Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cooper was completed in August, Home Point Capital agreed to settle for $5 million a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 by investors claiming the company made false and misleading statements related to its initial public offering (IPO).

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Northpointe Bank , a regional bank headquartered in Michigan, will walk away from its correspondent lending business to focus on its retail lending, mortgage warehouse financing division and specialty loan servicing business. The rising rate environment also had an impact on Northpointe’s origination in 2022.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized the rule on small business lending, which fulfills a mandate from Congress and aims to increase transparency while mitigating discrimination. For decades, the government has assembled data pursuant to Congressional mandates on residential mortgages,” the CFPB said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Warehouse lending, one of the sources of liquidity to independent mortgage bankers (IMBs), usually has good yields and short term, according to industry experts. In March, Moody’s Investor Service listed Comerica among the nation’s top warehouse lenders for potential rating downgrades.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

Tavant , a Silicon Valley-based digital lending solutions provider, is adding a new product called Asset Analysis to its AI-powered digital lending platform, Touchless Lending. Touchless Lending provides straight-through mortgage processing and automated underwriting as part of the end-to-end mortgage manufacturing pipeline.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Last July, the company sold its title insurance business to Essent Group , followed by strategic changes in September including a transition of its offshore-based operations to a team in the Philippines and the sale of “certain operations” of its home improvement lending business to Aqua Finance.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over insider-lending allegations brought against the bank and its former top executive, Ronald Paul. The bank, which operates a mortgage-lending unit, along with its holding company, Eagle Bancorp Inc., EagleBank , one of the largest community banks in metro Washington, D.C.,

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2022

Dubbed the “Homepoint Cash Compete,” the fintech platform provides home shoppers with the cash needed to compete with investors and other more attractive offers, according to the lender. Planet Home Lending entered into a $2.5 The post Homepoint lends homebuyers the power of all-cash offers appeared first on HousingWire.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 15, 2021

SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney’s latest digital mortgage operation Figure Lending closed on a $100 million funding facility from JPMorgan Chase this week. In a statement, Figure said the $100 million loan facility represents another push toward growth in mortgage lending. Mike Cagney, SoFi. billion across these deals.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with John Jeanmonod, Regional Vice President of Sales at Angel Oak, about non-QM lending and the outlook for the second half of 2022. Since we are the end investor, we do not have to seek third party approval to do a loan. The post Why non-QM lending is not going away appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

Silvergate’s provisional fourth quarter earnings report revealed that it exited its mortgage warehouse lending product in the fourth quarter of 2022 due to “the current macro environment, the rising interest rate environment and related reduction in mortgage volumes.”. billion in crypto-related deposits.

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

Here is where it gets murky – choosing the right non-QM lending partner! Are the lender and end investor affiliated? Or do they have to rely on approval from another investor? Or do they have to rely on approval from another investor? Do you call the AE that just brought you doughnuts? That’s why.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2021

Citadel Servicing Corporation (CSC) , one of the country’s largest non-QM lenders , is rebranding as Acra Lending (Acra). Liquidity had dried up and bond investors, which underpin the non-QM market, were running for the hills. Citadel resumed non-QM lending in the summer. The change is effective Monday. “We

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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

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. The post Real estate brokerage Radius unveils mortgage-lending arm appeared first on HousingWire.

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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.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2023

announced on Thursday that the Optimal Blue product, pricing and eligibility engine (PPE) has added investor content from 54 state-based housing finance agencies (HFAs). Optimal Blue , a division of Black Knight, Inc. Black Knight, Inc.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Yet borrowers have had limited agency in the lending process to date. FormFree, the ATP fintech led by HousingWire Tech Trendsetter Brent Chandler , is launching a blockchain-based exchange for consumers to take control of the lending process. The smart contract presents the borrower’s lending request to the exchange.

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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

MARCH 3, 2022

Finance of America Companies on Wednesday told investors that it managed to increase in originations in 2021, but a more competitive landscape reduced margins and, consequently, the company’s net income. The post Finance of America asks investors to look beyond traditional mortgage appeared first on HousingWire. billion, up 107%.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, the changes we’ve seen since the advent of the global pandemic are significant enough to serve as a catalyst that will drive all lending digital. The trends and lending requirements I’ve highlighted below became important long before the coronavirus made it to the U.S. Peering into the future of lending.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

have launched a new digital lending platform powered by machine learning to grow its small balance multifamily lending business. “Multifamily investors want a faster and more transparent borrowing experience,” comments Alison Williams, Walker & Dunlop’s senior vice president and chief production officer.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Retirement investors can now trust that their investment advice provider is working in their best interest and helping to make unbiased decisions,” she said. Retirement investors are best protected by a uniform and protective framework.”

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

When [RMF] defaulted on its obligations, GNMA exercised its right to extinguish RMF’s interest in certain mortgages in order to ensure the timely payment to investors in securities backed by those mortgages,” the filing reads.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Guild Mortgage Correspondent is the most recent addition to Promontory MortgagePath ’s investor network. As lenders advance their investor relationships, their ownership of the origination processes increases — and so does their earning potential,”. Promontory MortgagePath is a provider of digital mortgage fulfillment services.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2022

A San Francisco real estate investor with political ties was found guilty of bank fraud and making false statements to Quicken Loans as part of a larger federal investigation targeting public corruption in the city. . The post Jury convicts San Francisco real estate investor for defrauding Quicken Loans appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2022

The go-forward initiatives cited by LLR Partners Include “support for a wider range of financial products and lending institutions,” and the three executives HousingWire interviewed noted that their strategy reaches beyond just mortgage.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Following the closing of the [deal], FAM will no longer operate in the business of originating business purpose loans to residential real estate investors. “[Those assets] will continue to be sold or otherwise paid in full or liquidated in the ordinary course of business,” the company said in the filing.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Blue Sage Solutions’s primary product offering is a cloud-based digital lending platform designed to operate in the retail, wholesale, and correspondent lending channels while ensuring compliance. Additionally, the platform is accessible to all users, regardless of their current loan origination software.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The complexities of serving borrowers under the CARES Act require lenders, servicers and investors to partner with a mortgage services provider who has the expertise and national network to provide high-touch support to its clients. We are a solution provider,” said Keith Murray, president and CEO of VRM.

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