Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Figure Lending LLC is now operating under the umbrella of Figure Technology Solutions , independent of CEO Mike Cagney ’s Figure Technologies. to take its lending division, LendCo , public. JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. —

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2024

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that while institutional investors may have contributed to rising home prices since 2009, the actual impact they have had on homeownership opportunities is more difficult to assess.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2024

Anaheim, California -based nonbank Change Lending on Tuesday announced the hiring of Madison Simm as its new chief financial officer. He comes to Change Lending after a stint as president of real estate at Texas Capital Bank. I am thrilled to join Change Lending as CFO,” Simm said. Department of the Treasury since 2018.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mortgage lender Revolution Mortgage has partnered with Tavant, an AI-powered digital lending company, to integrate Tavant’s Touchless Lending product suite into Revolution Mortgage’s platform. Tavant, an HW Tech100 winner for multiple years, helped underwrite more than 80,000 loans in 2021.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 23, 2024

billion in new mortgages for apartment buildings with five or more units, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) annual report of the multifamily lending market. billion in multifamily lending volume represents a 49 percent decrease from 2022 levels. In 2023, 2,520 different multifamily lenders provided a total of $246.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Feldman & Feldman began working with clients throughout Texas to file lawsuits under the truth in lending act against EasyKnock in 2021. According to Feldman & Feldman, EasyKnocks defamation suit forced the law firm to withdraw from the truth in lending suits it was involved in. In 2018, the company raised $3.5

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% While investors are still sensitive to mortgage rate changes, they are less sensitive than consumer buyers as 69% of investors pay in cash.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Mortgage technology startup Novaprime is making its public debut with the launch of an AI-powered loan platform that it claims allows lenders to sell loans to investors in just days, instead of weeks, all with a high degree of accuracy. Novaprime is starting with post-close quality control functions and working backwards.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Acra Lending , a private mortgage lender, announced its integration with Tavant ’s Touchless Lending Collateral Analysis. This partnership marks a milestone in Tavant’s expansion into non-QM lending. Collateral Analysis is a proprietary product of Tavant’s Touchless Lending automation platform.

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 20, 2024

Planet Home Lending Area Sales Manager Tom Reber National mortgage lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has hired Tom Reber as Area Sales Manager in Jacksonville, Florida. I am excited to join Planet Home Lending and lead our expansion in North Florida and Southern Georgia,” Reber said.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

According to a recent report by Forbes, over half of all real estate investors are now turning to private lenders. The rise of private lending Private lenders disrupted the monopoly of traditional banks and the private lending market has since seen a remarkable rise, reaching $1.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this conversation, the duo explore niche lending, second lien product opportunities and demand for non-QM. Deephaven’s focus on non-QM lending is expected to drive its volume past $80 billion in 2025. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. For Deephaven, we’re known for our expertise, knowledge and focus.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Mike Cagney’s financial technology firm Figure Technologies has taken another step to go public with its lending division, LendCo , hiring investment banks to coordinate the initial public offering (IPO), per a Bloomberg report. The profitable lending business has more than a 50% contribution margin, he said in a meeting.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Total borrowing and lending for commercial and multifamily mortgages is expected to finish at $539 billion by the end of 2024, according to an updated baseline forecast by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The post Forecast: Commercial/Multifamily Borrowing and Lending to Increase first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Evernest already offers services including brokerage , maintenance, renovation, insurance and lending. LL Funds also served as one of Poplar’s investors since the company’s debut in 2014, according to Evernest. Poplar Homes is a leading property manager focused on individual investors and multifamily property owners.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

How can today’s mortgage lending market be summed up in one word? Acra Lending has done precisely that. Acra Lending is a proven leader in the space, and it has adapted and thrived despite market shifts. higher interest rates and elevated home prices create openings for non-QM lending. billion to $3.47

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2024

Nonbank mortgage originator Change Lending will become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB-SF). We welcome a partnership with the FHLB-SF to enhance our strength and reach as America’s CDFI,” said Steven Sugarman , founder of the Change Company, the parent company of Change Lending. “We

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

has agreed to buy a majority stake in Angel Oak Companies , the holding company for a non-QM lender and investor that manages more than $18 billion in mortgage assets. AOMC, which tends to lend to self-employed borrowers, has originated north of $30 billion and has issued more than 60 bond securitizations over the past decade.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 16, 2025

Fannie Mae polled about 200 senior mortgage executives through our Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey in early October 2024 to learn about lenders perspectives and experiences evaluating variable and digital gig economy income for mortgage lending, given the rise of these income streams following the pandemic.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Visit Easy Street Capital Constitution Lending: Best for new investors If youre a new investor, finding the best hard money lenders for beginners can make or break your chance at success. You want someone whos experienced with emerging investors and with terms that are fair and comprehensible.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

Tomo Mortgage on Tuesday announced the closure of $20 million in Series B funding that was led by three existing investors and a new participant. The funding round was led by prior investors Ribbit Capital , DST Global and NFX along with new investor Progressive Insurance.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2023

California-based retail lender JVM Lending plans to drum up business this year — but by doing the exact opposite. We would feed them leads, but they came back to us because they didn’t know how to structure the full document deals,” Jay Voorhees, co-founder at JVM Lending, said in an interview with HousingWire. I thought it was sparse.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Deephaven Mortgage a pioneer in non-QM lending offers loan products to serve borrowers who might not otherwise qualify for a traditional loan. million, so its primed and ready to meet the needs of most property investors. How are real estate investors responding? These loans go up to $2.5 Why is that? Hes an expert.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We That should help to unlock more inventory while also reducing financing costs for leveraged investors. million households formed each year.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending lost its Community Development Fund Institution (CDFI) certification, according to a report from Barron’s. Change Lending was removed from the CDFI Fund’s list of certified program lenders last week, the outlet reported.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” The pool of non-QM borrowers includes real estate investors, fix-and-flippers, foreign nationals, business owners, gig economy workers and the self-employed.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This approach integrates QC principles throughout the lending process, from application to servicing. This focus aligns with Fannie Mae’s QC requirements and reflects the growing importance of data in the lending process.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 13, 2024

While the industry is no stranger to predatory and/or unfair lending practices, new advisory opinion and research study on a type of home seller financing known as a “contract for deed” has been released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). These disclosures include the annual percentage rate and payment schedules.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Business-purpose residential mortgage lender Dunmor announced Thursday that it has received a minority equity investment from Newfi Lending , a nonagency mortgage lender owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management. According to Dunmor, the investment is an extension of an original partnership initiated in June 2024.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

Peter Sciandra Fairway has led the way in digital mortgage closings, completing over 200,000 e-closings for our forward mortgages since 2017, said Peter Sciandra, EVP of reverse lending operations and secondary at Fairway. Incorporating reverse mortgages into this was seen as a priority for Dan Ventura, Fairways president of reverse lending.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2024

Los Angeles -based Dunmor , a technology -enabled lender that specializes in loans for residential real estate investors , has added a pair of experienced executives in the business-purpose lending space.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

That would not be for the out-of-town investor, said Richards, who purchased the properties via Auction.com s new SmartSale program. The company sometimes takes ownership of properties when investors default on their loans We had 15 single-family (homes) in Montgomery, Alabama I dont imagine how the hell I would have sold (them) on my own.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Cardinal Financial is also offering real estate investor financing with its Foreign Debt Service Coverage Ratio ( DSCR ) and Investor Solutions DSCR products. The former offers financing to international investors, while the latter offers investment financing based on the potential cash flow of the subject property.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Garg explained that Better utilized its marketplace lending model that includes 32 different investors across the mortgage landscape from real estate investment trusts and insurance companies to hedge funds, major correspondent lenders and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. ” How is it so fast?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

More than just an accolade, this award highlights organizations that are transforming the housing sectorenhancing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility in ways that reshape the future of mortgage lending. These companies are at the forefront of solving the biggest challenges mortgage professionals face every day.

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