Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

Homeowners 62 and older saw their collective home equity levels drop in the fourth quarter of 2023 by roughly $119 billion to $12.84 This is according to the Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), a measure of senior-held home equity from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) and data analytics firm RiskSpan.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

New York-based Unlock Technologies , a fintech operating in the shared-equity market, and real estate investment firm Saluda Grade , have closed a $180 million private-label securitization (PLS) backed entirely by Unlock-originated residential home-equity agreements (HEAs). 21, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Heading into 2024, there are continuing and emerging financing options, grant programs and legislation all designed to help homeowners and builders create much-needed infill housing. These will help on the margin, but we still need smart lenders to help create even more robust financing options for ADUs.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners LLC , a private equity manager based in Texas, completed a debt investment in a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. Optimal Blue — a provider of secondary market solutions and actionable data services — facilitates more than $1.1 billion megadeal announced in May 2022.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

With soaring home prices and mortgage rates putting a damper on the market for new home loans and refinancing options, it’s a challenging time for homebuyers and lenders alike. While the current climate may be causing existing-home sales and inventory to fall, it’s driving renewed interest in home equity options.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

San Francisco-based fintech firm Unison plans several securitization deals to market in 2022, with private label offerings backed by home-equity assets. Unison expects to bring three additional securitization deals to market in 2022, according to a company executive.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

For investors in the private-label securities (PLS) market, the earlier signal was enough to unleash a boatload of money that had been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the “peak” to arrive, according to several market experts interviewed recently by HousingWire. My guess is we’ll do 10 or 11 deals this year in the $5.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2023

Recent home price declines are leading to decreased tappable equity, but there are still opportunities in home equity lending, according to a report published by Home Equity Lending News. Tappable home equity is expected to decrease to a forecasted $18.1 However, given that home-equity originations were less than $0.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Rising home prices have pushed the third quarter’s tappable home equity amount near its 2022 peak, but interest rates are making homeowners reluctant to extract that wealth. Rising equity levels are also contributing to low default and foreclosure activity. In 2024, roughly 75% of originations expected to come from purchase loans.

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Steve Resch, vice president of retirement strategies at leading reverse mortgage industry lender Finance of America , knows a lot about the intersection between the interests of financial planning professionals and reverse mortgage industry members. And I’m curious how this combines with what you do for Finance of America.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Digital mortgage lender and nonbank home loan provider Better.com has launched “Equity Unlocker,” a mortgage innovation that allows employees to pledge vested stock equity as collateral for a down payment without selling their stock. Equity Unlocker is currently available in Florida, New York and Washington state.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The proposed rule would establish an additional exception to the restrictions for loans on properties with PTFCs, and related securities, if the loans meet certain shared equity loan program requirements for Resale Restriction Programs in FHFA’s Duty to Serve Underserved Markets Regulation (Duty to Serve Regulation),” the entry reads.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to grow amid higher origination costs and greater competition, but without correcting the underlying causes of bias in data, AI models can embed racial equity inequality on a larger scale, a recent report from the Urban Institute concluded. “It

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2023

The demand for home-equity loans, particularly home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) as well as shared-equity investment products, is now stronger than at any time since before the global financial crisis some 15 years ago. Those 17 deals were backed by home-equity collateral valued in total at $3.9

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

The Federal Reserve ’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances found that the median net worth of a homeowner is approximately $255,000 — more than 40 times that of a renter. First-time homebuyers are the driving force of the housing market and typically utilize low down payment mortgages to achieve homeownership.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Recent market trends — including an improvement in mortgage rates, housing affordability and potential refinance opportunities — suggest positive signs for the real estate market this year, according to February’s Mortgage Monitor report from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). peak prior to the housing market downturn in 2006.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

California-based home equity investment firm Splitero launched its own real estate brokerage , Splitero Homes, this week. Launched in 2021, Splitero’s main focus is on home equity investments (HEI), which differs from home equity lines of credit (HELOC). Clients must retain a stake of at least 20% in their homes.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

San Francisco-based Unison is extending its reach in the heartland by expanding its shared-equity loan program to homeowners in Nebraska. billion in equity-sharing agreements with some 9,000 homeowners across 29 states and the District of Columbia. Prioritizing home equity solutions in a rising rate environment.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This means ensuring our work is not limited by department or business unit silos, and that we continue to grow the core case for aligned business outcomes and impact at scale — including driving racial equity, housing stability and climate resilience.” You cannot address climate risk without addressing systemic and pervasive equity issues.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The highly competitive purchase market and bidding wars gave rise to power buyer models to help non cash buyers compete. There were historic amounts of investment and funding , and for some traditional housing finance models, real fears of being disrupted. That is until interest rates tripled in the course of nine months, of course.

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Housing Wire

MAY 17, 2024

The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) this week announced that Jonathan Scarpati, senior vice president of wholesale production at Finance of America (FOA), has joined its board of directors for the remainder of the 2024 term. Scarpati expressed excitement for his new role.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 1, 2022

Rocket Mortgage , the nation’s largest lender, is expanding its product portfolio to home equity loans amid a significant slowdown in mortgage origination volume. Rocket is targeting American homeowners with high household debt and credit card balances but strong home equity positions. . ” U.S. New Residential Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 3, 2024

population grows older with each passing year, looking for new and novel ways to fund long-term care for the aging population could include home equity. As the gap between high- and low-income homeowners widens, the equity they’ve built up in their homes could make a difference in the equation. As the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

Home equity levels have been on the decline over the last year, new data shows. Homeowners with mortgage loans saw their home equity levels decline by an average of 0.7% between the Q1 2022 and Q1 2023, the first decline recorded since early 2012, according to CoreLogic ’s Homeowner Equity Report (HER). properties. properties.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2022

Mortgage startup NFTYDoor plans to launch a home equity platform, promising borrowers “a one-minute online application and funding in as little as three days.” He’s entering a bright space: home equity products have become more popular given the surging value of homes used as collateral. Presented by: ServiceLink.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2022

Despite rising rates, demand for home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) continues to surge with 2022 origination levels up more than 40% from a year ago, according to data from Citizens. Record levels of home equity. This too is changing as innovation in the home equity lending space has finally arrived. Customer experience.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The effort was intended to decrease systemic risk, but by focusing narrowly on the risk posed by banks, it would likely increase risk in the mortgage market. Nor would banks be able to improve their economics by distributing their mortgages into the mortgage-backed securities market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Kathryn Amor, chief product officer at Finance of America Companies, spoke during the event’s mortgage purchase market panel about what Finance of America Reverse (FAR) beings to the table for the larger parent company. While the total number of reverse mortgage industry professionals present at HW Annual in Frisco, Tex.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The company also provides commentary for its fourth quarter 2023 financial performance, assesses its market advantages and offers an assessment of impacts stemming from changes in Ginnie Mae ’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) program.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marty Green thinks of the housing market in 2022 as two very different movies. But the housing market in the second half of 2022? By September, a full-fledged housing market recession had set in. The 2002 housing market has been a tale of two halves,” said Green. A mortgage rate lockdown freezes the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

According to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates, Flagstar produced $14.2 Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital. Flagstar Bank has made changes to its third-party origination (TPO) channel leadership. lender in the space. Last year’s volume declined 29.5%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

The “ silver tsunami ” — a colloquialism referring to aging Americans changing their housing arrangements to accommodate aging — could have more of an impact on the housing market this year, according to analyst Meredith Whitney in a conversation with Yahoo Finance. “[T]he

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. , million, driven mainly by home equity line of credit (HELOC) and cash-out refinance products, executives said. the parent of digital lender Better , strongly improved its mortgage production and revenues in the first three months of 2024. Better posted a net loss of $51.5

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

market share, according to Inside Mortgage Finance (IMF) estimates. market share, the IMF data shows. However, it affected its capital and liquidity structures amid a challenging market condition. On March 6, the company received $1 billion in equity investment , led by former U.S. billion in volume and a 12.3%

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2022

As home prices continue to rise, one growing point of interest for many homeowners are reverse mortgages, with older Americans sitting on a record $10 trillion in home equity, according to data from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association. However, the market has shifted quite dramatically in the last couple of months.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements increased by 2.3% This is according to data compiled by Reverse Market Insight (RMI). The refi market continues to be anemic as higher rates are persisting, with refi volume dropping 3.4% This is according to Ginnie Mae data and private sources compiled by New View Advisors.

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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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