Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Nashville, Tennessee-headquartered Defy Mortgage is the latest player to join the non-QM (non-qualified mortgage) lending space, which targets entrepreneurs and gig workers who have various forms of collateral, including cryptocurrency. We are able to count it as liquidity from a reserve requirement and for asset depletion.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Lending standards tightened in August amid a worsening economic outlook and signs of cooling in home-price growth. A decline in MCAI, benchmarked to 100 in March 2012, indicates that lending standards are tightening while an increase in the index suggests a loosening of credit. billion in 2022 from last year’s $4.4 billion. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“Automated underwriting for agency [ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ] products is definitely much easier because there’s a defined set of scenarios that you have to meet,” says Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending (a non-QM lender formerly known as Citadel Servicing ). And it is growing fast, he added. “We’re

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Potempa mainly focuses on the government lending space, which represents 60% of his total volume, he said. But according to him, the firm has invested in new construction, land, and condominiums in a challenging mortgage market. “In wholesale, you can shop and sell the loan to a multitude of investors.

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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? Presented by: Axis Technical Group.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

HousingWire recently caught up with Steven Schwalb, managing partner of Angel Oak Lending, about the changes investor appetite has gone though for non-QM. HousingWire: What is the investor appetite for non-QM and how has that changed over the past few years? Do they need a pre-closing investor review? Of that volume, $6.2

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners announced Tuesday its investment in Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach , two fintechs focused on attracting and retaining mortgage borrowers and making loan originators more efficient. This vision is a big part of why we wanted to put gas on the fire with this investment.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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. HousingWire: What sets you apart from other non-QM lenders and how does that benefit originators and investors?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a premier provider of innovative, high-performance software, data and analytics for mortgage and home equity lending and servicing, Black Knight is transforming the housing finance industry. The post Simplify complex lending processes with powerful analytics appeared first on HousingWire. Originations.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Its new “Mega Elite” non-QM and debt service coverage ratio product lineup includes alternative income documentation products such as its three- and 12-month bank statement products, CPA and borrower prepared P&L and asset utilization, and its investment properties debt service coverage ratio with 1:1 and no ratio options.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A group of investors led by Colorado-based fund manager Proprietary Capital has completed the acquisition of multichannel lender American Financial Resources (AFR), the parties announced on Monday. Since its foundation in 1997, Proprietary Capital has developed a platform to invest in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2022

Not only does Flagstar offer brokers direct access to seasoned sales, support and underwriting teams, it also provides a product set that includes specialty lending options like Advantage non-agency loan, jumbos, new construction, renovation products and HELOCs, and in the pipeline, loans to foreign nationals, seconds and investor property loans.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The deal will offload an FoA subsidiary division that offers residential real estate investment loans. Following the closing of the [deal], FAM will no longer operate in the business of originating business purpose loans to residential real estate investors.

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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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Cleveland Appraisal Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

How can you capitalize on your first investment property? Whether your first investment property will be a rental or a flip, your goal is to walk away with more money than you put into it. Today, Cleveland Appraisal Blog shares a few tips for first-time investors. You’ve just purchased your first property to renovate.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The funds will be utilized to finance its lending product, CryptoMortgage. Moon Mortgage’s CryptoMortgages will allow investors to take out loans against their digital assets. The product also takes the investors’ digital assets as collateral and gives 100% financing for investment properties.

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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 helps attract ongoing investment capital into the housing sector.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Right now, while things are good, invest in cross-training your staff. People take pride in their work when they believe that their leaders are invested in them as people — not just as tools to help them reap short-term rewards. The post Refi Sugar High: How to balance your lending diet appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The nation’s top loan officer Shant Banosian joined the board of directors at Healing Realty Trust , a healthcare-focused real estate investment company. Aiming to take the company public next year, Healing Realty Trust will tap into Banosian’s network of big banks as well as investors to grow its portfolio.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

” Republic collapsed after it failed to raise $75 million in capital from investors and exited the mortgage lending space. Fulton is purchasing $6 billion in assets from Republic, including its $2 billion investment portfolio and $2.9 FDIC), the appointed receiver, explained in a statement. billion in loans.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Lax lending standards and cheap credit, plus a popular belief that real estate values never decline, created a massive bubble. Chinese real estate investments extend beyond their borders and if those investors suddenly need to liquidate those assets to cover losses at home , many countries real estate markets could be negatively impacted.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“I think non-QM could be another money-making product for all of these originators,” said Keith Lind, executive chairman and president at Acra Lending. When you’re dealing with investors, mistakes cannot happen.”. 1 it was underwritten correctly, and two it fits a credit box of an investor that’s willing to buy it,” Lind said.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The deal was made public four months ago and created a dispute among investors to take the firm, leading Rithm to increase its price by 14% compared to the original bid. After the deal was public, Rithm faced competition from a group of investors , including Boaz Weinstein, Bill Ackman, Marc Lasry and Jeff Yass. They offered $13.50

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A recent report from real estate investment firm The Amherst Group forecasts that the combined net issuance of agency MBS is projected at $250 billion for 2023, compared with $530 billion last year. Some of them are gone forever, and some of them are basically going to have to rebuild capability,” he said.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2023

million in a seed round, the Miami-based cryptocurrency lending platform announced on Tuesday that it launched a product that allows investors in Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to use their assets to secure funding for real estate purchases. “The use case for crypto has to go beyond investment potential.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Amid surging rates, declining volumes and a reduced appetite from investors in the secondary market, there are a growing number of casualties in the mortgage space, especially in the riskier non-QM segment. FGMC) , controlled by global investment management firm PIMCO, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

“There is a bigger consensus of confidence in the product now,” said Keith Lind, executive chairman and president of Acra Lending. The amount of equity in these loans, the underwriting, the guardrails around ATR have proven that this is a real, sustainable product that investors like.”. There’s more people looking to invest in U.S.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The non-QM demand for loans is very healthy,” Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind said. “We First, Lind said, it is important to note that nearly 50% of non-QM production right now is investor loans. They would rather invest money in the housing market than in the stock market,” he said. billion in 2023, an increase from $2.1

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2022

335), Trius Lending Partners (no. Trius Lending, a local direct and hard-money lender specializing in residential investment, attributed its rapid success to customizing to investors’ needs. According to the firm, the core business at Trius Lending is residential rentals or properties for fix-and-flip.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pacific Western Bank , the wholly owned subsidiary of PacWest Bancorp , announced Tuesday it had acquired Civic Financial Services , a private money lender that caters to real estate investors. Wedgewood , a real estate investment firm that focuses on distressed properties, was the seller of Civic. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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BiggerPockets

AUGUST 18, 2022

Recently, when the Fed raised interest rates again, my company, an institutional real estate investment lender in the private lending community, was bombarded with calls from investors saying, “My lender […].

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Housing Wire

JULY 7, 2023

ATTOM reports that one in 12 home sales last year — 8.4% — involved fix-and-flip investors. But increasing costs and the banking crisis this year have meant a fall-off in return on investment for flippers, and for those still interested, it can be more difficult to finance a fix-and-flip or a bridge loan than in past years.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As the housing market suffers through a drought of home sales and related mortgage originations in the current high-rate environment, home prices and home equity continue to climb, helping to spark a revival of another sector — home equity lending and investment. billion, according to a review of bond-rating and industry reports.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Executives have decided to improve liquidity to fund their businesses and investments, targeting mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) deals. And recent transactions show that there’s an appetite among investors for debt in the mortgage space. Investors have an appetite In September, Freedom Mortgage raised $1.3

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management , MFA Financia l, various family offices, and other strategic investors invested through a StoicLane’s special purpose vehicle, StoicLane said. But Interfirst’s tech bend has undoubtedly attracted some sophisticated investors.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Roughly a year ago, the Austin-based fintech began to sell its loans to First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation (FGMC), a lender and investor that specializes in non-qualified mortgage loans and is controlled by behemoth investment management firm Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). . ” . Mispricing at FGMC? .

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