to investor and regulatory compliance requirements. Lending technology out of focus. In other cases, the loan officers didn’t trust the technology.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Few in mid-March could have predicted that a perfect storm of ultra-low interest rates, new migration patterns and historic government intervention wouldn’t just save them, but line their pockets with billions of dollars and change their entire trajectory. But many of those elements are fading as the industry heads into 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Until mid-2022, 65% of Busch’s pipeline were jumbos , conventional loans that exceed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘s purchase standards , as set by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The FHFA’s conforming loan limit was a baseline of $647,200 in 2022, and $726,200 in 2023.) But what explains this market’s decline?

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PennyMac

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

FHA loans typically have more flexible lending guidelines than other investors. FHA typically offers down payments as low as 3.5%, however, FHA requires mortgage insurance regardless of your loan to value. Fannie Mae’s HomeReady® Mortgage. Home Buying Help For Military Members and Veterans.

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PennyMac

JUNE 28, 2022

Some borrowers, like investors, commonly take out the maximum amount of funds and pay it off several times over. Any other payments made on the principal loan during this time will lessen the amount you have to pay back during the repayment period. The draw period is usually between 5 and 15 years. Interest is charged sparingly.

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Assurance Financial

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Interest Interest is the amount charged on the principal because the lender is loaning you the money. The purpose of interest is to reward the lender for taking the risk of lending to you. The government requires these taxes annually, but homeowners typically pay them in monthly installments as part of their mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2022

The federal government was for redlining before it was against it, instituting color-coded maps of fast-changing metropolises for the better part of the 20th Century. And if these agencies were to find that a merger ran counter to public interest because of a bank’s discriminatory lending practices, it’s not likely anyone would know about it.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

But that engine could stall if action isn’t taken to increase the supply of affordable housing and expand opportunities for lending to underserved families. Competition favors institutional investors and households with higher incomes and stellar credit. Committing non-bank lending institutions. of GDP in 2020.

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Appraisal Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

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