Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

Houston-based nonbank mortgage lender Cornerstone Home Lending announced on Wednesday it has received all regulatory approvals to acquire traditional depository The Roscoe State Bank, a deal that will expand its operations beyond the traditional mortgage business. Expected to close around Oct. It funded $5.1

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency will now require lenders to provide data on borrowers’ language preferences in order to sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , a move which could invite fair lending lawsuits. The disclosure requirements could potentially be another data point for fair lending lawsuits. FHFA declined to comment.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A recent lawsuit filed by Banc of California is claiming that mortgage lenders and servicers Sprout Mortgage (now defunct) and Planet Home Lending owe $1.5 Mortgage industry veteran Michael Strauss, Sprout’s founder, is also listed as a defendant. million related to the proceeds of two notes it owned and funded.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2022

In a move the Federal Housing Finance Agency said will bolster sustainability and equity, servicers for federally backed loans will obtain and maintain fair lending data. The data will stay with the loan throughout the mortgage term, regardless of whether the servicing rights change hands. What will servicing look like in 2022?

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas , Ginnie Mae has filed its response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas Capital Bank (TCB) saying the warehouse lender lacks standing and discounts the authority the government has to extinguish a lender from its reverse mortgage-backed securities program.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

That’s the first predatory mortgage lending case brought by the DOJ. Discrimination in lending harms families and neighborhoods for generations; it is wrong, and it has no place in our country,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. We look forward to telling the true story of Colony Ridge.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

HousingWire recently sat down with Steve Meirink, executive vice president and general manager, Compliance Solutions, Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk and Compliance Division, to discuss the impact of digital technology on mortgage and the future of digital lending in an era of accelerated innovation and digital transformation.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In a legal memo, HUD stated that SPCPs are allowed under the Fair Housing Act. ECOA prohibits reverse redlining — targeting minority communities for predatory lending — but Congress amended the statute in 1976 to allow for special purpose credit programs. A special purpose credit program can take many forms.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2023

A federal judge in Georgia has given the green light for an amended “predatory lending” lawsuit to proceed against Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo has been under fire numerous times in the past over discriminatory lending allegations. The lawsuit was filed under the Fair Housing Act by three counties in Georgia.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Modern-day redlining persists, and it’s costing lenders millions in legal fees. Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken a strong stance on redlining, taking direct legal action against bad actors and thrusting the topic into the national spotlight. The future of the mortgage industry is increasingly diverse.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Nonbank originator Change Lending and the U.S. A Barron’s investigation found that Change failed to meet its underserved lending requirements in 2022, resulting in the lender being removed from the CDFI Fund’s list of certified program lenders in August.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Three years into its controversial ultimatum , United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) continues to engage in legal battles with its broker partners selling loans to rivals Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. A spokesperson for District Lending did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

A proprietary reverse mortgage from Finance of America Companies (FOA) now secures the home of Rhode Island ’s honorary historian laureate after the property was returned to the owner after attempts to bequeath it to a nonprofit historical society he founded. This is according to reporting from The Providence Journal.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas by a group of current and former staffers from the company’s bilingual mortgage sales team alleging race-based discrimination. Wells Fargo forces its employees on the Bilingual team to offer predatory lending options to Spanish-speaking customers,” the initial legal complaint reads.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 15, 2021

Non-QM lender Sprout Mortgage is setting up a distributed retail operation, and it’s picked a veteran of Wells Fargo to lead the new division. Johnson, based in Miami, has also worked at PNC Bank during his career in mortgage banking. Sprout does most of its business through mortgage brokers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2021

Non-QM lender Sprout Mortgage has brought on Infosys ‘s chief information officer and global director of real estate finance solutions, Henry Santos , as its own CIO and executive vice president, the company announced Tuesday. In her new role, LaRaia will oversee all legal and regulatory compliance functions.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2023

Bank of America (BofA) prevailed in a court case brought against it by Cook County , Illinois , which sued the bank alleging predatory mortgage loans to Black and Hispanic borrowers in the Chicago area. Cook County, the judge said, was too far removed from the alleged predatory lending scheme to be considered the proper plaintiff.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Guild Mortgage has filed a petition in a district court in Washington to confirm a $10.7 million award resulted from an arbitration dispute against three former employees accused of poaching when they transitioned to rival CrossCountry Mortgage. A spokesperson for CCM wrote that the company “does not comment on legal matters.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amid the expectation of a wave of mergers and acquisitions in 2023, nonbank mortgage lenders American Portfolio Mortgage Corporation and Town Square Mortgage announced on Wednesday that the companies are merging their operations. This week, Guild announced it has acquired Legacy Mortgage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2022

Title insurance protects borrowers from financial loss if the lender discovers a defect in the title to the property (for example, a previous mortgage) and demands a borrower to pay back the loan. So, how do larger lenders/banks end up selecting the title company to use on all of their mortgage transactions, where possible?

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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. Learn how updating your mortgage technology stack can help you get ahead in today’s unpredictable lending environment.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Most mortgage professionals have either started to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) or are at least aware of how it can be adopted to make the loan origination process more efficient. Automated comparison checks can help solve one of the biggest issues in mortgage banking: a lack of trust in data provided by borrowers and lenders. “We

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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. Learn how updating your mortgage technology stack can help you get ahead in today’s unpredictable lending environment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

High-profile government actions against some of the nation’s largest financial firms for alleged violations of fair lending laws and loan servicing principles have sent a sobering message to industry CEOs and their boards: the buck stops at the top. Just ask the ones who in the recent past have lost their jobs or faced reputational damage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Top 10 mortgage lender and servicer Newrez sued one of its former executives over multiple allegations, including breach of contract, disclosure of confidential information and unfair competition tied to soliciting several Newrez executives to join a competing lender. 21 in the U.S. 21 in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2023

When industry veteran Michael Strauss abruptly shut down Long Island-based Sprout Mortgage in early July, there was uproar. million mortgage fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to his name, seems to be back in the mortgage business. Shocked employees didn’t receive their last paychecks.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 25, 2023

filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, just two months after it got back into the forward mortgage origination business. AmeriFirst told Housingwire that the bankruptcy action has no impact on closed mortgages and the loans in the pipeline will be closed and funded. Retail lender AmeriFirst Financial Inc.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has moved to dismiss an amended counterclaim filed by broker shop America’s MoneyLine (AML) that accuses the lender of antitrust practices regarding the “ultimatum” it imposed two years ago. A spokesperson for UWM said the company had no comment. Any broker who did so would face fines.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential to cut costs and improve customer experience, but regulation has not caught up to develop a governance program, industry pros said of AI’s implementation in mortgage lending. The panel noted the findings of the latest Fannie Mae mortgage lender sentiment survey.

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Housing Wire

MAY 6, 2024

mortgage lender Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. The company announced last week that, in April, it welcomed production teams that collectively originated more than $500 million in mortgage volume in 2023. These groups are bringing a total of 92 mortgage professionals to Fairway. The lender originated $5.15

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

During an earnings call on Wednesday, chief financial officer Daniel Perotti said that “Pennymac maintained its dominant position in correspondent lending in the first quarter” as it acquired $18 billion in volume. Its owned mortgage servicing rights (MSR) portfolio had a UPB of $386.6 Pennymac’s servicing portfolio continues to grow.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2024

At the time, housing organizations largely supported the revisions, including the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and the National Housing Conference (NHC). In a joint statement issued by the plaintiffs and posted by the ABA, they lauded the judge’s decision.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Wells Fargo will pay $94 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that argued it sent more than 200,000 mortgage borrowers into forbearance during the pandemic unlawfully and without their consent. Scharf also argued depository banks are held to higher standards than nonbank mortgage lenders.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Rocket Mortgage is looking to hire local loan officers at a time when mortgage rates are high and the industry remains heavily reliant on the purchase market. According to Rocket’s job post, the loan officer position is remote and requires a minimum of three years of experience in mortgage loan origination.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Guaranteed Rate Affinity has initiated legal action against former loan originators, accusing them of breaching contracts by failing to pay back advanced signing bonuses and commissions after they left the company. The company originates and markets its mortgage lending services to Anywhere’s real estate brokerage and relocation subsidiaries.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ’s regulator imagines a future where, perhaps through artificial intelligence and machine learning, errors in mortgages are identified in real time before a loan is closed. billion five years ago, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency — closing a mortgage loan has since gotten more expensive, not less.

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