Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

The official magazine for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently touched on the topic of reverse mortgages, mentioning products such as the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) and addressing topics like the desires of baby boomers to age in place in their homes.

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Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

The government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are now targeting a 20% reduction in principal and interest (P&I) payments to keep borrowers facing permanent financial stress in their homes. “The Flex Modification guarantees home retention for borrowers who face permanent hardships and can’t afford their mortgage payments.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While mortgage rates are high and economic uncertainty looms, there is good news for borrowers who already have a mortgage and may be looking to tap into their equity. The average mortgage holder is up by more than $92,000 compared to the start of the pandemic. What is a home equity loan? Read on to find out.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2022

Fannie Mae is marketing its 25th sale of reperforming loans since its first offering six years ago and its second sale so far in 2022. The offering is comprised of 7,600 mortgages with total unpaid principal balance of $1.49 The transaction involves three loan pools — with pool 1 composed of loans with about $603.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As 2023 winds to a close, so too does a brutal year for the housing market, a year marked by rising rates , steep home prices , scarce inventory and anemic mortgage originations, compared with the boom years of 2020 and 2021. With first-lien mortgages … the trading volumes are down from 2021 and 2022 peak levels.

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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. This is according to a series of RMD interviews with six reverse mortgage originators from across the U.S., My outlook is very positive.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

After nearly two years of trudging through a frozen housing market , the consensus among mortgage professionals is that the worst of it is over. The spread between the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the 10-year Treasury yield has narrowed after sitting at over 300 basis points, compared to the historic norm of 150 bps.

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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. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements fell 11.8% That was down 3.6%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Fannie Mae this week unveiled its 24th sale of reperforming loans since its first offering in 2016. The current deal is composed of more than 8,000 mortgages with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $1.3 The transaction involves three loan pools — with pool 1 composed of loans with about $421.2

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Rocket Companies , the parent of Rocket Mortgage , was in the red again in 2023 as it reported a GAAP net loss of $390 million. But Varun Krishna, CEO and director of Rocket Companies, noted its growth in market share during a difficult year for mortgage lenders. “We billion in closed loan volume, down from $133.1

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, rates. New York-based Mortgage Industry Advisory Corp. MIAC) is in the market with two whole-loan offerings of nonperforming Ginnie Mae-insured mortgages that combined are valued at more than $1.2 The largest of the two EBO whole-loan offerings is valued at $1.1 Department of Agriculture.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

While reverse mortgage volume in 2024 got off to a rocky start, new data that breaks out retail Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements versus wholesale production showed that it was the former that took the bigger hit in the first month of the year, based on new data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI).

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After hitting a 23-year high of 8% in October, mortgage rates have cooled down to the lowest levels since July. The mortgage rate dip is welcome news for the housing market, but loan originators and industry executives emphasized that rates need to decline further and remain stable to reinvigorate buyers’ demand.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase usually open the quarterly earnings seasons in the mortgage space, giving analysts something to chew on before nonbanks release their financial reports. Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf told analysts that “credit trends remain generally consistent“ and loan delinquencies continue to perform as forecasted.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Loan officers saw an increase in mortgage demand during the first week of 2023 as mortgage rates ticked down. ” Gano’s experiences reflect what happened in the market overall. .” ” Gano’s experiences reflect what happened in the market overall.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

The mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) market remains robust as we turn the corner into 2024, and though it is expected to slightly underperform 2023, the market is still projected to notch healthy trading volumes in 2024 — hovering near the $1 trillion mark for the fourth year in a row, market observers forecast.

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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.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

HousingWire is excited to announce this year’s Rising Stars, representing the next generation of leaders in mortgage and real estate. This year 80 honorees were selected.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

As any professional involved in it will know, bringing new people into the fold of the reverse mortgage business can be a difficult task. Reputational challenges , the narrow focus of the product and low mortgage market penetration are just a few of the reasons why. With the right ambassador, that task is made simpler.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

Top executives at Rithm said they continue to evaluate taking the mortgage business public. In its mortgage division, Rithm recorded a total pretax income of $408.1 At the end of March, Rithm had $587 billion in unpaid principal balance, relatively unchanged from the end of December and up 15% year over year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Despite a challenging operating environment and broader concerns among industry professionals about connecting with new borrowers, the reverse mortgage industry’s key performance indicators showed improvements last month. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements increased by 2.3% compared to the prior month.

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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. That’s 20 basis points higher than the international standard.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

If passed, House Bill 809 and its companion Senate Bill 1070 would bar insurance carriers from placing a coverage limit on a home that would include the value of the land the house sits on, and it would require insurance companies to offer policies that cover only the unpaid principal on a mortgage.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

I don’t expect we’ll see much of a market reaction to the Fed meeting this week because the Fed is waiting for the incoming data, just like the rest of us,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com. It seems to me they didn’t want to make that same mistake today.” “I

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2023

Independent mortgage banks have been coping with a still-surging wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that represents yet another threat to lenders’ already stretched balance sheets. Those mortgages were originated at interest rates of 3% or less, and rates now are more than 3 percentage points higher.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Fannie Mae , the government-sponsored enterprise that backs the majority of conventional mortgages, is not immune to the sharp decline in mortgage refinances. Fannie Mae’s net income decrease was mainly due to the expense of managing credit risk on mortgage loans. The enterprise reported $7.5 billion this quarter.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2022

Fannie Mae has chosen the winning bidder for its inaugural nonperforming loan sale of 2022, a deal involving 3,223 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $477.2 The nonperforming loans involved in the deal, dubbed FNMA 2022-NPL1 , were divided into two pools, with MCLP the winning bidder for both pools.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Fannie Mae has announced the winning bidder for the final mortgage pool that was part of its inaugural nonperforming loan sale of 2022 — and it’s nineteenth sale since the i na ugural offering in 2015. The loan pool, dubbed the Community Impact Pool (CIP), includes 120 loans with an unpaid principal balance of $36.3

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Higher death termination caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was in the data and led to different age composition of the active loan,” the report read. “We We leave this to future research to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the composition of surviving loans.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In September 2022, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.1%, according to Freddie Mac data. But compare mortgage delinquencies over the same period: 2.8% But compare mortgage delinquencies over the same period: 2.8% If the labor market weakens in the coming months, expect further increases in mortgage delinquencies.”

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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. million. .

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” But the housing market in the second half of 2022? “The By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With renewed attention towards the manufactured housing space, the FHA moved this week to provide updated guidance to its Title I loan program, making it easier to understand and use for lenders. The Title I program insures mortgage loans made by private lending institutions to finance the purchase of a new or used manufactured home.).

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Sales of reperforming loans nosedived in 2020 as the pandemic took root in America, but sales volume appears to have recovered with vigor, based on an analysis of RPL offerings for government-sponsored enterprise Fannie Mae. The post Fannie Mae’s sales of reperforming loans are on the rise appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In the face of spiking interest rates and historically high home prices , $3,000 monthly mortgage payments are common in today’s housing market. Between 2010 and 2021, mortgage holders withdrew an average 0.92% of available tappable equity each quarter. That share fell to just 0.4%

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

mortgage lender Newrez , owned by asset manager Rithm Capital , is imposing a round of layoffs to its workforce following the acquisitions of Computershare Mortgage Services and its affiliate Specialized Loan Servicing (SLS). The layoffs include mortgage professionals such as processors, underwriters and loan officers.

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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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