Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wisconsin: No proprietary but plenty of opportunity Cullen, who works at University Bank , explained that while he occasionally gets business opportunities from outside Wisconsin , he prefers to remain within his home state since he likes to conduct business face to face as much as possible.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

MSR holdings for banks over same period remained essentially flat, however, according to Recursion’s data — at $2.773 trillion in 2019 versus $2.747 trillion as of January 2024, again based on the outstanding balance of loans serviced. The total number of firms [IMBs and banks] after this cycle of right-sizing is probably going to be lower.

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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.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2022

Bankruptcy Court in Delaware — show the lender owes more than $400 million to four warehouse lenders, which include Customers Bank, Flagstar Bank, Texas Capital Bank and J.V.B. Obligations to Customers Bank are further secured by a cash reserve account and related collateral,” Samples court pleadings add.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Prior to joining Rithm, he held executive positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch , J.P. He led the company during the tumultuous acquisition of Sculptor Capital Management in 2023, bringing in $34 billion in assets under management. It also included reduced compensation for loan officers, sources told HousingWire in February.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Night and day’ difference When posed with the simple question about how business is going so far this year, David Heilman — principal for HomeGrown Financial in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — characterized the difference between early 2024 business and the same time last year as “night and day.” “I

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2023

BlackFin Group announced on Wednesday the appointment of Christopher Call as the principal consultant on the BlackFin Group Professional Services team. Founded in 2019, BlackFin Group is a management consulting firm specializing in strategic guidance, operational expertise, and innovative solutions for the banking and mortgage industries.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2023

million customers and $853 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) at the end of March, compared to $870 billion at the end of December. Despite the reduction in the unpaid principal balance in the first quarter of 2023, Mr. Cooper won deals that will include $57 billion in MSRs in the next few months, the executive said.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

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

MARCH 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s decision to raise the federal funds rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday signaled that officials are still focused on bringing down inflation to 2% while monitoring how much recent bank failures slow lending in the economy and cool demand. Rates were lower at 6.45% on Wednesday on Mortgage News Daily. ​​In

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“The market progressively got worse around the start July of 2022 and then throughout the course of 2023, driven by the Federal Reserve raising rates and the lack of liquidity in the banking sector,” said John Toohig, head of whole-loan trading on the Raymond James whole-loan desk and president of Raymond James Mortgage Co.

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Realty Biz

JULY 1, 2022

Williams currently serves as Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners. Dawanna Williams is the Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners – a real estate development firm that offers modern living solutions with intelligent planning, architectural ingenuity, and environmental integrity. .”

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Prior to joining Nations Direct, O’Brien held leadership positions at LoanDepot , was Northeast regional sales manager at Fifth Third Bank; principal at J.H. O’Brien & Associates and VP, Eastern regional sales manager at National City Home Equity, among others. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Non-bank originator Change Lending will continue to originate non-qualified mortgages ( non-QMs ) for underserved borrowers after it reached a tentative deal with the U.S. Change accused Levine of committing fraud and breaching his contract with the firm to advance his scheme to extort Change and its principals for over $10 million.

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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. As of the end of the first quarter of 2023, the bank’s MSR portfolio was valued at $8.81 billion based on the unpaid principal balance (UPB), down from $679.2

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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. Therefore, its results portend a challenging quarter for the non-bank mortgage sector,” Kornfeld said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Low issuance is caused by higher interest rates, resulting in lower Principal Limit Factors (PLFs), combined with the high upfront Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP),” Kelly explained. The big banks had just left and new lenders were gearing up: American Advisors Group (AAG), RMF and others.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 26, 2023

billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) as of Sept. Spector said banks are stepping back from the correspondent channel amid expectations of increasing capital requirements through the Basel III rules. In servicing, Pennymac delivered a pretax income of $101.2 million in Q3 2023, up from $46.5 million in Q2 2023.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In addition, purchasers must offer delinquent borrowers a waterfall of loss mitigation options, including loan modifications, which may include principal forgiveness, prior to initiating foreclosure on any loan.”. Through four offerings to date, Fannie Mae has brought to market 31,780 reperforming loans valued at $5.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

According to the latest quarterly earnings, the servicing company ended the fourth quarter of 2021 with $710 billion in unpaid principal balance, up from $668 billion in the third quarter. Before joining Mr. Cooper, he held executive positions at First Horizon National Corporation and Capital Bank.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

Before joining Deephaven, Heitzmann was principal at LGH Consulting. She also held executive roles at Xome , Wells Fargo , Bank of America and IndyMac Bank. Presented by: Angel Oak. The company recently added Lisa Heitzmann as chief operating officer.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In May, Lisa Heitzmann joined the company as its chief operating officer and later went on to join LGH Consulting LLC as its principal. among others. Last month, Deephaven tapped business development veteran Tyler Bohn as its managing director of national accounts. million security backed by non-QM mortgages.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

The loan must be secured by a principal residence. For banks, there is a potential incentive for making targeted programs. That’s despite a February report by the Urban Institute which found that nonbanks made a greater share of their owner-occupant home purchase mortgage loans to borrowers of color than banks.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently observed that across all kinds of financial services, activities that had once been principally the province of banks have moved into the nonbank sector, including IMBs. Bank CRA obligations cover far more than their mortgage lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2023

billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) as of June 30, up 2% from March 31. Throughout the quarter, Pennymac increased the number of approved correspondent seller relationships to 800, attracting sellers who had connections with commercial banks that pulled back from or recently exited the channel. million in Q2 2023, down from $57.4

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Reaction to bank failures According to the Black Knight report, as of the week ending on March 18, purchase lock counts were 21% lower compared to the same week in 2019 — and 30% below the levels for the same week in 2018. On the bright side, homeowners with mortgages still had $9.3 Meanwhile, refinance volumes remained low at 12.5%

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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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RIS Media

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark Calabria issued a statement at the Financial Stability Oversight Council Principals meeting. In response, we instituted a four-month limit on servicers’ obligations to advance principal and interest payments on loans in forbearance. Source: FHFA.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Morgan , the investment bank side of New York-based banking holding company J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Morgan, through its private label conduit, J.P.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The company says more than 200 independent mortgage companies, credit unions, banks and brokers currently use TrustEngine’s solutions. In January 2022, Sam Ryder, principal at LLR Partners, cited the companies’ solutions products as the reason for the capital investment.

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Housing Wire

JULY 27, 2021

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) today released standards for states to craft regulations for nonbank mortgage servicers. basis points of total servicing unpaid principal balance. An additional 200 basis points is charged on nonperforming loans greater than 6% of the total servicing unpaid principal balance.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Lakeview Trust 2022-EBO 2 involves a pool of 2,063 FHA-backed loans with an unpaid principal balance (UPB) of $405.2 Key to EBO offerings is the fact that the FHA guarantees 100% of the principal balance on the loans it insures. Its servicing portfolio for all-agency loans based on unpaid principal balance stood at $374.8

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Housing Wire

MARCH 23, 2022

We expect it to be a challenging [mortgage] market from a volume perspective due to interest rates and credit spreads,” said David Pelka, head of RMBS business and a principal at CarVal. REMICs are tax exempt under federal law, although the income earned by investors is taxable. “We

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On Wednesday, top executives at the company told analysts that Mr. Cooper is now the largest servicer in the country and will continue to grow its portfolio by acquiring large bulks of mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), mainly from banks expecting additional capital requirements through Basel III rules.

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Bigger Pockets

MARCH 15, 2023

If it isn’t clear already, the latest swing banking failures show […] Are you listening to the advice of the world’s greatest investors? More importantly, are you acting on that advice?

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