Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The demise of those banks, which had relied in part on friendly terms on jumbo mortgage loans to entice wealthier clients, had lasting effects on the mortgage landscape – as part I and part II of our jumbo series show. 7, the bank was reportedly offering to sell Flagstar’s residential mortgage assets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Lewisville, Texas-based property services company MCS announced last week that it acquired Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions , a deal which brings MCS into the reverse mortgage industry for the first time, according to an announcement by the company. Five Brothers, headquartered in Warren, Mich.,

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

Perhaps the most striking detail gleaned from a HousingWire analysis of millions of single-family purchase mortgages is how much more homebuyers had to pay in 2023 compared to 2022. Residential mortgage originators are responsible for filing data with the CFPB under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

University Bank ’s reverse mortgage division has added four key hires across different disciplines as it prepares to grow further in the reverse mortgage space. Both Droge and Olmos come to University Bank from Open Mortgage , which shuttered its own top 10 reverse mortgage lending division late last year.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

Stewart Title of Louisiana is expanding its support for commercial real estate transactions, through the addition of Ashley Coco as the firm’s Louisiana underwriting counsel, it announced Tuesday. Before joining Stewart, Coco was the lead attorney heading the commercial services department of Commerce Title in Baton Rouge.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dovenmuehle Mortgage , a mortgage sub-servicing company, has informed authorities in Illinois that it will impose a layoff affecting hundreds of employees next year. However, higher mortgage rates this year led mortgage origination volume to decline to $1.6 14 to the state authority. 14 to the state authority.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

banks to fail in the coming months because of declining values and defaults in their commercial real estate loan portfolios. We have identified the banks that have high commercial real estate concentrations, particularly office and retail and other [property types] that have been affected a lot,” Powell said. “We FDIC), banks held $2.78

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Property preservation company MCS announced last month that it had entered the reverse mortgage business after acquiring Five Brothers Asset Management Solutions. Chris Clow/RMD: What do you hope the industry can do to offer more or better information about how MCS will pursue continued business in the reverse mortgage space?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar originated $15.7 billion in mortgages in 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision Michael Barr said the central bank is taking “a very thoughtful approach” to the Basel III rules (aka the Basel endgame), which would significantly increase bank capital requirements and, if implemented, affect the mortgage industry. “We I expect them to make adjustments to the final rule.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers. The leadership is also changing. billion goodwill impairment.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending has acquired the assets of Illinois-based retail lender Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation. Founded in 1993 by Bill and Michael Giambrone, Platinum has 22 branches and 79 active loan officers, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex. The lender originated $6.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2023

First Internet Bank is shutting down its consumer mortgage business due to a steep decline in mortgage volumes and the negative outlook for mortgage lending that is forecasted to continue for the next several years. The residential mortgage loan balance for First Internet was $383.9 million as of December 31, 2022, a 13.7%

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many analysts who cover the mortgage industry believe that the worst of the current cycle may be in the rearview mirror. In 2022 and 2023, quickly rising mortgage rates and shrinking volumes sent shockwaves through the industry and prompted massive job cutbacks. According to data from the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Residential mortgage industry analysts and executives continue to see challenges ahead. For starters, the banking crisis is still unfolding, impacting the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) space, reducing jumbo loan offerings, and putting pressure on commercial real estate companies. Even if the U.S. Even if the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2021

For mortgage underwriting, credit scores became more important than ever in 2020 when dealing with lenders. Not only were mortgage rates high for borrowers with under-700 credit scores, many lenders began charging “discount points” for low credit. “Patience and perseverance were the challenges and the solutions.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

Veteran mortgage executive Bill Dallas has left his position as president of Finance of America Mortgage amid larger changes to the Texas-based nonbank lender’s C-Suite and business lines. His exit was first reported by Inside Mortgage Finance. Dallas did not immediately return requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

Top-35 mortgage lender New American Funding (NAF) is in negotiations to acquire Chicago-based retail shop Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp. As part of the deal , NAF would acquire the residential mortgage arm of Draper & Kramer , a property and financial services group established in 1893 by Arthur W. Draper and Adolph F.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mortgage rate shot up again last week as the bond market continues to grapple with a growing economy in the run up to the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting. By contrast, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was at 5.55% a year ago at this time. Other indices showed even higher mortgage rates. What to expect with the Fed ?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If it is not reauthorized by Congress before that date, the mortgage industry could see consequences, including ceding control of certain land use policies and the cessation of some mortgage lending. There would also be a chilling effect on the mortgage industry, according to experts and lawmakers. “By

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Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2024

Ellington Financial , the parent company of top-five reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial , reported that its reverse mortgage segment’s adjusted distributable earnings were lower in the first quarter of 2024 than they were in the previous quarter. But Penn is looking ahead with optimism.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2023

Residential mortgage industry analysts and executives continue to see choppy waters ahead. The banking crisis is still unfolding, impacting the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) space, reducing jumbo loan offerings, and putting pressure on commercial real estate companies. Even if the U.S. debt limit impasse is solved, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2023

mortgage lender, has long described itself as a “one-stop mortgage shop.” But it has built its reputation on its expertise in mortgage. So what exactly is a “one-stop mortgage shop?” “We Smith, senior executive vice president and president of mortgage at Flagstar. Flagstar Bank , a top-25 U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Small-balance commercial lender Stronghill Capital shut down its nascent consumer and correspondent lending businesses late last week. The Austin, Texas-based lender will continue offering small-balance commercial and business purpose debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans to its clients, CEO John Eisinger told HousingWire Monday morning.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2024

Shuler has also served in CIO leadership roles at GMAC Mortgage/GMAC ResCap , National City Mortgage and Homeward Residential. Planet Home Lending is an originator, correspondent lender , servicer and subservicer of agency and nonagency residential and commercial mortgages.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2023

California-based Impac Mortgage Holdings is repositioning itself as a mortgage brokerage and voluntarily giving up its seller-servicer designation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Non-qualified mortgages will continue to be the dominant product in the broker channel, the company said.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. On Wednesday, the bank announced that it will consider applications for residential mortgage or home equity line of credit (HELOC) on the portal EZApply only until Feb.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS has integrated with ICE Mortgage Technology, a division of global data, technology, and market infrastructure provider Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Its partners include Mortgage Bankers Association, LendingPad, LendingWise and Mortgage Action Alliance, among others.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Pink slips will start arriving for Santander Bank ’s employees working in the mortgage and home equity businesses following the bank’s announcement to stop originating such loans in the United States. HousingWire has learned that the bank’s exit from the residential mortgage business in the U.S. Santander Bank, NA.,

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank resumed mortgage originations on Tuesday via its newly established “bridge bank” — just four days after California state regulators took possession of the financial institution and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) as receivers. SVB’s mortgage origination volume reached $2.4

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2023

However, with the current banking stress news and the emergency action taken by the Fed to secure the banking sector, the question now is what will drive mortgage rates : inflation data, recessionary data, or something else we don’t even see coming? What will drive mortgage rates now? percent in January, the U.S.

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Mortgages Banks Commercial Loans 368

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Former employees at Finance of America Mortgage LLC (FAM) are transitioning to American Pacific Mortgage (APM), as the company will shut down by the end of the year, a source with knowledge of the process told HousingWire. . purchases, according to the mortgage tech platform Modex.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2022

Amid a tough environment for forward mortgage lending, Finance of America is betting on specialty finance & services products – reverse mortgages, investor loans, commercial loans – which are expected to deliver most of the return this year. Margins in the mortgage business declined from 3.88% in 2020 to 2.86% in 2021.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Rocket Mortgage isn’t playing around when it comes to this year’s Super Bowl. Sure, rival United Wholesale Mortgage is back with another commercial touting the benefits of consumers using a mortgage broker. It will likely cost Rocket somewhere near $20 million to run two 60-second commercials on Sunday night.

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Housing Wire

MAY 1, 2023

The FHFA stated that the goals of the fee changes were “to maintain support for purchase borrowers limited by income or wealth, ensure a level playing field for large and small lenders, foster capital accumulation at the Enterprises, and achieve commercially viable returns on capital over time.” Therein lies some of the confusion.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Hoffman has spent more than 30 years in mortgage banking, 22 of them at Flagstar, where he started as an account executive. According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar produced $14.2 billion in mortgages through its third-party originator channel in 2023, making it the ninth-largest U.S. lender in the space.

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Banks Equity Lending Commercial 340

Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

These increases came despite a 2% annual decline in the number of refinance orders opened per day and flat growth in the number of commercial orders opened per day. In April, purchase open orders per day were up 4% over last year, but higher mortgage rates may temper purchase volumes going forward. The firm’s title segment reported $1.7

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