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Exploring Alternatives to Bankruptcy: Financial Options for Homeowners

Realty Biz

If you’re struggling financially and unable to pay your bills, you may have considered filing for bankruptcy. Filing for bankruptcy gives you a fresh start, but it stays on your credit report for up to 10 years — resulting in consequences for years to come. For example, the bank could foreclose on your home if you don’t pay.

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Rocket lost money last year, so why are its shares up?

Housing Wire

The three areas in which AI is driving impact are mortgage banking, underwriting and servicing, Rocket CEO Varun Krishna shared with analysts during the latest earnings call. In 2023 alone, the mortgage industry saw a total of 62 merger and acquisition transactions, lender exits and bankruptcies.

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Non-QM lenders are racing to stay ahead of rates

Housing Wire

FGMC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of June — leaving four warehouse lenders on the hook for more than $415 million. Just weeks later, a leaked text message from Flagstar Bank provided an inside look at how dire the current climate is for many non-QM lenders. Non-QM lender First Guaranty Mortgage Corp.

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The 2022 housing market: A tale of two halves

Housing Wire

Other smaller lenders, including real estate tech startup Reali and Sprout Mortgage , shuttered, while First Guaranty Mortgage Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. non-Bank financial institutions at Fitch Ratings. Everybody is going to have a black eye here.

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Risk of mortgage fraud is on the rise in the current market

Housing Wire

Eric Hill, an Atlanta real estate agent representing a nationwide homebuilder, had a plan to help more than 100 homebuyers get mortgages. The problem: They did not qualify for the loans. Hill’s scheme, also enabled by a group of co-conspirators, caught up with him, in part because many of the loans started going south.

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Non-QM lenders are back. But will brokers pick up the phone?

Housing Wire

The products appeal mostly to independent contractors and self-employed borrowers, with non-QM lenders often marketing their wares to real estate agents who have entrepreneurs for clients. For eight years they were not able to get a mortgage loan – they could have an 800 credit score, $2 million in the bank. Then COVID hit. “So

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Opinion: How did homeowners get into home equity prison?

Housing Wire

For those individuals that are considering selling in the current real estate market , it is important to stress to them that they have several paths that can be taken to find their new home while also not breaking the bank.

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