Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Large banks have historically been the rulers of the jumbo market. Economic conditions, however, are opening up space for new entrants eyeing market share. This is because surging mortgage rates , upcoming regulatory changes and regional bank collapses have forced large depositories to pull back. PNC Bank ($7.9

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

Rumors this week that regulators would increase residential mortgage capital requirements for larger depositary banks, far exceeding international standards under the Basel III rules, have raised alarms for industry executives, analysts and trade groups. To understand the context, U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Up to 30% of the 1,000 largest independent mortgage banks are projected to disappear by the end of 2023 via sales, mergers or failures in the wake of the double whammy of still-rising inflation and interest rates. Purchase loans are simply harder to market and convert, harder to process, and they generate lower revenues and higher expenses.”.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

trillion in loans, about half of 2021’s $4.4 But Brian Hale, who is assisting several buyers in their hunt for independent mortgage bank acquisition targets, sees an even more brutal landscape ahead. Still, consolidation is clearly underway in the mortgage banking industry already. trillion to $1.7 trillion.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The steady drumbeat of dour news in the mortgage industry punctuated by headlines announcing layoffs and closures among the ranks of independent mortgage banks continues to play out, with several lenders over the last two weeks adding to the torrent of pink slips. Charting the loan officer exit.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 5, 2024

Struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), which triggered fears of new bank collapses, could benefit from selling mortgage servicing rights ( MSR ) to improve its capital ratio, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods (KBW). NYCB became a large mortgage servicer after the acquisition of Flagstar Bank in December 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

In the first quarter of 2024, the big banks showed a challenging reality for originations. The banks’ Q1 2024 earnings, released on Friday, showed declining home loan volumes compared to the prior quarter — and executives believe that the macroeconomic landscape will remain tough in the months to come. billion in Q1 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? “The The Big Chill” or “Frozen,” says Green, principal at real estate law firm Polunsky Beitel Green. By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in. over asking price.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The repurchase-request volume, which includes both depository lenders and nonbanks, is being driven up this year by the huge volume of lower-rate loans made in 2020 and 2021 that Fannie and Freddie are continuing to vet for loan-sale representations and warranties violations. And it just might push some smaller lenders over the cliff.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2023

The lack of housing inventory – a major pain point for real estate agents and loan officers – is an issue that Mark Cohen, principal owner of Cohen Financial Group , also sees in the upper end of the Southern California market. It’s a two-story housing market in Southern California,” Cohen said. Cohen funded $751.4

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The mortgage servicing rights market took off like a rocket in January and it has continued to accelerate into the stratosphere in February, according to industry experts who follow the MSR market closely. Overall, the bulk MSR market should be incredibly robust throughout 2022.”. You just never know. billion, or 8.2%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The California-based Pennymac Financial Services executives rightsized the company and invested in its servicing portfolio amid a shrinking market in 2022. Kornfeld added that Pennymac’s profitability is the strongest among its rated non-bank mortgage peers now — just as it was in the previous downturn in 2018. in 2021 to 15.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

The rate volatility created by fast-rising inflation, now approaching 8% annualized , and the opposing flight to quality sparked by the war in Ukraine, is complicating an already challenging execution environment in the private-label securities market. And three more hikes are planned for 2023.).

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2022

The latest non-QM player to feel the pain of the interest rate volatility afflicting the nation’s housing market this year is a Pasadena, California-based real estate investment trust called Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corp. The principal balance of WMC’s residential whole loan portfolio at June 30 stood at $1.24

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Another large mortgage-servicing rights bulk offering is on the market this week on the heels of a $10 billion MSR package that went out to bid earlier this month. . The latest deal is being marketed by New York-based Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp. , We’re approaching … a peak [in the market] again,” said Piercy. It is a $6.23

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Last year was a challenging one for reverse mortgage business activity, and it likely hit no one harder than the industry’s front-line loan originators. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, Jim Cullen of University Bank reports a similar trend. including the states of California, Washington, Florida, Wisconsin and South Carolina.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

neighborhood, housing market, Fall, homes, new house sales, forbearance. The Federal Reserve ’s 75 basis point interest rate hike – its largest since 1994 – proves the central bank is laser-focused on slowing inflation, but loan officers and housing economists don’t expect mortgage rates to come down until consumer prices fall.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Trading volume in the mortgage servicing rights (MSR) market this year is still on track to reach or slightly exceed 2022’s $1 trillion mark , with trading volume in the fourth quarter of this year projected to be robust as market players race to finish deals prior to year’s end.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

A fresh set of quarterly economic projections from Fed officials showed that borrowing costs are expected to end the year at 4.6%, suggesting that the central bank still plans to make three cuts of 25 basis points (bps) each in 2024. this year before declining to a range of 6% to 7% in 2025.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fannie Mae has completed the sale of its 27 th reperforming-loan offering since the inaugural transaction in 2016. The deal represents Fannie Mae’s fourth reperforming-loan sale this year and involves a total of some 6,060 loans valued at $986.4 Pool 1 was composed of 1,790 loans valued at $337.8 acting as advisor.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Denver-based Incenter’s managing director, Tom Pierc y, said he expects the rising tide of business to continue for the foreseeable future, so long as the housing market is swept up in a rising-rate environment — prompting holders of MSRs to sell the assets. And now we just did over $110 billion for the month of January.”. million to $23.7

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

This agency’s most recent credit risk transfer (CRT) offering, STACR 2022-DNA6, involves a $1.165 billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 112,865 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.6 Morgan Chase Bank , 6.5%; Rocket Mortgage , 6.4%; and Wells Fargo , 4.7%. billion for the $12.2

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

A particularly acute concern to Nevadans is the housing market, which is reeling from the combined effects of high inflation and interest rates,” Lombardo said in the letter dated April 11. Lombardo cited data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. at the market interest rate of 2.82%,” Gov. Utilizing a 3.5% Utilizing a 3.5%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite feelings of optimism expressed by loan originators in the opening weeks of 2024, the road to more normalized levels of reverse mortgage volume and securities issuances may be longer than expected. They also shared the progress they have made in building up loan pipelines, especially compared to the end of last year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

Wells Fargo has finalized the sale of a $50 billion block of mortgage-servicing rights (MSR), a deal that is expected to close later this year, according to bank officials. Market speculation has been rife since January of this year that Wells Fargo was preparing to sell some sizable MSR packages, HousingWire reported previously.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The alarming data underscores why housing professionals need to understand the financial impact of climate change on the real estate industry, George Gallagher, senior leader and principal of ESG, climate risk, natural hazard and spatial solutions at CoreLogic told attendees during a session at HousingWire Annual on Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

The result included a mark-to-market of $63 million, a $1 million severance charge and $10 million losses with equity investments. million customers and $853 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) at the end of March, compared to $870 billion at the end of December. “But we expect more to come from the banks.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2022

Freddie Mac is bringing another credit-risk transfer offering to market, its fourth of the year, through the agency’s Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR) program. billion note backed by a reference loan pool of 118,055 residential mortgages with an outstanding principal balance of $35.4 a week earlier.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Government and conforming loans held for sale would have a 20% risk weight. Other loans held for sale would have a 50% risk weight. Of those issuers already compliant with RBCR, many have ample equity capital to support the acquisition of MSRs that may come on the market.” They will depress it (the market).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) as of Sept. Loan production Spector told analysts that the company’s multichannel approach to production enables consistent access to the origination market in the current high-rate environment. Pennymac’s total loan acquisitions and originations reached $25.1 million in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The TrustEngine Borrower Intelligence Platform, as the platform is called, wraps around the entire mortgage tech stack to drive origination volume by “identifying loan opportunities and engagement strategies tailored to each borrower’s needs,” the companies said in a statement Wednesday.

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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. “Once data is identified, the system can then run a series of automated comparison checks or rules,” Jennifer Fortier , principal at Stratmor, said. .

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The MSR sales market is finishing out 2021 at a robust pace that market observers expect will continue into the new year, propelled by a rising-rate environment and anticipated tax-code changes. One MSR bulk-sale package involves 2,350 loans valued at $753 million, according to the bid documents. One offering was for a $6.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Per the terms of the contract, Sagent was tasked with integrating Mr. Cooper’s consumer-first platform into a cloud-native core, then licensing the resulting cloud-based platform to banks and independent mortgage companies. Mr. Cooper funded 11,599 loans in the first quarter, totaling approximately $2.9 This included $1.4

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Housing Wire

MAY 16, 2022

As banks and non-bank lenders recently released earnings for the first quarter of 2022, two things became clear: Origination volume plummeted across the board, but those that managed to muster up a good quarter benefited from servicing portfolios. Rocket posted $54 billion in closed loans from January to March, down from $75.8

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The mortgage-servicing rights market just keeps on ticking even as the overall housing market takes a licking. And while depository banks that are fueling that growth, concern is mounting over Ginnie Mae MSRs held by nonbanks. Over the first nine months of this year, banks have far outstripped nonbanks in buying up MSR packages.

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