Housing Wire

JUNE 20, 2023

Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies rolled out a wholesale lending platform that will give loan originators access to the company’s home equity line of credit (HELOC) offering. Cagney’s attempt to bring blockchain technology to mortgage lending at scale dates back to August 2021.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In today’s challenging market, where rates are rising and home prices remain high, these lenders serve as essential lifelines to crucial loan products. Growing obstacles in 2022’s market. To solve this problem, local lenders are beginning to leverage innovative partnerships and technology to bring new products and channels to market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

Stubborn inflation and high interest rates continue to wreak havoc on the mortgage-origination market, but there is one asset class in the housing market that is arguably flourishing in these hard times – home equity. billion in the fourth quarter of 2021,” a recent market assessment by ATTOM shows. “The

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

In this hot housing market, Michigan-based wholesale lender Homepoint understands the key to originating more home loans is ensuring more sellers accept offers made by its buyers. How lenders can continue to serve borrowers despite housing affordability challenges. Planet Home Lending entered into a $2.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

The housing market has been on a topsy-turvy roller-coaster ride in recent years that has been particularly neck wrenching since this past fall, fueled by stubbornly high inflation and a still-strong jobs market. Treasury market — jumping to as high as 121 in mid-April after ending March near 85.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Despite difficulties in the mortgage market at large, non-QM lenders are seeing growth and opportunity. The non-QM demand for loans is very healthy,” Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind said. “We We are not seeing a similar volume trajectory as the agency market.” billion in 2023, an increase from $2.1 billion last year.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. percentage points in early December, when historically that spread has ranged between 1 to 2 percentage points.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Transactions in the fix and flip market have been booming in recent years, with more than 407,000 homes flipped in 2022, up 14% over 2021 and up 58% over 2020, according to a recent report by real estate data firm ATTOM. A year ago, we were offering to lend 85% loan-to-cost or 90% loan-to-cost, and that’s down to like 75% loan-to-cost.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

The housing market has undergone a significant transformation over the past two years. While a booming market kept brokers busy in 2021, the 2022 housing market has been underscored by rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitical turbulence. Our brokers are our partners.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tech-focused real estate brokerage Radius , flush with $14 million in venture capital raised this past April, has launched a mortgage lending arm in California that it plans to roll out to additional markets sometime next year. Is now a good time to invest in real estate automation technologies?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Non-QM lending is poised for growth in 2021. HousingWire recently spoke with Mike Fierman, managing partner and co-CEO of Angel Oak, about the non-QM lending outlook for 2021 and how Angel Oak’s “originate to hold” model benefits originators. Now, many investors are once again returning to the non-QM space. in January.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2023

Rate lock volume jumped 43% in March on the back of seasonal tailwinds, falling interest rates and stronger purchase market performance. by the end of the month, Black Knight’s Optimal Blue mortgage market indices showed. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate climbed to the highest levels of the year in early March, reaching 6.8%

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions , they may bundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market. This ensures their bundle retains its credit rating and market value.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind, the company is currently locking its pipeline at rates of about 9.25%. Lind said Acra’s investor loan percentage has increased from about 37% in 2022 to nearly 48% this year. Lind said Acra’s investor loan percentage has increased from about 37% in 2022 to nearly 48% this year.

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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. Anchor Loans was acquired by investment firm Pretium in November 2021.

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Housing Wire

JULY 25, 2023

F2 Finance wants to scoop up a share of a “fragmented” fix-and-flip market as a lack of housing inventory sharply limits transactions. America’s fix-and-flip short-term property market is estimated to be worth as much as $68 billion a year, according to F2 Finance. LendInvest has more than $4.7 billion (£3.7

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 13, 2024

His experience ranges across sales, operations, capital markets, servicing, and technology in the mortgage finance space. He has also held leadership roles and served as an individual revenue contributor at WNS North America, Capgemini, Recovery Management International, along with roles at various other mortgage lending institutions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Austin is still the nation’s hottest housing market, as tech workers continue to flock to the Lone Star State’s capital. Homes are staying on the market an average of 24 days, Redfin reported. The jumbo market for brokers is back in a huge way.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2022

AOMR)— has brought to market a total of five PLS deals backed by mortgage pools valued at $2.1 The question remains, however: Is Angel Oak’s liquidity strategy sufficiently robust to get it through the current economic environment, which is marked by high market volatility and fast-rising interest rates?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2023

housing market , we just experienced an event that most people never thought could happen. However, in 2020 new listing data came back, and we don’t want to see the new listings continue to decline this year — that would be a double negative for the housing market. The days on market were too low.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2023

But what is there to expect ahead for the housing market? Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.60% as of March 16, down 13 basis points from the previous week. . “Housing contributes to 45% of inflation, a share that has grown for months. . by mid-week.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In April, with the coronavirus pandemic raging across the country, leaders at JPMorgan Chase made the call: the bank was going to significantly tighten mortgage lending standards. Despite early jitters, fears of a housing market slump proved unfounded. Its home-lending business sported $1.71

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Take a look at the full list of winners below to see their accolades and achievements that are helping to move the housing market forward. Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

The latest non-QM player to feel the pain of the interest rate volatility afflicting the nation’s housing market this year is a Pasadena, California-based real estate investment trust called Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. And they have to sell them now [in the whole loan market or via securitization when we are seeing] 6%, 6.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Wells Fargo has been slapped with a $250 million civil money penalty by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for “unsafe or unsound practices” pertaining to their home lending loss mitigation program this week. As the housing market changes, so does lending fraud.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

With the banking crisis spurring more talk of a recession, the question now is: What would housing credit look like in a recession? housing market would crash during the pandemic. One of the main reasons for that fear was that housing credit was about to get tight, meaning fewer people could buy homes with mortgages.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Despite the expected flattening of volume year-over-year, the non-QM sector is expected to double its market share in 2022, from about 5% in 2021 to nearly 10%, according to HomeXpress. Non-QM product knowledge has continuously grown nationwide with not only those in the lending community but with borrowers alike. Looking back.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

This article is part of our housing market economic update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Annual house price growth hit a record high in 2021, over 17%, and growth remains in the double digits thus far in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

The examples, all within about a month, illustrate a non-QM lending world in disarray, turned upside down in recent months as originators battle an unassailable force over which they have no control: fast-rising interest rates. recalled Keith Lind, CEO of Acra Lending, a leading non-QM lender. “Of Of course we’re not. “…If

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Housing Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

Seattle -based proptech company Flyhomes announced Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of startup ZeroDown and is launching an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered home search portal to bring “conversational real estate search and research to the market.“ How does the job market here compare to other cities?”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As investors recognize the potential these older properties hold and the inventory and profits they could open up in such a red-hot housing market, demand for older, more distressed properties should increase. Traditional lending approaches are time-consuming when it comes to fix-and-flip properties. The only problem?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has decided to forge ahead in its fight against inflation, despite several bank closures that have caused turbulence in the financial markets. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced the decision to raise the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4.75%-5%, its ninth consecutive rate hike.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2022

Rocket Companies ‘ subsidiary Edison Financial will rebrand as Rocket Mortgage next month in Canada, a market with more than $760 billion (CAD) in mortgage originations annually. Rocket’s expansion comes amid an expected slowdown in Canada’s housing market. It previously acquired Lendesk, a Canadian fintech company.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2022

California-based wholesale/correspondent lender New Wave Lending Group filed a lawsuit against Sprout Mortgage , accusing the company of defaulting on a pool of $32 million in loans it agreed to purchase. New Wave said it requested bids from multiple investors from Jan. 20, 2022, to Feb. Presented by: Polly.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

If there’s a bet to be made on the future of the non-agency lending space, it’s that the adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) will become far more popular this year as purchase mortgages increasingly dominate a housing market pivoting to an up-rate environment. He described today’s non-QM market as a “very large bucket.”.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2021

According to Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac, while there is some uncertainty about the Covid-19 Delta variant, the housing market is still enjoying record low rates. “As As rates change and the market shifts to a more purchase-driven origination environment, lenders need to carefully monitor margins and profitability.

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