Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2024

Kiavi , one of the nation’s largest private lenders for residential real estate investors , closed a $300 million unrated securitization of residential transition loans (RTLs), the company announced on Friday. The loans bundled in the securitization were mostly investment property loans used for fix-and-flip transactions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nations Direct Mortgage, a residential lender in both the retail and wholesale channels, on Wednesday announced appointing Jack O’Brien as its senior vice president and national sales director. Aimee Quinn, president of Nations Direct Mortgage, said his experience will be put toward expansion across the U.S. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Newrez has launched a new joint venture mortgage company, Carnegie Mortgage Partners , in collaboration with a top Keller Williams franchise network in Bergen County, New Jersey, the lender announced on Monday. The joint venture mortgage company is led by Margaret Bernabei, a former branch manager at a CrossCountry Mortgage outpost.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

California-based Carrington Mortgage Services (CMS) sees a window of opportunity in the mortgage market. The Federal Reserve (Fed) actions that resulted in millions of borrowers receiving mortgage rates below 4% gave way to Fed actions that… triggered mortgage rates to rise above 7% in the fall of 2022.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Last year, fast-rising rates and related volatility, coupled with liquidity challenges in the bank and nonbank sectors, high home prices and a shortage of housing inventory all worked together to suppress mortgage originations and the secondary market outlets for those loans as well. trillion portfolio of MBS.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mortgage rates, now around 6.5%, are cooling down the housing market and triggering mass layoffs in the mortgage and real estate industries. Mortgage rates have nearly doubled to around 6.5% Will Savage, an LO at PMC Mortgage. Before the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 0.75

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is projected to be a record year for consolidation among mortgage lenders, largely due to the dramatic shift from a refinance boom to a purchase mortgage market and the total origination volume, which has shrunk to about half the size from 2021. Most recently, Guild Mortgage expressed interest in acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

Into March of this year, according to multiple market experts, the nonagency secondary market has been digesting a large backlog of mortgage collateral that was locked and originated last year during a much lower-rate environment than exists today. Pelka agrees that the PLS market is under pressure. “In

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2023

Mortgage rates, which climbed upward one day and went down the next in the wake of the recent wave of bank failures, will continue to be volatile before it stabilizes, industry watchers said. “The As that uncertainty drains away, mortgage rates will have smaller day-to-day swings.” What does it mean for buyers, sellers?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

On the heels of the central bank’s announcement to raise the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.25%-4.50% on Wednesday, most economists and industry experts were on the same page about the housing outlook and which direction mortgage rates would be headed. . Realtor.com expects mortgage rates to reach 7.1% by the year-end.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Analysts in the mortgage industry are projecting that 2024 will be a better year than 2023 across the board. In a HousingWire report , analyst firm Jeffries said that they believe the worst of the current mortgage cycle is behind us, and Moody’s forecasts that the Federal Reserve will decrease rates three or four times this year.

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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. billion in assets, has a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate assets. a week earlier.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

They own the home with their name on the title, as with any mortgage, traditional or reverse. They own the home with their name on the title, as with any mortgage, traditional or reverse. Consumers who are introduced to the HECM for Purchase loan option are often skeptical at best, with many thinking it’s too good to be true.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

Whitfield is the founding principal of the Whitfield Property Group and he recorded $33 million in sales volume in 2022. With a decade of experience as an agent, Wilbanks entered the industry after working as a residential mortgage loan officer. Whitfield and Wilbanks are both leaving Compass to join The Agency.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A recent lawsuit claims Sprout Mortgage left its warehouse lender FirstFunding holding over $220 million of its debt when the mortgage lender abruptly closed on July 6. Sprout was founded in 2009 by industry veteran Michael Strauss and became “one of the fastest growing non-QM lenders in the country,” according to the lawsuit.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 10, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that the company misled investors about the delinquency rates in a 2018 private-label securitization involving fix-and-flip loans. Shortly after the [securitization] deal closed, loan delinquency rates increased unexpectedly,” the SEC alleges.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2022

RESPA has strict rules for real estate and mortgage professionals regarding kickbacks, referrals, and unnecessary fees. Sponsorship of events can also be deemed illegal if the event is used for marketing or publicizing a real estate or mortgage company’s services. The loans that are exempt from RESPA. Loan for vacant land.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2023

From leading mortgage companies and real estate firms to spearheading groundbreaking initiatives and driving policy reforms, these honorees are making an indelible impact on housing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

Kiavi , formerly LendingHome , recently closed a $218 million private-label securitization of unrated short-term mortgages — described as “residential transition loans” (RTLs) by the lender, which serves the fix-and-flip market. ” Kiavi ranked as the top short-term lender in the fix-and-flip space in 2021, with $2.7

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The private-label residential mortgage-backed securities market has been resurrected from its near-death following the global financial crisis a decade and a half ago. This year it is on track to securitize loan volume approaching or even exceeding $100 billion, and driving a healthy share of that secondary market business is J.P.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 15, 2022

A combination of fast-rising home values and the fact that nearly two-thirds of borrowers with at least some home equity have mortgage rates below 4% — and would not benefit from refinancing — is helping to propel a resurgent market for home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs). billion in 2021 to $4.6 billion in 2021 to $4.6

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. Then, in what felt like an instant, in Q1 2022 mortgage rates skyrocketed and the refi boom ended. trillion in 2021. A HELOC is now cheaper than a refi. homeowners.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

New Residential Investment Corp.’ NRIC is the largest nonbank mortgage servicer in the country. The MSR portfolio totaled $626 billion in unpaid principal balance in March, compared to $629 billion in December. MSR values tend to initially increase as mortgage rates rise and borrowers are less likely to refinance.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2022

California-based Guild Mortgage can be added to the growing list of lenders with waning profitability. The nonbank mortgage lender increased its total originations in 2021, despite a reduction in the fourth quarter. .” The company’s unpaid principal balance increased 18% last year to $70.9

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“However, the company was able to report a profit in an extremely difficult operating environment for residential mortgage originators in addition to seasonally low purchase origination volumes in Q4.” Therefore, its results portend a challenging quarter for the non-bank mortgage sector,” Kornfeld said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The performance of loan pools backing private-label securitization deals has continued to improve across most measurement metrics through the end of January after hitting a low point in mid-2020 at the height of the pandemic. With mortgage rates increasing [recently], prepayments on prime loans are retreating quickly from their highs.”.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Managing a profitable mortgage business can be challenging in the best of markets. When rising interest rates and plummeting affordability decimate loan applications, it’s even more difficult. Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) are valuable assets for mortgage lenders when origination business is slow.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

“And so [investors] can start having greater conviction in the future path of interest rates and in the health of the mortgage market.” Non-QM mortgages include loans that cannot command a government, or “agency,” stamp through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. And future rate cuts mean less return [for investors].

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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. Morgan Chase ; and Mount Laurel New Jersey-based Freedom Mortgage. Piercy said Incenter earlier in February put out to bid an $11.5

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2022

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. The sharp decline in mortgage rates during the COVID-19 pandemic fueled the U.S.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mortgage industry executives are echoing the sentiment that Ginnie Mae’s risk-based capital requirement is currently the main concern for companies holding mortgage servicing rights (MSR). Government and conforming loans held for sale would have a 20% risk weight. Other loans held for sale would have a 50% risk weight.

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2022

Between February 2020 and January 2022, we witnessed something in the mortgage industry that we thought we’d never see — 30-year fixed-rate mortgages under 3.5%. Then, in what felt like an instant, in Q1 2022 mortgage rates skyrocketed and the refi boom ended. trillion in 2021. A HELOC is now cheaper than a refi. homeowners.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Incenter Mortgage Advisors was flooded with a surge of mortgage-servicing rights business in January — with bulk MSR sales approaching in one month what the firm normally tallies in an entire year. The big trigger was we had a half-point increase in the 30-year par rate [for a mortgage] in January,” he said in a recent interview. “The

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2022

Pontiac, Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) capitalized on a booming private-label market in 2021 by sponsoring its inaugural securities transaction this past May, a prime jumbo deal involving 508 mortgages with an aggregate principal balance of $351.9 That’s a strong start for a new issuer. “A

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