Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

The funds will ultimately go to companies including Mirae Asset Securities , Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services (ICBC), Flagstar Bank , Customers Bank and the bankruptcy estate of Live Well itself, according to court filings reviewed by RMD. million; Customers Bank receive $7.64

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The first half of the year, with mortgage rates in the 3s and 4s, was like “Fast and Furious.” The number of home listings dried up , contracts were canceled , the few buyers still out there demanded concessions , mortgage rates spiked to 7% and homebuilder sentiment hit rock bottom. over asking price. High octane stuff.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The partnership was made public by Figure on Thursday and comes a day after an announcement from Celsius — which filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 — that it will be acquired by NovaWulf. NewCo is expected to be a public reporting company that is initially 100% owned by Celsius creditors with its common equity provided in a tokenized form.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the unsung heroes of the most prolonged economic and job expansion ever recorded in history was the passing of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act and the 2010 qualified mortgage rule under Dodd-Frank. As we can see below, the bankruptcy levels were extremely high before the bankruptcy law was passed in 2005.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. While the central bank left the benchmark rate unchanged in the target range of 5.25%-5.5% Kim: Spreads in the mortgage space are wide. level, mortgage rates will probably run to 4.5%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bank of America recently announced a loan for lower-income households that doesn’t require homebuyers to come up with a downpayment or closing costs, and doesn’t base the loan on a minimum FICO score. If they lost their job, they have a lot of equity in their home, and most likely their financials have gotten better over time.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The lawsuit claimed the bank placed customers into these plans without notice, a direct violation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. . a member of the Senate Banking Committee, pressed the bank for more details after the original allegations. Law360 reports that on Nov. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2022

Non-QM lender First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. FGMC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of June — leaving four warehouse lenders on the hook for more than $415 million. Sprout Mortgage imploded in early July, leaving its employees out in the cold. It has since been sued by its former employees.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Kind Lending , national wholesale mortgage lender and second brainchild to mortgage veteran Stearns, announced that the lender originated $1 billion in the first six months of production – a feat that took Stearns first company, Stearns Lending , 15 years to accomplish. Glenn Stearns is back, and not just on television.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Your home equity is the difference between what you owe on your mortgage(s) and what your home is currently worth if you sold it today (the appraised value). For instance, if the remaining balance on your mortgage is $195,000 and the market value is $295,000, you have $100,000 of equity in your home.

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Equity Loans Bankruptcy Mortgages 91

Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2022

The figures are drawn from the prime and nonprime (or non-QM) residential mortgage-backed securities deals tracked by Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA). With mortgage rates now hovering around 5%, compared with 3% or lower for much of last year, the low-hanging fruit of the refinancing market is now pretty much picked over.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 29, 2021

Lenders offer mortgages for borrowers with a wide range of financial circumstances. Between prime (highest-quality) and subprime (lowest-quality) home loans are a category called “Alt-A mortgages.” . The federal government sets guidelines for Qualified Mortgages that focus on a borrower’s ability to repay the loan.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

. $700 billion in taxpayer funds were authorized to help stabilize the economy in free fall in the wake of the Lehman bankruptcy and a mortgage market meltdown. The original plan — to buy up troubled mortgage assets — was quickly abandoned in favor of actions like capital infusions for banks and the bailout of our auto companies.

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McKissock

AUGUST 7, 2022

It didn’t help that the Federal Reserve was not strictly regulating the bank’s loan screening and approval process. Therefore, the banks approved mortgages to customers without regard for their ability to repay the loan. Other fields also faced bankruptcy due to credit issues. Why is This Current Housing Crisis Different?

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Here’s how to determine if rent-to-own or a mortgage is best for you. . Rent-to-own is a great way to buy a house after bankruptcy or when you have a ding in your credit. If home values shoot up over the term of your lease, you’ll have more equity when you apply for a mortgage. Mortgage Pros and Cons.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2020

This means that you cannot sell your house and pocket any equity from the sale until that tax lien debt is satisfied. As that tax debt piles up, it’ll swiftly eclipse any equity that you’ve built up in your home. But you cannot wait to use equity from the completed home sale to pay it off. What is a tax lien on a home?

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Marco Santarelli

JULY 25, 2022

If home values fall quickly, purchasers may find themselves with underwater mortgages, which means they must either stay in the house until the market recovers or sell and lose money. Instead, they will lose their homes to foreclosure and often file for bankruptcy in the process. How Does a Market Crash Affect Homeowners?

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

MAXEX , a major mortgage trading and aggregating platform, has unveiled a series of new programs designed to serve originators and loan buyers in the growing non-QM lending market. MAXEX is an Atlanta-based fintech company that is backed by leading private-equity and capital-markets investors, including J.P. Morgan Chase.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 16, 2021

You’ll learn how to prospect for distressed properties, how to approach homeowners, how to work with banks, and much more that will position you as the local expert with solutions to help those in need. We have a great listener question about how to become a bank’s go-to agent and much, much more. Christina: Sure.

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HomeLight

APRIL 29, 2022

The company makes money from high volume ad sales on their platform — property managers and Premier Agents as well as mortgage lenders and other businesses pay to advertise properties and services — as well as from their home loan program. This site also lists whether a property is in bankruptcy, preforeclosure , or foreclosure.

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

We are not suggesting using crowdfunding instead of applying for a mortgage. Lending money through the crowdfunding site eliminates the need to have a detailed contract with the borrower or having an equity stake in the property itself. Renting out the property gives you a source of income to pay bills like the mortgage and insurance.

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C4D Crew

AUGUST 3, 2020

Previously successful people have had to declare bankruptcy, and gotten bankruptcy loans, recently because of COVID-19. Cheese to name a few have had to invoke bankruptcy protection with bankruptcy loans. . Bankruptcy Code. The Struggle Continues with Bankruptcy Loans. No Scarlet Letter for Bankruptcy Loans.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Foregoing Christmas gifts is a great way to save a thousand bucks or more, and I’d rather spend that on the kids, or bank it. Joe t-shirt that the average home price in November of 2023 is higher than that… 2) Mortgage Renewals, Trigger Rates, & Interest Rates. And if I didn’t, I’d just buy it.

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Notorious ROB

JUNE 12, 2022

Mortgage companies are laying off thousands as the higher rates are killing the refi business, and the general slowdown in the economy means demand is sharply lower. “We will get a major recession,” Deutsche Bank economists wrote in a report to clients on Tuesday. . Tech companies are cutting staff by the thousands.

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Notorious ROB

JUNE 14, 2022

money printing) plus a bunch of other things (Clinton era Community Reinvestment Act, among others) practically told the banks to start giving away money via mortgages. Add in shortsighted and greedy mortgage bankers and brokers, and we had the Bubble. Equities down 80%? That cheap money (i.e., 25% unemployment rate?

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Whatever the circumstance, you should act early if you’re suddenly struggling to make your monthly mortgage payment. We also connected with HomeLight Home Loans Mortgage Sales Leader Richie Helali, who offered an insider’s look at mortgage options that could help you hold on to your home — or let it go without falling into foreclosure.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 2, 2021

If you’re “upside-down” in your mortgage (owing more than the property is worth), you have a few options. If you sell your house for less than you still owe on it, you may still remain responsible for making up the deficiency — the difference between the sales price and the outstanding mortgage balance. One of them is a short sale.

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Real Estate Finance HQ

AUGUST 25, 2017

Instead, the agency guarantees repayment to lenders if a borrower defaults, so that the lenders know they won’t lose money on the deal, thus allowing them to offer competitive mortgage rates on loans that are easier to qualify for than conventional home loans. Mortgage Insurance. Mortgage Limits. Cash in the bank.

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HomeLight

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We have all heard of putting down the traditional 20% for a mortgage down payment, but this isn’t a requirement for most loans. You’ll also avoid paying private mortgage insurance , or PMI. PMI applies to conventional loans and protects the lender should you be unable to pay your mortgage loan. How low can you go?

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program faces stability and viability challenges stemming from the 2022 collapse of a major industry lender and its extinguishment from the HECM-backed Securities (HMBS) program, which could warrant congressional scrutiny if these challenges are not properly addressed by the U.S.

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HomeLight

MARCH 16, 2023

There are just not enough buyers who have a good credit rating and can get bank underwriting,” he says. Naumann says buyers may not get a mortgage if big-ticket items like the roof or A/C aren’t in good condition. While some homeowners opt for foreclosure in a distressed situation, others decide to declare bankruptcy.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this post, I provided the following reasons: 1) Zoning and approval 2) Economic viablity 3) Financing 4) Bankruptcy 5) The ability to cancel and re-sell without reprisal While a couple of the points are repeated from the previous blog post, the explanations and reasoning are completely different.

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HomeLight

JULY 31, 2021

turn four walls and a roof into money in the bank, without the need for inconvenient showings, nail-biting appraisals , or a 50-day closing. Value-add is the process of remodeling a home or complex to increase the value and add equity,” Shipwash explains. “In If only there were a way to — poof! Order a home appraisal. Closing costs.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2022

The most affordable manufactured homes are financed with private loans with higher interest rates, shorter terms and fewer consumer protections than mortgage loans. The home itself is a depreciating asset, which makes it difficult for manufactured homeowners to build equity or intergenerational wealth. That means the 17.5

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Notorious ROB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rocket Mortgage Acquires Redfin. To be fair, there were a number of big announcements, but the one I honed in on was this one: We plan to overhaul our current mortgage funnels away from third-party lead generation and toward Zillow Home Loans , and bolster our loan officers’ tools and capabilities to help the customers who come their way.

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Realtor.com

MARCH 24, 2021

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Millions of homeowners have been excluded from federal protections providing pandemic-related mortgage-payment relief. million single-family mortgages — about 30% of the total outstanding — that are privately owned and have no federal backing. Moroni and Knapp’s loan is one of the roughly 14.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

District Court for the Northern District of Texas between warehouse lender Texas Capital Bank (TCB) and Ginnie Mae is progressing with new, pretrial deadlines that have been set by a magistrate judge, according to court documents reviewed by RMD. In TCB’s initial complaint, the bank mentions appointed and U.S.

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