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Private equity and insurance companies piling into residential mortgages

Housing Wire

After two years of limited demand, private equity and insurance companies are increasing their allocations to single family residential mortgages. These strong fund flows are resulting in tighter credit spreads, higher prices, and an increased focus on sourcing new originations.

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Flagstar Bank makes changes to TPO leadership

Housing Wire

Flagstar Bank has made changes to its third-party origination (TPO) channel leadership. Hoffman has spent more than 30 years in mortgage banking, 22 of them at Flagstar, where he started as an account executive. Hoffman has spent more than 30 years in mortgage banking, 22 of them at Flagstar, where he started as an account executive.

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‘There will be bank failures,’ Fed chief tells lawmakers

Housing Wire

In remarks made Thursday to the Senate Banking Committee this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects some U.S. banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. There will be bank failures, but not the big banks.”

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NYCB, a struggling $78B resi mortgage servicer, to receive $1B equity investment

Housing Wire

Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers. The leadership is also changing. billion goodwill impairment.

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Santander Bank to stop originating mortgages in the United States

Housing Wire

Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. The Spanish bank said it will continue to service current loans and honor pending borrowers’ applications. regulators. mortgage industry are in the past.

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First Internet Bank is shuttering its consumer mortgage business

Housing Wire

First Internet Bank is shutting down its consumer mortgage business due to a steep decline in mortgage volumes and the negative outlook for mortgage lending that is forecasted to continue for the next several years. The home equity loans balance was $24.7 The residential mortgage loan balance for First Internet was $383.9 million. “The

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Redwood Trust CEO Christopher Abate on the REIT’s appetite for jumbos, home equity

Housing Wire

“We would partner with banks to buy their loans and securitize them so the banks could recycle their capital.” “We would partner with banks to buy their loans and securitize them so the banks could recycle their capital.” ” Another opportunity is in the home equity space. .”

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